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JUNE 29, 2017
n Expressing pride in Eureka’s diversity
n Parks plans Fourth of July celebration
n New zone for 38 and 40 Prospect
Locals march in Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade
Event to take place at Lake Leatherwood Park July 2
Council agrees to rezone from residential to commercial
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DISPATCH Desk
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suspicious vehicle. Officers responded, but the vehicle was gone on arrival. June 20 3:22 p.m. — A caller reported a lost and possibly stolen wallet from her church. If someone returns it, she asked that they please contact the owner. June 21 8:48 a.m. — A caller advised the vehicle license plate was stolen off her car. An officer took a report. 10:47 a.m. — A caller advised she was run off the road by another vehicle and hit a pole. An officer took a report. 12:11 p.m. — A caller advised a deer had been hit on Main Street and is still getting hit. Public works was notified, and the deer was removed. 3:54 p.m. — A male came into the lobby holding a flyer of a missing dog, Thor, and said he thought he saw the dog at the Berryville Walmart. Information was taken. See Dispatch, page 21
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Embracing acceptance
Local artist reflects on Eureka’s participation in Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com
Eureka Springs residents are proud of their diversity, and they showed it at the Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade on Saturday, June 24, in Fayetteville. Local artist Zeek Taylor said this is the third year Eurekans have represented the city at the parade. The parade is huge, Taylor said, and gives Eureka Springs a great platform to show the pride that comes with accepting those in the LGBTQ community. “It has a huge turnout, not only spectators but participants,” Taylor said. “I think there’s 36 participants, but in each group there might be 30 to 50 people, so it’s a huge group of people marching.” One of the reasons he enjoys marching in the parade, Taylor said, is because it’s a way to let everyone in Northwest Arkansas know about the kind of community that exists in Eureka Springs. “I’m proud of Eureka Springs, and that’s part of my pride,” he said. “Just to see the support from all over the area from different groups … it’s really heartwarming to know there are so many people who not only tolerate us but accept us. There’s a big difference.” The difference between tolerating and accepting those in the LGBTQ community, Taylor said, is an important one. “If you just take the term, generally ‘tolerate’ means ‘I’ll put up with you. You’re OK,’ ” Taylor said. “But ‘accept’ means ‘I open my arms to you. You are equal.’ Especially for LGBTQ people, the word ‘accept’ is so much nicer and warmer to us than ‘tolerate.’ We don’t want to be tolerated. We want to be accepted.” Taylor said he’s heard criticisms of pride parades, and he wants people to know how important it is for the LGBTQ community and its allies to continue showing that pride. “If you think of the word pride, the opposite of pride is ashamed, and for so much of history of LGBTQ people, they’ve lived in shame and been
ashamed and been shamed,” Taylor said. “It’s important to show pride in where we’ve come from and what we’ve overcome … just pride in our history of persevering and fighting for equality.” Taylor remembered growing up in the Arkansas Delta, where people didn’t talk about being gay. “You didn’t come out, but I also remember people being kind to people that were. If a gay man was suspected of being gay, they’d call him ‘that bachelor man,’ or if he had a partner, they’d call him his friend,” Taylor said. “You weren’t bullied. I think it was acceptance in that sense, but at the same time, you didn’t come out and be who you were.” He continued, “You didn’t come out as a gay person for fear of anything from being bullied to bodily harm or being discriminated against in the workplace. It gradually got better over there.” Taylor said the general acceptance of the LGBTQ community has been gradual. For much of his life, Taylor said, it was illegal to be gay in Arkansas. The sodomy law, he said, meant same-sex couples could get sent to jail if they had sex together. “That has changed. It took a while to get that off the books. The Supreme Court overruled it,” Taylor said. “Growing up with those threats over one’s head … I was lucky I had accepting parents, but I knew a lot of people who didn’t, who were ostracized from their family, kicked out of their home and just excommunicated in a sense from the people they loved. They weren’t even tolerated. They were shunned.” Though he came from an accepting family, Taylor said, he never felt he could fully be himself until he went to art school in Memphis. It’s OK to be different in the art community, Taylor said — in fact, it’s encouraged. “There were openly gay guys. There were guys with pierced ears. I didn’t have to worry about that,” Taylor said. “Things just gradually got better. When
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The first male couple to be legally married in Arkansas, Zeek Taylor and Dick Titus are beacons of pride and love for Eureka Springs and beyond.
I moved to Eureka Springs 30 years ago, I just felt like I was home because of how accepting this town was to everyone.” One of the biggest turning points in his life, Taylor said, is the day he married long-time partner Dick Titus at the Eureka Springs Courthouse on May 10, 2014. A Little Rock judge overturned the ruling against same-sex marriage at 5 p.m. Friday, May 9, Taylor said, when the courthouses closed. “But in Eureka, the courthouse is open on Saturday to issue marriage licenses.
It’s the only courthouse in the state of Arkansas that does that,” Taylor said. “I knew we could get a marriage license, and we needed it in a hurry before there was a stay. The stay did happen early the next week, so it was important for us to act.” He and Titus are the first male couple to be married in Arkansas or any southern state, Taylor said, after being together for 42 years. “It was a big step for us, and it happened here in Eureka Springs. I’m proud See Pride, page 18
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According to a Eureka Springs couple, the city could be in hot water over its recent water and sewer rate increases. Joyce and Eric Knowles reported that they are threatening to sue the city over the new rates, saying their lawyer Kent Crow delivered a letter to Mayor Butch Berry describing the potential lawsuit on June 12. In the letter, Crow says there’s pending action against the city for the alleged illegal exaction of the infrastructure and improvement fee. The lawsuit would be a class action, the letter says, and it will continue if the city doesn’t stop collecting the infra-
structure and improvement fee on water and sewer bills. The city would be required to refund everything collected under the fee, the letter says, to prevent the lawsuit. The Eureka Springs City Council voted on April 24 to establish the fee and raise the sewer rates by 21 percent. The fee is applied differently to three tiers of water and sewer users, costing $5 for Tier 1 users, $10 for Tier 2 users and $50 for Tier 3 users. Is the fee fair? Joyce Knowles said she and her husband don’t pay for sewer but are being charged for the infrastructure and improvement fee anyway. They aren’t the
only people in this situation, she said. “It’s everybody’s water bill. This fee overburdens the low-end user,” Joyce Knowles said. “You’re going to pay for 2,000 gallons of water whether you use it or not. If you use 2,002 gallons, then your fee goes up to $10, which is an even bigger burden.” Joyce Knowles recalled when the council voted to increase the rates, saying alderwoman Mickey Schneider said she’d support anything that helps the city’s infrastructure. The problem, Joyce Knowles said, is the increases won’t go toward infrastructure improvements until the city pays off its sewer bonds. See Increases, page 26
HDC agrees to site visit for hospital renovations By Samantha Jones
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All hands are on deck for the renovations at Eureka Springs Hospital. On Wednesday, June 21, Eureka Springs Hospital Commission chairman Michael Merry addressed the Historic District Commission about the proposed renovations at the hospital. Merry handed the commissioners a document from Allegiance Health Management, the company that leases the hospital, listing possible renovations. Merry said Allegiance has expressed willingness to spend $8 million on the project, saying one of the items on the list could easily exceed that. That item, Merry said, is a helipad on top of the hospital. Merry said a helipad on the roof would be lovely but it would require extensive renovations to the building. “Your building has to be redesigned. To protect your patients and staff below, the building has to be insulated tremendously,” Merry said. “That issue alone would cost us more than $8 million. There’s a possibility they are willing to spend that much, but I sort of doubt it. That’s nearly tripling their current lease price.” Commissioner Dee Bright said she
wanted to know what improvements are being requested at the hospital, and Merry said some of the proposed renovations would require the demolition of all exterior walls. Merry said the commission wants to keep at least one of the walls up on the 1929 hospital building. Chairman Virgil Fowler said the commission would need more information than that. “In order for us to know really any starting point for us to discuss, we’d have to know a little more detail about what your proposed plans are,” Fowler said. Local architect Mickey Finefield said he’s been working with the hospital commission on the first steps, even though he hasn’t been commissioned to take on the project. Finefield said the hospital commission would need to know what the historic district commission would and would not be OK with. “What we don’t want to do is come up with some idea and take something down that would be a real problem with the commission,” Finefield said. Commissioner Melissa Greene said she’d support the renovations. “A hospital is really important. To get good healthcare could mean taking down parts of the building we don’t want to,”
Greene said. Fowler said the commission would need to visit the hospital to get an idea of what the renovations would be. The commission voted, unanimously agreeing to have a site visit with the hospital commission. In other new business, the commission approved a request to repair damaged siding with new material and for a new paint color on the porch floor at 5 Cliff St. The commission moved on to approve the consent agenda, which includes Level I applications the city preservation officer believes to be in accordance with the design guidelines. These approvals are new trim colors at 22 S. Main, a new sign at 14 Center, a new sign at 105A W. Van Buren and a new sign at 105B W. Van Buren. Also at the meeting, the commission gave its OK for administrative approvals, which are applications for repair and work involving no changes in materials or color. These approvals are replacing the rotting siding and one window trim at 14 Cliff, re-roofing at 2 Martz Lane and re-roofing at 25 Kingshighway. The commission’s next regular meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, at City Hall.
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Fourth of July celebration, fireworks show planned at Lake Leatherwood July 2 By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com
Eureka Springs is celebrating its birthday in style this year. Parks director Justin Huss said the parks and recreation commission is working with the city to host a Fourth of July celebration at Lake Leatherwood City Park on Sunday, July 2. Huss said he initially wanted to shoot off the fireworks at the lake, but that has been moved to the Leatherwood Ballfields. Everyone will move from the park to the ballfields, he said, around 7:30 p.m. or so. “We’ll go over there, and everybody will get settled in. There will be refreshments, maybe a vendor, too,” Huss said. “It should be a great show. We’re just going to work with the fireworks company while they’re here and really work to shoot them off the water next year and have more of an organized party, as we should out there.” There won’t be much going on in the park during the day, he said, but everyone is invited to check out the the amenities. Huss said people can rent boats, go fishing, hike on the trails, go swimming or take their children to the new playground. “We’ve got just a little bit of everything, and we hope everybody will come out and have a great time,” Huss said. “Folks have the opportunity to come out and camp and stay the night with us if they want.” Some community groups have offered to sell refreshments at the park, Huss said. “There will be craft events. A local church is selling pies,” he said. “I think American Legion is going to have a booth out there. There will be little stuff going on … nothing huge or grandiose but it’s a good day to come out and enjoy the park.” Parking will cost $5 at the ballfields, Huss said, and the trolleys will run for free from Pine Mountain Village and the transit office on Planer Hill. “We have limited space there, so we want to encourage people to use the trolley
routes to get out there,” Huss said. The money from the parking, he said, will be split between parks and local volunteer fire departments. “It goes to support the fireworks and to support the fire department. It’s a good cause,” Huss said. A van or trolley will run from the park to the ballfields when it comes time for the fireworks, Huss said, so people won’t have to worry about getting from one place to another. He said the event is being held on a Sunday night for two reasons: to attract more locals and to encourage tourists to say an extra day in town. “The Fourth of July is also Eureka Springs’ birthday. It’s really in order to have an event here,” Huss said. “This is what parks does. We’re supposed to have parties for everybody to come hang out and enjoy the resources. To enjoy something unique like Lake Leatherwood on a double birthday … I think that’s something to celebrate.” Though it won’t be a huge event this year, Huss said, he hopes to grow the celebration into a big community event over the next few years. With voters approving the renewal of a 0.125 percent tax for Lake Leatherwood City Park two weeks ago, Huss said, parks will be able to have this event every year for the foreseeable future. “That gives us a baseline where we can commit to doing this. We’re really excited about that, and we hope it’ll grow into a community festival with lots of community groups,” Huss said. “We want to see it grow and we want to see it become something, but we want it to be community-based.” He continued, “We don’t want to bring in vendors from out of town. We want groups to come in and have fun and raise money for their organization so we can come together and have fun and celebrate the place we live. I’m just looking forward to it becoming an annual event everybody loves.”
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Council agrees to rezone 38 Prospect and 40 Prospect By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com
Two local residences will be rezoned soon. On Monday night, the Eureka Springs City Council agreed to rezone 38 Prospect and 40 Prospect from R-1 Residential to C-3 Commercial. Planning commission chairwoman Melissa Greene spoke on behalf of Byron McKimmey, who owns the property at 38 Prospect, on June 12, asking the council to rezone the property and saying McKimmey’s neighbors at 40 Prospect didn’t want their property to be rezoned. Greene said Monday that she talked to McKimmey’s neighbor, who said he wouldn’t mind having his property rezoned, too. Mayor Butch Berry said the council could defer the rezoning at 38 Prospect or combine the two requests into one application.
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“I thought 38 Prospect had applied for this and the only thing holding them back was the neighbor did not want it, who now does not care,” alderwoman Mickey Schneider said. Berry said the property owner at 40 Prospect didn’t want their property rezoned because they thought the taxes would go up. “They’ve since discovered the taxes won’t go up. They’re willing to be rezoned if the city wants to rezone it,” Berry said. Alderman Terry McClung said the solution seemed clear. “We do them both at the same time,” McClung said. McClung moved to draft an ordinance rezoning both properties, and the council agreed to do so. Also at the meeting, the council revisited a proposed ordinance banning the use of tobacco. Schneider brought the pro-
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Fourth of July parade slated for July 4 The Eureka Springs Fourth of July parade will take place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 4. Lineup starts at 9 a.m. in front of the springs but he library. The parade will be led by grand marshal Zeek Taylor. The crowning of Ms. Apple Pie 4th of July and Mr. Firecracker starts at 9:15 a.m. in front of the library. At the end of the parade, there will be more activities between the Aud and the courthouse. Show off your dog in the Best Dressed Parade Dog contest. Dress them up, get a number and walk in the parade. Ribbons will be given at the end of the parade, and a water station for the dogs will be provided.
The apple pie judging will begin right after the parade. Steve “Yip” Vorbeck, Rick Delany and their crew of judges will be picking the best pie baker. You can bring your pie between 9 a.m. and the end of the parade. Just for kids, there’s a new event: a watermelon seed spitting contest. The Jewelry Show is sponsoring a new event for the parade this year. On July 2, Debbie and crew will bring a tarp, paint and cardboard boxes to Lake Leatherwood. Before the fireworks, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., kids can make their own art box car. They can show it off at the parade.
posed ordinance to the table on June 12, and the council amended it to include more areas in city limits. On Monday, the council agreed to read the proposed ordinance a second time. Alderwoman Kristi Kendrick moved to amend the ordinance, changing the definition of tobacco to tobacco use. Kendrick said this would clean up the definition. “That’s the means by which the tobacco is delivered. The first in tobacco use is a series of verbs talking about what they’re doing and then there are products it includes,” Kendrick said. “Then it describes the means of ingesting the tobacco.” Schneider said she was confused by the proposed amendment. “Why aren’t we just saying tobacco cannot be used in any way? Why are we even listing all this stuff?” Schneider said. “We don’t need to know how it’s used. It’s simply not to be used, period, at these places.” Kendrick said she thought the proposed amendment made the definition clearer. She moved to approved the proposed ordinance on a second reading with the proposed amendments included. The council voted, with everyone voting in favor of it but Schneider. “Do we get to have a workshop before the third reading to get it fixed?” Schneider asked. “I hope to hell not,” alderman David Mitchell said. City clerk Ann Armstrong asked if the council wanted to change the title from “An Ordinance Banning Use of Tobacco” to something more descriptive, and city attorney Tim Weaver said that would be a good idea. Berry said the council could do that at its next meeting, when the proposed ordinance would come up for a third and final reading. In other business, resident Linda McBride presented a parking concern to the council. McBride said she lives between Crescent Drive and 269 Spring St. and hasn’t had much luck finding parking lately. “I’m here with concern because for the very first time, neighbors are not willing to work together so those of us who have no parking at our home have a place to park,”
McBride said. There is little residential parking on her street, McBride said, because some neighbors take more parking spaces than in the past. Recently, she said, she had to park at the library just to get home. “The street was completely full form the library all the way around to John Cross’ family home,” McBride said. “There’s one single-family home now that has five cars, and they’re not parking any of them behind their house.” As the city has allowed Airbnbs to spring up in town, McBride said, the problem has only gotten worse. She said the situation is aggravated by the presence of three trolley stops in the neighborhood. McBride suggested striping the street or removing one of the trolley stops. “Y’all are going to have to find a permanent solution to this. It’s not going to be easy, but there are other solutions,” McBride said. Berry said he has already spoken with the public works director about striping the road, saying he talked to the transit director about removing one of the trolley stops. “He’s going to look into that to see if he can eliminate that and open up more parking,” Berry said. “We’ll look at that.” Berry presented the financial report, saying the city is still running on a deficit. The department heads have all been keeping their expenses down, Berry said, but the finances are still 7 percent below the budget. With the new water and sewer rates taking effect, Berry said, the situation should improve. He said the city recently received a check from the Western Carroll County Ambulance District, which will improve the finances as well. “I’m hoping the next time we see the budget that we should be in the black or very close to it,” Berry said. “We don’t receive our property tax until the end of the year, so we’ll have a big bulk there. Overall, while it doesn’t look real good right here, it’s still nothing to be worried about yet.” The council’s next regular meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, July 10, at City Hall.
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Chamber introduces new reservation system at mid-year meeting By Amanda Nettles, AmandaNettlesCCN@gmail.com
The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce has a new, speedy reservation system. At the chamber’s mid-year meeting Monday, vice chair John Speed presented the system, called Jackrabbit. Speed said the system allows visitors to search for vacation availability in a much more efficient way, saying he hopes the community is as excited about the system as the chamber is. “We want people to come here unstressed, right? We don’t want to cause them stress and anxiety. So JackRabbit is a very user-friendly way for our guests to glean real-time information about occupancy at our lodging partners and at our attractions,” Speed said. He said Eureka Springs has two types of travelers that visit: type one and type two. Speed said type one guests are people who are just looking around. These are people looking at places to stay, places to eat and looking for things to do, he said. “They are looking at publications and digital information from the various websites. They may or may not have selected an exact date for their upcoming travels. And their firm plans are probably not in place,” he said. Speed said the chamber provides these guests with most of the information they need on these various websites, in the visitor’s guide and through phone calls the chamber receives. He said type two guests plan to visit the next day or within the next week. “They have an exact day in mind. They know exactly when they are going to be traveling and what they are going to be doing, and now they have to figure out, ‘Where am I going to be staying?’” he said. Speed said the current system fails type two guests. “These guests need real-time infor-
mation to know who has full-time availability right now. None of the websites that we have in Eureka provide that,” Speed said. He said type two guests go to sites like Trivago, Kayak, Hotels, Expedia, Booking Buddy and others. “Expedia, as of yesterday, I checked, they have 779 online travel agency (OTA) sites that are selling rooms for properties in Eureka Springs.” He said the problem is those sites are charging innkeepers a commission. “The commission is between Expedia’s lowest rate, 15 percent, and Priceline’s flat rate, 25 percent,” Speed said. Speed said this is money that is leaving Eureka Springs. “What an economic benefit it would be to the community if we began to undo that. So the chamber … we are introducing JackRabbit,” he said. Board member Kent Butler said it will cost business owners $375 to access Jackrabbit for a year. The reason for the fee, Butler said, is because the chamber is responsible for paying the licensing fee. He said the fee is specifically for the grid listing, Jackrabbit and enhanced listing on the chamber’s website. “That’s all you’re going to pay for that in the next year,” Butler said. Speed walked through a couple of examples to show chamber members how JackRabbit truly works and why it is useful. He provided a hyperlink in the slide show for Gatlinburg, Tenn. At the top of the site was an option to click, “stay.” Speed asked Holly White, who is in charge of communications and publications for the chamber to click on it. She continued by clicking on hotels and motels. “This is the widget. The guest is going to plug in the dates of travel,” Speed said. For the demonstration, White typed See Chamber, page 10
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Garden of the Year The Holiday Island Garden Club named the Holiday Island Community Garden its 2017 Garden of the Year award recipient. B.J. Dennis, administrator of the garden, received the certificate and honor on behalf of the community garden group. ‘It was a group project which should be celebrated by all involved in funding, donating, building, growing and harvesting the benefits of creating a wonderful space for its community to grow,’ Dennis said. Dennis has also won a scholarship from the American Community Gardening Association to attend the 2017 Annual Conference in Hartford, Conn. at the end of July. All registration fees, meals, tours and events are part of the awarded scholarship.
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Eureka Springs Historical Museum to host Birthday Stroll July 1 and 2
The Eureka Springs Historical Museum will host the second annual Eureka Springs 4th of July Birthday Stroll, starting at the former high school, now the Eureka Springs Community Center site, on Kingshighway and ending at Vestal Cottage at 12 Summit St. This historical event will take place on Saturday, July 1, and Sunday July 2 , from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tours will leave the parking lot every 30 minutes, with tours lasting one hour. The event will focus on the “upper loop” of Eureka Springs. You will learn the history of residents who resided in this fascinating area of Eureka Springs. Some of the residents who will be featured in-
Harts to host fundraiser supporting school meals program in July
Harts Family Center will have a fundraiser to supplement the school meals program throughout July. The fundraiser helps pay for students and families who are unable to pay for breakfast or lunch and who may not qualify for assistance with meals. Harts will provide barcoded scans at the checkout point for amounts of $1, $3 or $5, which you can request they add to your purchase total. The full amount of the funds will go to the Eureka Springs School District.
Citizen of the Week Edwige Denyzyn is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Denyzyn was nominated by Kathryn Merry, who said Denyzyn created a “wonderful patriotic kick-butt donkey over the past month.” Merry said Denyzyn designed, welded, applied mesh and covered the piece of art. The painting is just beginning, and RICCI the Donkey will make his debut in the city’s annual 4th of July Parade on Tuesday, July 4. “Edwige is an amazing artist, and there is no way we can thank her enough,” Merry said. “To see her effort in action, a video is posted on the Facebook page at Carroll County Democrats.” To nominate somebody for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha Jones at Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com.
clude Eureka Springs home economics teacher Sue Darby, world renowned dancer Irene Castle and more surprises to be announced! Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children 9 and under. Ticket price includes the stroll, with birthday cake and ice cream at the end. Live music will also be provided for entertainment. Limited tickets will be available the day of the stroll, so please plan to purchase in advance. Tickets are available for purchase at the Eureka Springs Historical Museum, located at 95 S. Main St., or online at www.EurekaSpringsHistoricalMuseum.org. Call 479-253-9417 for more details.
Citizen Summer Social scheduled for July 13
Lovely County Citizen will host the Citizen Summer Social from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 13, at the Citizen office at 3022 E. Van Buren #H in Eureka Springs. The event will feature performers from Opera in the Ozarks and a silent art auction benefitting the Eureka Springs High School art program. It’s a chance to get to see what goes on behind the scenes at the newspaper, and it’s for a good cause. More details will become available on the party in the next few weeks. For any questions, call the Citizen at 479-253-0070.
GSHS to host donor appreciation party June 29
Good Shepherd Humane Society will have a Lean-To Donor Appreciation Party from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 29, at the shelter. If you donated to this project, you’re welcome to join in.
Attorney General’s office to host events in Carroll County July 11 The Arkansas Attorney General’s office will have several events in Carroll County on Tuesday, July 11. A mobile office will be set up from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Carroll County Senior Activity & Wellness Center, where the mobile offices will help constituents with consumer-related issues in filing consumer complaints and providing information about scams, identity theft, fraud and other protections. The prescription drug takeback will take place from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
at the senior center as well. Authorities will be collecting prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, pet medicines, medicated ointments and lotions, inhalers, liquid medicines in glass or leak-proof containers and medicine samples. A presentation on senior scams and identity theft protection is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Seniors and older adults can learn about common scams that target them, along with a way to spot and prevent identity theft.
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What do
think
Citizen Opinion by Cindy Worley
Do you think the historic district brings value to Eureka Springs?
Warren Theis
Connie Theis
Yes.
Yes.
“Warren”
“Connie”
Syam Zapalowski “Syam”
Of course. It adds character and quality.
Jan Breece
Meghan Rogan
Tara Sutter
Absolutely.
The history is what makes it beautiful.
100 percent.
“Jan”
“Meg”
“Tara”
Citizen Survey
Do you think the historic district brings value to Eureka Springs?
m Yes m No m Not sure Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in. Vote by 9 a.m. Wednesday
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From the EDITOR
I
Proud to be Eurekan
grew up in a small town in Southwest Arkansas on a one-mile stretch that included the school district, a local bank, three restaurants, a mom and pop general store and a post office. In some ways, it was a lot like Eureka Springs. I never felt afraid in my home, I knew everybody in town and we all rallied around local causes when needed. Small as it was, the community spirit was certainly alive. In many other ways, it wasn’t like Eureka Springs at all. That community spirit was wonderful, but sometimes everyone rallied around the wrong causes. I realized that on a normal morning before school, when I stopped by the mom and pop general store for some chocolate milk. I came by so regularly and it was such a small town that the cashier knew me by name. She asked me how school was going, and I said it was going well. I asked her how she was doing, and she said she was doing well. It was the same conversation we had every morning. After she handed me my receipt, she told me I could sign a petition at the front of the store if I wanted. I was curious. “What’s it for?” I asked. “Oh, it’s to stop gay people from adopting kids in Arkansas,” she said. “Oh.” I felt uneasy, like I’d just been hit in the stomach. I didn’t know why I felt that way. There wasn’t much diversity in my town, and I hadn’t ever knowingly met a gay person. I didn’t know a thing about the LGBTQ community or the ongoing fight for equal rights. All I knew was what I heard from friends and family, and we didn’t talk about the LGBTQ movement very often. When we did, I was told that being gay was a choice or a sin or both. Now, I wasn’t particularly religious, so this argument didn’t hold much water for me. That doesn’t mean I didn’t want to fit in with the
culture surrounding me. I knew it was wrong, inherently wrong, for people to speak so poorly of a community they didn’t know. I also knew what the repercussions would be if I said that aloud. So I kept quiet. I let that horrible feeling in my stomach sink lower and lower until I started carrying it around like an anchor. When I went to college, I met people in the LGBTQ community. What astounded me about them was their Samantha Jones bravery. They openly shared who they were with me. They seemed so comfortable in their skin. If they could share their life and their struggle with me, I thought, I could stick up for them the next time I heard somebody make a sweeping generalization about the LGBTQ community. I could choose how I reacted to those kinds of comments, and I decided to react better. Moving to Eureka Springs opened up my eyes even more. Like I said, Eureka Springs shares much in common with the town where I grew up. The differences, though, are what makes this place so, so special. I’m proud to live in a town that boasts its diversity. I love seeing so many of you in the LGBTQ community share your pride at Diversity Weekend or the Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade or just on a Saturday downtown. I interviewed Zeek Taylor for a story about the pride parade for this issue, and he told me how much it means to him to have the support of straight allies. Well, I’m proud to be one of those allies. I’m proud to tell people how fully and sincerely I See Jones, page 22
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION
83 votes cast
Do you think Eureka Springs should have a medical marijuana dispensary? m Yes: 65.1% (54 votes) m No: 30.1% (25 votes) m Not sure: 4.8% (4 votes)
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Cemetery commission appoints Tharp as new superintendent By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com
The Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission voted at its Wednesday meeting to appoint Susan Tharp as the new superintendent and commission chairwoman. Tharp was previously serving as the vice chairwoman for the commission. She said she will take over the duties of the superintendent until the commission elects new officers in January 2018. The commission also voted to accept the resignation of Peg Adamson as cemetery superintendent and commission chairwoman. “I am resigning as superintendent and chair,” Adamson told the commission. “I first want to say that you’re doing a great job. It looks like we are on track to get our historic designation, and I appreciate you all being out at the cemetery at the drop of a hat.” She said she is also grateful to the groundskeepers and the cemetery sexton for making the cemetery a showpiece for the city. “I love you all and the cemetery, but I have to go,” Adamson said.
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into the widget, arriving on July 4 and leaving July 5. As soon as those dates were plugged in, JackRabbit briefly appeared. “What comes up is real-time availability. Within just a very few minutes we have a long list of properties,” Speed said. As White scrolled down, Speed asked her to click on Quality Inn and click on the “book” icon. “What you’re going to see, you see JackRabbit. There’s a split second that JackRabbit phases into Quality Inn’s reservation system,” he said. Then, he said, you can scroll down and see the availability. “It will do that for every JackRabbit
The commission later voted to approve getting a business charge card with a $250 limit for cemetery staff. The commission had previously discussed the possibility of providing cemetery staff with gift cards to make minor purchases for the grounds, but secretary and treasurer Bob Thomas brought up the difficulty of tracking expenditures on gift cards. “If you were to give me a gift card to get office supplies for the commission, here are the concerns,” he said. “If I brought you receipts for $100 but the card only showed a balance of $50, meaning another $100 was missing, how do we account for that? There’s no way to account for that because you can’t track expenditures on a gift card.” Thomas said he spoke with Parks director Justin Huss about the issue, and Huss said the Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission has a Visa card with a $500 limit on it. The card is kept in the Parks office, Thomas said, and the staff can check it out, purchase supplies and return the card along with receipts. “Based upon that, I would recommend that the cemetery commission
get a charge card with a limit on it that could be checked out,” Thomas said. Tharp said she believed that would be the most reliable way to track expenditures. The commission agreed to put a $250 limit on the charge card. The commission also voted to accept a bid of $3,000 from Bob Messer for the removal of two dead trees from the cemetery grounds. Thomas also brought up issues with the county deed online database, saying it is hard to track down deeds related to the cemetery because of the different names used. “Sometimes they’re listed under ‘Cemetery Commission,’ sometimes ‘Eureka Springs Cemetery’ and sometimes ‘Cemetery of Eureka Springs,’” he said. Thomas said he asked Carroll County Circuit Clerk Ramona Wilson if the commission could fix that by putting all of the cemetery-related deeds under a single name. Wilson said she could, Thomas said, if the commission provided her with a list of all the entries needing to be changed. Tharp suggested that would be something for the commission to keep track
of when the cemetery gets its final historic registration and brings the online database of graves up to date. “The vision for our database would be to have a photo of each and every headstone, plot or lot and a copy of the deed,” she said. “When we’re copying those deeds, that might be a good time to make that list for Ramona. Being a giant undertaking, I agree we need to think on that and get that done.” The commission also voted to have Tharp speak with cemetery sexton Gloria Stevens about amending the deeds for two recently sold plots. Thomas said the issue is that the deeds say the plots are from Block 15, but the plots are actually listed in the cemetery index as being in Block 15 Addition, a separate parcel. “This is a real estate contract, so neither I nor the sexton can just change it,” he said. “We need to go back to the people and get their permission to change it. The deeds should say ‘Block 15 Addition.’” The commission’s next regular meeting is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 5, in the lobby of the Auditorium.
property in Gatlinburg.” Speed said. “So if we book this room with two queen beds for $209, guess who is getting all that money? The Quality Inn. Guess who is not getting that money? Expedia, Travelocity and Trivago.” He said whatever reservation systems are used within Eureka Springs are compatible with JackRabbit. With JackRabbit, he said, owners will not have to pay a commission. “Where this works flawlessly is this tells you who has rooms available and what the minimum cost is right now. And that is something we can’t do, ever. Every property I did a test on earlier, it worked flawlessly,” Speed said. Speed said JackRabbit has been providing this service in places like Gatlinburg, Estes Park and West Hollywood. “On average, these cities signed on
14 years ago,” he said. It needs to be easier, he said, for visitors to book rooms. “People want this information now, not two minutes from now,” Speed said. He said the chamber will put the “widget” on Eurekasprings.org, which will let potential visitors access the new system. Speed said not to believe it when people say the chamber is not doing much for the community. “We’re doing a lot for you. And I want to say for the end of my comments that I am so proud of our board and the way they have acted in the last several months during a time of transition,” Speed said. “I’m so thrilled with our staff who have been absolutely amazing to work with these past few months.” The chamber’s new chief operating
officer, Paul Miller, was introduced and briefly spoke about Jackrabbit at the meeting. “I’m very honored to be standing here today. I’d like to thank all of the board members. I’d like to say a special thanks to our chair, Cathy Handley, vice chair, John Speed and treasurer Jack Moyer for the additional hours and guidance they have provided during this transition,” Miller said. He said this is a very important time for the chamber and he is fortunate to have been chosen for this position. “There are a lot of ambitious goals that the chamber is looking to achieve,” Miller said. With JackRabbit, he said, the community will see that the chamber is providing useful tools and resources to better the business community.
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Ambulance panel hires attorney
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The Eastern Carroll County County Ambulance District commission has hired Fayetteville attorney Curtis Hogue to provide legal assistance in the process of pursuing a long-term contract with an ambulance service. Hogue met with the commission during an evening session on Thursday, June 22, that lasted for almost two hours. Hogue said his rate is $275 an hour, billed in six-minute increments. He told the commission that he would not require a retainer fee, but instead will send a monthly bill. Hogue’s first order of business will be establishing interlocal agreements between the commission and the municipalities in eastern Carroll County: Berryville, Green Forest and Oak Grove. Those agreements would allow the ambulance service provider selected by the commission to provide emergency ambulance service within the cities. An interlocal agreement with the city of Alpena also may be necessary, although there is is some ambiguity on that issue. Alpena straddles the Carroll/Boone county line. Hogue said he would contact the city attorneys for Berryville, Green Forest and Oak Grove the next morning to begin the process of establishing the interlocal agreements. The commission also voted to advertise
for bids from emergency medical service consultants who could provide advice to the commission in preparing a Request for Proposals from ambulance services. Green Forest Mayor Charlie Reece, who chaired an advisory committee that established preliminary specifications for ambulance service in eastern Carroll County as part of the process for creating the ambulance service district, cautioned the commission that hiring a consulting firm might create a significant expense. He also urged the commission to quicken its pace toward awarding a long-term contract, cautioning against “paralysis by analysis.” “That’s kind of where we’re headed,” he said. “… I keep hearing ‘consultants, consultants, consultants.’ I’ve dealt with consultants. They’re pricey.” Commission chairman David Stoppel said a consultant would be able to evaluate the needs of the ambulance district based on call volume and other factors and advise the commission on how many ambulances are needed and where they should be located. Reece, who recently authorized Southern Paramedic Service to accept emergency calls in Green Forest, expressed frustration with the process. “I get impatient,” he said. “I’m sorry.” “I share your concern,” Stoppel said. “I want to have it done immediately, too, but I also want to make sure we do everything
correctly as we go. We don’t want to regret anything.” Commissioner JoAnn Griesenauer said the commission is “walking on eggshells,” because of what she described as conflict over the ambulance district. Voters in eastern Carroll County approved an ordinance creating the district in the November 2016 general election. Voters also approved a 2.5-mill tax to fund the district’s operation. “I’m going to just say it, because this has got to be said,” Griesenauer said. “There is a conflict in this town, whether they wanted the tax passed or they didn’t.” “Well, it passed,” Reece said. “Yes, it did, and that’s fine,” Griesenauer said. “But we catch things that maybe you don’t hear, that we hear. The first thing that was said to me was ‘We didn’t think the tax would pass.’ ” “Well, I didn’t think it would pass,” Reece said. “I’m not talking about you,” Griesenauer said. “I’m talking about what somebody else had said: ‘We expected it to fail. That’s why it was put up.’ I’m being honest here. I’m not gonna hide nothing. The second thing is that, there was a conflict because you were mayor and you were running for county judge, and then we’ve got the county judge, who was running for (re-election.) There was a conflict.” “By whom?” Reece asked. “I didn’t
have a conflict.” “Between the county and city,” Griesenauer said. “What we’re trying to say is that, what we’re trying to do …” “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,” Reece said. “Between county and city, there is no conflict.” “We have to make sure it’s fair,” Griesenauer said. “There is no conflict,” Reece repeated. “What are you talking about?” “We appreciate your help,” Griesenauer said. “But at the same time, we have to make sure that we’re not just taking one side. We have to look at everything to make everyone happy about this.” “You’ll never make everyone happy,” Reece said. “I know,” Griesenauer said. “But we want to make sure it balances.” Griesenauer said some people have threatened to sue the commission or ask state legislators to intervene. “Tell ’em to bring it on,” Reece said. “… You do the best you can, and make a decision. The people that are upset, so be it.” The commission will hold a workshop at 6 p.m. Friday, June 30, at the Carroll County Eastern District Courthouse in Berryville, to discuss parameters for advertising for bids from EMS consultants. The commission’s next regular meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, July 7, also at the eastern district courthouse.
HI pool will remain open, commission decides By David Frank Dempsey Carroll County News
HOLIDAY ISLAND — The idea of closing the Holiday Island Swimming Pool for the rest of the season was considered before the Board of Commissioners rallied themselves in support of the amenity during a regular meeting on Monday, June 26. Attendance at the pool and at the pool party has been down in the last two years, according to Recreation Center department head Janice Murphy. Kathy Bischoff pointed out, though some disagreed, that lowered attendance at the pool coincided with the shutting down of the Fourth of July fire-
works show. This will be the second year of the no public fireworks policy. Fireworks are still allowed on private property during the upcoming holiday with the exception of aerial fireworks, which are prohibited. It was also decided that pool hours for the rest of the season will be 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. beginning Saturday, July 1. Authority for changing the hours was delegated by the BOC to District Manager Lawrence Blood and Murphy. July 1 is also the date of the upcoming pool party to be held from 5 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. with live music by J. Rock and the 3rd Street Band. Admission to the pool party is
$12. Children under 5 years will be admitted free of charge, but must accompanied by an adult. In other business a bid of $234,930 was accepted from Hutchens Construction Company for road resurfacing or chip and seal work and a one-year maintenance bond on nine roads in the district. The roads and the work to be done are 2 inches of asphalt concrete hot mix overlay on Rancho Vista Lane, El Dorado Drive, Serenity Lane, Cypress Point Lane, Cherokee Place, Chickasaw Place and Arapahoe Drive. Twin Peak Drive and Cedar Lane each are to receive a single pass chip and seal surface treatment.
Other bidders for the resurfacing work were Marion County Paving LLC ($266.096) and Heavy Constructors of Arkansas LLC ($304,750). Hutchens Construction Co. did more than one-and-a–half miles of 2 inch resurfacing in the district in 2016. A regulation (2017-001) was also given a first reading by title only. The new regulation, if it passes a second reading, will take the fees for amenities out of the Code of Regulations in order to simplify making adjustments to fees. In the past changing the fees for an amenity required a regulation with two readings.
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Canine crash course
Berryville graduate trains, socializes assistance dog By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com
Assistance dogs aren’t just born. They’re raised. Berryville native Micaela Motzko said that is one of many lessons she has learned after becoming a volunteer puppy raiser for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), a nonprofit organization that provides assistance dogs free of charge to those who need them. Motzko said she got her assistance dog-in-training, Gibson, when he was 8 weeks old and has been training and socializing him since then. There are 30 CCI commands that all the puppies across the country learn before they go back for formal training, she said. “Since the assistance dogs are free, they have volunteers who do the bulk of the puppy raising,” she said. “I’m responsible for training and socialization. CCI sent me this vest that says ‘Volunteer Puppy Raising Program,’ so I’m responsible for taking him out into public places and getting him acclimated to being in those environments and being comfortable in those locations.” Motzko said she got involved in CCI’s puppy raising program as her thesis project for her senior year at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. “I was in the honors college at UCA, and part of being an honors student is completing a thesis project,” she said. “Instead of just writing a giant paper, I wanted to do something more like a service project that would benefit someone else.” She said she majored in pre-physical therapy and started researching assistance dogs because she knew of many assistance dogs that helped physical therapists at their practices. “I didn’t know being a volunteer puppy raiser was a thing until I started researching it,” Motzko said. “I found CCI and applied to be one, and I got it approved through the honors college that I could do this as my senior thesis.” She said she did encounter a couple of kickbacks at UCA when it came to Gibson living in the dorm with her and walking at graduation with her. “I was the first one at UCA to do this and definitely the first one to do it as a thesis project,” she said. “It’s really cool knowing I was the first one. There were a lot of people on campus who would come up and ask me ‘How did you get to do this?’ because I would take him to my classes.” The questions kept coming after she returned to Berryville, Motzko said, because CCI encourages its puppy trainers to take the dogs as many places as possible. “You never know where the person who receives him one day might need to go,” she said. “They could need to go to a movie theater or a restaurant or a farmers’ market.”
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Berryville native Micaela Motzko has been training Gibson to become an assistance dog through the Canine Companions for Independence’s (CCI) volunteer puppy raising program. She works on teaching him the 30 CCI commands and socializing him by taking him out in public.
Motzko continued, “I’ve had a lot of questions around here. In Conway, it was a little easier to go in public because it was a bigger city. I don’t know personally if there are that many people in this county who have service dogs, and I don’t think there are any people in this area who are doing the volunteer puppy raising.” She said many people are unaware of the labor, time, dedication and patience it takes to raise an assistance dog. “These dogs don’t just suddenly become well-behaved service dogs out of magic,” Motzko said. “When I first took Gibson out in public, we went to a Dollar Tree, and he was licking everything in the aisles and rolling around on the floor. It was just a mess, but the more I did it and the longer we went out the better he became.” The dogs stay with the volunteer puppy raisers for about
18 to 20 months, she said, and then attend a little graduation ceremony, which will be at the beginning of August this year. They then go through the process of formal training with the trainers at CCI with several other dogs, she said. “They’ll build on the commands Gibson has already learned with me,” Motzko said, “and they’ll teach more specialized commands like opening doors, turning on light switches and things like that.” CCI trains four types of assistance dogs: service dogs for adults with disabilities, skilled companion animals for children, hearing dogs and facility dogs. Since skilled companion animals are matched with children, the parents serve as the dogs’ handlers, Motzko said. She said facility dogs often serve in children’s advocacy programs or courthouses, sitting with children and comforting them as they retell their stories of abuse. After the assistance dogs have been in formal training for six months, she said CCI will try to match them with people who need them. Many of the people who apply to receive assistance dogs are on a waiting list for almost two years, she said, because there are not enough dogs. “When they bring in the people who are ready to receive these dogs, they have them sit in a room, and they bring in all the dogs and let them just interact,” Motzko said. “They let the dogs and the people choose each other instead of just assigning it, which is really sweet.” Sometimes CCI has assistance dogs that miss their trainers so much that they get depressed and want to leave, she said. “They won’t force them to stay in the program if that’s the case,” she said. “They would offer Gibson back to me if he failed the program for some reason, so I’d be able to adopt him, which I absolutely would because I love him so much.” If Gibson makes it all the way through the program, Motzko said she will be invited back for the leash handing off ceremony, where she passes his leash to his new owner. “It would be so precious to me. I want him to succeed because there has been so much work put into this,” she said, “but I wouldn’t be sad if he didn’t make it through because I’d be able to adopt him back.” Motzko said her favorite part of the volunteer puppy training program has been getting to know Gibson and watching him grow and learn. “CCI has their own breeding program, and they breed dogs that have really good personalities,” she said. “Gibson has been wonderful. He’s the first dog I’ve ever raised completely on my own, so I’m definitely going to be spoiled when I get a dog in the future because his temperSee Gibson, page 25
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Singers and musicians from across America come together for a series of 25 performances at Inspiration Point in Eureka Springs and Arend Arts Center in Bentonville.
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Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade
Photos by Tavi Ellis
The 11th Annual Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade was held Saturday, June 24, in Fayetteville. A local group of more than 30 participants walked together in the parade to show their true colors and that famous Eureka Springs pride.
Eurekans Harrie Farrow and Roxie Howard round the corner from Dickson Dressed like prisms from head to toe, Karen Street onto West Avenue in downtown Fayetteville as the parade comes to Kinsel and Mark ‘Sparky’ Wetzel are excited for the parade to begin an end.
Supporting equality and acceptance, Nancy Binek, Joyce Knowles, Eric Knowles, Teresa DeVito and Dee Rude line up to walk side by side with pride.
On a day dedicated to the celebration of love, Joyce and Eric Knowles radiate affection.
Dee Rude waves pride high in the sky
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The Marriage of Figaro
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Photos by David Bell
Opera in the Ozarks had its opening night on Friday, June 23, with a performance of ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’
Susanna primps in her mirror as she and her fiance, Figaro, plan their wedding in the opening scene of the Opera in the Ozarks’ opening night production of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’
Don Bartolo is portrayed by Glenn Healy from Los Altos, Calif.
All the cast is on the stage at the same time for the opening night of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ Friday night.
Justin Burgess portrays Antonio the gardener, complaining that someone crushed his flowers.
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Hangin’ Out at the Eureka Springs Fire Department
There’s always lots going on at the Eureka Springs Fire Department. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at what our city’s firefighters and paramedics do during their shifts.
EMT Josh Beyler climbs out onto the ladder of fire truck number 1181 to perform its regular inspection. The length of this ladder is capable of reaching the topmost The weight-bearing, hydraulic leveler seen here adjusts the entire point of both the Crescent and the Basin Dressed in full gear, firefighter Brad Schmitt is ready to re- truck to a perfectly level position before firefighter Justin Capps Park Hotel, the two highest buildings in spond to 911 emergency calls. lifts the boom on this million-dollar, life-saving machinery. Eureka Springs.
Dillon Halper, Josh Beyler, Justin Capps and Christian Fitzpatrick run the station during C-shift, under assistant chief and fire marshal Jim Kelley (not pictured).
Strenuous, 24-hour shifts demand a great deal of energy from a firefighter’s mind and body, so the department provides sleeping quarters for employees’ downtime.
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Historical society reflects on restoration of Doughboy Memorial By Kelby Newcomb CCNNews@cox-internet.com
The Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society observed the centennial anniversary of the United States’ involvement in World War I on Thursday in the Community Room on the Public Square. Glenna Booth, city historic preservation officer for Eureka Springs, spoke at the historical society’s quarterly meeting, sharing the history of both the creation and restoration of the Doughboy War Memorial Sculpture in Basin Spring Park. “I work out of the office of the mayor, and, as part of my job, I try to help nonprofit groups who have preservation projects,” she said. “One of those was the restoration of the Doughboy War Memorial in Basin Spring Park.” She said the restoration of the sculpture was funded by a Heritage Month Grant from the Department of Arkansas Heritage (DAH) with matching funds from the Eureka Springs Preservation Society. “June Westphal asked me to talk a little tonight about this project,” Booth said. “My historical information is based on research done mostly by Suzanne Williams.” In June 1917, the first United States troops were sent to France to fight in World War I, she said, and among those troops were some of the more than 75 young men from Eureka Springs. She said many had been enrolled by Col. James Dexter, a lawyer and soldier who lived in Eureka Springs. “He was a a commanding officer of the National Guard in 1917 and was called back into federal service at the age of 53,” Booth said. “His National Guard troops became part of the 153rd Infantry, and they mostly trained at Camp Pike near Little Rock.” Once deployed, the soldiers were mostly used as replacement troops, she said. Eureka Springs lost at least five young men in battle or to disease, she said, and many more were wounded or ill with pneumonia, influenza and the after-effects of poison gas. “After the armistice was signed on Nov. 18, 1918, Eureka Springs joined in the national fervor to erect monuments to those who gave their lives in this terrible war,” Booth said. “There was great interest in a monument in Eureka Springs, and the fundraising for this memorial was led by local
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June Westphal (left) and Glenna Booth at the June 22 meeting of the Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society.
journalist Annie House.” She said House began a campaign shortly after the armistice to purchase a Doughboy stature to be installed in Basin Spring Park as a memorial to those who fought in the Spanish American War and World War I. “She was not subtle,” Booth said. “Her Dec. 31, 1918 article reads ‘Now this monument must be a grand one and a good one and one worthy of our boys. In order to secure the right one, contributions must come in faster and bigger donations.’” In an article written two weeks later in January 1919, Booth said House wrote “To do this in first class order is going to take money, but no one will begrudge a few dollars when they go to honor our solider boys, so send in your contributions to this office, Mrs. House or to members of the committee. If you don’t send, they will solicit you.” “It was better to be in on the ground floor,” Booth said, laughing. “Throughout 1919, House regularly published the names and contribution amounts from those who donated, often in small sums of $0.25 or $0.50.” She said House wanted to have a plaque listing the soldiers who fought in the war, but a controversy arose over whose names should appear on the plaque. One group wanted the names of every local soldier who fought in the war, whether they had been in
battle or not. Another group wanted only the names of the soldiers who were actually in combat, and a third group wanted only the names of the soldiers who had been killed in war. There was no resolution to the issue, Booth said, so there is no memorial plaque with the Doughboy. “Well, newspapers after 1919 were destroyed by fires, so there is no way to know how often House’s solicitations were made in the following years,” she said, “but it is evident that the fundraising process was not speedy.” Booth continued, “We know the fundraising efforts did continue because in December 1928 [the North Arkansas Star] announced that a bid had been accepted for $2,500 to build the memorial — 10 years later.” There is no documentation about who actually created the Doughboy War Memorial, she said, but there is a carving at the base which reads “Furnished by the Eureka Springs Montl. Works, N.L. Burkhart.” She said N.L. Burkhart established the Eureka Springs Monumental Works Company on North Main Street in the early 1900s. “It is thought the doughboy may have been modeled after Crandall Walker, who was killed in the battle of Argonne Forest on Oct. 22, 1918,” Booth said. “Crandall’s portrait hung in the Walker brothers’ depart-
ment store for many years, and it’s now in the historical museum. Our doughboy bears a striking resemblance to him, and research is continuing to try to solve this mystery.” The Doughboy sculpture stands approximately 11 feet high, she said, and was carved from carrara marble, a very fine stone. “Today, the Doughboy War Memorial still holds a central spot in Basin Park in the heart of Eureka Springs,” she said. “It honors not only those local men who fought and died in World War I and the Spanish American War but also the community that persevered through hard times to raise the money to create this honor.” The Eureka Springs Preservation Society was pleased to receive a DAH grant to restore the Doughboy War Memorial, Booth said, and it provided matching funds for the grant. She said the restoration work was done by Norton Arts, an Arkansas arts conservation company. “The first step was a conservation cleaning, which brought out all the organic matter which had settled into the marble,” she said. “After several cleanings, they took the broken or missing areas, including part of the rifle site, the canteen, the nose and the fingertips, and the conservators carved those in wax and then replicated them in carrara marble, which was imported from Italy.” She said the pieces were then fitted to the Doughboy using museum methods and materials. “If you’re interested in more information on World War I as it affected Carroll County and Eureka Springs, I invite you to visit a special exhibit on World War I in the Eureka Springs Historical Museum at 95 South Main Street,” Booth said. “It will run until Veterans Day.” In recognition of the centennial anniversary of World War I, the Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society’s next quarterly meeting in September will be about family members and other Carroll County residents who were in World War I. Attendees are encouraged to bring photos, letters and their personal stories to share. For the historical society’s quarterly meeting in December, the group will view Christmas cards sent from Carroll County soldiers stationed in France during World War I.
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LOOKING BACK
Photo courtesy of Eureka Springs Historical Museum
One building in Eureka Springs that looks very much the same as the day it was built is the McLaughlin Building or McLaughlin Block, which is now, and has been for many years, Crystal Gardens Antiques owned by Mary Ellen Sheard. The McLaughlin Block was built in 1900 to house a very pristine grocery and meat market. Owned and built by Homer (H.G.) McLaughlin, this grocery boasted of being very modern for the time. Stone to construct the building was blasted out of the bluff and cut on-site. Behind the building was a cave where Congress Spring resided. An early writer describes the store: ‘The grocery store was as clean, polished and sanitary as any store I ever saw. In those days, there was not a fresh meat counter in every grocery store. Homer kept his hams, bacon, lard and bulky vegetables in a back room, which was a cave-like passage into the bluff, winding and widening until it furnished ample space for keeping butter and anything in his stock that required a low temperature.’ In the early days, the McLaughlin family resided on the top floor of the McLaughlin Block, but later moved to a more spacious home located at 250 Spring St., on the corner of Spring Street and Crescent Grade. Homer’s daughter Margaret later became Rear Admiral and Assistant to the Surgeon General of the United States.
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of that. I’m proud we were at the forefront of marriage equality in the state of Arkansas,” Taylor said. “We had nothing to hide. That’s another reason I’m proud.” Despite political rhetoric, Taylor said he believes love always wins in the end. That’s why he encouraged everyone marching with Eureka Springs in the pride parade to carry banners expressing messages of love, he said.
“That’s what it’s all about. We don’t want to make enemies or be against anyone,” Taylor said. “We want to be welcomed with open arms, but we also want to welcome with open arms. I do believe love wins.” He continued, “I think we’ve made great progress, and I’m proud of that and proud to be able to march and to represent Eureka Springs, one of the most accepting places in the state and the Mid-South. That’s what we’re proud of. That’s why we march.”
Main Street Eureka Springs receives 2017 National Main Street accreditation
Main Street Eureka Springs has been designated as an accredited Main Street America program for meeting rigorous performance standards set by the National Main Street Center. Each year, the National Main Street Center and its Coordinating Program partners announce the list of accredited Main Street America programs in recognition of their exemplary commitment to preservation-based economic development and community revitalization through the Main Street Approach. “It is a great honor to recognize this year’s 828 nationally Accredited Main Street America programs for their outstanding work to transform downtown and neighborhood commercial districts,” said Patrice Frey, president and CEO of the National Main Street Center. “Main Streets are the heart of our communities, and the work they do to create quality public spaces, catalyze local entrepreneurship, and support downtown housing is more important than ever. Across the county, Main Street America programs truly strengthen the economic, social, and cultural fabric of their entire communities.” The organization’s performance is annually evaluated by Main Street Eureka Springs, which works in partnership with the National Main Street Center to identify the local programs that meet 10 performance standards. Evaluation criteria determines the communities that are building comprehensive and sustainable revitalization efforts and include standards such as fostering strong public-private partnerships, securing an operating budget, tracking programmatic progress and actively preserving historic buildings. “Our board and team have dedicated their time and energy towards the constant revitalization of Downtown Eureka Springs through innovative programming, focusing on the open properties
that are opportunities for entrepreneurs and maintaining a strong social media marketing platform to consistently raise awareness of the district,” said Jacqueline Wolven, Main Street Eureka Springs executive director. “We are so fortunate to be able to bring in Main Street Arkansas for small business consultations, develop long term plans to promote the district and consistently promote economic development activities.” Main Street Eureka Springs started as a smaller, part-time program, Eureka Springs Downtown Network, but gained national accreditation in 2015 allowing them to have a full-time program and the nationally recognized name Main Street. They work to continue the vitality and interest in the downtown district through programming, promotion and economic development actions – including consultations, tax credit education, and improvements to the district. The Main Street Eureka Springs board consists of Jayme Brandt, Dee Bright, Pat Fitzsimmons, Virgil Fowler, Amanda Haley, Damon Henke, Justin Huss, Charles Mowrey, Jack Moyer and Ken Riley. Main Street America has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 35 years. Today, it is a network of more than 1,000 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Since 1980, communities participating in the program have leveraged more than $71.35 billion in new public and private investment, generated 583,869 net new jobs and 131,974 net new businesses, and rehabilitated more than 267,800 buildings. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Expanded wellness center under construction in Holiday Island
Ton Dees, president of the Holiday Island Development Corporation, announced on Tuesday that the Wolf Wellness and 24/7 Fitness Center is under construction. The wellness center’s owner and operator recently purchased an acre of land in a prime location along an Arkansas Scenic Highway at the Holiday Island Shopping Center. Construction is now underway to build an 8,000-square-foot facility in the coming months that will house all of its health and medical services, including a 24/7 fitness center. The wellness center boasts over 400 members and it has mandated occupational contracts with four area schools. The new facility will be industrial grade, offer beautiful vista views and it will include new amenities for the patients and their children. It will also allow the wellness center and 24/7 fitness to provide expanded therapy services. The fitness will
be expanded 2.5 times its current facility. The wellness center services will include aqua therapy, fall spectrum infrared sauna, infrared hydro therapy, yoga, group exercise and dance classes, outpatient rehabilitative services, physical and occupational therapy, cardiac and Parkinson’s rehab. There are also plans to add acupuncture, massage, hydrocolonic and regression therapies. The 24/7 fitness center will include virtual reality cycling, free weights and the latest in all cardio exercise equipment. Shelia Wolf is the owner and operator of the facilities. Wolf holds a master’s degree in occupational therapy and she specializes in LSVT Parkinson’s treatment. “We are excited about being able to offer these modern and expanded services to Holiday Island and nearby towns,” Wolf said. “We started the dirt work recently, and we are on schedule to open in the first quarter of 2018.”
ESSA to have more summer sessions July 24-28
Eureka Springs School of the Arts will have its eighth summer session from July 24-28, offering two workshops during that time. Dan Morris will teach “Paper mache sculpture,” where students will learn the basic construction techniques from traditional piñata makers to produce a useful vessel or a fanciful creature. Doug Stowe will teach “Pocket boxes.”
Boxes are the most popular wood-working projects, and those boxes that are small enough to fit in a pocket have an immense appeal. Whether they are used to carry a fine pair of earrings or pills, tiny boxes small enough to fit a pocket are fun to make, useful and instructive. For more information or to sign up, visit www.essa-art.org or call 479-2535384.
Bible seminar for everyone starts July 17 Finding Hope in Uncertain Times, a Bible seminar for Christians and non-Christians, will start at 7 p.m. Monday, July 17, at the Cornerstone Bank Meeting Room at 907 W. Trimble Ave. in Berryville. Beth Kaffenberger will help everyone receive a clear understanding of the books of Daniel and Revelation, as well as the message
on the plan of salvation found in the entire Bible. She has been a missionary in Kenya and has done mission work in Romania. Other topics include Revelation’s Peace Maker on July 19, Revelation’s Battle for the Throne on July 21, Revelation’s Most Amazing Prophecy on July 22 and Revelation’s Final Events on July 23.
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SBA offers assistance to Arkansans affected by severe storms
Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Arkansas businesses and residents as a result of President Trump’s June 15 major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration administrator Linda McMahon announced. The declaration covers the counties of Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Faulkner, Fulton, Jackson, Lawrence, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Washington and Yell as a result of the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding that occurred April 26-May 19. “SBA is strongly committed to providing Arkansas with the most effective and customer-focused response possible and with access to federal disaster loans to help Arkansas businesses and residents affected by this disaster,” McMahon said. “Getting our businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority at SBA.” Businesses of all sizes and private nonprofit organizations may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory and other business assets. SBA can also lend additional funds to businesses and homeowners to help with the cost of improvements to protect, prevent or minimize the same type of disaster damage from occurring in the future. For small businesses, small agricultur-
al cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private nonprofit organizations of any size, SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. Economic injury assistance is available to businesses regardless of any property damage. Disaster loans up to $200,000 are available to homeowners to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate. Homeowners and renters are eligible for up to $40,000 to repair or replace damaged or destroyed personal property. Interest rates can be as low as 3.215 percent for businesses, 2.5 percent for private nonprofit organizations and 1.938 percent for homeowners and renters with terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and terms are set by SBA and are based on each applicant’s financial condition. To be considered for all forms of disaster assistance, survivors must first call the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at (800) 621-FEMA (3362). As soon as Federal-State Disaster Recovery Centers open throughout the affected area, SBA will provide one-on-one assistance to disaster loan applicants. Additional information and details on the location of disaster recovery centers is available by calling the SBA Customer Service Center at (800) 659-2955.
Holiday Island Art Guild to have art show Aug. 18-20
The Holiday Island Art Guild is planning its 29th annual Art Show and Silent Auction, scheduled from Aug. 18-20. If you’d like to enter the show, check out the guild’s Facebook page for more information. All entry forms must be submitted by July 25. If you are not an artist but love art, visit the show.
Holiday Island Community Church to have Bible study on Fridays Frank Wicks asks everyone to join Holiday Island Community Church in a Bible study on the book of Jeremiah at 10 a.m. on Fridays in the lower level of the Fellowship Hall. The study will run for approximately one hour each week. Everyone is welcome to join. Holiday Island Community Church is located at 188 Stateline Drive.
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CALENDAR of events Send calendar entries to Kelby Newcomb at CCNNews@cox-internet.com. The calendar is reserved for events sponsored by non-profit entities, benefits for non-profits and free events. First priority will be given to organizations providing a public service, such as rural fire departments, schools, churches, hospital auxiliaries and services for senior citizens or veterans. Submissions should be timely. Calendar listings should not be more than 30 days in advance of the event. The calendar is sometimes edited to fit the available space in the print edition. See the full calendar online at www.LovelyCitizen.com.
June 30: Eureka Springs Garden Club
The Eureka Springs Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Friday, June 30, at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. This will be the last meeting until September, and new officers will be elected. Lunch, a tour and a bus ride will be included in the day. For more information, call club president Annie Stricherz at 479-253-8563.
July 1: Northwest Arkansas Permaculture Study Group
The Northwest Arkansas Permaculture Study Group will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 1, at the Egan Brothers’ Farm, Orchard and Vineyard at 195 Flamingo Road in Busch. For more information, call Jerry Landrum at 479-244-0377.
July 2: EUUF Fourth of July Service
The Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will have a Fourth of July service at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 2. The fellowship is encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences about being American. This can be through personal stories, favorite essays or poems or through song and instruments. The event will be followed by Salad Sunday. Attendees are asked to bring salads, bread and dessert to share. Join in for a donation of $5 per person or $10 per family that will go to a local cause.
July 2: Grassy Knob Ice Cream Social
The Grassy Knob Volunteer Fire Department will host an Ice Cream Social from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 2, at the Grassy Knob Community Center, located at 12037 Highway 187. This event is a “thank you” to the community for their ongoing support. Everyone is welcome.
July 3: Metafizzies Meeting
The Eureka Springs Metaphysical Society (Metafizzies) meeting will feature Dr. Stephen Foster continuing his discussion on metaphysical interpretation of the New Testament at 7 p.m. Monday, July 3, at Heart of Many Ways at 68 Mountain St. All are welcome.
July 8: Academy of Excellence Safety Event
The Academy of Excellence will hold a Safety Event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at 157 Huntsville Road on Highway 23 South in Eureka Springs. Local police and fire departments will be on site. There will be fingerprint ID cards for children and other activities. The first 10 students will receive $200 off the first month payment. The second 10 children will receive $100 off the first month payment, and the third 10 students will receive $50 off the first month payment. There will be draws for tuition scholarships and discounts.
July 8: Elks Drug Awareness Barbecue
The Holiday Island Elks Lodge 1042 will hold a barbecue from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 8, in the Cornerstone Bank parking lot near the Holiday Island entrance to raise money to fund its Drug Awareness Program. For $5, visitors can get a burger or a brat, chips and a soft drink or ice tea.
July 9: EUUF Service
Carmen Suzan Bell, who founded the Eureka Christian Health Outreach, Inc. (ECHO) with her husband Dr. Dan Bell, will address the ECHO Village project and the creation of the ECHO Free Clinic at the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 9, at 17 Elk St.
July 11: Attorney General Mobile Office
The Attorney General Mobile Office will visit the Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center in Berryville from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 11. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office will have representatives at the senior center for a prescription drug takeback. Authorities will be collecting prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, pet medicines, medicated ointments and lotions, inhalers, liquid medicines and medicine samples. There will also be a presentation on scares and identity theft prevention from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. where seniors and older adults can learn about common scams that target them.
July 16: EUUF Service
Christie Nichols Braswell will address the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (EUUF) at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 16, at 17 Elk St. Share her journey through the creation of journals and what they contain.
July 23: EUUF Service
Nancy Brooks and Forrest Jacobi will present the 2017 General Assembly Report to the Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (EUUF) at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 23, at 17 Elk St.
July 27: Back to School Immunization Clinic
The Carroll County Health Unit will host a back-to-school immunization clinic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, July 27, at 402 Hailey Road in Berryville. To participate in the clinic, please call 870-4232923.
July 30: EUUF Service
Rabbi Rob Lennik will present “Shifting Paradigms- From Orders of Magnitude to Transpersonal” or “Can One Person Actually Make a Difference?” at the Eureka
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (EUFF) at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 30, at 17 Elk St.
ONGOING MEETINGS
Members of Elks Lodge 1042 will clean, price, wrap and sort items for the Brown Elk Sale on the first Tuesday of each month from March to July. The sale will be held on Friday, Aug. 4, and Saturday, Aug. 5. Donations can be brought to Elks Lodge 1042 at 4 Parkcliff Drive in Holiday Island. For more information, contact Wes Gosvenor at 870-818-4568. ECHO Stores are offering music and movement story time at 10 a.m. every Tuesday during the summer from June 20 to Aug. 2 in the book department and children’s section. The event is free and is intended for children who are elementary age. Store manager Danyelle Harris will be leading the story time. Rabbi Rob Lennik will be holding Shabbat Services the first and third Friday of each month at the Heart of Many Ways at 68 Mountain St. in Eureka Springs. For more information, call 479-633-9221 or email rblennick@gmail.com. The Eureka Springs Carnegie Library hosts a weekly Song and Story Time for toddlers and preschool children and their caregivers at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at 194 Spring St. The Good Shepherd Humane Society (GSHS) holds its monthly board meeting at 1 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month in the shelter’s meet-and-greet room. All are welcome. St. James Episcopal Church holds community suppers from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Sundays. Meals are provided by local restaurants. St. James is the church with the red door located at 86 Prospect Ave. on the Historic Loop. Meals are served downstairs in the undercroft.
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A support group for those with Parkinson’s and their caregivers is held at 10 a.m. the first Wednesday of each month at ECHO Community Room. For more information email Sally at SarahG@arkansas.net or call 479-981-1587. New Day Fellowship will host a prayer night from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday at 440 Passion Play Road in Eureka Springs. Everyone in the community is welcome to attend this quiet time and meet with God for prayer and meditation. Berryville’s Alcoholics Anonymous chapter meets at 7 p.m. each Thursday at the Community of Christ Church at 501 Orchard Drive. The meetings take place in the basement next to the lower parking lot of the church. For more information call 870-929-6236.
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4:11 p.m. — A father called about his daughter getting into an auto accident and wanted an officer to respond to explain it was a hit and run. An officer responded to the location and waited on the father to call him back to let the officer know if he wanted to file a report. 6:21 p.m. — A female called to advise that she was doing a photo shoot at an area hotel and her car wouldn’t start. She advised she was having it towed in the morning and wanted to let the police department know. 7:09 p.m. — A female called to complain about the dog next door. She advised it keeps barking all hours of the day and night, and she is tired of hearing it barking. An officer was dispatched, and the owner of the dogs put them inside the house. 9:35 p.m. — A male called to ask if he could fly his drone in Holiday Island. He was given the number for the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office to call and make sure. 9:48 p.m. — The owner of an area ho-
Carroll County Cruisers and Collectables meets the last Monday of every month at various locations. Show and Shine Cruise-ins will be held during the spring and summer months on the Berryville Square. For more information call 879-423-7928.
The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center will have board games available from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Wednesdays at 202 W. Madison Ave. in Berryville.
Thursday. The class was developed with seniors in mind, and beginners are welcome. The class is free for seniors over the age of 60. For more information, call the senior center at 870-423-3265. The Eureka Springs Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 12:30 p.m. every Monday at the Holiday Island Clubhouse. For more information call Jean or Clarence at 479-253-2627.
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The Eureka Springs Lions Club meets at noon on the second Wednesday of each month at Forest Hill Restaurant. The Eureka Springs Rotary Club meets at noon on Thursdays in the Crystal Dining Room of the 1886 Crescent Hotel. For more information contact EurekaSprgsRotary@gmail.com.
The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center is offering yoga classes from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. every
Eureka Springs Hospital Guild meets at 1:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month at the hospital cafeteria. For more information call Mary Lou at 479-253-9398.
Brews Pub in Eureka Springs hosts a free open mic night the first Wednesday of every month. Writers, musicians and other performers are welcome. A writing exercise begins at 6:15 p.m. for anyone interested, and the open mic starts at 7 p.m. Brews is located at 2 Pine St. across from the post office in Eureka Springs. For more information, visit “Brews Open Mic: The Eureka Human Experience” on Facebook.
tel called to report a female with a baby was getting a room and she stated she saw spiders in both of the rooms provided for her. The owner advised her that she didn’t see any spiders. The owner advised the police she was worried the woman was hallucinating and was concerned because of the baby. An officer located the subject at a different hotel and stated she was fine, just scared of spiders. June 22 6:21 a.m. — The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office advised it had received a call about a male who wouldn’t leave the property of the old high school. An officer responded and made contact with the subject, who then left the property. 7:53 p.m. — A 911 caller was using her cell phone and accidentally hit the 9, meaning “everything is fine.” An officer checked on the subject to make sure. June 23 12:08 a.m. — An officer responded to a burglary alarm at an area business. The building was secure. 12:47 p.m. — A caller advised two vehicles were parked in front of an area business with their hazard lights on. An
officer responded to determine the nature of the situation and clear the road for traffic. The vehicles were gone on arrival. 10:47 p.m. — An officer responded to a request for motorist assistance at an area hotel. June 24 2:15 a.m. — A subject was arrested for public intoxication and sleeping in a vehicle. 2:26 a.m. — A subject was arrested for driving while intoxicated. 10:37 p.m. — A subject was arrested for domestic battery in the third degree. June 25 1:55 a.m. — A subject was arrested for public intoxication, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. 7:30 a.m. — A caller advised she need to report someone breaking and entering at her home. An officer responded, and a report was taken. 8:21 a.m. — A caller advised that he would like an officer to remove an unwanted person off the property. An officer responded. 12:39 p.m. — A caller advised the open sign had been stolen from an area
restaurant. An officer responded, and a report was taken. 2:07 p.m. — Callers advised they had an accident. An officer responded, and a report was taken. 5:52 p.m. — A caller advised that dogs were left in a vehicle at the hospital. An officer responded and made contact with the dogs. The windows were down, and the dogs were fine. 10:59 p.m. — An officer responded to an area restaurant for a reported intoxicated driver. June 26 6:52 p.m. — An officer arrested a subject on a Eureka Springs warrant and a warrant for parole violation. 9:21 p.m. — A caller advised of loud music coming from a nearby residence. Officers made contact with the subject, who were advised to keep it down. June 27 2:48 a.m. — Officers responded to an apartment complex for a 911 hangup and spoke with the calling party, who advised their child called by mistake. 3:35 a.m. — An officer responded to a report of a trespasser on private property.
The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center will host an art class from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Fridays at 202 W. Madison Ave. in Berryville.
The Eureka Springs Garden Club meets the fourth Friday of each month at various locations. Everyone interested in gardening is invited to attend. For more information, call Annie at 479-981-0624.
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LIVELY Entertainment
THURSDAY, JUNE 29 • Brews, 2 Pine St., 479-244-0878: Art Deco Band, 7 p.m. • Cathouse, 82 Armstrong, 479-3639976: Jimmy Wayne Garrett, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. • Eureka Live, 35 N. Main, 479-2537020: Green Screen Karaoke, 9 p.m. • Grande Taverne, 37 N. Main St., 479253-6756: Jerry Yester, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. • Grub & Pub Club 169, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-253-7122: Boss Karaoke, 7 p.m. • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard), 105 E. Van Buren, 479-253-2500: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Live Music TBA, 9 p.m. FRIDAY, JUNE 30 • Brews, 2 Pine St., 479-244-0878: John Henry, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. • Cathouse, 82 Armstrong, 479-3639976: Pinetop Renegades, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. • Chelsea’s, 10 Mountain St., 479-2536723: Cadillac Jackson, 9:30 p.m. • Eureka Live, 35 N. Main, 479-
253-7020: Free Drag Event, 9 p.m. • Grande Taverne, 479-253-6756: Arkansas Red, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. • Grub & Pub Club 169, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-253-7122: Kevin Upshaw, 9 p.m. • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard), 479253-2500: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; DJ Karaoke w/ Scott, 8 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main,479-2532525: Brick Fields, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den, 47 Spring St., 479363-6444: Mary Heather & the Sinners, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 417 W. Van Buren, 479-253-8544: 2 Dog 2 Karaoke, 7 p.m. SATURDAY, JULY 1 • Brews, 2 Pine St., 479-244-0878: Sad Daddy, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. • Cathouse, 82 Armstrong, 479-3639976: Hedley Lamar Band, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. • Chelsea’s, 479-253-6723: Mark Shields Trio, 9:30 p.m. • Eureka Live, 479-253-7020: 4th of July
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Drag Event, 9 p.m. $10 Cover • Grande Taverne, 479-253-6756: Jerry Yester, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. • Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: Frisco Cemetery, 9 p.m • Legends Saloon, 479-253-2500: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Pinetop Renegades, 9 p.m. • New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main,479-2532525: Dr. Nola and the Soul Shakers, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Duane Stevens Band, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 479-253-8544: Camille Rae, 7 p.m. SUNDAY, JULY 2 • Brews, 479-244-0878: Trivia, 7 p.m. • Eureka Live, 479-253-7020: Green Screen Karaoke, 7 p.m. • Grub & Pub Club 169, 479-253-7122: Sunday Funday w/ Specials • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.: Texas Hold’em, 7 p.m.
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• New Delhi Cafe,479-253-2525: Melissa Carper and Friends, noon to 4 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Michael Tisdale Duo, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Chicken Pot Pie Acoustic, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 479-253-8544: 2 Dog 2 Karaoke, 7 p.m. MONDAY, JULY 3 • Brews, 479-244-0878: Eureka Music Revival, 7 p.m. • Chelsea’s: SprUngbilly, 9 p.m. • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Blue Muse Trio, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Mark Shields Band, 9 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 479-253-8544: Chicken Pot Pie Acoustic, 7 p.m. TUESDAY, JULY 4 Happy 4th of July! • Cathouse, 479-363-9976: Los Roscoes, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. • Chelsea’s: Open Mic, 8 p.m. • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Game Night: Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.: Texas Hold’em and Pool Tournament, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 • Brews, 479-244-0878: Open Mic, 7 p.m. • Chelsea’s: Walk-in Wednesdays (Silent movies/Live Music/Bring your lawn chair), 7 p.m. • Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Happy Hour, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. • Rowdy Beaver Den, 479-363-6444: Shawbee Karaoke, 8 p.m. to midnight.
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embrace the LGBTQ community. Mostly, I’m proud to live in Eureka Springs, where everyone is accepted. Acceptance is love. To my LGBTQ friends and all those I haven’t met, I love you and I accept you. Love is love. Thank you for showing me that. ••• Samantha Jones is associate editor for Carroll County Newspapers. Her email address is Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail. com.
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Wisecrack ZODIAC ARIES: Feel free to take a chance on Friday, just remember to give one back next week so the “Take a chance, leave a chance” dish isn’t empty for someone else needing it. Taurus: A bird will answer your question on Tuesday. It could cheep, peep, tweet or just flip at you. No matter the method, you’ll get the point. GEMINI: Dance like no one’s watching, because they’re not. You forgot to set the parking brake on your car, and everyone has their phone out, recording your coupe doing a Thelma & Louise off the cliff. CANCER: All good things must end, so they can take a breather before they start up again. Give the goodness in your life a brief break so they can have a snack and put their feet up. LEO: Forget about the man in the mirror and be more concerned about the camera behind the glass. Is it the CIA? KGB? Or just the newest season of Big Brother? Find out so you know whose butt to kick. VIRGO: Soar among the clouds, and you’ll be dodging geese, camera-packing drones and chicken sandwiches in rockets. Sometimes it’s safer to just take the bus to your dreams. LIBRA: Knowledge comes from the outside, wisdom comes from within and sarcasm is like sand in your swim trunks: it goes everywhere. You can try to dig it out, or just squeeze your butt cheeks and turn it into a pearl. SCORPIO: On Friday, you’re like a sumo wrestler in Spanx; something’s got to give, and innocent bystanders shouldn’t be around when it happens. Give everyone a heads up before you pop. SAGITTARIUS: Don’t bother to explain yourself. If people can’t understand a TV remote, they won’t get you. Just change your own channel and leave them stuck in an informercial for copper-studded jockstraps.
CAPRICORN: Your job takes an interesting turn on Monday, crashes into a road sign on Wednesday, stalls out on a railroad crossing on Thursday, and comes out of the body shop with a fresh paint job on Friday. Congrats on another typical week. AQUARIUS: Something you’ve yearned for will finally happen. It could be a big break in your career, or those Chicken & Waffles
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Oreos you’ve dreamed about for years. If you work in a bakery, it could be both. PISCES: You’re filled with new fire, but don’t reach for the heartburn medicine just yet. This time it’s a flame of inspiration and ambition, and it will goose you into a much better tax bracket. Remember your flame-retardant Underoos, and all will be good.
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Red Rover (No. C17-0048) came to the shelter an extremely shy boy. He was sent to live with one of our most experienced foster parents. He’s now ready to be adopted. We’re hoping to keep him in the foster home until he can go to his forever home, so if you’re interested in Red Rover, please call to arrange a meeting. He is neutered and has his shots. He’s available for adoption at the Good Shepherd Animal Shelter on Highway 62 east of Eureka Springs. The shelter is open from noon to 5 p.m. every day but Tuesday and Wednesday. For more information, call 479-253-9188.
TRANSITION Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Grieg, a resident of McKinney, Texas formerly of Eureka Springs, was born Feb. 19, 1921, in Youngstown, Ohio, daughter of Aulbry and Irma (Higgins) Revels. She departed this life Saturday, June 17, 2017 in McKinney, Texas, at the age of 96 years. Betty graduated from Adamson High School in Dallas in 1938 and then later attended business college in Dallas. She worked most of her life as an executive secretary/bookkeeper. After retirement in 1978 she and her husband moved to Eureka Springs. Betty worked for the Art, Craft and Hobby Shop next to the library until it closed. She is survived by her daughters, Gloria Greig of Prosper, Texas and Linda Hardin of Garfield; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. On May 21, 1939, she was united in marriage with James S. Greig, who preceded her in death. She is also preceded in death by her parents, Aulbry and Irma
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“This has always been about the bonds. It’s that sewer plant they’re not paying off,” Eric Knowles said. “They need to come up with money and what they do is they take money from everywhere except for the sewer rates. Sewer rates go to it, but they’re not enough, so they take it from the water rates to pay for that.” Eric Knowles said he doesn’t think it’s legal for the city to use the infrastructure and improvement fee to pay for the sewer bonds. “What the council has done is put together the water and sewer system. They think it’s one system, but it’s not,” he said. “The city council did not understand that these are two separate systems that need to be funded separately and sufficiently so the rates they all considered did not treat each system separately.” Berry said the bond is for water and sewer, not sewer alone. “It’s a combination of water and sewer, so it’s the same,” Berry said. “The water and the sewer are an enterprise fund, which means it’s got to stand on its own. It can be intermingled. We can’t take street money and put it into water and sewer. Theoretically, it has to be self-supporting through its own contributions, which it hasn’t been.” Eric Knowles said the council took $800,000 out of city money to pay for the bonds, saying that money should have come out of the utilities revenue. “Our utilities should be paid for by our utility rates, and the sewer system
should be paid for by the sewer rates,” Eric Knowles said. “It’s just as simple as possible … but they added an infrastructure and improvement fee, which will not go to infrastructure and improvement. It will go to pay for sewer bonds. I don’t use that sewer. It’s not my sewer.” It’s true that the city has had to move $800,000 out of the general fund and reserves to pay for the water and sewer bond, Berry said. He said the council has been working on that and tried to pass a sales tax to help pay for the bonds in last year’s general election, but it failed. In the time leading up to that election, Berry said, he told the public the water and sewer rates would increase if the tax didn’t pass. “That’s just a matter of record,” Berry said. Berry said the infrastructure and improvement fee will pay for the bonds. If the city can’t make those bond payments, he said, it would mean trouble. “The bond owners could literally come in and take over our system and charge anything they wanted,” Berry said. “They could shut us down completely, and they could raise the water rates 200 percent if they wanted to.” The sooner the city pays off those bonds, Berry said, the sooner the focus can shift toward infrastructure improvements. “Heaven forbid we’ll have $800,000 to the good that we won’t be paying to the bonds,” Berry said. “We can take that and put it into our infrastructure. We can pay for water and sewer repairs. We’ll be able to extend our water and sewer lines.” Criticizing city council
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Joyce Knowles said the city’s problems go back to 2011, when the city council voted to upgrade the water meters to save money. “They don’t want to discuss what happened in previous councils, because they are the previous council. The same people are sitting there today that were sitting there in 2011,” she said. “Over the past four years, this council, this group of people, have lost us $800,000 they’ve moved out of general reserves and $460,000 they used to pay for water meters they thought would fix this problem.” She continued, “That’s nearly $1.4 million. I think we need a different form of government. I think we need a city manager rather than the government we have.” Joyce Knowles said residents voted on establishing a city manager six years ago but it didn’t pass. “People thought a city manager would be too expensive,” she said. “They could not possibly be more expensive than this council.” Eric Knowles agreed. “The decisions this council has made have been based on speculation, opinion, no data, no expertise and they’ve absolutely been disastrous for the finances of the city,” he said. Berry said the council has three new members compared with 2011. “We’ve got Kristi Kendrick and Peg Adamson, and Bob Thomas wasn’t there when we did the water meters,” Berry said. “I wasn’t here when we did the water meters, so that’s completely false.” Joyce Knowles said she believes the city botched the water and sewer increases out of desperation. “They were so desperate for money they didn’t take time to do this correctly, and we want it done correctly,” she said. “If they had simply put it on everybody’s sewer bill, it would’ve been a completely different matter, but they didn’t want to do it that way, because then the hotels would have to pay more money, and poor them.” Berry remembered the process of raising the rates, saying the council discussed the increases for five months
over 10 meetings and additional workshops. That discussion began immediately after the proposed sales tax failed, Berry said. “We hadn’t raised our sewer rates in 10 years, because we knew it was going to cause problems with people,” Berry said. “I finally had to bite the bullet, and the council did too, so we raised our sewer rates.” He said the council chose not to raise the water rates because those rates increased in the recent past in response to a rate hike from the Carroll-Boone Water District. “Really, the most equitable solution was to raise the sewer rates and have the fee,” Berry said. Pending lawsuit Joyce Knowles said she and her husband are waiting to hear from the city, saying they’d drop the lawsuit if the council drops the fee. “Right now, we’re waiting for the city to respond to the letter. If they’re willing to sit down and talk to the citizens and rethink what they’ve done and take this off our bill and revise the rate structure, it can stop at that,” she said. “But it’s not up to us right now. The notice has gone to them of what we’re doing and what’s required of them, so we have to wait for an answer from them.” “At the end of the time period,” Eric Knowles added, “if we don’t hear anything, we’re going to take the next step.” Berry said it’s their right to sue the city. “If they feel that is the right thing to do … if they feel that’s the best way to support the city of Eureka Springs, then they’re going to have to do what they’re going to have to do,” Berry said. He said the council can’t stop collecting the infrastructure and improvement fee, because that fee is helping the city pay off the bonds. “We don’t have a choice. If we don’t meet our bond covenants, they’re going to come in and take us over,” Berry said. “So if the lawsuit is successful and we lose that money and then the bond partners come in and sue us over the plant … then Eric and Joyce can sue them.”
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