Lovely County Citizen April 18, 2013

Alien ideas

One-woman revolution

Ozarks UFO Conference packs the house at convention

Trella Laughlin has lived a liftime of exposing injustices

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Photographer, marshal of ARTrageous Parade thrives in his work behind the scenes Page 3

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Residents turn out en masse for first meeting

Parks & Rec board discusses a few proposals

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ARTrageous Parade marshal works behind the scenes

By Jennifer Jackson Flags, designing scenery and performing When Jeremy Mason McGraw was in magic shows. He left to take a job as a 13, he started performing his own mag- lighting designer for a touring talent comic shows. At 15, he got a job at a theme petition, was a stage manager for another park as an assistant to a magician who did traveling show and then worked as a laser a big-stage illusion show. But it was the and pyro technician in San Antonio, Tex. magic going on behind the scenes that inHe shipped out of Houston as stage trigued him. manager on a Norwegian cruise line to “While I was working for that com- Mexico and Central America. When the pany, I started getting interested in the ship was chartered to go to Australia to backstage and technical end of the show,” launch a new cruise line, McGraw signed McGraw said. “I learned from the people on.

I was working with.

“Every cruise was a different itinerary,” McGraw is now a commercial photog- he said. “I’ve been to more than 100 difrapher and the creative spark behind the ferent ports of call in the Pacific.”

Creative Energy Project, an interactive He would have stayed in Australia, but community art projcouldn’t get a work ect. For his contribuvisa. Returning to tion to revving up the Oklahoma, he got a “Photography is the only town’s artistic vibe, call from a Branson thing I didn’t get tired of. the Eureka Springs company that needed Arts Council has chosomeone to manage Everything else had a sen McGraw to be a magic show. He two-year life cycle.” grand marshal of this moved there and did – Jeremy Mason McGraw year’s ARTrageous that for eight months, Parade on May 4. It then started doing will be a new expeset design for Branrience for the artist, son theaters. But he who travels the world shooting in exotic missed traveling, so started looking for a locations. job that would allow him to travel and be “I’ve never even been in a parade be- his own boss. The advice of a friend guidfore,” he said. ed him: to focus on what he’s good at in Born in Sacramento, Calif., McGraw the field of art. lived all over the country when he was “Photography is the only thing I didn’t growing up, the family following his fa- get tired of,” McGraw said. “Everything ther’s job with the Federal Aviation Ad- else had a two-year life cycle. So I did ministration. But by the time he was in something really irresponsible. I quit my eighth grade, McGraw had switched ca- job and spent all my money on a camreer goals from pilot to artist. era and a work station computer. It was “Some people play sports,” he said. “I ‘Make it or break it.’ entered art contests. I entered a lot and After two years of living in survival started to win a lot of contests.” mode, he got a commission to shoot phoThe family was living in Edmond, tographs of a hotel in Hawaii. High-speed Okla., when McGraw was in high school. internet was just becoming available at He took his first photography class his se- the time, he said. Looking at websites, nior year, and started incorporating pho- McGraw saw that even multi-million tography into the shows he worked on for dollar resorts had horrible photographs Premiere Parks. Graduating from high of their building interiors. Knowing he school in 1993, he moved to Maryland had the lighting, set design and photogwith the company, which took over Six See McGraw, page 9

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Public turns out en masse for SWEPCO meeting; second meeting scheduled for Thursday

By Don Lee Save The Ozarks will host its second public meeting on Thursday, April 18, at 6 p.m., at The Auditorium located at 32 S. Main St. in Eureka Springs to discuss SWEPCO’s proposed 345 kV transmission line, scheduled to be built from SWEPCO’s Shipe Road Station near Centerton, in Benton County, to a proposed Kings River Station northwest of Berryville,.

This second meeting follows a huge gathering last Thursday at The Space on Spring Street. A dancehall full of people angry and concerned over their future and their property showed up to protest and find out what they could do to help stop the project.

The meetings are in response to an application filed April 3 by the Southwestern Electric Power Co. with the Arkansas Public Service Commission for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need.

If approved, the CECPN would allow con-

struction of an enormous transmission line, approximately 48 miles in length, between a power station being built in Benton County and one proposed to be built near Berryville. The preferred route goes near Lake Leatherwood Park and across the White River, according to a letter sent to property owners.

SWEPCO has selected six potential routes for the line. Each of the routes traverse Carroll, Benton and/or Madison Counties.

The two routes that come near Leatherwood Park go to the north and south. The south route would put the transmission lines near Leatherwood Creek. Because part of the project is clearing all trees and treating the 150 foot right-of-way with herbicides in perpetuity, some of the most environmentally vulnerable and scenic areas of the Ozarks will be irreparably damaged by the initial construction and by on-going mainte-

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nance of the towers, line and right-of-way.

According to information provided by Save the Ozarks, the group behind this meeting, the extra-high voltage line will be suspended on single poles as much as 160 feet tall, spaced at intervals of about 800 feet and erected in the middle of a 150-foot rightof-way. If the PSC approves SWEPCO’s plan, the project is inevitable, one route or another.

One meeting organizer, Roger Shepperd, put it like this: “We are not here to argue one route versus another. This divides us and pits us all against one another. From our reading, this line is not necessary or warranted.

We seek to deny it altogether. How to stop them? Ground swell resistance. Not just Eureka Springs or Beaver, Berryville or Rogers. We need to reach out and unite all of the affected people so we can stop this.”

Errol Severe, whose Aviation Cadet Museum lies near the path of the proposed lines, pointed out the project will also impact several caves in the area which may house endangered species of bats.

“Any avenue we have available, we should take,” he said. “I already have power lines going through one side of my property.

That’s enough.”

Local resident Bill King advocated the group coming up with a “Plan B” in case their initial effort doesn’t work out. He suggested the possibility of SWEPCO sharing rights-of-way already in place for other utilities.

Others disagreed, arguing their best bet was to halt the project long enough to rally their forces further.

Another organizer, Pat Costner, whose land would also be directly impacted by the power line, stressed the urgency of the situation.

“We are less than three weeks from the PSC’s rendering a decision,” she said. “We want to seek a 90-day extension, which will give us time to further organize.”

The first step in doing so, said organizers, was to seek politically connected legal counsel that understands the issues involved. Legal counsel is required to approach the PSC

at all.

According to its Facebook page, as of Wednesday, Save the Ozarks has retained legal counsel to represent the organization and to help take appropriate steps for an extension of the looming deadline.

The group is also being advised by Richard Klein of the Community & Environmental Defense Services, an organization that has assisted other communities faced with transmission lines and similar encroachments on their economic and environmental well-being throughout the United States.

One point of contention is the fact not all landowners have been notified of the upcoming construction, though this step is legally required.

“Much of the information we’ve received from SWEPCO through the Freedom of Information Act is erroneous,” Costner said.

“It’s based on data from 2007, which means it was actually gathered even earlier than that. The projected need is not really there, now. We don’t want to see this land raped and taken apart.”

Local attorney Kristine Kendrick said she had called the tax assessor and made another unpleasant discovery.

“The state does not tax right-of-ways,” she said. “While this means anyone whose land is directly affected will see their taxes go down slightly, the fact the county will lose that tax revenue to pay for county services means they will ultimately have to raise the millage to make up the difference, and that means everybody will pay more.”

Donations to help defray the costs of these legal fees can be mailed to: Save The Ozarks PO Box 142 Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Donations can also be deposited in person at any of the Community First Banks.

Going to Stopthelines.com takes you directly to a comment page for the PSC, and organizers have set up a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-The-Ozarks/640701859289555.

The group’s email address is info@savetheozarks.org.

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The riddle of the old high school Architect presents options for vacated campus

By Jennifer Jackson Opportunity. That’s what lies on the corner of Highway 62 and Midway Street, according to architect Ed Levy.

The key to unlocking that opportunity is answering a question: Who is going to own it?

Last week, a team from Cromwell Architects led by Levy held public input meetings on what to do with the old high school campus, vacated when the new high school opened in January. On Thursday, Levy and John Mixon reported that people had no problem verbalizing their wishes: a recreational facility that would serve local residents and families with children. “’Indoor swimming pool’ were the words we heard most often from groups of people and individuals,” Levy said.

The catch to any plan, school board chairman Al Larson pointed out, is that the district is not in the business of running community centers and cannot use funds to create one.

At Larson’s suggestion, Levy wrote down “Who is going to own the property?” to the list of “going forward” steps for the property, valued at $1 million.

“It’s not the school district that is going to be in charge of this,” Larson said. “Some entity has got to take it over.”

Levy, who is volunteering his firm’s services, also presented ideas for the use of the three buildings on the property, two of which are in good shape: the gynasium and the former cafeteria. His recommendation: start looking into requirements for housing a Boys and Girls Club in the gymnasium.

“You could have a fitness center, put in a stage, use the shop space in the basement as a skills center, teach arts and craft classes and have a computer center in the East Lab,” he said.

The former cafeteria building could be leased as-is for art, cooking or craft classes, generating income right away, Levy said.

That the property is at the intersection of Highway 62 and the historic business loop makes at one of the “gateways” to the city

for visitors, Levy said.

“You have a real opportunity to make a welcome statement at the corner,” he said.

Levy also recommended that the school board fix the leaky roof of the main classroom building to stabilize the building, and presented six options for it, along with pros and cons. The situation: the classroom building is one of 50 “maximum light” buildings in the country-- its exterior walls are reinforced concrete topped with ridged glass blocks that have been painted over. There’s no good way to add insulation to glass and concrete walls, Levy said. Option 1 is to keep the building as is, and would mean buying a new HVAC system, but it will never be economical to heat or cool. Another issue: interior walls are load-bearing, so cannot be taken out without the roof falling in, Levy said, which negates the idea of reconfiguring the space for other uses.

Option 2 is to demolish the addition to the building, returning it to its originally C-shaped, which would create a small courtyard, and restore the rest of the building as in Option 1. The hazardous materials in the building will have to be dealt no matter what option is chosen, he said.

Overlying any plan for the site is the fact that the building is in the historic district, which means the Historic District Commission has the power to nix any change or new construction. Jack Murphy, an interested resident who attended the meeting, said that the city, the county and business owners should take the role of sparking the economic development of the site, with the first step to find out what the Historic District Commission will not allow so as not to waste time promoting the site to developers.

“Glenna Booth told us we could build a new building inside the walls,” Levy said.

“We drew that up and said, “Aha.” The “aha” moment was Option 3: scoop out the inside of existing building, leaving the concrete and glass block walls, remove the paint from the glass blocks and add a steel roof overhang to create a large, light-

A diagram of Option 3 for the main classroom building, demolishing the interior and keeping the walls to create a large enclosed courtyard for year-round outdoor events

filled enclosed courtyard that could be used for a farmer’s market, Christmas market and other community event.

“This becomes a space you don’t have here yet,” Levy said.

This option also eliminates the need for a new HVAC , has no utility costs except for lighting, and is virtually maintenance free.

“Demolition is really cheap,” Levy said.

“This is probably the cheapest option up here.”

Option 4 would be to turn the building into an indoor swimming pool, which would require extensive construction and be the most expensive to operate and maintain, he said.

It would also require finding someone who wanted to operate an indoor pool/water park, Levy said.

Option 5 and 6 called for tearing the building down and replacing it with something smaller, or building a dynamic architectural showplace incorporating art that Levy calls the “Mod Nouveau” option.

An outdoor swimming pool on the sloped part of the campus property, with a water slide and steps down to it, is a component that could be incorporated into all the other options. An open-air market in the parking lot is another possible component.

“This is your one chance in 100 years to

decide what to do with that site,” Levy said.

Jess Green, who lives next to the campus, said that he and the other neighbors are primarily interested in keeping the streets open, and that he would have no objection to any idea that the architect thought was practical.

Levy is volunteering his services through Breakthrough Solutions, a University of Arkansas program that helps communities move forward by solving a problem that is key to the community’s future. Diagrams of the six options for the classroom building and the property will be posted on the school district’s website. It’s up to residents to discuss them and choose one, he said, then refine it, develop a fund-raising strategy, raise the money and build it.

The school district also has choices to make, Levy said: whether to go ahead and work with a commercial real estate agent and sell the property or could look for an entity or public-private partnership to develop the property to meet a community need. The district could also order a BER, building engineering report, to determine the value and get a detailed assessment of all the needs, Levy said, or it could let the buildings sit and lose value.

“It’s not recommended,” Levy said.

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SWEPCO in Leatherwood, new community center, restoring Califf Spring dominate Parks & Rec meeting

By Don Lee Like everybody else in town, Parks & Recreation commissioners were eager to discuss SWEPCO on Monday night. They also bandied around ideas for Parks’ possible involvement in a community center on the campus of the old high school, and in the middle of all this, they took a break to go check out Califf Spring, up the street by the Historical Museum, and debated details of its facelift.

Several commissioners came to the table deeply concerned about the possibility of an upcoming major power line project

by SWEPCO that will cut a 150-foot-wide, 48-mile-long swath across Northwest Arkansas. Two of the six proposed routes come very near Lake Leatherwood Park, one just to the north and one to the south.

According to Parks & Rec Chairman Bill Featherstone and Parks Director Bruce Levine, neither route encroaches city property at the park.

“After spending some time on Google Earth, I’d be willing to bet my farm neither route touches Leatherwood,” Levine said.

“They have been working on this a long time, this isn’t their first rodeo, and it is surely no accident both routes come close without crossing that line. My concern would be if it crosses to the south, it could affect Leatherwood Creek. That would be an issue.”

At the commission’s request, Levine agreed to to draft a letter to SWEPCO and other appropriate authorities expressing Parks & Rec’s position on the issue.

As Featherstone put it, “It’s our intent to protect our property from these types of grotesque easements. They’re going north and south, that’s not a accident. They know

it’s environmentally hazardous and there’s a body of water there and it’s public space, so they’ve avoided it.”

[For further information, go to the story on page 4.]

Parks to run new community center?

Featherstone brought forward another time-sensitive issue Monday night, namely whether or not Parks & Rec wants to become involved, temporarily or permanently, in running the community center proposed for Building 3, formerly the gymnasium at the old high school.

Featherstone, who attended a series of recent meeting co-hosted by the school district to help plan for possible uses for the old campus, said the main recurrent suggestion by all in attendance was a community center in the old gym.

“That’s where I got interested,” he said, “because a community center has been a subject of discussion here for a very long time and is such a glaring need to so many citizens.

A big void. Yes, you can say Berryvile has one for the county, but that’s not the same as having one in your back yard.”

How does that involve Parks & Rec? “We are the Parks & RECREATION commission,” Featherstone said. “We’re deeply involved in parks, and it isn’t that recreation is ignored, but it just seems to bring up the rear a lot. In a lot of communities, recreation planning and organizing is a big part of what we do, providing opportunities that are not currently available here.”

Featherstone said the overriding question is who operates the community center, if it comes to be.

“Thus I’ve brought it to this table to find

how much the commission wants to be part of that process,” he said. “I have an idea we may have to deal with this, or not, very soon.”

He added the concern wasn’t whether or not someone else took over management rather than Parks, but that the situation was unique and had been part of ongoing discussion for years.

“What’s kept it from going beyond conversation is lack of facility, lack of money,” he said. “Well, the school district owns that property, and though long term they’d like to be relieved of owning it – they’re not landlords, they’re educators – they’ve shown a keen willingness to work with community, city hall or us or whoever, to facilitate the use of that property in any number of ways, including a community center. Their interest level is there because it does allow the city to extend an opportunity to school age youth currently not being offered.”

“That’s the question,” Featherstone said.

“School board member Sam Kirk has taken charge of the disposition of that property, by which I mean figuring out what needs to be done with it to relieve them of that responsibility. He’s got a subcommittee working on it and two study groups, one of which examines all the financial aspects, explore resources, while the other will study as many community centers as possible that serve cities in our demographic. Then they will sift through the data and put it in readable form.”

Featherstone stressed that Parks’ involvement was strictly toward the disposition of the gym, as a community center, rather than other projects ongoing on the rest of the old campus.

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As with many community centers, he added there will probably be some sort of usage fee involved.

“As to what can take place there, the sky’s the limit,” he said. “Whatever the community is willing to support. But it won’t be free. In the short term, it may be possible for us to use the building for no more than the hard costs of keeping it open – utilities, for example.

It costs approximately $135 a day to keep it open. That doesn’t include maintenance or anything else.”

Commissioner Myrna Thaxton pointed out the Berryville Community Center charges a monthly fee for its use.

Featherstone said, Parks willing, he had offered to serve as chairman of the group that will be physically contacting other community centers and gathering info.

“The grunt work, in short, but it’s necessary,” he said.

If the site become available before the research can be completed, Featherstone said, Parks might consider managing the facility until solid plans are made.

“We may look at it as a temporary use, and the group will work to decide what the next step may be,” he said. “It may suggest buying it from school outright – Parks buying it, or the city, whoever. But at the same time, it may become clear it’s somethings we don’t want anything to do with. I don’t think we can make many judgments right now, except to say public sentiment is very much in favor See Parks, page 27

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One-woman revolution

Trella Laughlin has lived a lifetime of exposing injustices

By Don Lee Most people’s lifeworks are gathered in one place, and though invaluable to ourselves, rarely would such work be important to hundreds of people scattered all over the world.

Trella Laughlin is an exception. For almost 20 years, Laughlin traveled the globe from Bosnia to Nicaragua and elsewhere, video-documenting human injustice for the the Foundation for a Compassionate Society and chronicling the efforts of men and women to right those wrongs.

For the past five years, Laughlin has spent hundreds of hours both here at home in Eureka Springs and in Austin, Tex., archiving and digitalizing the vast collection of videotapes of her shows held at the Austin History Center. ¡Revolution!

Laughlin was in El Salvador during the uprising of the Farabundo Mart’ National Liberation Front. The FMLN is a political party in El Salvador, formerly a revolutionary guerrilla organization that organized to overthrow the U.S.-backed military dictator who ruled the country. The FMLN is one of the two major political parties of the country.

“I interviewed women commandantes in the FMLN and taught them how to use video equipment to record their own grass-roots efforts and struggles toward liberation,” Laughlin said.

“I saw a mother who had walked hundreds of miles, with her baby in her arms, to participate. What hardships people go through to have dignity in their lives.”

Origins Trella Laughlin was born in Mississippi and grew up in her grandmother’s boardinghouse in Jackson.

Laughlin said, “My first job was as a dental assistant in elementary school.

Then I made donuts at Baylor, ran a bar, worked for a San Francisco newspaper, sold food freezer plans, worked in a sawmill, picked small green ‘tommy toes’ for an Arkansas pickle factory, took the census in the Boston Mountains, taught col-

lege English and journalism, taught high school special education classes, worked in Head Start and cleaned the New Orleans Hotel for Barbara Scott.”

After graduate school at the University of Texas, Laughlin taught English literature for the University of Maryland through a program that offered classes abroad to U.S. military forces.

Laughlin described the enlisted military she worked with as “just ordinary folks trying to get a skill, a job, sent overseas by rich, old white men.”

But she said the officers were “elitist, racist, and mostly drunk.”

Travels and Agent Orange Later, Laughlin played in an all-women’s country western band in Austin, then moved to the South Fork of the Little Red River in central Arkansas “to live in an Army mess tent without electricity or vehicle, trying to live simply with nature.”

This experiment ended when Laughlin and others were sprayed out of the valley by 2,4,5-T, a component of Agent Orange which Laughlin describes as “pushed on Arkansas farmers as a good way to clear hardwood forests for cattle pasture.”

Laughlin described the herbicide as highly toxic and added many of her friends who were exposed to it have since died from cancer.

“I had ovarian cancer myself,” she added.

Eventually, Laughlin settled back in Austin, teaching at Austin Community College.

Enter the KKK “I taught Journalism, questioning, and ‘taking it to the streets,’” Laughlin said with a laugh. “I also joined an anti-racist group of white people who confronted the Ku Klux Klan. I got threatened, spit on, beat up, brakelines cut, my friends harassed by the FBI, phone tapped, mail opened, and house broken into.”

She said these experiences either help radicalize a person or frighten them away, and, in her case, it radicalized her.

Laughlin’s M.A. from Stanford Univer-

Genevieve Vaughan and Trella Laughlin

sity was in Communications and Journalism, but her training in video work came from classes she took at Austin Community Television in camera work, editing, special effects, lighting, audio and multicam production.

“I had many talented friends in public access TV who shared their skills with me,” she said.

The Show “Let the People Speak” was the name of Laughlin’s weekly show, produced in Austin and shown there as well as in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

The show began in 1980, when Laughlin and other protesters, countering the Klan’s efforts to recruit across Texas, demonstrated at every Klan appearance.

Laughlin video-recorded and broadcast the results. “I saw my show as a way to give white people a chance to speak out against racism,” she said.

“At one event I accidentally got onto the wrong bus,” Laughlin said. “It was the Klan bus. They knew who I was, too.

I felt like I was surrounded by mountain rattlers. There’s a certain risk that goes

with being a ‘left’ journalist.”

Fifty years of tyranny Laughlin was in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, the night before the Sandanista revolution.

The Sandanistas were a revolutionary group which overthrew the rule of the dictatorial Somoza regime, which had held power for 50 years, then went on to engage in a long struggle against the U.S.backed Contras.

“The Somozas, backed by the U.S., had ruled the country for half a century,” Laughlin said. “When they were losing to the Sandanistas, the CIA sent a plane. Somoza had stolen millions from the World Health Organization and fled to Miami.

“He had actually pocketed money for medicine, for polio vaccines, and substituted red dye in the sugar cubes in place of the vaccine. There is a whole generation of people there of a certain age who suffer from having had polio as a result of that red dye.”

Laughlin also spent time filming in the Middle East.

See Laughlin, page 14

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Going to Grandma’s Craigslist yields Cabbage Patch dolls for children’s charity

By Jennifer Jackson Last December, Sue Kinkade’s daughter sent her an email with a link to a Craigslist listing of dolls for sale. Kinkade, a doll collector and doll maker, called and talked with a woman who said she was selling her collection of Cabbage Patch dolls. Kinkade belongs to the Northwest Arkansas Heirloom Doll Club, whose community outreach project is refurbishing Cabbage Patch dolls to raise money for the Merlin Foundation’s child advocacy centers.

Driving 40 miles to the address in Bradleyville, Mo., Kinkade found the woman’s trailer, where she had 100 Cabbage Patch dolls on a bed.

“They were all dressed, with shoes and everything,” Kinkade said. “I was really surprised.”

Learning the price was $2 apiece for the dolls, Kinkade called the club president, who okayed the purchase, plus 19 more for $1 a piece — a total of 119 Cabbage Patch dolls “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “They were so cheap, I bought them.”

Each doll had a different outfit made by the woman — a frilly print dress, attached petticoat and matching bloomers — with authentic Cabbage Patch shoes and socks.

After being cleaned this winter, 40 of the dolls were displayed at the doll club’s April 10 meeting, then 20 were taken to the Merlin Foundation Grandma’s House in Green Forest, which provides a place for children to be seen in a non-institutional environment

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raphy skills to do better, he set himself up in business as a hotel photographer, something only three other people in the world were doing at the time.

“Through the connection in Hawaii, a call came less than a year later from somebody who had heard that I was

when felony assault is reported. Children are allowed to chose a toy or doll as they are leaving the center. The first batch of Cabbage Patch dolls that club members took last fall were gone within a week, they learned.

“Are they still relevant today? Yes,” McGuire-Bouwman said.

The other 20 dolls went to Grandma’s Beans and Cornbread, a restaurant in Pine Mountain Village, where they are adopted for a requested donation of $20 and the money given to the Merlin Foundation. Launched last fall, the club’s Cabbage Patch recycling project has raised $1,300 for the foundation, according to Kathy McGuire-Bouwman, who came up with the idea and is leading the project. The Craigslist purchase will keep the project going for the next two years, she said.

“I think when you start doing something for others, miracles happen,” McGuire-Bouwman said.

The 100 dolls and their outfits were in good shape, she said, but each doll must be fresh and clean. McGuire-Bouwman usually puts the cloth dolls through the washing machine, but was concerned about the outfits, so decided to remove one of the doll’s dress.

Finding she was unable to get the tiny buttons on the back buttoned back up after its bath, she settled for removing the shoes and socks. The dolls and their outfits came out of the washing machine looking fine.

“I wasn’t going to iron the dresses,” McGuire-Bouwman told club members. doing hotel interiors,” McGraw said. “I went to Hawaii and shot 20 hotels in five weeks. When I came back I had the portfolio to go with the ambition.”

He was based in Branson, but in 2009 moved to Eureka Springs, which he had visited, the first time to do sketches of planned renovations for the Auditorium. The move was unplanned – he was walking on Spring Street with a friend

NW Arkansas Heirloom Doll Club members hold 40 of the 119 Cabbage Patch dolls that Sue Kinkade, seated left, bought from a woman on Craigslist. So far, the club has raised $1,300 for the Merlin Foundation by recycling the dolls. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Photo by Jennifer Jackson

Club member Judy Priester also took some of the first batch of dolls home and washed them. The club is setting aside 40 dolls to offer for adoption in the fall. Another batch will appear next spring. Members also knit, sew and crochet outfits for Cabbage Patch dolls that come in and need new clothes. A collection box is set up at the ECHO Thrift Store in Eureka Springs for donations. People in the community have supported the project by making a donation and adopting a doll at Grandma’s Beans and Cornbread, owned by club member Jane September and her husband.

“April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month,” McGuire-Bouwman said.

Kinkade, who lives in Mansfield, Mo., said that going by herself to someone’s trailer is not the kind of thing she normally does, who said “Why don’t you move to Eureka Springs? It’s way cooler.’”

Seeing a “for rent” sign on an apartment above a downtown shop. McGraw called and signed the lease the next day.

On May 4, instead of watching the ARTrageous Parade from his balcony, he’ll be in it.

“It’s a good way to break into parades – be front and center,” he said.

but it was for a good cause. The 119 dolls she bought filled nine large plastic bags, which the woman’s daughter and son loaded into Kinkade’s van for her. The woman said she originally had 800 Cabbage Patch dolls, but had sold the rest. An old house behind the trailer was still full of dolls, Kinkade said.

“She was a serious collector,” Kinkade said.

The Northwest Arkansas Heirloom Doll Club meets at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of the month at First Christian Church, 763 Passion Play Rd., Eureka Springs. Guests welcome. The program for the May 8 meeting is a video, “It’s never too late to start collecting antique dolls.”

The club is now selling tickets for its annual luncheon on Sept. 14 at the Inn of the Ozarks.

When the parade is over, there’ll will be the lighting of the Community Sphere, this year’s Creative Energy Project, in Basin Park that night, making the day a monumental celebration of creativity for the local art community, McGraw said.

“That’s my prime focus,” McGraw said, “but when it’s done, I devote my time to working my real job again.”

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Editorial

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Why do terrible things happen?

ife offers us lessons every day in everything we do or see, but sometimes the events are so overwhelming that it’s impossible to imagine what sort of “lesson” we are to take from them.

The tragic terror attack in Boston has dominated our thoughts the last two days. The constant inundation of the 24-hour news cycle guarantees it never leaves our thoughts for very long, but empathy is a part of most human’s nature anyhow and the pain and horror of the victims of this terrible, terrible deed affect everything else in our lives – the way the traffic on the street looks this early morning, the way the birds sing, the way music sounds on the radio.

Life has changed, again, for everyone, however slightly and sadly, as it did following the Sandy Hook shootings, 9/11 and other large-scale human tragedies – and not for the better.

It all just gets so old sometimes, when that feeling of being beaten down and sick at our “fellow human beings” seems the only valid way to look at the world. A friend and colleague repeatedly tried Monday to get her head around the bombings and what they meant.

“How can people do things like this?” she kept asking.

There’s no good answer at all, only bad ones.

Terrorism is the systematic use of violence intended to create fear, typically perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goals and deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians for the purpose of gaining publicity for a group, cause or individual.

Two elements are required for an act of terror. One is that you have a set of ideas – an ideology – that you feel is more important than human life. These ideologies are often reac-

tionary. Timothy McVeigh, the ex-soldier who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, sought revenge against the federal government for their handling of the Waco siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years prior to the bombing, as well as for the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992.

Osama bin Ladin’s attacks on Sept.

11, 2001, were motivated by the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, U.S. support of Israel and sanctions against Iraq. In other words, revenge.

None of these acts improved the world, fed the hungry, gave hope to the downtrodden.

The second element required for an act of terror is the ability of the terrorist to disengage empathy with fellow human beings. Some people are born that way – sociopaths – but sociopathy doesn’t explain terrorism.

If you drop a red ant in a nest of black ants or vice-versa, they will instantly tear it apart because it is “of another tribe.”

In ancient times, being exiled from your people was tantamount to a death sentence, not least because they were your tribe and when you encountered other tribes, you were likely to suffer the way the red ant does.

We all have children, parents, friends, work, lives, and so do the people attacking us, whether we acknowledge it or not. But empathy for “other tribes” is as foreign to many of us as it was 50,000 years ago. Just ask 10 random citizens on the street what they think of people from the Middle East, for example, and the red ant will raise its head instantly.

One lesson we might take from all these events is to value our days upon the earth, the people we love, the lives that make us happy. And to try to do good. Because it can all be gone in a second.

Citizen of the Week Our Citizens of the Week are the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings, which took place on Monday. Not because they have done any of the meritous deeds that usually get nominees nominated, but rather because, although the media will continue to replay the attack over and over, and explain the details of the bombs used, and follow the inevitable pursuit and capture of the monsters who did this, when it’s all over those damaged souls will still be struggling to recover themselves, to adjust to new and very different lives and challenges. And the media will largely ignore them on their long road. But our hearts are with them.

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What do

think

“What are your thoughts on SWEPCO’s proposed powerline project cutting through our local scenery?”

Send your opinions to Citizen, P.O., Box 679, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, fax to (479) 253-0080 or e-mail to: citizen.editor@yahoo.com

Editorial Policy The opinions on the Editorial page are our opinions. The opinions on the Forum pages are your opinions.

All forum entries must be signed and verifiable. We reserve the right to edit submissions.

SWEPCO and the golden goose Larry Britton

Dakota Logan

“Can they put powerlines underground?”

“The environmental impace around here will be terrible.”

Undecided

Stay-at-Home Dad

Todd Schmibby Dave Marry Alive

“I try to avoid the media!”

Handyman

“Turn off your power and we won’t need it.”

Randy Fairbanks Contractor

“I know we probably can’t stop it, but I sure don’t like it.”

Shawn Belew Carole’s Other Half

“It goes right by my property. I think it sucks.”

Editor: I recall growing up in the 1940s in this area when the Great Depression was still going on. Then tourists found about the Ozark Mountains with their friendly people, rolling, tree-covered hills, small lakes and streams and creeks you could drink from. (I made coffee from the White River. We called it “river coffee.”)

Northwest Arkansas is a drawing card for the Natural State for tourists, so our pristine lakes should be preserved for our future generations to enjoy. We shouldn’t plan to fix things down the “short road,” so to speak, but look to the far distant future and plan for future generations.

The entire town of Eureka Springs, like the swinging bridge at Beaver, is on the National Register of Historical Places, which is why we should seriously look at the proposed transmission line that SWEPCO proposes to run through this pristine area with tall towers and wide right-of-ways.

Also, the chemical spray they use to kill the underbrush will eventually leak into the same streams and lakes that provide drinking water to several communities in this area, not to mention the effect on wildlife. How many gallons of chemicals would it require to spray and maintain an area 48 miles long by 150 feet wide?

This area of western Carroll County is a jewel in a sea of malls, shopping centers, traffic congestion and big city

Citizen Survey “What are your thoughts on SWEPCO’s proposed powerline project cutting through our local scenery?” m It should be stopped immediately. We don’t need it. m Without projects like this, the power grid will eventually be inadequate for our needs. m They need to do it someplace besides here. m It’s a done deal. We can’t stop it. This isn’t SWEPCO’s first rodeo.

Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in.

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problems. It is a getaway for many people who live in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

I have lived here all my life and seen many changes, most for the good, but let’s preserve what we have left.

As you know, it’s impossible to go back. To me, this is like a large scratch across a Picasso or Renoir. In either case, its value would certainly drop.

So to SWEPCO: don’t kill the goose that lays our golden eggs!

Pete Birchfield

Shocked at Pryor vote Editor: I am astonished that our very own DINO, Senator Mark Pryor, voted against allowing Senate debate on gun control. Debate is the essence of democracy. After the families who survived the Sandy Hook massacre spent a week out of their lives in D.C. talking about gun control with Congress-people, many Senate Republicans voted in favor of debate on the issue, but not our very own DINO. He wasn’t moved. But, (thank Sandy Hook families), this time he was on the wrong side of the vote, and now maybe we can hear his thoughts on the subject... if he’s going to debate, rather than just voting against gun reform.

And now I read that Mark Pryor is one of only seven Democrats in the Senate who has not come out in favor of marriage equality. I am heterosexual, but I have

LAST WEEK’S QUESTION “What type of shop or restaurant does Eureka Springs lack you’d like to see here?” m Greek food: 14.6% (6 votes) m Olive Garden/Dixie Cafe: 14.6% (6 votes) m Movie theater: 51.2% (21 votes) m Hot air balloon rides: 7.3% (3 votes) m Hypnotherapist: 12.2% (5 votes)

See Forum, page 22

41 votes cast

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Announcements & Meetings 4th Annual Carole Hilmer Run/Walk for Ovarian Cancer Research takes place Saturday The 4th annual Carole Hilmer Run/Walk for Ovarian Cancer will be held on Saturday, April 20 starting at 9 a.m. at The Barn on the Island in Holiday Island. The event honors the memory of Carole Hilmer, who died in June, 2010, of breast cancer. The event includes a 5K run as well as both two- and three-mile walks, On the Friday evening before the event, Geraldi’s-Holiday Island will again host a silent auction. Geraldi’s-Holiday Island will donate a dollar per plate for every spaghetti dinner served. The event has raised over $10,000 for ovarian cancer research.

For information call (479) 253-5986 or email joaniekesa@gmail.com. Online registration is powered by Active.com and mail in registration forms are available at www.hisid.info Masonic Lodge scholarship pancake breakfast The Basin Spring Masonic Lodge #386 will hold their semi-annual scholarship pancake breakfast on Saturday, April 20, at the Eureka Springs Elementary School Cafeteria on Greenwood Hollow Road.

The menu includes all you can eat pancakes, eggs, sausage and bacon, juice and coffee. Hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the Smead Walden Memorial Scholarship Fund for graduating seniors of Eureka Springs. Take out is available.

Kings River Watershed Partnership river cleanup The Kings River Watershed Partnership will hold the first river cleanup of 2013 on Saturday, April 20. Join us at 8 a.m. sharp at

Rockhouse Landing in Madison county. For more information go to kingsriverwatershed. org and click on the river cleanup page or call (870) 654 4134.

HIHA to sponsor cleanup On Saturday, April 27, the Holiday Island Homeowners Association will sponsor its biannual roadside and shoreline cleanup.

The roadside cleanup will meet at the Holiday Island Clubhouse north parking lot at 9 a.m., where volunteers will receive their road assignments. Shoreline cleanup will meet at the Island beach parking lot (first right after crossing the bridge) at 9 a.m. A picnic lunch will be provided for all volunteers at approximately 11:30 a.m. at the Recreation Center Pavilion.

Holiday Island Community Church open house The Holiday Island Community Church at 188 Stateline Dr. celebrates its 20th anniversary with an open house for the community on May 1 from 4-8 p.m. For details call (479) 253-8200.

Wildflowers Christian Ministry women and children’s shelter fund Wildflowers Christian Chapel Women and Children Shelter Fund Goal is $444,000. To date the amount raised is $23,000. Please send donations to Wildflowers Ministry 6789 Hwy. 62 West Eureka Springs AR 72632.

Any amount will help us get this much needed Shelter opened.

ONGOING SERVICES/MEETINGS Quilters Guild monthly meetings Whether you’re an experienced quilter or interested in learning a new art form, the Holiday Island Quilters’ Guild cordially invites

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Chelsea’s benefit for Collins/Green family Chelsea’s will host a benefit on April 21 for Sean Collins and Jessie Green. They along with their four children lost their home and all belongs to a fire in March.

There will be a silent auction and a donation trailer, as well as entertainment and a potluck. Music will begin at 2 p.m. The silent auction will go from 3 p.m. till 7 p.m. Anyone interested in donating items for the auction bring them to Chelsea’s before 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 21. Furniture, housewares, or other items for the donation trailer will be accepted all day during the day of benefit. For donation pick-up or more information call (479) 244-6175. you to its monthly meetings at the Clubhouse in Room A, lower level at 1 Country Club Drive in Holiday Island. Meetings are normally held on the 3rd Thursday of each month. For more information, call 363-6442 or visit the website https://sites.google.com/ site/holidayislandquiltguild/.

Wildflowers Food Bank Wildflowers Food Bank is open every Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. If you are in need of food, bring your ID and come to the Food Bank. If you are out of food anytime, you can call us Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and we will try to help you with enough food to get you to our Friday food bank time. Call first at (479) 363-6408. Or call Wildflowers Ministry at (479) 253-5108.

Audiobooks and eBooks The Carroll County Library System now has eBooks and audiobooks available for download from your library’s website. For help call the Eureka Springs (479) 253-8754 public library.

Alateen meetings Sundays from 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. For more information, call or text 479-981-9977, or e-mail ALATEEN1ST@gmx.com.

Ham Radio Club For anyone interested in ham radio, the Little Switzerland Amateur Radio Club meets every second Thursday of the month

at noon at the Pizza Hut on Highway 62 in Eureka Springs. For more information email patriciadean@cox.net.

Overeaters Anonymous Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Coffee Pot building behind Land O’ Nod at US 62 and Hwy. 23. More information: Barbara (479) 244-0070.

Coffeehouse and outreach Berean Coffeehouse of Calvary Chapel of Eureka Springs hosts Youth Nights monthly with live music, activities and prizes. Coffeehouse open to the public 7 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Tuesday – Saturday with extra hours and live music on Fridays 5 – 10 p.m. Worship Circle Fridays at 7 p.m.

Drug problem?

The Eureka Springs Coffee Pot Narcotics Anonymous Group meets Fridays at 5:30 p.m. at the Coffee Pot building behind Land O’ Nod Motel. Contact Shawn H. 417-2711084 or Robin S. (479) 244-6863 for more information.

Al-Anon Family Group meetings Eureka Springs AFG meets at the Coffee Pot behind the Land O’ Nod Motel Sundays at 11:30 a.m., Mondays and Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Coffee Break Women AFG meets at Faith Christian Family Church, Hwy. 23S, on Tuesdays at 9:45 a.m.

For info: (479) 363-9495.

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New school, new flags

DAR donates flags, holds dedication

DAR members and students in Amy Watson’s class watch as Caleb Watson, in black shirt, and Zach Kimbrell raise the new flag Monday morning. At right is Kim Rozelle, a paraprofessional. Watson’s students are in charge of raising and lowering the school’s flag.

Photo by Jennifer Jackson

By Jennifer Jackson Every morning before 8 a.m., two members of Amy Rogers’ class go out and raise the American flag on the flagpole in front of the main door of the new Eureka Springs High School.

On Monday, they had a new flag to raise.

The flag was donated by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Abendschone Chapter, who also donated a new Arkansas state flag for the high school foyer.

“I thought, ‘New school, new flags,’” said Mary Muller, a D.A.R. member.

Muller, whose four children graduated from E.S.H.S., had the idea of donating the flags. Chapter members raised the money and ordered the flags from A Veteran’s Flag Co. in Conway. On Monday morning, Amy Hudson’s students, who are in charge of raising and lowering the flag, were invited to the dedication of the new flags by Fayette Schmutzler, chapter regent, and Rosalie Myers, past chapter regent.

Schmutzler dedicated the U.S. flag to members of the armed forces who gave their lives fighting for their country. Zach Kimbrell and Caleb Watson raised the flag, and Schmutzler led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Myers presented the Arkansas flag to the students and lead the state pledge. D.A.R. members also handed out Flag Code booklets and stickers. Attending the dedication were D.A.R. members Stella Bucknam, Suzanne Williams and Judy Germani, and Myers’ husband, Lance Myers, and students Oriana Hudson, Crystal Tapia, A.J. Jinright and Max Hart.

After the ceremony, D.A.R. members went inside and replaced the old Arkansas flag in the foyer with a new one. The chapter is also donating a plaque commemorating the gift for the school display case, Schmutzler said.

The goals of the D.A.R. are to perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American independence, to promote the development of an enlightened public opinion and to foster patriotic citizenship, Schmutzler said. Members are descendants of patriots who served in the American Revolution. The Abendschone Chapter was founded in Eureka Springs in 1951 and is named in honor of Reinhold Abendschone of Berks County, Penn., an ancestor of May Fuller, a founding member.

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Clare Roy selected for Governor’s School Clear Spring School is proud to announce that Clare Roy has been selected to attend the 2013 Arkansas Governor’s School. Clare has been accepted to the Drama Department and is currently starring in the Holiday Island Actors’ Guild production of “Lilly the Virtuous Seamstress.” Clare is the daughter of Brett Roy of Memphis, Tenn. and Edwina Roy of Eureka Springs.

Selection for Governor’s School is based on a combination of ability and interest and is highly competitive. The program is in its thirty-fourth year and has become an exciting educational experience for Arkansas’ gifted and talented high school seniors. The six

week residential program is funded by the state of Arkansas and located this year on the beautiful campus of Hendrix College in Conway.

Fun after five

Spaghetti, ‘circus’ planned for downtown

By Jennifer Jackson A spaghetti dinner, music and street performers will turn the streets of downtown Eureka into a circus on Friday, April 26.

“Circus in Basin Park” is the first of the Eureka Springs Downtown Network’s all-ages “Fun After Five” events on the fourth Friday of the month. Starting at 5 p.m., the April 26 FAF features jugglers and street performers, a face painter and a disc jockey playing dance music in Basin Spring Park. At 6:30 p.m., everyone is invited to join a circus stroll down Main Street led by the Fine Art of Romance folks.

There will also be drawings for gift certificates, a free face painter, farmer’s market vendors, and arts and crafts vendors. The Eureka Independent is sponsoring a Pasta in the Park art contest.

All ages can enter by bringing one piece of art made from pasta to Basin Spring Park at 5 p.m. Prizes will awarded by judges and by people’s choice. Robert Norman will have his Sphere project

sticks to paint. All activities are free and family-friendly.

“DJ Testube spins in Basin Spring Park, making the whole event one big dance party,” said Jacqueline Wolven, ESDN director.

Spaghetti from DeVito’s restaurant will be served on tables set up on Center Street, which will be blocked off. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under, and are available at Out on Main Gallery, DeVito’s of Eureka Springs and online at http://funafter5efbevent. eventbrite.com. Proceeds benefit the Eureka Springs Downtown Network. Stores will be open and offer refreshments from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and restaurants and pubs will have food and drink specials, Wolven said.

Fun After Five takes place on the fourth Friday of the month through November.

Next on the schedule are a Creative Energy Project party on May 24 and a 5-minute film festival on June 28. For more information, call 479-244-5074 or director@eurekaspringsdowntown.com.

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Yards for dogs: A field of dreams

Don Matt Day! ­­­— Staff at the Carnegie Library surprised Don Matt, second from right, last week by dressing as the building manager and taking over his chores for the day in celebration of his birthday and the anniversary of the day he started working for the county as library and courthouse building manager. Matt has been working for the county since April of 1979. Four years ago, he was honored for 30 years of service with a cake, presents and a proclamation naming April 11 “Don Matt Day” in Eureka Springs. From left are Kate Zakar, Christina Danos, library director Loretta Crenshaw, Matt and Sarah Wright, in beard.

Photo by Jennifer Jackson

By Bill King Lifestyles of the poor and forgotten dogs of Carroll County will soon improve, thanks to a kick-start by Brashears Furniture, Cornerstone Bank and an anonymous donor to Go East Young Dog’s “Yards for Dogs” fundraising initiative.

Go East Young Dog shelters 30-45 dogs at a time while they are awaiting adoption and transport to new homes in the northeast. Due to facility limitations, the dogs are currently housed in indoor pens. GEYD is adoption focused and tries to limit each dog’s stay at its kennel, but some dogs wind up spending several months. Housing dogs for extended periods in buildings filled with caged, barking dogs is far from an ideal environment, and can make dogs less socialized and less adoptable. Dogs need fresh air, exercise and socialization, and this fundraising campaign aims to give it to them.

Go East Young Dog’s kennel is located on a large piece of land southwest of Berryville, which is well suited for dog play yards and runs. The goal of this fundraising campaign

to build five or more permanent outdoor play yards and dog runs. Project funding is “by the yard,” with each $50 donation buying one yard (3 linear feet) of 6 feet tall, commercial grade chain-link fencing.

An anonymous donor has generously offered $3,500 to the cause as matching funds, so each yard of fencing donated doubles to two. The $1,000 donations from Brashears and Cornerstone Bank, when matched, will build the first two 20-by-40-foot play yards.

Donations can be made to Go East, Young Dog, 1233 Bunch Springs Rd., Berryville, AR 72616, or through Paypal at www.goeastyoungdog.org. Donations of less than $50 are also welcome and appreciated.

In its first year of operation, Go East Young Dog has adopted out more than 250 dogs to good, well-screened homes. Most of these dogs would likely have been euthanized or lived out miserable lives without this new dog rescue.

Go East, Young Dog, Inc. is an IRS-recognized 501(c) (3) public charity and donations are tax deductible.

Laughlin

for social change in the U.S. and abroad, working with other people in progressive organizations.

Geneveive gave me a computer system whereby I can take the tapes and convert them digitally,” she said. “These broadcast tape are ¾”, an antiquated format. It’s all heavy as hell.”

Laughlin has been working the past half decade creating a website for “Let the People Speak,” so all her programs will be available online.

At home in the Ozarks, Laughlin ponders her future and says, “I need to raise money to finish digitizing all my tapes.

Libraries don’t have any money for this.

We have to spend billions on war, you know.”

While her vision is fixed on completing her life’s work which led her around the world as a documentarian, Laughlin still remains focused on the world around her.

“I am not fond of homophobia, or any kind of hatred. I keep an eye out for gay and lesbian rights in Eureka Springs and Arkansas. We have to struggle for justice every day.”

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“I saw Israeli settlements that had taken over the Palestinian land,” she said.

“They looked like suburbs. they took all the water to water their golf courses and their yards, so it’s really hard to understand the Israeli side of things. I hate the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, but I do not understand why some of the same methods are being used against the Palestinians.

I shot a lot of footage at that time, and I was afraid I couldn’t get it out, so I mailed the tapes to someone back in the U.S. as I traveled.”

The Foundation for a Compassionate Society In the mid-1980s, Laughlin met Genevieve Vaughan, a native Texan heiress who donated her millions for social change.

“She is an extraordinarily brilliant woman who puts her money where her mouth is,” Laughlin said.

Vaughan started the Foundation for a Compassionate Society, an assortment of women from all backgrounds and cultures whose mission was to carry out programs

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UFO conference speakers address standing-room-only crowds

By Kathryn Lucariello The Ozark UFO Conference might have to find a new venue next year, if this past weekend’s attendance at the Inn of the Ozarks was any indication of the future.

The 26th annual conference had 600 people pre-registered, said conference organizer Dolores Cannon Friday, the largest it had ever had. And by Saturday, numbers swelled to the point where the 700-seat capacity in the main conference room was overflowing with people standing, lining the back walls. Parking overflowed to the lots at the old high school across the street.

Lucius Farish organized and ran the conference from 1989 to 2009, and he passed away last year. Cannon, a wellknown hypnotist and past-life regressionist, took over running the conference this year.

The conference’s nine speakers covered a diverse array of subjects, and there was notably less focus on government disclosure of UFOs than there had been in the past. Although subjects ranged from sightings, aliens and artifacts to pyramids and crop circles around the world, there was a decided emphasis on metaphysics and what the interconnection of all these subjects might mean for the future of this planet.

Following are highlights of some of the conference presenters.

Ted Phillips spoke of an artifact found deep in a cave the Slovakian mountains by a man who had escaped from the Nazis.

Phillips said he has gone into the cave but was not able to reach the artifact because of rock collapses. He said he would like to go back, but the area is so remote, the only feasible way is to reach it by helicopter, which he cannot afford to do.

Larry Cekander showed an alleged artifact that originally was found by friend and fellow musician Bob White in Colorado in 1985, following an encounter with a ship, from which the object fell, he said.

It is about 8 inches long, is somewhat conical in shape, weighs a little over a pound and appears to be made of a lightweight metal. The surface appears rough and layered, almost feathered. The object emits two radio-frequencies, one at 500,000 Hz

AT LEFT: Larry Cekander shows an alleged alien artifact found by his friend in Colorado in 1985. AT RIGHT: Linda Howe speaks to conference attendees.

Photos by David Bell

and the other unmeasurable on Cekander’s meter.

Cekander said samples from the object were tested by the National Institute for Discovery Science and by a lab at Los Alamos, N.M. and was originally claimed to be an “aluminum alloy of unknown origin, unlike anything we’ve seen before.” He said it contains 85 percent aluminum, 4.3 percent silver, and 32 other elements. Aluminum alloys typically contain no more than nine other elements, he said.

White was accused of making up the extraterrestrial origin of the artifact, but he passed a polygraph test that showed he was not lying. He and Cekander lived in Reeds Spring, Mo., had performed together in Branson and had a traveling museum of the unexplained. Before White passed away, he gave the object to Cekander, who continues to show it.

Nigel Grace spent three summers working on the pyramids recently discovered in Bosnia by Dr. Semir Osmanigich. He spoke about some of the discoveries made at the pyramids, which are larger and older (estimated at 24,800 years) than those in Egypt. The pyramids are constructed of stone but also covered with an “artificial concrete” that is “five times stronger than the strongest concrete in Germany

and is much more water absorbent.” He said it is not cut, but molded and is filled with quartz crystal. There are interesting phenomena surrounding these pyramids, such as their alignments with solstices, equinoxes and the stars, and electromagnetic fields that shoot straight up (natural hills show horizontal fields), as well tunnels with water and hollow megaliths that contain some kind of object and locations beneath the pyramids that emit sounds.

Grace said that after working in the pyramid tunnels, he had been healed of a serious back injury that would have required surgery.

He said runes had been found and translated.

“Are we being told that here in the tunnels is a form of energy that can be transformed for the benefit of society?” he asked.

Some speakers touched on extraterrestrial and human biology. JJ and Desirée Hurtak spoke of the possibilities of ETs visiting Earth and creating humans. JJ said that many ETs have visited Earth, that “lower entities” are responsible for wars and upheavals and that indigenous peoples are the “keepers of the wisdom associated with sacred places.”

JJ also spoke of pyramids all over the

planet and said he had worked with those in Egypt. He said there are rivers and canal systems below them.

“We documented a whole grid system under Giza,” he said, “with the permission of the Egyptian authorities.”

Linda Moulton Howe, a popular UFO and crop circle researcher who has presented at this conference nearly every year, spoke on the taxonomy of ETs, identifying five different humanoid species (one of which is very hostile to humans and has abducted them and performed tests), brought here by two types of ETs named “Ebens.” All this information came from a March 1981 briefing to President Ronald Reagan, she said.

“Our planet is a sociological experiment,” she said. “That’s why ‘they’ persist in the guardian role rather than the renegade.” But she ended by asking what the end game of the Ebens is.

Jaime Maussan, from Mexico City, runs a television show equivalent to the American “60 Minutes.” He is a journalist who has researched the UFO phenomenon. He brought videos of UFO’s seen in Mexico and elsewhere, one of which was recorded on Saturday and sent by internet.

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Benefit for Brianna called a big success

Jarrett Nichols and Mindy Laird of Mansfield, Mo. Jeanie Shane, one of the organizers

Justin Holland

Toye Kallenbach, Kevin Ratkovich and Jeanie Shane

Kathy Benton and Buster Kane of Fayetteville say hello to Mindy Popalisky and Toye Kallenbach.

The Blazin Bitches, a women’s biker group in Eureka, made Brianna an honorary member at the benefit.

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everal hundred people from multiple states and more than 50 motorcycle riders showed up for the She Needs A Ride, Too benefit for Brianna Johnson held at The Lumberyard last Saturday.

Organized by friends Kevin Ratkovich and Jeanne Shane as well as other friends and The Lumberyard, the benefit’s goal was to raise $4,400 to pay for a van for disabled Eureka Springs 23-year-old Brianna, who goes by “Bri” and is confined to a wheelchair.

Because she and her father, Chet – who manages Eureka’s biker-friendly 1876 Inn – could not afford to purchase a van, Chet must accompany the pretty young woman everywhere she goes in order to pick her up from her wheelchair and place her in their car, and vice versa. It has placed a strain on Chet’s health and severely restricted Bri’s freedom and ability to live as normal a life as possible.

Ratkovich, Louis Mettille and Bobby Akers as well as several others found a van for the Johnsons and purchased it for $4,400, and the benefit was organized to recoup those costs. Disability Insurance will cover the lift needed for the van’s interior, and it is expected to be installed soon, Ratkovich said.

The benefit raised just under $4,000 – and saw many raffle winners donate their prizes to Bri as well – so only another $500 is needed to cover the van cost, he added. Donations are still coming in; potential donors may email him at ratkovichkevin@yahoo.com for information.

Stephanie Bashaw enjoys working during the event.

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Ratkovich and the other organizers would like to thank the following donors: Cathy Benton, Antique Affaire, Guy Czajka, Allure Limousine, The Lumberyard and Janeen, Mary Bo, Doc Goss, Arrow Painting LLC, Louie Mettille, Ozark Glass Masters (Matt and Don), Rowdy Beaver, Anna Lea Tharp, Shamrock Bolt and Screw, Hiney, Crystal Lucas, Bobby Akers, Lovely County Citizen, Book of Eve, Travato Table, Bling Bracelets, the 1886 Crescent Hotel, Cathouse Lounge / Pied Piper Pub, the Blazin’ Bitches group, Gunner, Mary’s Afghans, Fockers, Nita Place, Pig Trail Harley-Davidson in Rogers, Rockin’ Pig Saloon, Tim Taylor, and many more.

Janeen McGuire, Lumberyard owner

Karen Allen of Springfield, Mo., and Dwayne Crouch of Mount Vernon visit on The Lumberyard’s front porch.

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UFO enthusiasts in the crowd listen to the speakers last weekend.

Cannon spoke on messages received from ETs through clients under hypnosis, especially those relating to abductions.

She spoke at length about parallel dimensions and experiences such as “missing time,” which she calls “condensed time,” and people slipping in and out of other dimensions. As far as implants are concerned, she said, they’re not bad, as some people fear.

She said the ETs told her, “Why do some people always think we’re here to take over the world? It’s ours and always has been. We can’t do anything as bad to you as you have done to yourselves.”

She said UFO propulsion is done with the mind using crystals on board the craft.

“All they have to do is think it and go.”

She said Earth is the densest planet in the universe and very hard to live on,

which is why ETs created the small “grey” aliens, which are biological robots not affected by the density of Earth.

She said the ETs are forbidden to harm human beings and to interfere with our civilization, unless we are about to blow the planet up.

“They are afraid of us because of our violence,” she said. “If we just get our act together, we could be a great asset to them because of our curiosity and creativity.”

Whether one believes in ETs, UFOs, pyramid power and other similar phenomena or not, there is no doubt conferences such as these are growing in popularity.

While not one tinfoil hat was spotted, there seemed to be a camaraderie among conference-goers, typified by one woman who said Friday evening that she had not yet attended a single presentation.

“I just like coming here and making connections with like-minded people,” she said.

Victor DeAnda and Rick Dowling

A special guest

Joyce Henze of Elgin, Texas

Sherri Weter of Hollister, Mo.

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pick up the trash.

8:34 p.m. – A walk-in to the police HQ reported her canoe and kayak had been stolen. That’s pretty low.

April 11 2:01 a.m. – A howling dog was reported in the area of Mill Hollow Road.

There’s a first time for everything.

2:55 a.m. – A caller reported hearing gunshots in the vicinity of Benton Street. The responding officer checked the area but did not hear shots nor see any signs of gun use.

8:01 a.m. – A caller requested a welfare check on an elderly female at a local inn. The responding officer found she was with a nurse and fine.

2:00 p.m. – A complainant filed a report because someone had stolen his passwords and gotten access to his accounts.

7:09 p.m. – A caller reported his daughter-in-law missing from a local restaurant where she and her family had been eating. They believed she might have been kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, who had been stalking her since being released from jail. According to police, she was located subsequently at the Russellville police station, where she’d gone to avoid contact with the ex-.

April 12 3:16 a.m. – A late-working employee at a shiny new sub sandwich place up on the highway set the alarm off. No harm done.

6:41 a.m. – A caller advised she was stuck in a ditch up by the convenience store with the “We Smoke It Here� sign.

The responding officer notified a wrecker for her.

12:01 p.m. – A caller reported a theft via eBay transaction. I think that’s outside the city limits, but I could be wrong.

12:12 p.m. – The officer who responded to a call about an abandoned vehicle in the middle of White Street found the driver. Not abandoned, just busted. He was going to jump it or tow it.

4:21 p.m. – A mother advised her daughter had a sore arm from an altercation with another student at school. An officer made contact.

9:26 p.m. – A caller advised he had been involved in a minor traffic accident

in the drive-through of a local burger joint. Nobody was injured. McTastic!

11:02 p.m. – An individual was arrested on Armstrong Street for DWI during a routine traffic stop.

April 13 12:31 a.m. – The hospital called to report a 32-year-old male complaining of chest pains and badly disoriented.

He had left the hospital “to walk back to Holiday Island,� but they called back to say they’d discovered him in the ER waiting room.

2:25 a.m. – CCSO reported a call from a guy at a local motel complaining of “a bunch of drunk people out in the parking lot� being very loud. Before the responding officer could make it there, they called back to say the crowd had departed.

2:38 a.m. – A caller reported a white four-door pickup truck on the ride side of the road of Hwy 23 South near a local hardware store. ESPD officers located the vehicle, which had been left empty, and waited with it until CCSO deputies could arrive.

12:06 p.m. – CCSO reported a one-vehicle accident across from Comfort Inn. 1:59 p.m. – A local grocery shop called to say they were having an issue with an elderly female and would like her removed from the property. So it went.

5:34 p.m. – A caller from Armstrong Street advised he had been hit by a woman in her car while riding his bicycle, and that she was screaming at him. Officers made contact quickly. There were no injuries, and no report was filed. Lucky guy.

Lucky woman.

10:24 p.m. – A caller from a bar up on the highway reported their car was hit in the parking lot, and when they tried to stop the other driver he left the scene in a red flatbed truck. One officer made contact while another searched for the vehicle. A report was taken.

April 14 3:23 a.m. – A tan Honda Accord stuck in the ditch in front of a local motel was impounded when its driver could show no proof of insurance.

3:54 a.m. – The alarm went off again at the sub place. Accident.

9:13 a.m. – A caller from Spring Street was invaded by a small chihua-

hua with a blue collar. Animal Control went over and picked up the little feller.

11:55 a.m. – An officer was flogged down in front of a local lingerie shop in reference to an extremely intoxicated-to-the-point-of-falling-down female.

He arrested her for public intox.

1:29 p.m. – A caller from Mountain and Center Streets reported someone had illegally trimmed the bamboo on his property. The responding officer advised he would follow up the issue with the building inspector on Monday.

3:32 p.m. – A caller complained motorcycles driving recklessly wee coming into town from the south. The responding officer found no such bikes when he went looking.

3:36 p.m. – A caller needed to get an emergency message delivered to her daughter at an area campground. The responding officer delivered the message. Thanks guy.

11:23 p.m. – Dog barking on Ridgeway. Woof.

April 15 12:52 a.m. – Dog barking on Jay Lane. Woof.

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Village View

Alison

By Sandra Taylor Synar Brown

Recognize your Hidden Messages The Village Writing School will teach Subtext, High Events, and Closings at its workshop offered on April 20 and again on April 23. As you can probably guess, High Events are dramatic moments, those stair steps of climbing drama leading to the climax of the narrative arc. Closing is how to bring the story to its best ending, or rather, how to present that ending in the best manner. But what is subtext?

I think of subtext as an alternative universe. You have what is presented directly by what the characters say and do and what the narrator tells. But then, there’s a whole other world going on beneath the surface. And we, the readers, pick up the clues and form our conclusions. Subtext can work at the level of the reader’s conscious, analytical mind, as we put together that the character is lying. Or subtext can work on the reader’s subconscious. You just feel that something is amiss.

Any element of fiction can be used to convey subtext. Setting can convey subtext when the setting is used as an allegory to mirror a psychological condition. I use this in my novel in progress when I show my character laboring up a narrow, dark and ancient flight of stairs within an old church, mirroring the way he must fight his way up through centuries of religious accretion to reach the Mystery above.

When using staging to convey subtext, the trick is to give the setting necessary weight and pace by micro detailing.

Characterization is a great source of subtext. What does the character really want versus what he says he wants? This inner conflict is the stuff of great fiction, especially when it is a conflict common to the human experience. In both Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby, the main charac-

ters can’t even say exactly what they want, because it is more than just the object of their immediate desire.

Dialogue is another great place to reveal subtext. In our dialogue workshop, we teach that often dialogue becomes indirect, as each character is focused on a different issue or they are both avoiding the elephant in the room. This was exactly the case in Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants, which we study in detail in our dialogue workshop.

Another way that dialogue reveals subtext is through the way that the character speaks. What is his tone? Does he hesitate? Does he display nervousness? Does he over react? Is he evasive?

A character’s facial and body language also reveals his underlying truth, just as they do in real life. I find it’s helpful to dissect the face into tiny bits. The slightest tension about the mouth can tell the reader volumes.

It’s also important to note that subtext does not have to be in opposition to the main story. Sometimes it runs parallel and supports it, adding a deeper level of understanding about the character and his situation.

The important thing to remember is that subtext is powerful. Beginning writers often create subtext without realizing it and thereby give their readers unintended messages. Learning to write subtext is like learning to handle a firearm. That’s why the Village Writing School spends a good bit of time teaching it. So that you don’t accidentally shoot your story in the foot.

For more information about our workshop on Subtext, High Events, and Closings coming up this weekend contact me

at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479 The Village Writing School, whose mission is to foster the development of area writers 292-3665. through workshops, writers’ circles, and ••• Alison Taylor-Brown has an MFA in Fiction and a lifetime of teaching experience from preschool to university levels. She began the Community Writing Program for the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and now directs

coaching. Her column, Notes from the Village, appears weekly. To talk to Alison about your writing goals and dreams, contact her at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479 2923665.

The Village Writing School coming workshops

April 20 & 23: Subtext, High Events, Closings – Mike Hancock & Alison May 18 & 21: Self-Editing and Publishing – Sanderia Smith & Alison June 15 & 18: Writing the Memoir – Rebecca Mahoney & Alison Each workshop is taught twice: on

the 3rd Saturday & the following Tuesday Saturday workshops are at the Club House at Holiday Island and Tuesday workshops are at the Garden Bistro on North Main in Eureka Springs. Cost for each all-day workshop is $45.

BLOG RIGHT – Friday, May 10 Pamela Toler and Alison

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The Village Writing School The Cuban Missile Crisis Part 2 From the moment we deployed, the crew was aware that this was an unusual and serious mission. Not having a specific date of return to homeport heightened our suspense.

An Anchor Pool was formed where, for five bucks, you predicted the date, hour, and minute the Roan would cast the first mooring line onto the pier back in Newport, Rhode Island. Tension mounted as we sailed at top speed toward our rendezvous destination.

The entire world felt this tension through the Cold War propaganda coming from both sides. The close proximity of enemy warheads targeting American cities became a household fear. School children everywhere were trained in “Duck and Cover,” drills of hiding under desks. The grave situation explained by Walter Cronkite or Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on black and white TVs gave many people nightmares and a sense of impending doom.

The entire world watched, holding its breath, as the two super powers, armed to the teeth, publically faced each other down.

Anything was possible as the Soviet Union and the United States entered into this seemingly irreconcilable disagreement. Today, it is regarded as the closest we ever came to escalating into an all-out nuclear war.

October Showdown In a desperate attempt to correct what he saw as a tactical imbalance with the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev began secretly deploying intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

Now nuclear warheads would be within reach of military and civilian targets in much of the continental United States. U.S. Intelligence reports alerted President John F. Kennedy to the national threat, and the US announced that it would not permit offensive Frank Manasseri is retired and lives outside Pea Ridge, Arkansas.

He has received service medals and honors for his participation in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

weapons to be delivered to Cuba. President Kennedy demanded that the Soviets dismantle the bases under construction or completed, and return all offensive weapons to the USSR. The Kennedy administration held only a slim hope that the Kremlin would agree to their demands and expected a military confrontation.

Naval forces steamed out to sea, intercepting both merchant shipping en route to Cuba and Soviet submarines operating in the area.

U.S. destroyers and frigates, kept on station through underway replenishment by oilers and stores ships, maintained the long naval quarantine. Radar picket ships, supported

by Navy fighters and airborne early warning planes, assisted the Air Force’s Air Defense Command in preparing to defend American airspace from Soviet and Cuban forces.

The Roan was assigned to ASW Patrols guarding against enemy submarines entering Guantanamo Bay. She was also to serve as Plane Guard for the USS Enterprise, and the USS Independence, ready to perform rescue duties if an aircraft crashed on takeoff or landing. After hundreds of successful sorties, a plane crashed upon take-off, and the Roan dispatched its rescue crew. Sadly, the only item recovered was the pilot’s helmet and pictures of his wife and kids.

Khrushchev wrote in a letter to Kennedy that his blockade of “navigation in international waters and air space” constituted “an act of aggression propelling human kind into the abyss of a world nuclear-missile war”.

Several Soviet ships attempted to run the blockade, increasing tensions to the point that orders were sent out to US Navy ships to fire warning shots across the bows and then open fire if not heeded.

The Roan encountered Soviet submarines heading towards Cuba, and we contacted them via voice communications, giving them 15 minutes to surface or be sunk. Upon surfacing they were ordered to head toward their homeport, which, thankfully, they did.

In addition, the Roan intercepted Soviet ships. These ships were ordered to stop and not proceed any further. Most complied, but some lay dead in the water awaiting orders from the Kremlin. The days were filled with tense encounters, any one of which could

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To support our local emerging writers, the Lovely County Citizen is providing space each week to showcase a student of The Village Writing School. For more information, email alisontaylorbrown@me.com

This Week’s Writer: Frank Manasseri

PUBLISH!!

The Village Writing School will present PUBLISH! an all day workshop on your publishing options on July 29, 2013.

Guest speakers include: a New York agent, a small press publisher, and representatives of university publishing, local publishers, local presses, and multiple e-book platforms.

Local writers have long asked for up-tothe-minute publishing information about today’s dynamic market. PUBLISH! will answer your questions.

Save the date: July 29, 2013 For more information, contact alisontaylorbrown@me.com or (479) 292-3665 have turned bad. What few knew was that in secret back-channel communications, the President and the Premier were attempting to resolve the crisis.

On October 27, a U-2 plane was shot down by a Soviet missile crew, an action that could have resulted in immediate U.S. retaliation. Kennedy stayed his hand, and the negotiations continued until an agreement was reached. The Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, in exchange for a US agreement never to invade Cuba and the dismantling of nuclear warheads in Turkey and Italy.

A Genuine Thanksgiving The Roan and her officers and crew were released to proceed on duty assigned on November 22. Before arriving at her homeport of Newport, Rhode Island, the Captain had a broom hoisted just under the Ensign indicating a “Clean Sweep.” The Roan was home in time to celebrate Thanksgiving and to join the country in a huge sigh of gratitude and relief.

The USS Charles H. Roan and her crew were among the many U.S. Navy Ships and

Free Verse Ann Carter is a Carroll County native with roots back seven generations. She has an MFA in poetry from U of A, and lives in Eureka Springs, where her book of poems, Sweetness, is available at Prospect Gallery and Studio 62.

Ann Carter

Fairy Tales A friend says to me, “The thing about fairy tales is They get in before you know it.

By the time you find out they’re wrong, They’ve taken root in your heart, Wound round your mind.”

She pulls all stories from her life Like thorns, like weeds from good ground.

But I hope they’ll yet bear fruit, Watering them on my land.

Units which received the Navy Expeditionary, Armed Forces Expeditionary, and National Defense Medals for participating in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Cuban Missile Crisis remains a most memorable time in my life. Each member of the Radio Gang and other shipmates, with whom I proudly served the majority of my time in the Navy, was a character in his own right. We came from such diverse backgrounds, education, cultures and religious beliefs, some from small towns, some from large cities and from every direction of the compass. Yet, we respected one another and worked together as a unified team. We worked hard and we played hard. Fifty years later, we remain close shipmates

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been supporting marriage equality for many years as a member of the Human Rights Campaign. We cannot expect our fairly dismal Supreme Court to follow the precedent of Lawrence v. Texas in defending the civil rights of our LGBT citizens, so the support of our members of Congress is paramount in the establishment of equality for all ... although that’s in itself a redundancy ... certainly there is no “equality” until it applies to all people who live within the law.

I wonder where Mark Pryor stands on the Keystone Pipeline... now that our sweet little Mayflower has been deluged with an oil spill. No message that I have sent Pryor about his DINO votes has garnered a response that convinced me that he is right on any particular issue, or that I am wrong.

Maybe I am just stubborn.

I have only been here for three years, so I don’t really have our Senators’ histories.

But Mark Pryor is convincing me that he is a Democrat-In-Name-Only. The next time he runs for the Senate, I hope he’ll be honest with the public and come out as a Tea-Partier, so some real Democrat can run against him! He so needs a serious challenger.

Do you know anybody who is willing and able? If you do, please start talking her, (or him), up. Arkansas needs a liberal senator, and neither of ours qualify.

Katie Johnsonius

Reader thanks Jesus parade participants On behalf of the Western Carroll County Ministerial Association, we would like to thank those who contributed to the Celebrate Jesus Parade on March 30.

We give special thanks to Ray and LaDonna Bottomly for the many hours they spent praying an organizing the intercessory prayers and prayer walks.

Thank you to all who prayed; it was because of your prayers that God was glorified that day.

We thank Rachel Fields and Jim Swiggart for organizing the music in the park. It blessed everyone.

We owe a special thanks to the Great Passion Play for all their support and for lending us the costumes for the parade participants.

We also thank all the cast members who took part in the parade; it added so much color!

We appreciate and thank all who had a part in this event.

We thank all those who spent hours building their floats, making banners and being a part of the parade. You all did a wonderful job.

Thank you also goes out to the following businesses and churches for contributing funds that made the parade possible: Community First Bank, Cornerstone Bank, Valley View Baptist Church, First Christian Church, Thorncrown Chapel, Penn Memorial First Baptist Church, and too many individuals to list here.

May God bless all of you.

— Laura and Dale Nichols Eureka Springs

Blind woman says shop denied her ADA access I am a 56-year-old blind woman who lost my vision 13 years ago. For the past seven years I have been using a certified and train guide dog for navigation and safe traveling.

Being partnered with a guide dog has given me great freedom and independence.

On Saturday, March 30, accompanied by my son, his fiancée and my guide dog, we were visiting many stores in Eureka Springs.

As I stepped into one shop with my guide dog, I was rudely refused access by the store owner.

As an attraction to the shop, the owner of the store has two pet animals in the store that “help” with cashier duties.

While walking into the store with my guide dog, the store owner rudely told me, “You can’t bring that dog in here, it could cause my (animals) to have a heart attack and they could die.”

Although the owner’s actions are against the federal and Arkansas state laws in refusing me access with my guide dog into her shop, and my time with my family was limited as they were visiting, I decided to calmly leave the store.

However, before leaving, I tried to explain to the store owner it is against the law to refuse access to any service dog and handler into any public business or accommodations. Her response to me was, “I don’t

care.”

At the very least, the owner could have asked me to wait outside with my guide dog, while she put her animals away if she did not want them exposed to my service dog while we were in her store.

The state and federal laws clearly explain the access rights afforded to any service dog teams.

These laws fall under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) which is under the Department of Justice in Washington D. C., 28 CFR part 35.104 and 28 CFR Part 36.104.

Additionally, the Arkansas state law, Section 20-14-303, clearly states that any service dog is allowed in any public accommodations.

A summary of the Arkansas state law for service dogs: Section 20-14-303 a) Every visually handicapped, hearing impaired, or other physically disabled person shall have the right to be accompanied by a service animal especially trained to do work or to perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability in or upon any and all public ways, public places, and other public accommodations and housing accommodations prescribed in § 20-14-303 and shall not be required to pay any extra fee or charge for the service animal.

A summary of the ADA federal law for service dogs: 28 CFR part 35.104 & 28 CFR Part 36.104: Service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual’s disability. Examples of work or tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds, providing non-violent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone, providing

physical support and assistance with balance and stability to individuals with mobility disabilities, and helping persons with psychiatric and neurological disabilities by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors. The crime deterrent effects of an animal’s presence and the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship do not constitute work or tasks for the purposes of this definition.

28 CFR § 35.136 — Service animals: • A public entity shall modify its policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of a service animal by an individual with a disability.

• Inquiries. A public entity shall not ask about the nature or extent of a person’s disability, but may make two inquiries to determine whether an animal qualifies as a service animal. A public entity may ask if the animal is required because of a disability and what work or task the animal has been trained to perform. A public entity shall not require documentation, such as proof that the animal has been certified, trained, or licensed as a service animal. Generally, a public entity may not make these inquiries about a service animal when it is readily apparent that an animal is trained to do work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability (e.g., the dog is observed guiding an individual who is blind or has low vision, pulling a person’s wheelchair, or providing assistance with stability or balance to an individual with an observable mobility disability).

• Access to areas of a public entity. Individuals with disabilities shall be permitted to be accompanied by their service animals in all areas of a public entity’s facilities where members of the public, participants in services, programs or activities, or invitees, as relevant, are allowed to go.

More information may be acquired by calling the ADA and Service Animal Hotline at: 800-514-0301.

In sharing my unfortunate experience of refusal to enter a public entity and by providing a summary of the laws, I feel positive awareness and education is a helpful avenue in educating the public, business owners and other facilities of the access rights that are allowed to each person with a disability using a service dog.

— Sarah Calhoun Imperial, Mo.

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Clear Spring Fling auction Saturday

Elsie Freund and Betty Maffai are just a couple of local artists featured in Clear Spring School’s Clear Spring Fling Auction. This year’s live and silent auction will be held at Keel’s Creek Winery, behind the Tasting Room and Art Gallery, located at 3185 E. Van Buren in Eureka Springs. Beginning at 5:30 PM this Saturday, April 20th, the auction will include original paintings, giclee’ prints, jewelry and much more. Additional items to bid on will include Getaway packages, certificates for Restaurants and many other great services. Come on out for an enjoyable exciting evening while savoring our professionally created hors d’oeuvres and wine provided by Keels Creek! Keels Creek Winery is proud to be debuting their first single grape estate wine at this event!

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Tickets are $30 each, and may be purchased online at www.clearspringschool. com, via mail, at PO BOX 511, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, by calling Clear Spring School at 253-7888, or at the door while tickets are available. Seats are limited so advance purchase is encouraged.

Thanks to our proud sponsors, Community First Bank and Keels Creek Winery.

John Richard Riddler II

John Richard Riddler II, a resident of Eureka Springs, was born June 30, 1944 in Corpus Christi, Tx., a son of John Richard and Marjorie Arlene (Altenbern) Riddler.

He departed this life Sunday, April 14, 2013 in Eureka Springs, at the age of 68 years.

John was a member of the First Methodist Church in Eureka Springs and the Elks Lodge #1042. He was a P.A.D.I. and N.A.S.D.S. Diving Instructor, loved his boat and being outdoors. He worked as a supervisor at Tyson Foods in Berryville for line three for many years.

John was also one of the original cast members of the Great Passion Play.

On July 7, 1977, John was united in marriage with Meredith (Taylor) Riddler who survives him of the home.

He is also survived by five children, Robert Heath Biggs, Holly Spear Blagg, Jason Neil Riddler and wife Melody, John Austin Riddler and wife Corrie Jo and Meagan Lee

June 30, 1944 - April 14, 2013 “Pipsie” and husband Willie Alberson; eight grandchildren; one brother, Donald Riddler and wife Linda; three sisters, Bonnie Sue and husband Rex Gustin, Marjie and husband David Anderson and Carolyn Moore; several nieces and nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.

John was preceded in death by his parents, John and Marjorie Riddler and his grandparents.

Gathering of Remembrance with Family and Friends will be 7 p.m. on Friday, April 19, at the Valley View Baptist Church with Rev. Jason Riddler officiating. Interment will be in the Eureka Springs Cemetery. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service. Memorial donations may be sent to Cornerstone Bank c/o Meredith Riddler or sent to Meredith Riddler, #1 Hayes, Eureka Springs, AR 72632. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral. com.

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Ruth Katherine Haydon

Ruth Katherine Haydon, a resident of Holiday Island, Arkansas, was born January 27, 1920 in Newhall, Iowa, a daughter of Henry and Sophie (Werning) Steinke. She departed this life Thursday, April 11, 2013 in Holiday Island, at the age of 93 years.

She was raised with a very strong, ever-present Lutheran faith. She continued all through her life to be a devoted participant in her churches, and actively demonstrated this faith to everyone around her.

Ruth was married to Carl G. Haydon in 1941. They lived in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Coralville, Iowa, before moving to Ill. in 1960. After 29 years in Rolling Meadows, Ruth and Carl moved to Paris, Ill., where Ruth remained for 15 more years. She relocated to Holiday Island, where she was close to family.

We rejoice that Ruth has experienced a Heavenly reunion with her husband Carl, her parents and brothers, her infant daughter, Nancy, many extended family members and Christian friends.

Ruth’s surviving loved ones are far spread, but many, and include her four children: son, Rev. Kenneth & wife Bernadine Haydon of Eureka Springs; daughters, Karen & husband Joye McElwee of Fair Grove, Mo., Linda Waterman of Algonquin, Ill., Luann & husband Martin Mathesius of Bloomingdale, Ill.; grandchildren, Kurt Haydon, Heather Haydon, Anne Boothe, Jorene Brooks, Kristine Butts, Nathan McElwee, Melissa & husband Patrick Moss, Daniel & wife Lori Mathesius, and Kerri & husband Jeffrey Lewandowski; step-grandchildren, Johnathon & wife Laura Fairchild, Chad & wife Jen-

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nifer Fairchild, Beau Fairchild, Lt. Col. Michael & wife Jennifer Waterman, Paul Waterman, and Kelly Waterman; great-grandchildren, Kimball, MacKenzie, and Avery Haydon, Kaylin and Abigail Boothe, Julia Fairchild, Mia and Jonah Fairchild, Kyle & wife Chelsea Kirkpatrick, Felicia and Sarah Weiss, Chris & wife Marta Brooks, Jessica, Alyssa, and Skylar Butts, Kayla and Aiya McElwee, Eden and Nate Moss, Gianna Mathesius, Michael Jr., Erik and Nadia Waterman; great-great-grandchildren, Phoenix Kirkpatrick and Jasmine Brooks.

Funeral services for Ruth K. Haydon will be 11 a.m. on Monday, April 15, at the Grace Lutheran Church in Holiday Island, with Rev. Kenneth Haydon and Deacon James Moore officiating. Graveside will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday, April 18, 2013, at the Merle Hay Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa. Memorial donations may be sent to the Grace Lutheran Church, 179 Holiday Island Drive, Holiday Island, Arkansas 72631. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com.

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Lively Entertainment

By Kristal Kuykendall

By Kristal Kuykendall

It’s my birthday party and you’re invited! :) On Thursday, April 18, all you music fans in the Carroll County area reading this column are invited to come help me celebrate my birthday at K*Star’s Yacht Rock Disco Dance Party featuring music by Disco Keith.

The party starts at 9 p.m. and will be at Chelsea’s Corner Cafe and Bar, 10 Mountain St. in Eureka Springs. No cost for admission and it’s open to ages 21 and up.

Disco Keith – whom you might recognize as a favorite Chelsea’s bartender – will be spinning ‘70s and ‘80s dance, pop and rock tunes all night for our listening pleasure.

His last party at Chelsea’s, which featured Keith as “MC Glossy” playing reggae and dub-reggae jams all night, was a big hit and tons of fun. I have no doubt this music will be just as great (or even better since we will all know the words LOL).

For more info on the event or to RSVP, search on Facebook under “Events” for “Yacht Rock Disco Dance Party” and it will

pop right up!

Oh, and did I mention we’ll have plenty of free, delicious birthday cake?

Hope to see you all there to help me celebrate yet another 21st birthday, ha ha.

FRIDAY On April 19, check out the Barnyard Stompers at Chelsea’s.

Barnyard Stompers is the power duo of Casey Miller and Megan “Go-Go” Wise.

The two have collectively played in many legendary roots-rock outfits such as Hillbilly Hellcats, Bop Kings, Vibes on Velvet, Kozmik Kowboyz and Buckwild.

With Barnyard Stompers, they have teamed together to bring Wild West outlaw cow-punk back to the Western Mountain Region (they’re based in Denver).

As their bio says: “Hold on to your fancy hats and shades as Barnyard Stompers delivers a heavy dose of Country, Punk, Rock, Jigs and just straight crazy music the likes of which your momma warned you about!”

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The lead singer’s deep, vibrato-filled voice is unusual for a bar band, but it transcends the environment. His voice reminds me of a cross between Louis Prima (from Disney’s “The Jungle Book” soundtrack) and Tom Waits if they sang as one voice in a Las Vegas lounge with a gypsy-Irish theme.

Some of their tracks sound like The Pogues meet The Stray Cats.

Trashcan Bandits put on a great, energy-packed live performance, so I expect this to be an awesome show. Admission is $5 and ages 21 and up will be admitted.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18 • Chelsea’s, 10 Mountain St., 479-2536723: K*Star’s Yacht Rock Disco Dance Party featuring music by Disco Keith, 9 p.m.

• Eureka Paradise, 75 S. Main St., 479363-6574: Cocktails for a Cause benefiting the dog park, 5 to 7 p.m.

• Squid and Whale, 37 Spring St., 479253-7147: Open Mic Musical Smackdown with Bloody Buddy & Friends, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 • Berean Coffee House, 4032 E. Van Buren, 479-244-7495: Josiah James • Cathouse / Pied Piper, 82 Armstrong St., 479-363-9976: Matt Reeves, 8 p.m. to midnight

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And from the group’s reviews by music critics, it sounds even more promising.

Colorado Music Buzz Magazine writes about the group: “You know it has been a long time since I have found a band that I enjoy listening to on repeat. … The Barnyard Stompers is one of those bands. Members are Megan Go-Go Wise and Casey Miller.

The talent with these two is simply amazing.

As stated in ‘Got me a Trailer,’ this album will ‘blow your f’n doors off!’ … Here is a band you really can’t miss!”

Barnyard Stompers go on around 9 p.m. at Chelsea’s. Open to ages 21 and up; admission is $5.

SATURDAY There is a great band at Squid and Whale Pub on Saturday, Louisiana-based reggaepop-funk band Stiff Necked Fools. But if reggae beats are not your thing, I suggest you head over to Chelsea’s for a stellar show

by Fayetteville-based Trashcan Bandits.

Trashcan Bandits is an indie folk band with heavy gypsy and jazz influences and features four members on seven or more different instruments, including clarinet, mandolin and even the spoons! (And boy, can Patti play those spoons!)

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• Chaser’s, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-2535522: Tightrope, 9 p.m.

• Chelsea’s, 10 Mountain St., 479-2536723: Barn Yard Stompers, 9 p.m.

• Eureka Live!, 35 N. Main St., 479-2537020: DJ & Dancing 9 p.m. to close • Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Jukebox • Jack’s Place, 37 Spring St., 479-2532219: Karaoke with DJ Goose, 9 p.m.

• The Lumberyard, 104 E. Van Buren, 479-253-0400: DJ/Karaoke, 8 p.m.

• New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main St., 479253-2525: Skinny Gypsies, 1 to 5 p.m.; Little Zero, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den, 45 Spring St., 479363-6444: Paul Alvin Duo, 9 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Tavern, 417 W. Van Buren, 479-253-8544: Left of Center, 8 p.m.

• Squid & Whale: Stiff Necked Fools, 9 p.m.

• Voulez-Vous Lounge, 63 Spring St., 479-363-6595: Michael Red Buffalo Heart Dimitri, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20 • Cathouse / Pied Piper: Matt Reeves, 8 p.m. to midnight • Chaser’s: Act-A-Fool, 9 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Trashcan Bandits with Chucky Waggs opening, 9 p.m.

• Eureka Live!: DJ & Dancing 9 p.m. to close

• Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Jukebox • Jack’s Place: Tightrope, 9 p.m.

• The Lumberyard: DJ/Karaoke, 8 p.m.

• New Delhi Cafe: Nathaniel, noon to 3 p.m.; Magic Mule, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den: Cooter and Friends, 1 to 5 p.m.; Third Degree, 9 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Tavern: Downtown Strangers, 8 p.m.

• Squid and Whale: Copesetic, 9 p.m.

• Voulez-Vous Lounge: Michael Red Buffalo Heart Dimitri, 9 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21 • Chaser’s: Dime Trip, 8 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Blackout Boys and Laura & Adam’s baby shower, 6 to 10 p.m.

• Eureka Live!: Customer Appreciation Night specials 5 p.m. to close • Jack’s Place: Local open jam session, 5 p.m.

• New Delhi Cafe: Afro-disiacs, 3 to 7 p.m.

• Squid and Whale Pub: Jack and the Bear, 8 p.m.

MONDAY, APRIL 22 • Chelsea’s: Springbilly, 9 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 • Chelsea’s: Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 • Chelsea’s: Drink & Draw with the Funner Brothers, 8 p.m.

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Prescription Take-Back Day set for April 27

By Landon Reeves The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and Eureka Springs and Green Forest police departments are preparing for the DEA’s national Prescription Take Back Day, scheduled for Saturday, April 27.

From 10 a.m. till noon that day, the sheriff’s office will be accepting unused, unwanted or expired prescription drugs that day at two locations: the Grassy Knob Fire Department, 12037 Highway 187, and the Holiday Island sheriff’s substation at Park Cliff Drive. The Eureka Springs and Green Forest police departments also will be collecting prescription drugs that day from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office has a permanent prescription drug take back collection box available any time.

The DEA has collected more than 23 tons — or almost 50,000 pounds — of unused and expired prescription drugs in five tack back events, according to the Arkansas National Takeback Initiative website, artakeback.org.

The upcoming take-back day will be the sixth; the first was Sept. 25, 2010. The goal of the program is to properly dispose of prescription drugs to keep them away from children and teens, and out of the water supply.

“We collect drugs from the public that are no longer needed or wanted and then those drugs are disposed of properly,” said Lisa Barnhill, a DEA supervisor for Arkansas and Mississippi. “The police departments collect the medication from the public to keep them out of the medicine cabinet, and the DEA and National Guard pick up the collections and burn or destroy them in a safe man-

ner to preserve the environment.”

In 2007, Arkansas had the worst teen prescription pain reliever abuse problem in the country, according to studies by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and is one of 10 states with the highest non-medical use of pain relievers by 12- to 25-year-olds.

Prescription drug abuse is rapidly increasing in earlier grades and at a rate faster than usage of alcohol and cigarettes, reported the Division of Behavioral Health Services.

Two factors contributing to the increase in prescription misuse and abuse are the ease of access to the drugs and misconceptions about the drug’s safety. The drugs are often readily available in the medicine cabinet of a friend or relative.

Sometimes it is easier for teens to get prescription medication than it is to get beer, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes of Substance Abuse. Children mistakenly presume the drugs are safe because they were approved by a doctor for someone and are considered medicine, the survey showed. Many do not realize the drugs have addictive and harmful side effects.

“Another problem is that people have tried to get rid of theses (prescription drugs) by flushing them down the toilet and harming the water supply,” said Sheriff Bob Grudek. ”I know there are a lot of people who store them and want to get rid of them because every month they fill up over a 2-foot-tall container” at the sheriff’s office permanent collection site, he noted.

In a region that includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, since the inception of the take-back See Drugs, page 29

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Arts & Amusements Eureka! Stories From The Springs The story of Eureka Springs is exciting and colorful, but complicated, and “Eureka! Tales from the Springs” takes you on an entertaining and highly visual journey through time, from the discovery of the springs and the overnight growth of a shanty town, through the transformation to “the finest health resort in the country.”

Meet some of the fascinating individuals who made Eureka Springs what it is today.

Find out why Eureka Springs exists in “the least likely spot for a town.” Text by Keith Scales. Multi-media by Barbara Kennedy.

Presented by Reba Armstrong and Thomas Stacks. Produced by The Crescent hotel and showing at the Gavioli Theatre. Book online at WWW.ReserveEureka.com or call (479) 253-9766 Not Really A Door The Gavioli Theatre on the Historic Loop will host “Not Really A Door,” a haunted tale of a strange women and a possible ghost, full of twists and turns, secrets and discoveries. Who’s the real ghost? Come to the Gavioli at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays to find out. Written and directed by Keith Scales, the play features Rebecca J. Becker and Teressa Rose Ezell. For details, go to www.reserveeureka.com or call (479) 2539766 Cocktails for a Cause Supports the Eureka Springs Dog Park in April The ES Downtown Network will host its April “Cocktails for a Cause” in support of the ES Dog park at Eureka Paradise at 75 S. Main St.on Thursday, April 18 from 5 – 7 p.m. For more information contact the Eureka Springs Downtown Network at 479-2445074 or director@eurekaspringsdowntown. com.

Poetluck to host Lord Writer-in-residence Lissa Lord will read at Poetluck on Thursday, April 18, at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow at 515 Spring Street. She will read from a new collection of poems she wrote during the summer of 2012, inspired by her July stay at the Colony. Lissa is an academic librarian at The University of Kansas Libraries and she publishes the award winning Dissertation Research Blog http://dissertationresearch. blogspot.com. Her professional writing also

includes reviews of websites and books for CHOICE Magazine and Library Journal.

WordLayers.com is her personal blog and it is here that her passion for poetry and art are creatively expressed.

For details call (479)- 53-7444 or email director@writerscolony.org.

Sailing class April 19 The Beaver Lake Sailing Club will hold a sailing class on Friday, April 19, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. and weekly thereafter at the Northwest Technical Institute. For details, call (479) 643-2282 or email susanungerboating@gmail.com.

Celebrate Earth Day for a week at Eureka Earth Festival The weeklong Eureka Earth Festival will be held at The Retreat at Sky Ridge resort just west of Eureka Springs, Arkansas near Beaver Lake beginning Monday, April 22, Earth Day, at 10 a.m. with a ceremony by Peace Mother Geeta Sacred Song, a Mayan Peace Shaman, around the resort’s Turtle Moon community labyrinth next to Cedar Creek. The event includes workshops, guest speakers, movies, and a variety of vendors.

13 Moons will perform a free concert, followed by a fireside drumming at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at the resort’s Sky Ridge Pavilion. BYOD. Most events free, workshop fees vary, visit http://eurekaearthfestival.com for prices and schedule. For more details and vendor information, call (479) 981-3911 or marie@eurekaearthfestival. com.

Farmer’s market opening day April 24 Eureka Springs Farmers Market has the regular season Opening Day on Thursday, April 24. The season will start with a celebration of Health Professionals in Eureka Springs. Free health checks, massages, nutrition information and more. The hours are 7 a.m. to noon . For details, call (479) 981-3128 or andrewschwerin@gmail. com.

Yards & Yards of Yard Sales The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the 1st Annual “Springtime Yards & Yards of Yard Sales,” to be held April 26 and 27 between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day.

The springtime sale is in addition to the “19th Annual Yards & Yards of Yard Sales”

scheduled for Aug. 2 and 3. For more information contact the Chamber of Commerce at (479) 253-8737.

ES Buddhist study group ES Buddhist Study Group meets at the ES Library Annex every Thursday at 4 p.m. for silent meditation, followed at 4:30 by study and discussion. Our current book is Stages of Meditation by H.H. Dalai Lama.

White Oak Basket Weaver Billy Owens Comes to ESSA May 2-3 A two-day workshop on basket weaving will take place at ESSA’s campus May 2 and 3. It will be taught by nationally renowned basket weaver Billy Owens. Billy is a second generation White Oak basket maker who selects, cuts, and prepares his own white oak for his authentic Ozark baskets. To register for this workshop, go online at www.ESSA_ART.org or call (479)253-5384.

Rotary Golf Classic The Eureka Springs Rotary Club will hold its annual Golf Classic on Friday, May 3, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Holidays Island clubhouse course. The tourney is played as a four-person scramble, with men, women and mixed teams. Single golfers are welcome also. On Thursday, May 2, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., there will be a silent auctin and wine and cheese Karaoke mixer at the clubhouse lunge. Applications can be picked up at the clubhouse or online at EurekaRotaryClub.com. For more info call (479) 2447295.

“Bloodlines of the Illuminati” author to lecture at Carnegie Fritz Springmeier, author of the book “Bloodlines of the Illuminati,” will speak and sign books at The Space on Spring Street on May 2 at 2:30 and 7:00 p.m. There will be a free ‘meet the author’ gathering at the Carnegie Library Annex at 1:00 p.m.

Plant sale!

Carroll County Master Gardeners will hold a plant sale on Saturday, May 4, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Community First Bank on U.S. Hwy. 62 in Berryville, across the street from the Wal-Mart store. More than 600 plants for sale will include Geraniums, Blanket Flower, Butterfly Bush, Coral Bells, Salvia, Cone Flowers, Dragon Wing Begonia, other flowers, vegetables and herbs.

Blog Right The Village Writing School will offer a workshop on the fundamentals of blog-

ging on Friday, May 10. The course will be taught by Pamela Toler and Alison Taylor-Brown. The workshop will cover general information about the Blogosphere, how to set up a blog on hosted and self-hosted platforms, how to create content, and how to drive traffic to your blog. Participants who bring laptops will leave with their blogs up and running.

Pamela Toler holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and is a freelance writer specializing in history and the arts. She runs a popular blog called History in the Margins, is active online in multiple venues, and publishes regularly. She is the daughter of Eureka residents Rosalie and Jerry Toler. Rosalie’s books of poetry and Jerry’s photographs are available in multiple shops around Eureka.

Alison Taylor-Brown, Director of the Village Writing School, has blogged for over two years in the voice of a historical character from the 16th century. Her blog is followed around the world and has been used in multiple classrooms at the high school and university levels.

The cost for the all-day workshop is $45.

Due to the interactive nature of program, class size is limited to 12. For more information and to register, contact Alison at (479) 292-3665 or alisontaylorbrown@ me.com.

Registration for Summer Youth Program at the BCC The Berryville Community Center is offering a Summer Youth Program for ages 5-12. All participants must have completed kindergarten. The hours will be from 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, June 3 - August 16. Participants will enjoy games, crafts, swimming, sports, reading, skating, and many other activities. Parents can be confident in knowing their children are being supervised by mature, dependable counselors. Enrollment space is limited; therefore a deposit of $65/child is due at time of registration. The deposit is non-refundable, but will be credited toward the child’s last week of the program. Registration will begin Monday, April 22, during normal business hours and will be accepted on a first-come first-serve basis. For details, contact the Berryville Community Center front desk for more information, (870) 4233139.

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Wisecrack Zodiac ARIES: When you walk a mile in another guy’s pantyhose, you really hope he did his laundry first. Also, you do not have the legs to wear sheer hose. With all that hair poking through, it looks like you lost a fight with a werewolf.

TAURUS: Nothing’s better than good friends and cheap wine, although the reverse will do in a pinch. Make merry on Saturday, because you’ll have a lot to forget, especially Friday night.

GEMINI: There is some beauty in life, but you’ll get more out of it if you just accept it has a great personality.

Quit trying to tart it up in Photoshop.

CANCER: The winds of fortune blow up your skirt on Wednesday.

Could be a little chilly if you’re going commando, but you’ll like it.

LEO: Just when you’re ready to stop and smell the roses someone comes along and snips them for a bouquet. Quit relying on everyone else’s schedule and plant your own flowers.

That way, you’ll at least sniff them once before the deer eat them.

VIRGO: Running your life like clockwork is fine for a while, but even robots are getting bored with you.

Shake things up this weekend with a picnic or a pole-dancing class. Just do something before you need a rescue crew to pull you out of that rut.

LIBRA: Just your luck: the world becomes your oyster, and you’re allergic to shellfish. If your good fortune is something you just can’t swallow, hang in there because hungry times are never far away.

SCORPIO: In every life a little rain must fall, but you’ve been swamped so long, you have barnacles on your butt.

Hang in there, the sun will shine on you this Thursday. Someone may even hand you a towel.

SAGITTARIUS: Life isn’t about those big moments of joy, it’s all those little seconds where you don’t strangle your co-workers that count. You’ll rack up some good karma this week by not acting on that impulse of a full bladder

© Beth Bartlett, 2012 Want more? Visit Beth at www.wisecrackzodiac.com

and a coffeemaker.

CAPRICORN: All the king’s horses and men couldn’t do squat for Humpty Dumpty because the really good meds hadn’t been invented yet.

Stay on yours this week, or everyone will be picking eggshell out of their hair for days.

AQUARIUS: Point A is where you are, and Point B is where you want to be, but in between is a path that looks like it was doodled by Albert Einstein

Crossword Puzzle

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on Ambien.

Go ahead, take the first step, because everything’s relative.

PISCES: Just when you want to retreat into yourself for a while, your inner child has rearranged all the furniture. Quit stubbing your brain on the imaginary coffee table and seek some answers outside for a change.

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of a community center of some sort.”

A straw vote showed all commissioners in favor of the general idea of Parks’ involvement on some level, and Commissioner Ruth Hager made a motion that the commission go on record saying so, whether it turned out to be a long-term commitment or a temporary one, making the building available to the public as soon as possible.

Featherstone countered several specific suggestions about uses for the center.

“We don’t make these decisions,” he said. “The community does. Whatever they’re willing to pay for, that’s what you do. Is the need there? I can’t tell you that. All I can say is people want a place like this.”

Califf Spring renovation under way soon Commissioners took a break halfway through their meeting to stroll up to the Historical Museum, alongside which sits Califf Spring. This tiny park, established by the City of Eureka Springs on Feb. 15, 1886, has fallen into disuse over the years. However, cleaned up through the efforts of the ES Garden Club, it is ready for the next step in its restoration.

Levine showed plans for the site once restored at the meeting, but commissioners were curious about certain details and decided to go check it out.

Levine said Parks had budgeted $6,500 toward the project this year, but the project is contingent on matching funds from the Eureka Springs Preservation Society, who had given tacit approval already based on the plans he provided.

The improved site would include four elevated flower planters, flagstones, a new sidewalk to replace the badly deteriorated sidewalk along that area, and landscaping done by Parks Gardener DonE Allen, and a permanent chess/checkerboard at the rear of the small area.

Commissioner Daniel Jackson objected to the materials to be used in the plans, especially the rock work. The stone in the park is a mixture of styles, cut limestone in some places and what commissioners referred to as “cobbled” style in others.

In the end, commissioners decided to approve the plans with the caveat the stonework match the cut limestone of the museum, and that crushed granite rather than imprinted concrete be used as much as possible to allow rainwater to soak down rather than run off.

Levine must seek Historic District Commission approval next, and its rules involving historic preservation may outweigh Parks’ thoughts on the kind of stone used and etc.

Parks & Rec will hold a workshop on Tuesday, May 7, at the cafeteria building on the old high school campus and tour the campus, at 6 p.m.

Its next meeting is on May 20.

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Jim Fain

Dealing with that green cloud of pollen – naturally

Are you ready? The jonquils and daffodils have already bloomed, and the trees are getting ready to burst forth. Evenings are longer and warm enough to enjoy, while the days are still a little chilly. Must be close to springtime, with its sneezes, itchy eyes and nose. The green cloud of pollen we get every year is already happening.

Now is the time to start using pycnogenol to help reduce allergies across the board. This is a product when taken on a regular basis (1 cap/day) helps your immune system moderate its response — meaning that it remains pointedly effective at struggling with colds, infections and nasty things that cause us trouble but reduces the immune battle with allergens that will soon be floating through the air as a green cloud of pollen.

Pycnogenol helps the immune system call out the full power of the armed forces for big nasties but only calls out the local cop for pollen, etc. It takes a little time for our bodies to adjust, so start using pycnogenol sooner than later and keep using it

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events, authorities in the Natural State have collected three times more prescription drugs than all the other states in our region combined, despite being the least populated.

“Last take-back day, we collected 12,000 pounds of medication. That is more than 6 tons of medication that didn’t make it into our waterways,” said Barnhill at the DEA. “It is because we have a good grassroots system — we have a lot of partners who have gotten the word out to the public.”

Those partners include the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, Rotary Clubs in the state, Arkansas Pharmacists Association, State Pre-

through the worst of the pollen. Quercetin, as a safe antihistamine, and XLear nasal rinse are very beneficial for springtime allergies as well.

New science has shown Quercetin to not only reduce allergic reactions but to also help lower blood pressure if it is elevated. So unlike some synthetic overthe-counter allergy products Quercetin is exceptionally safe. Add an aromatic like an Olbas product and symptoms are much less troublesome.

Annoying bugs will not be far behind the blooming greenery. Now what about that chigger or tick? Likely, since we had such a mild winter, the ticks and chiggers will be out in force this year. The best way to deal with the bites is to avoid them.

But that can be difficult if you step off the pavement or have a dog or cat that goes outside. I like a natural repellant to spray on my neck, arms, waste and ankles. I find it keeps all sorts of flying biters, chiggers and ticks at bay. It is so safe (and DEET free) that it can be used on dogs and children. Remember the product Cactus Juice? vention Resource Center and many more. Arkansas also has more participating law enforcement agencies (654) than the other three states combined (543).

Through combined efforts of disposal and education, prescription drug abuse by Arkansas youth has dropped in every measure in every age range in the past three years, according to a study by the Division of Behavioral Health Services. But officials still say the most affective way of curbing prescription drug abuse in youth is a conversation between parent and child.

For more information on talking to your children about drugs visit timetotalk.org; for more information on the Arkansas drug take-back program, visit artakeback.org.

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Is that a poem in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? ­There may not be a free lunch, but there are free poems, take-out style, at the Carnegie Public Library. The poems, in handy capsules, are in observance of National Poem in Your Pocket Day, which is April 18. People are invited to take a poem, carry it in their pocket and read it on April 18 in a park or other public place.

Librarian Sarah Wright created the portable poems and display. For more information, go to poets.org.

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Holiday Island Singers announce Spring concert

The Holiday Island Singers at their 2012 December concert.

By Landon Reeves The Holiday Island Singers Spring concert has been scheduled for Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m. at the Holiday Island Clubhouse Ballroom.

Tickets are $8 (students free) and are available from any Holiday Island Singer or by calling 479-363-9818.

This group of musicians ranges in age from 40 to 90 years old, meets weekly and enjoys sharing their music with the community, said Kerry Hays, executive direc-

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tor. This year’s spring concert includes a tribute to the African-American spiritual music. Some songs included in this year’s concert are “Going Up to Glory,” “Balm in Gilead” and “Elijah Rock.” The group will present some patriotic numbers to honor our veterans as well as some pieces by local musician and composer Ellen Stephenson. The Holiday Island Photography Guild will have a display of their work available for guests to view before the concert and during intermission. Some photos will be available for purchase.

Pet of the Week Winnie is a beautiful medium sized 10-month-old black lab mix who came to the shelter in October as a stray. She is a little shy at first, but a really sweet and playful girl. Winnie gets along with other dogs and walks on a leash, but is not housebroken. She is spayed, has had all her shots and is ready for a real home. For more information, call the Good Shepherd Humane Society Animal Shelter at 479-253-9188 or stop by the shelter on Highway 62 East in Eureka Springs. Shelter hours are noon to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesdays.

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Fresh Harvest – Alexa Pittenger, right, was one of the winners at the Fresh Harvest Tasting Room fundraiser for Good Shepherd Humane Society on April 8, which included a ring toss game in the parking lot run by Kaitlin Johnson, left. Pittenger won the bottle of dark chocolate balsamic she lassoed. Fresh Harvest, which carries infused and flavored olive oils and balsamics, donated a percentage of each bottle sold and raised $1,000 for GSHS. Visit Fresh Harvest at Pine Mountain Village or online at www.FreshHarvest.co.

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