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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 36

JULY 18, 2013

Photo By Jeremy Mason McGraw, Crochet Creations By Gina Rose Gallina, Hair and Makeup By Karen-Jo Vennes

Crazy for Crochet

Eureka’s ‘Yarn Bomber’ carves a niche out of Kitsch Crochet ... and now readies for a show Page 18

n Hundreds turn out to voice opposition at SWEPCO hearings Residents from all walks of life say no to entire project Page 3

n CAPC loses a

longtime leader Bobbie Foster says her voice not being heard Page 4

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Dispatch Desk July 8 10:44 a.m. — Animal Control responded to a report of a rooster in a parking lot of a local discount store. Turned out to be a hen, not a rooster. Hey, it’s Eureka!

12:14 p.m. — Caller requested to speak to an officer regarding a minor being sold alcohol. A report was taken.

12:55 p.m. — Carroll County Sheriff Office advised they got a report of a pickup, with no tags, driving recklessly approaching town, almost hitting another car head on. Officer couldn’t locate the vehicle.

9:05 pm. — Complainant wanted to speak to an officer. Her landlord had tried to run her over. Officers responded, tenant decided not to file a report at that time, but may later. Would that be a Slam-lord?

July 9 3:56 a.m. — A call from a local hotel advised there was a man that looked

By Margo Elliott

to be homeless, passed out on a nearby bench and had some bags and a dog with him. The responding officer was able to determine he did have a room at the hotel, but hadn’t quite made it that far. Just a quick little nap before walking another half block.

4:16 a.m. — An alarm company reported that the alarm for a local fast food place had come in. The officer responded and the alarm was canceled.

8:59 a.m. — Bailiff reporting that a wanted person had reported for court.

ESPD had a warrant for his failure to comply. Officer arrested him and took him to the police dept. Sounds like a double whammy.

10:09 a.m. — Caller reported a suspicious male walking and playing an accordion, and stumbling close to the highway. An officer located him and found him to be walking fine. Wonder if he rubbed his tummy & patted his head at See Dispatch, page 26

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Hundreds attend APSC public hearings

Carroll County residents unite to send resounding ‘no’ to SWEPCO

By Kristal Kuykendall Hundreds of area residents turned out Monday and Tuesday to attend and voice their opinions at the Arkansas Public Service Commission’s public hearings on SWEPCO’s proposed giant transmission line across the county.

Officials said 327 residents signed up to speak at the hearings.

Southwestern Electric Power Co. has applied for permission to built a 345,000-volt electric transmission line from their Shipe Road Station in Benton County, headed eastward for 48 miles through western Carroll County, passing very near Eureka Springs before coming to a proposed new substation to be built directly on the banks of the Kings River near Berryville, north of Highway 62.

SWEPCO’s application, which was first reported in early April as potentially affected landowners in the area began to receive notification letters, is under review by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, which will likely decide whether SWEPCO may proceed, and which route it must use, sometime late this year or early next.

The three-member commission will base its decision on the recommendation of Administrative Law Judge Connie Griffin, who oversaw this week’s hearings in Eureka Springs. They are continuing today in Rogers.

Griffin and others noted at Monday’s hearing session that it is highly unusual for the APSC to conduct public comment hearings anywhere outside of its Little Rock offices, and officials said that part of the reason the APSC decided to hold hearings here was the volume of the public outcry about the project. More than 5,000 individuals have filed on APSC’s website their official comments on the SWEPCO proposal, and almost every single one of them opposes the power-line plan.

The air was thick with emotion Monday and Tuesday as 229 local residents took their allowed 3 minutes apiece to tell a judge why they believe SWEPCO’s plan is wrong for Northwest Arkansas and spe-

Photo by Landon Reeves

Connie Evans gets a hug from friends and neighbors on Tuesday at the public hearings for the proposed SWEPCO transmission line after she presented her comments in an emotionally charged room at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center.

cifically for Carroll County. There was not enough time for the remaining 98 people on the sign-up sheet to speak, but they and others are welcome to attend the identical hearings being held in Rogers today and Thursday, July 18, officials said.

Of those who spoke at the Eureka hearings, almost all opposed the entire project; very few residents drew any differences between the routes and the potential environmental and economic damage they will cause, nor did any single speaker say they preferred one route over another. Indeed, the overwhelming question of the day was not “Which route should be chosen for the new SWEPCO lines,” but instead, it was

“Why should any of them be approved?”

Commenters objected to the power line’s potential destructive impact on Eureka Springs’ tourist economy; to the environmental damage that is likely to result from the use of herbicides to keep the pathway clear of overgrowth; to the danger to the karst topography that is so prevalent in Carroll County’s mountainous terrain, including the many caves and natural springs found throughout the area; to the danger to the county’s ground water supply (and to the 6,000 local residents within 7 miles of Eureka Springs who drink from a well); and many other factors.

Some residents argued there is no need

here for additional power capacity, since the most recent Census numbers show what is statistically considered zero growth in Carroll County.

Others argued that SWEPCO hadn’t followed the rules in the legal notification of landowners process; still others said SWEPCO’s Environmental Impact Study was severely lacking in scope and accuracy.

Many residents who spoke talked of their own experience using solar power and questioned why SWEPCO wasn’t willing to look at alternatives to the power lines — especially since the energy comSee SWEPCO, page 12

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Foster resigns from CAPC

By Kristal Kuykendall Longtime CAPC Commissioner Bobbie Foster unexpectedly resigned from the Commission at its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, saying in a letter that she no longer feels she can “make a difference” there.

Foster, who also owns and operates Mud Street Cafe in Eureka Springs, wrote in her letter dated July 10: “Even though I have enjoyed serving on the commission, it is time for me to allow another to attempt to make a difference.

“Although I believe a great Commission is made up of people who have varied and oftentimes-different opinions, I feel that my voice is no longer being heard through my vote, nor is my ability to make a difference present.

“While I wish nothing but the best to you and the remaining Commissioners, I believe that my love for my community will be allowed to flourish in other opportunities,” she concluded.

Foster told the Citizen afterward that she did not want to “go out” mudslinging, and she declined further comment.

However, in the past, both Foster and a few other city officials — including members of the City Council — have expressed disappointment about the number of absences from official meetings that has plagued the CAPC as well as many other city governmental bodies and agencies.

Last month, the CAPC had to cancel its meeting because of a lack of a quorum. Foster was one of those absent, but she also had previously notified the other members of her impending absence so they might still have a quorum if everyone else attended, but they didn’t.

CAPC workshops also have had to be canceled and rescheduled in the past year.

Other commissions have reported similar struggles with getting all the members there to conduct the city’s business in the most timely manner possible.

Last year, there was some discussion at a few council meetings about making attendance mandatory for members of city boards and commissions, but the proposal never made it to a vote.

At last Wednesday’s meeting, CAPC Commissioner Terry McClung noted the recent problem with commissioner absences and said he has been “irritated” by them, adding that he was glad to see full attendance that day.

Now, with Foster’s spot vacant, if any single commissioner misses a meeting, the CAPC must cancel the meeting because there will not be the required number of

members present to form a quorum or conduct the city’s tourist-related business.

CAPC Chairman Charles Ragsdell emphasized: “It is very important that we all show up.”

In other business, commissioners learned that in June, the CAPC spent $4,047.82 more than it earned, ending the month in the red on the Profit and Loss statement.

With tourism tax collections down for May for every segment except hotels, and down 3.6 overall this year from last year for the same period, officials at the CAPC said they already have begun looking at ways to cut spending.

Through the end of June, the CAPC has spent a total of $219,359 more than it’s brought in, but that is a 15.4 percent improvement over where the commission was at the same time last year.

Tourism officials have said they are counting on a rebound in tourism revenue after a long, late winter and wet spring dampened business and therefore tax collections.

In its 2013 marketing efforts, CAPC Finance Director Rick Bright reported that the commission has spent $235,150 so far this year on advertising the city and its accommodations and attractions, and that figure is down 32.4 percent from the same time last year – a year in which advertising spending was ramped up considerably using funds from savings and reserves, noted Ragsdell.

“So this amount of media spending is in line with where we were at this point in 2011, the last year we had a normal or typical amount of expenditures for advertising,” he said.

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Agenda set for Aug. 19 town hall meeting

By Landon Reeves City Council members planned the agenda for a town hall meeting at a work session last Wednesday. The town hall meeting will be held at The Auditorium on Monday, Aug. 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The aldermen decided that at the town hall meeting they will ask attendees to complete small questionnaires that ask residents to rank, in order of importance, some of the issues the council is facing. The issues to be ranked in the poll have not been set in stone, but Councilmen James Devito, David Mitchell and Dee Purkeypile have a good idea of what they want to ask, they said. Following are some of the issues likely to be included as priorities to be ranked: • Construction and location of a new fire station • A new restroom on North Main Street • Infrastructure repair to water and sewer • City tram services • Mill Hollow Bridge • Upgrades to Black Bass Dam “We have already established these as priorities to the city and started on some of

them,” Purkeypile noted.

There was also discussion of an additional comments section on the questionnaire where residents may add other priorities they consider important. City workers will then study the questionnaires to determine what Eurekans really care about.

“What this shows is that the City Council is organized in their thoughts,” Mitchell said.

“And it shows that we are creating priorities for the city.”

The event will begin with introductions from the Mayor, City Council members and department and commission chiefs. The goal is to keep the introductions brief so that more time can be allowed for public comments.

Public comments at the town hall meeting may be directed at any of the city officials on stage and may be questions or statements, aldermen explained. Each resident is, however, limited to two minutes, and everyone who wishes to speak must sign up upon arrival.

“I think these meetings are important because we don’t have them as often as we should,” Devito added.

State awards grants to Eureka for preservation, downtown projects

Gov. Mike Beebe announced this week that the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, has awarded more than $2 million in grants for projects in 41 Arkansas counties – including Carroll County – through its County Courthouse Restoration Subgrant, Historic Preservation Restoration Grant, Certified Local Government Subgrant and Main Street Downtown Restoration Grant programs.

The City of Eureka Springs received a $3,480 Certified Local Government Grant for training and the “Green Old House Day” event.

Main Street Eureka Springs received a $5,700 Downtown Revitalization Grant for project in the city’s historic commercial core.

Seventeen recipients shared $89,982 in grants through the AHPP’s Certified Local

Government program, which is open to Arkansas cities and counties that contain a historic district commission and a historic district protected by a local ordinance, as well as to cities and counties that are seeking to join the CLG program.

These grants provide training opportunities to local historic district commissions and can fund other local preservation projects.

At least 10 percent of the AHPP’s annual appropriation from the federal Historic Preservation Fund goes to CLG cities as grants for local projects. Grant requests totaled $170,143.

For more information on the AHPP’s grant programs, write the agency at 323 Center St., Suite 1500, Little Rock, AR 72201, call the agency at 501-324-9880 or email info@arkansaspreservation.org or visit www.arkansaspreservation.org.

Mobile home destroyed by fire

By Landon Reeves The winds were soaring and the temperature was crawling its way to 100 degrees as firefighters fought a combusting mobile home on County Road 214 near Inspiration Point last Wednesday, July 10.

The home of the Worley family was destroyed but the blaze was kept from spreading, officials said.

Among the first on the scene was Inspiration Point Fire Chief Ed Thompson, who said the cause of the fire was uncertain, but it was probably electrical.

“When we arrived there were strong winds, and there wasn’t much we could do,” Thompson said. “Luckily nobody got hurt. We had to battle the heat for a while, other that that it was fairly routine.”

Firefighters from Eureka Springs, Grassy Knob and Inspiration Point worked together to pour more than 20,000 gallons of water over the blaze to

keep it from spreading to the surrounding forest and vegetation.

They were also concerned about the large propane tank near the fire, which they kept cool to avoid any explosions.

“The house burned totally to the ground, but the propane tank and the car parked in the driveway only a few feet away were untouched by the flames,” wrote neighbor Genie Williams in an email to the Lovely County Citizen that saluted the bravery and dedication of the firefighters.”I witnessed them in action … with the heat index around 100 degrees, with the winds gusting and flames erupting in the air, they were fighting an inferno on the property next to my house.”

Williams also wrote that the firefighters returned to the scene late that night with a flashlight to check for any hot spots that could ignite again. She described the firefighters as “truly amazing” and thanked them for their service.

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Raw milk now legal in Arkansas, but buyers assume risk

By Kathryn Lucariello As of Monday, July 15, it has become legal to purchase raw milk in Arkansas, but you won’t find it at the farmers’ market or grocery store. You can only get it directly from a farm.

Gov. Mike Beebe signed HB 1536, cosponsored by both Sen. Bryan King and Rep. Bob Ballinger, into law as Act 1209 in April.

The basics of the new law provide that Arkansas farms can sell up to 500 gallons of whole raw cow’s milk and up to 500 gallons of raw goat’s milk per month, directly to consumers for personal use and not for resale. It will still be illegal to sell it at farmers markets or retail outlets. Customers must go directly to the farm to purchase these raw milk products.

Farmers will be required to post a sign at the farm and label unpasteurized products with a standardized label noting that the milk is unpasteurized, and purchasers assume all risk.

The farm and the cows will not be inspected by the state, but farmers must allow customers to inspect their cows and barns upon request.

This is a victory for raw milk advocates, who have long held that the health benefits outweigh the risks as long as raw milk is properly produced and handled. Many have also felt that it is unconstitutional for the government to be telling people what they may and may not consume.

Raw milk has been the subject of heated controversy for many years. In states where raw milk is legal, reports have shown an increase in dairy farms making it available.

On the national front, the American Farm Bureau Federation is opposed to raw milk sales, and the National Farmers Union is for it.

In recent years the Food and Drug Administration has raided farms selling raw milk, even in states where it is legal, and hauled small farmers into court to wage costly battles that have destroyed the livelihood of their family farms.

Many people who grew up on farms, drinking raw milk, have said they have never gotten sick from it and have had many health benefits, such as beneficial enzymes and bacteria and improvement of allergies.

But even organic raw milk dairies have had recalls of contaminated batches. Between 2006 and 2012, Organic Pastures, the largest raw milk producer in California, had four recalls of e coli-contaminated milk.

In one case, the company settled out of court with a family whose son was hospitalized for two months with kidney failure, although the company contested that the e coli did not come from their farm.

The four biggest pathogen worries about raw milk are e coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella and Listeria, all of which can lead to serious health problems and even death.

However, even pasteurized milk can be contaminated with these pathogens. In 2007 in Massachusetts, no one had died from raw milk, but three people died from Listeria in pasteurized milk.

There are 20 states that prohibit raw milk sales and 30 that allow it. Some of the states that allow it – California, Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington, have set standards for raw milk safety.

Arkansas has not.

The fact that the state has not set standards for raw milk and will not inspect farms puts the burden of caution on the consumer.

For instance, raw milk is not necessarily organic milk.

A local woman who spoke on condition of anonymity, and who is an advocate for organic foods and natural health, said she had been buying raw cow’s milk from an area farm for quite a long time, but at one point she became extremely ill. Unable to pinpoint the cause anywhere else, she spoke to the farm owner, who told her the cows had recently been treated with fly

powder insecticide while being milked in the barn. The owner also told her no one else who obtained milk from the farm had reported being ill. The woman stopped buying the milk and recovered.

Some time later the farm owner called her and said the cows were no longer being treated with pesticides while being milked, and the woman might consider buying milk again. She did, and again she became ill.

“So I stopped buying it altogether,” she said.

She has since found a source of raw goats’ milk to buy, which has given her no problems, she said.

We contacted the farm owner, who is 80 years old, and said the farm had provided raw milk for years to family, neighbors and friends, and no one had ever complained of getting sick.

“I have been drinking it all my life and have never had any problems, nor has anyone else,” the owner said. “Some people may be more sensitive to certain things, I don’t know.”

Herbicides and pesticides used on the pasture or used on the small amount of grain fed to cows or goats while in the milking barn could affect the milk. In addition, grain mixtures could contain genetically modified plants, such as corn, which have raised concerns in recent years.

Occasionally, even goat’s milk may be

contaminated when goats eat naturally occurring poisonous plants.

Those interested in purchasing raw milk and who are hopeful of finding a source that is, if not organic, at least safely produced and handled, would do well to ask several questions of the farmer.

These include what types, if any, of herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers are used on the pastures where the animals graze and when; whether purchased hay for use in winter might also contain these substances; the source, composition and potential chemical residues or genetic modification of grain feed; whether cows are being given bovine growth hormone; whether cows or goats are treated directly for pests and with what and when; how the milking is done and what measures are used to keep it sanitary; and under what conditions the milk is available and measures used to prevent spoilage.

Local farmers who are considering selling raw milk direct to consumers might want to look into organic or all-natural methods of feeding and pest control.

Two websites with information to help both farmers and consumers make up their minds about raw milk practices and the controversy surrounding them are www. realmilk.com, which is pro-raw milk, and www.realrawmilkfacts.com, which is anti-raw milk.

Eureka school board to meet

By Kathryn Lucariello The Eureka Springs School Board will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, July 18, at 5:30 p.m. at the administration building at 147 Greenwood Hollow Rd. The board will discuss several items under new business: bank account signers, the classified personnel policy, student handbooks,

contracting substitute services, a landscape consulting services contract, attorney fees, state lawsuit attorney fees, transfer of funds and student transfers.

The board has also scheduled an executive session.

This will be the first regular board meeting for new superintendent David Kellogg, who was hired last month.

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Parks Commission eyes permanent feral hog fix

By Jennifer Jackson When public servants have to confront the problem of getting rid of unwelcome wildlife, euphemisms abound.

Feral hogs and Canada geese are a problem at Lake Leatherwood City Park – the hogs breed like crazy and are destructive to plants and animals. A flock of Canada geese has taken over the swimming beach, closing it to human paddlers. What to do about the animal interlopers is a regular subject of discussion at the monthly meeting of the Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission.

On Monday night, Parks director Bruce Levine told the commissioners that he might have found the final solution for the feral hogs. A group in Rogers has contacted him and wants to come over and trap them for the sport and the meat.

“It’s not hog hunting,” Levine noted. “It’s hog trapping.”

This was tried at Lake Leatherwood a year or two ago, Levine said. The problem: after a hog is trapped, nobody wants to go into the cage and drag the animal out by its heels like they do on reality television and slaughter it. Instead, the police are called to come out to the park, hike into the woods to the trap and dispatch (shoot) the hog.

But sometimes the police (who, please note, were not referred to as pigs) are dispatched elsewhere, Levine said, and can’t come and dispatch the pigs.

“English is the only language where one word has two meanings,” said Bill Featherstone, commission chairman.

The geese, which are year-round residents, are easier to deal with, as they can be herded into cages at one go. Then, Levine learned, they can be transported over the state line to Missouri, where they are “processed” (killed and plucked). This worked great in Bella Vista, where hundreds of geese had taken over the golf courses, Levine said. The only problem: the state requires other, less extreme measures to be tried first, including enforcing no-feeding rules, shooting off fireworks, letting the dogs out and egg suppression – coating goose eggs with mineral oil to “reduce hatchability.”

Levine is talking to Arkansas Game and Fish this week to see if his department can skip the intermediary steps and go right to the end game. Otherwise, he said, they could spend several years in the goose wars.

Another solution: close the park for a few days in September and invite hunters in, which would require emergency authorization from City Council in order to be in place by hunting season, Levine said.

Or harvest time, as they call it down at City Hall.

The Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission meets on the third Monday of the month at 6 p.m. at City Hall/West District Carroll County Courthouse, Eureka Springs. The next meeting is August 19.

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Wynn takes the helm at Clear Spring School New Head of School merges education, technology, wide career experience C l e a r Spring School in Eureka Springs has a new Head of School this week as Doug Wynn takes over for retiring Head of School Debbie Hartsell.

Doug Wynn “Perfect for Clear Spring” is how Board President Peggy Pot describes Wynn.

“He brings a wide range of educational experience, from teaching to administrative, from developing curriculum indoors as well as outside, and truly thinking outside the box,” she said.

A professional educator in public, private, and corporate education for the past twenty years, Wynn served first as a middle school then high school media teacher in four school districts in Arizona and Washington State.

He advanced to the level of district administrator for technology instruction and Career and Technical Education director.

After 10 years in public education, he became a college instructor and eventually an associate professor in cinematography, photography, graphic design, web design and software applications. Most recently, he was appointed Academic Chair for Film, Photography, Web design and Visual Effects in Phoenix, Ariz., and then in Charleston, S.C. During his career he has helped start several magnet schools, a new alternative high school, and project-based and multi-subject-integrated curriculum for three states and numerous school districts.

He also designed and implemented new assessment strategies for schools and programs, and developed several secondary and post secondary academic programs. Presently, he is under contract for a new textbook for Pearson Education to be released in 2015.

While the credentials listed are distinguished – including being named ‘Teacher of the Year’ in two school districts – he also explored avenues beyond the academic arena. Wynn helped found and develop two webbased businesses, Flying Cardboard and Red Creatives, where he acted as designer, photographer, cinematographer and director.

His media experience also includes being a producer and director of educational TV broadcasting, as well as being a consultant for institutional technology for both schools and businesses.

Despite the variety of his endeavors, he considers himself first and foremost to be a teacher and mentor. The key word to his success, he says, has been collaboration.

“All of my achievements have been accomplished as part of a team. Clear Spring has a great team, and I look forward to participating in and strengthening that connection,” Wynn said.

Asked about his new position, he replied, “If I were to build a school, it would be like Clear Spring. ... The challenge, which I welcome, is to ensure its growth and continued success.”

Retiring Head of School Debbie Hartsell expressed great enthusiasm about his appointment, saying, “Doug is just the high-energy educator we have been looking for. Clear Spring School is fortunate to have found someone that can take them into the future.”

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Fourth of July Parade celebrates freedom

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Photo courtesy of E.S. Fourth of July parade

Sue Glave strikes a patriotic pose on the courthouse steps as Lady Liberty.

By Jennifer Jackson The first Eureka Springs Fourth of July parade in recent years has marched into history.

The parade was revived and organizer

by Sue Glave, who chose “The Freedom to Be” as the theme, with floats illustrating freedom of religion, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble and, presumably, party. The parade drew a number of decorated bicycles, trucks and floats decked with red, white and blue.

Riders on the Passion Play waved flags.

Ambur Rockwell, in a cake, played the “Happy Birthday, Eureka Springs” on the guitar.

Rylee Ford, walking with the Lovely County Citizen “Freedom of the Press” float, helped hand out 125 flags with her dad, photographer Chip Ford and government reporter Landon Reeves. The Eure-

ka Independent float featured a fiddler.

Decorated bicycle contest winners were Claire Garrett in the 7 and under age group, and Michael Doss, 8 to 15. Both won bicycles from Arvest Bank.

Ribbons went to: Walkers/group: 1st: Save the Ozarks.

2nd: Turpentine Creek. 3rd: Eureka Springs School Color Guard Walkers/individual: 1st: Sue Glave as the Statue of Liberty. 2nd: Mark Wetzel as Uncle Sam. 3rd: Wendi LaFey. Riders: 1st: Robert Norman as Paul Revere. 2nd: American Legion’s Sonny Smith. 3rd: Hidden Valley Ranch Floats: 1st: Cavaliers. 2nd: Beaver Lake Baptist Church. 3rd: (tie) Eureka Independent and Lovely County Citizen.

Motorized Vehicles: 1st: Golf Cart #5.

2nd: Abundant Taxi. 3rd: ESFD truck & Sparky, the dog.

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Opposition En Masse: Simply inspiring

Area residents band together as hundreds sweep SWEPCO hearing

n what is surely the most unifying cause to affect Carroll County in decades — if not ever — the Arkansas Public Service Commission hearings on SWEPCO’s power-line plan drew at least 500 area residents Monday and Tuesday.

It was an awesome sight to behold — that many Carroll County and Eureka Springs residents from so many different walks of life coming together for a common cause. Judging from the widespread camaraderie at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center, it was clear that the residents who attended had left all their often-colorful differences of opinions — something our county and especially Eureka Springs is somewhat well-known for — at the door.

It also became clear as testimony got under way and continued Monday that Carroll Countians will not be “divided and conquered” by the proposal that includes not just a few but six different proposed routes.

Perhaps SWEPCO hoped differently. State Sen. Bryan King told the Citizen as much after Monday’s hearing, and he said he particularly did not like the way SWEPCO was operating nor how it presented its proposal to the APSC. King, who previously filed his official opposition to the SWEPCO transmission line in paperwork with the APSC, did not speak at the hearing because, he said, he didn’t want to take time away from regular residents who perhaps had not already filed their comments online nor gotten their chance to voice their concerns yet.

Often, when a large corporation is trying to push through approval on a project that is likely to be opposed, that corporation will present several different options for its project in hopes of distracting residents from the big, area-wide issue — whether to approve the transmission line at all — as they become

more focused on their own back yards — and on which specific route is worst and/or would hurt them the most.

But the trick did not work this time.

With surprising consistency, Carroll Countians who spoke at the public hearings this week were overwhelmingly opposed to the project in its entirety, and they said so — over and over and over.

Not one person who spoke at the hearings asked for one route to be approved over another. Only a handful even mentioned the differences in routes or distinguished between any of them.

Instead, repeatedly, Carroll Countians stood up for not only themselves but for their neighbors as well: “I oppose the SWEPCO project in its entirety,” they said, again and again.

Democracy in action on a local level is always something to behold — especially here in Eureka Springs, where emotions tend to run high where differing opinions lie. And that’s pretty much anywhere and everywhere there are important public decisions being made.

But we all know that democracy in action, sadly, no longer draws crowds like it used to — most anywhere in the United States. It’s a problem the entire country has faced as fewer people vote every election year and fewer people are engaged with their own governmental system.

But this week, Carroll County proved itself engaged, educated, energized — and en masse. Unified. One body. Fighting the same fight and the same enemy.

While we recognize that in a town as diverse as Eureka Springs, passionate disagreements and even at-times-ugly confrontations are probably not gone for good, it sure is nice to see so many local folks get on the same team for a change.

Now, let’s all pray that it’ll do some good.

Citizen of the Week

This week’s Citizen of the Week is Darcy Huffman, for going above and beyond the call of duty and for having Mother Nature’s back. A few weeks ago, a mother goose flew in and laid several eggs at Blue Spring Heritage Center. She had been coming for several years, nesting at the same location. After a day or so, she took off and did not return. The father did come in and he located near the eggs, but he did not sit on them. After a couple of days, he also took off, never to return. The staff at Blue Spring decided to dispose of the eggs. When they went to the nest, Huffman noticed that one of the eggs was moving. Sure enough, a gosling jumped out of the egg and ran toward her. “What do you do with a baby goose?,” asked her nominator and dad Jack Muzio. “My daughter took charge and decided that she was going to take care of the baby. This she has done for weeks. She also made two trips to a vet, as the gosling was having trouble with its wings. She did this at her own expense. The gosling follows her everywhere!”

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What do

think

Citizen Opinion by Margo Elliot

After seeing such big turnout at the SWEPCO hearing, do you think the power-line proposal will be approved? Why or why not?

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.

Passion Play CEO says things surely are improving

Katie Avery

Hipolito Tapia

It’s hard to say, but I hope it won’t be able to go through!

I hope not, I don’t want to lose trees!

“Working Mom”

“Hippie Senior”

Carole Belew “Carole in the Garden”

My garden and I certainly hope NOT!

Sue Goldberg

Kathy Catlin

Jan Shipley

I hope it’s not!

We don’t want it approved!

I hope they don’t go forward with their plans, it would be the death of Eureka as we know it.

I really hope to God NOT! I think they’re building a grid system that would use us as a sub-station for outsourcing!

“Hotel Gnome”

“Sassy Kathy”

“Hot Shop Izzy”

Editor: Six months ago, the Passion Play was closed, going into foreclosure. Today, it’s open, renovated, in full swing. Attendance is up 15-20 percent. Expenses are way down. Bank payments are current. All bills are being paid and funds are being put back to make it through the winter.

Many things have improved. The complete Holy Land Tour, including the Garden Tomb, Sea of Galilee, and Calvary – all OPEN for the first time in five years.

The Great Hall Buffett is open to the public for dinner, on days of the play performances, and getting rave reviews. The set of the Passion Play has been restored and repaired. Our next project is to repair and repaint the Christ of the Ozarks.

Over $300,000 worth of volunteer labor has been contributed to this effort by hundreds of caring people who have worked hard to save the Passion Play. Our staff, cast and crew are going above and beyond the call of duty – working long hours and making many sacrifices to ensure the future of the Passion Play. Donations have been made by hundreds of people and are still coming in – because people believe in this worthy cause. We thank Jesus Christ for all these blessings and the MIRACULOUS turnaround we are seeing at the Great Passion Play.

Our team at the Passion Play and at The Gospel Station Network love the people of Eureka Springs and the

Citizen Survey After seeing such big turnout at the SWEPCO hearing, do you think the power-line proposal will be approved? Why or why not?

m No, because they cannot ignore the common wish. m No, because they know now we are ready to fight all the way. m Yes, I’m afraid of the power and influence of corporations.

Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in.

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surrounding area. We want to express our heartfelt gratitude for all that is being done AND for the opportunity to serve the Lord here in the Ozarks – at the Great Passion Play.

– Randall Christy Founder, The Gospel Station Network CEO, The Great Passion Play www.GreatPassionPlay.org

Reader confused, not amused by LCC cartoon Editor: Your editorial cartoon (July 11, 2013 edition) confuses me. Is it a scathing criticism of religion? Capitalism?

Volunteerism? Is it just meant to ridicule the efforts of the many good intentioned people trying to help Eureka Springs?

Who gave Christ the black eye? Or is it the Christ of the Ozarks statue that has the black eye? Perhaps a guarded comment on statue maintenance?

What “ungodly amount of money” is being specified?

Is it a criticism of paying back debts? Perhaps instigating a theological debate on the structure of miracles?

Who is D-BoB anyway?

Or perhaps I am peering through the lens the wrong direction and this is actually a clever comment on Rust Communications and the Lovely County Citizen? No, that would be expecting too much. ...

— Steve Weems, Winona Township

LAST WEEK’S QUESTION

See Forum, page 14 43 votes cast

Do you think the Prosecuting Attorney’s multiple investigations of the Sheriff’s Office that have resulted in no charges are petty politics or just part of the job? m Petty politics. I wish the P.A. would focus on real criminals.: 51.2% (22 votes) m I don’t know what’s going on but don’t like it at all.: 23.3% (10 votes) m The sheriff should get used to it; it’s part of the job.: 25.6% (11 votes)

Go to www.lovelycitizen.com and weigh in. Vote by Wednesday 9 a.m.

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David Genesou’s comments were out of the ordinary: He sang them along to the music of a popular song. The track is available to hear at LovelyCitizen.com.

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pany is already doing so in other nearby states.

But while the local residents were making their arguments — many of which were backed by scientific studies and information from recognized experts in the field — the commenters also told heart-wrenching stories from behind painfully pinched faces as they fought back tears.

One of the most moving speakers of the day was Jeannie Feltman of County Road 115 outside Eureka Springs. She said that from her drive, a short walk from her home, she can see where the power lines would be built under all of the six proposed routes submitted by SWEPCO. “I’m concerned for my well,” Feltman told the administrative law judge presiding over the hearing, Connie Griffin. “Our karst is like Swiss cheese; it’s unstable and crumbly and fractious and … my (well) water is vulnerable to disturbances from quite far away.”

Despite a professed penchant for privacy and a tendency to avoid the spotlight, Feltman’s words grew clearer and louder as she continued.

“I live here partly because of our rare unspoiled stretch of the White River; I chose to live here because this area has a rare combination of a decent economy and minimal toxic blight like this. You know you usually get one or the other right?” she said.

Since Eureka’s economy is largely tourism-based, the question of whether to allow SWEPCO to build its giant power line is much more than just an aesthetic issue, she said.

“You know thow they say ‘No pretty, no eat’? Well, Here we do ‘eat pretty,’” Feltman explained. “We’re going to lose forever for our kids and grandkids that quality of life that makes this place so special. And they’ll be no going back, no going back.”

Feltman – as well as many in the audience – got choked up as she continued, her voice rising.

“Please don’t let this happen. The river won’t be worth floating and fishing any more,” she said. “I love my neighborhood and I love my neighbors and I don’t want to move – and I can’t move. SWEPCO can move. They don’t have to do this.”

Feltman warned that the project will “kill the river and tourist economy and drive down the value of all our land and

Photo by David Bell

Sandy Martin films the proceedings Monday and Tuesday on behalf of Save The Ozarks, which has been granted intervenor status by the APSC.

homes and the quality of our water.”

“Our land has bears and bobcats and eagles and herons and panthers and bats – I didn’t even count the little things you know – and caves and Indian bluff shelters chockfull of artifacts – you should come visit and I’ll show you some artifacts,” Feltman told the judge. “But you just couldn’t pick a more inappropriate spot to eviscerate and poison.

“If SWEPCO thinks they’ve just got to have this dinosaur, they need to pick somewhere that’s already ruined,” she said, prompting laughs in the audience of about 150 people. “A bunch of us found paradise.

This is the end of the line. You’ll be gutting one of the last sweet spots between the Appalachians and the Rockies.”

Feltman said she “cobbled together” enough panels to live off solar power at her home, and she is “off the grid” and has been for years.

“I’ve got electricity coming out of my ears. I can’t use it all up,” she said emphatically. “Every winter I can tell when it goes out in the neighborhood because I can hear George Butler’s generator kick on. Mine’s never gone out. It’s never run short. And it’s no maintenance, hardly.

“They wouldn’t even have to fix those

lines if they’d just leave some solar panels on folks’ houses. I paid for my land being a farm laborer. I don’t have as much education as them and I ain’t that stupid,” she finished, as the audience reacted with another round of laughter.

To see video of Feltman’s moving speech and of others who spoke at the hearing on Monday, visit the Lovely County Citizen’s Facebook page at Facebook.com/LovelyCountyCitizen.

COMMENT EXCERPTS Following are excerpts from the comments given at the public hearings Monday and Tuesday: MICKEY SCHNEIDER (City Council member and 40-year resident) “You will be hearing an awful lot about why we hate this idea. Every year I say that we have so many visitors and tourists because here you can breathe the air and drink the water. I do not want to have to stop saying that, but if any of these lines go in as proposed, I will have to stop saying that.

If either one of these towns (Eureka or Rogers) gets hurt in their tourism business,

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this state is in deep doo-doo.

We are a bunch of old hippies we perfected protesting and we won’t give up.

We have lots of young ‘uns who need to learn the proper way to do it. I’ll be the first one to chain myself to a tree and my grandkids will be right next to me.

Uh-uh, this ain’t happening here, and SWEPCO has been forewarned.”

TRELLA LAUGHLIN “Herbicides do hurt people, and the runoff will poison our wells. … We have had enough tears, and it is a spiritual issue as to how you live with the earth — do you want to exploit the earth? Is it all about money?

When the last tree has been cut down and the fish poisoned and the earth is unplowable, only then will we realize that we can’t eat money.”

ETHAN ROBISON (age 12) Ethan said he has personal concerns about the proposed transmission lines, which will go by several homes of his friends, and he told the judge he is worried about childhood leukemia.

“And I ask, are you going to leave these problems for my generation to deal with?

If so, thanks a lot.”

EDWARD ROBISON (Ethan’s dad) They say a photo is worth a thousand words, and Robinson reminded us why that’s true by showing Before and After photos of the landscape that will be affected by the proposed power lines, after he used Photoshop to draw them in according to the stated specifications. The judge, as well as the audience, seemed struck by the imagery.

BEAU SATORI (former mayor of Eureka) “SWEPCO used to trim branches and now they trim trees. I helped create a longterm plan to bury utility lines, and then SWEPCO did not do it, so we do not trust SWEPCO. ... This project damages all we hold dear.”

GEORGE MEYER George said a lot of his neighbors are off the grid relying solely on solar power, and they have more electricity than they can use — but the law will not let the government buy it back.

“So there is no necessity for the (addi-

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Gloria Herren and Linda Heisser sign up to speak Monday morning at the APSC public hearing over SWEPCO’s application to build a 48-mile long, 345,000-volt transmission line across western Carroll County.

tional SWEPCO power lines or capacity), or the government would start to buy (the extra solar-powered electricity) back. I ask the commissioners to take a moment to clear their minds of shareholders and political agendas and imagine the landscape with and without the power lines. (Consider) the economical, physical, environmental, and even spiritual impact on all our lives. We do not need the new transmission line and we do not want it.”

ZOIE KAYE “Have they learned any lessons from the past? For the last 600 years, have they learned any lessons? … Much has been done in good intent but in general nature has been destroyed except for national parks. I don’t understand how the lessons have not been learned. How can we give power to these people who want to take the last pristine forest on America and rape it and all the wildlife in it. If we suppose that there is no impact on the economy and

wildlife, (we must still) imagine what will be the impact on the vision of the people of this community who want to make a living by not hurting the environment?”

VICTORIA MARSHALL Marshall read comments from a resident of Missouri who is a faculty member at at Missouri university and brings all her students to see Thorncrown Chapel. She says the project does not honor E. Fay Jones nor his beautiful chapel creation.

“You don’t draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa and you don’t put a bowling alley next to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water.”

TROY JOHNSON Johnson said he opposes the project altogether and lives within eyesight of many of the routes. He noted that it will diminish the value of his property, and he is concerned about living within a mile of the electromagnetic field and the herbicides.

“The damage to the Ozarks will be ir-

reversible. A third of the state’s population comes to this part of the Ozarks every year.

The state benefits greatly from the tax dollars from the people who come here. The SWEPCO plan is not safe for the economy nor for the people who live here. This is giving our area a black eye. This project is toxic and I ask the Arkansas Public Service Commission to act for the public and work with us to stop SWEPCO.” CHRISTOPHER FISCHER (Certified arborist and Katrina refugee who moved here after the hurricane destroyed his home) “Several of the sub-watershed units these routes will cross through are the most heavily forested areas in the county.

The reason they are so forested is because many of these landowners wanted to live in a forest. They wanted to live in a community that is full of trees. And I find it horrific that SWEPCO would plot a transmission See SWEPCO, page 14

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line that would cut through the heart of this community.”

DAN MUMAUGH (Former Justice of the Peace, retired Air Force colonel, former chamber board member) “I love Carroll County, and I know every piece of it. Because I do know Carroll County so well I know that this project will hurt Carroll County and hurt it badly.

This project would dissect my land from one end to the other and depending on where the towers are place could intersect my house. I would like to see this project just go away and be stopped in its entirety.

(Here, the audience erupted into applause, which prompted a stern warning from the judge to hold their applause.)

While no rock has been disturbed yet, no cave or spring has been destroyed and no tree has been cut, the damage is being done because six invisible lines are already impacting people’s lives, their plans, their future. I would ask that the APSC give us a decision as soon as you can, and when you do decide, if you decide to grant approval, please tell us where it’s going (which route) so we can get on with our lives that are all on hold.”

MARY JANE FRITCH (99-year-old Eureka resident who has deeded part of her land to the Ozark Regional Land Trust) “This is just a disaster all the way around.”

JOE FAUST “I invite you to do what SWEPCO hasn’t done,” Faust said as he paused and struggled with strong emotions. “Excuse me …

Come walk on this land with me and see for yourself how foolish and devastating it would be to run this power line on routes 62 and 86 or for that matter on 33. If you don’t believe what I say, come and see for yourself.”

SEAN FRANKLIN “The simple fact is that a 345kv line exceeds the total electricity consumption of our entire county by at least a factor of four.

What should concern the APSC is whether this project is harmful to Carroll County and its residents and whether SWEPCO’s profits should take precedence over the well-being of the residents of Carroll County.

Our Ozark forests generally house over 100 trees per acre – which means tens of thousands of trees will be removed.

Our competitive advantage for tourist dollars is the incredible vistas all around Eureka Springs and the area. I urge you to reject this project completely.

MARIE HOWARD “If you mess up the ground water it can’t be fixed. My well is clean and healthy, but when you start killing off the land and poisoning the trees and so on, you start messing with the ground water and the well water. We are healthy people and want to remain that way.

I agree with the gentleman who said it was the wrong question – not to ask which route should go through but why should any of them go through at all.”

DALTON EVANS (age 12) “I want to invite you to my house so you can see how beautiful it is there. If you approve SWEPCO, it will all be ruined.”

SHARON FREEMAN LABORDE (Owner of 9 acres on CR 231, on Table Rock Lake) “I am opposed to the whole project for myself and for the whole county. During my years as a high school teacher, I tried to instill in young people the ideal that we live in democracy where everyone has a voice. and self-determination as guaranteed to all people by our Constitution.

Corporations are not people. When our country is ruled by corporations, we will no longer live in a democracy.”

RUTH MORRISON (Eureka resident since 1989 and longtime motel owner here) “In working in tourism for those years we realized how fragile the tourism business is, any natural disaster, any manmade incidents can damage it.

Tourists themselves are so spaced out when they get here, they’re a mess from their jobs and lives. Yet after they’ve been here for several days they have changed, they have been transformed into lovely people again.

If this project is allowed to happen — the decimation of the beautiful hills and valleys of the Ozarks — they won’t be there to soothe and calm the tourists, and consequently there will probably be no tourists.”

DOUG STOWE (Board member of Save The Ozarks) “I want to raise an important concern that the Environmental Impact Statement

by SWEPCO ignores: There is no mention of long-term economic impact — it received no consideration from the impact statement. Economic impact is a very serious concern by the tourism industry chiefs in our state (reading a letter from the head of the Arkansas Department of Tourism).”

RANDY WOODWARD “This is a defining moment. It’s time to say no more to SWEPCO. If you think SWEPCO has energy, you haven’t seen anything yet. We will rise up, and the energy that comes from these people … and just like this is affecting our lives we will affect yours.

SCOTT THOMPSON “At the heart of this issue is the need for this power line. SPP is the cause of this whole issue but they’re unwilling to prove their original assertion to the public. This is not good enough. If this truly is important than they should be willing to show us and explain how they made that determination.

Show us the evidence that this power line is needed.”

PAT COSTNER (Environmental activist and owner of

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Editor’s note: David “D-Bob” Crook is a Eureka Springs artist and cartoonist whose work is regularly published by the Lovely County Citizen.

Fleur Delicious says thanks for support Dear people of Eureka Springs: It’s amazing how quickly three years can fly by. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating our first Fleur Delicious Weekend. Now our 3rd Annual is in the books. But what a week it was. A record number of events. Thousands of attendees. None of it would have been possible without your support. Thank you for helping to make 2013 the best

135 acres that would be traversed by four of the routes) “This project is not consistent with the Southwest Power Pool’s Notice to Construct. The project described by SWEPCO in its application is not consistent with the findings and recommendations of SPP’s Ozark Transmission Study.

And SWEPCO’s Environmental Impact Study submitted by SWEPCO is lacking; these flaws include the EIS claim that the project will have no significant impact on the economy of the affected area, but no data or other information is stated to substantiate this data — while readily available data from the state to discount their claim was ignored and omitted.”

SUSAN MORRISON “This is one of the most arrogantly dangerous actions ever to be imposed on this region.

Not since the threatening of the Buffalo River has there been such an outcry.”

••• To read more excerpts from comments presented at the hearings Monday and Tuesday, visit LovelyCitizen.com after noon Thursday, July 18 and look for this article (which will have links inside it).

To learn more about the SWEPCO proposal and the fight against it here in Eureka Springs, visit www.SaveTheOzarks.org.

FDW yet!

As a part of the Eureka Springs community, you were an ambassador for our great city during FDW. You welcomed wine, food, cocktail, art and entertainment lovers from all over and showed them what Eureka Springs is all about.

We have no doubt they took back not only tales all of the fun they had here but of all the music, meals, history and culture that makes Eureka Springs so great.

Thank you again for being a part of FDW. With your continued support, we will once again be able to do more good for Eureka Springs and put on more events that will keep pushing our town forward.

We hope to see you again in 2014 as we begin working on the 4th Annual of Fleur Delicious Weekend.

— Ilene Powell and Teresa DeVito Fleur Delicious Weekend

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Photos by David Bell

Jim Girkin

Errol and Beth Severe

Signs decorated many cars in the parking lot during the hearings.

Lots of TV news cameras were on hand as the hearings got under way Monday.

Jamie Froelich assisting Mary Jane Fritch

Jordan Maxfield signs up to speak as APSC’s Clark Cotten helps.

Ilene Powell

Dan Mumaugh, former JP

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Fat Tire Festival

Photos & Text by Chip Ford

Hundreds of fattys converged into Eureka Springs over the weekend for the annual Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival. Events spanned the Eureka Springs with the main hub at Lake Leatherwood. Kicking off the events on Friday evening was the Phat Tire Short Track at Achord’s MX Track at Elk Ranch. The races were split into three categories based on skill levels, which pit competitors in close quarters combat. They also mixed in a beer race and costumed race for comedic fodder and bragging rights. Saturday morning marked the start of the PBR Downhill (DH), which event organizers have dubbed “epitome of DH racing in our region of the country” – and they were right, according to racers from Texas, Ohio and many other states from which cyclists traveled to Eureka Springs for the weekend. The DH sent men and women down the 1-mile0long Lake Leatherwood DH Challenge Trail with average run times of 2-3 minutes before they hit the 18-foot-tall dirt-ramp finish line. In tandum with the DH was the Kid’s Rodeo, which was held in the Lake Leatherwood Sports Fields. Kids had a blast transversing the skills course, barrel race, slalom and a host of manmade wooden routes and ramps. The Super Fat Tire Observed Trials started later that afternoon, moving this year to the LLSF from the previous location at Harmon Park.

Competitors mounted their no-chained bikes, hopping and rolling through a network of boulders, cliffs and downed trees to try to claim 1st Place. Hundreds flocked to Basin Spring Park on Sunday morning for the coveted TIMEX Race to the Lake XC. Cyclists donned helmets and gear on a bicycle peregrination of epic proportions, snaking through downtown Eureka Springs, passing through the historic loop and converging into the Pig Trail before finishing at LLSF.

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Art by the Square

Photographer hooks up with Kitsch Crochet wiz for new show

By Jennifer Jackson On May 17, hundreds of people came to Eureka Springs for the White Street Art Walk. They toured home studios and saw paintings, pottery and sculpture, but the most surprising art was not hanging on the walls. It was on people. Wearing onepiece union suits and overalls of brightly colored granny squares, the people were sitting on chairs slip-covered in granny squares, surrounded by crocheted tables, lamps with crocheted lampshades, crocheted pictures and pom-pom curtains.

The effect: like someone had turned the kitsch knob to stun.

“I didn’t expect the response,” said Gina Gallina, who created the clothing and decor.

Gallina has hooked herself a niche in the kitsch arts, defined as nostalgia-infused art that is so over the top, it’s cool.

Her work is now being showcased by photographer Jeremy Mason McGraw, who has created “Yarnography,” an exhibit that opens at the Press Room in Bentonville in August. But it’s is already creating a buzz.

“We’re really excited about the reaction we’re getting from Bentonville,” McGraw said. “The owner is a big crochet fan.”

The exhibit, at the Press Room on the town square, consists of images that McGraw created by photographing crochet-clad models against backdrops of crocheted scenery. Models wearing their outfits will circulate at the artists’ reception on the evening of August 6, and people are invited to wear crochet costume.

“Jeremy is taking off with it,” Gallina said of her colorful art form.

Gallina, who grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, learned to crochet from her grandmother, Nana, who made bibs for special-needs children. Gallina helped make bibs and also turned her hand to baby hats. She moved to Eureka Springs in 1994, then to Texas, where the hobby re-emerged during an internet service blackout that lasted two weeks.

“I freaked out,” Gallina said. “I thought,

Photos by Jennifer Jackson

AT LEFT: Gallina’s crocheted flowers on bamboo skewers will be displayed in crocheted flower pots at the exhibit in Bentonville.

AT CENTER: Megan Gage, in bee suit, has her nails painted yellow by Caroline Eggert for the photo shoot. In addition to doing the models’ hair and make-up, Eggert portrayed the rockabilly housewife.

AT RIGHT: Gina Gallina crochets a hooded, rainbow-striped body suit for Mark Wetzel to wear for the Yarnography photo shoot at Jeremy Mason McGraw’s Spring Street studio.

‘What am I going to do?”

She started crocheting, making hats and fingerless gloves, which sold like crazy, and continued to crochet while traveling for work. Gallina was the road manager for her husband, musician Wayne Hancock, touring with his show 250 days a year for six years. As they drove to bookings, Gallina kept crocheting. Moving back to Eureka Springs in 2011, Gallina continued to crochet gloves and other wearables.

“There’s something in the air here that makes you want to do things,” she said.

Her hobby veered off into art when she had an impulse to crochet a picture. The result was a still-life of bacon and eggs on a blue plate on a red-checked tablecloth, as viewed from above. From there, she crocheted a deer head and was off and running. Posting pictures of her creations and selling them to friends on facebook fueled her creative impulse, she said.

When this year’s Art Walk came along, a friend offered Gallina part of her studio

space to exhibit her yarn universe.

“I had no idea what I was doing,” Gallina said. “I just used everything I had.”

A facebook friend, Mark Wetzel, asked if she would crochet him a granny-square union suit for the Art Walk. If she did, she asked, would he model it? Musician Blaine Thibodeaux also agreed to wear an overall made of granny squares. Gallina crocheted herself a black-and-yellow striped overall the night before the event. The next evening, McGraw took a photograph of Thibodeaux standing on a crochet-covered stool playing the fiddle, with Gallina in the bee suit sitting on Mark’s knee. Gallina also yarn-bombed trees, a lamp post and street sign on White Street before the Art Walk. The street sign is now growing little vines.

“When you think of crocheting, you think of your grandmother making an afghan,” McGraw said. “When it’s used for graffiti, it creates a dichotomy. It has lot of energy.”

For the new exhibit, McGraw wrote

up a concept script outlining the scenes.

Megan Gage, in the bee suit and wire wings, flies through crocheted flowers.

Caroline Eggert, as the rockabilly housewife, takes a crocheted cake out of the oven in crocheted kitchen. Wetzel poses in a rainbow-striped suit against a wall of rainbow-colored granny squares. Smarty Jones, a hip-hop artist, is set in an urban crochet scene, while artist Zeek Taylor is a farmer in granny-square overalls growing crochet corn. Yarnography depicts a colorful new world to inhabit, McGraw said, while offering a subtle commentary on the drab realities facing the current generation.

“The idea is that there is this group of people who are solving the world’s problems – in crochet,” he said.

For Gallina, crocheting is both therapy and obsession: she spends all her free time crocheting, and sometimes spends the grocery money on yarn. Going to work three days a week at Chelsea’s is See Crochet, page 25

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Strictly Business

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By Mary R. Flood

We’re all

The basics of health-care law changes, part one

ollowing is the first in a series summarizing upcoming changes to health care laws as they will affect business owners as well as employees and individuals.

Health care changes going into effect have already begun to impact businesses around the nation, and some business owners are outright terrified. There have been questions of affordability, cause of undue hardships, and lack of information circulated with not much time to get into compliance, and the U.S. government seems to realize that.

In recent months, the Obama Administration has announced that it is giving businesses more time to comply with new health care laws and that it is working on easier systems for reporting purposes, and it has since offered links to resources that explain step-by-step the laws and how to comply.

These links are provided at the bottom of this article and will be helpful for business personnel and individuals alike. *Note: Individuals, it is your responsibility to obtain your own health care coverage if you are not covered or will not be covered through your employer by Jan. 1, 2015.

Following is a quick summary of what small and big businesses need to know about the health care changes coming up: • Small businesses (fewer than 50 fulltime workers) are not expected to comply with the employer-shared responsibility policies and are not obligated to provide health care coverage to their employees.

But choosing to do so can reap great rewards and incentives for businesses of this size.

Beginning in 2014, small businesses will have access to the Small Business Health Options Program (also known as SHOP) that is designed to give small businesses the same kind of purchasing power that larger businesses have in the insurance market. Also, small businesses that choose to offer quality health care

coverage through SHOP may become eligible for tax credits and have up to half of their costs of insurance met.

This will prove to be quite an incentive in retaining key talent, improving morale, reducing sick costs, and combatting workplace turnover. *Note: When enrolling in Small Businesses Health Options Program, you will need the Employer Identification Number, Tax ID, number of employees, and birth dates of all your employees and their dependents, if you plan on offering dependent coverage. You can apply for 2014 coverage as soon as Oct. 1, 2013, through the website below.

• If the business chooses not to offer insurance, it is recommended that they direct their employees (both full- and part-time) to the Health Insurance Market Place, where all plans meet the minimum requirements, explained in detail later on.

• If your business has more than 50 workers and you already offer full-time workers affordable, quality coverage, then you are in compliance. There are government resources available to assist with your goal of continuing affordable care and keeping in compliance.

• For all companies with more than 50 employees that do not yet offer health coverage to employees, it is time to move forward in providing affordable, quality coverage so that your business may operate in compliance with the new health care policies by Jan. 1, 2015, the first year for reporting. There are many affordable options available in the marketplace, and resources can be found through the links provided at the end of this article.

Health Insurance Market Place So what is the Health Insurance Market Place? Accessed online, the Market Place offers a variety of income-based health plans that all meet the minimum requirements, cover the essential basic health care needs, and at lower costs than that of a private insurance provider.

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• Affordable health insurance is coming!

• Pre-existing conditions can’t keep you out • Enrollment begins October 1 Healthcare plans for every budget

• Get details at ARHealthConnector.org

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Text “GetIn” to 84700 855-283-3483

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Village View

Alison

By Sandra TaylorSynar Brown

How to pitch and network at a Writers’ Conference

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ur publishing conference on July 27 is fast approaching. And since several of our speakers will take “pitches” and others will be visiting with the attendees informally, I want to answer some questions I’m hearing from our students and other writers.

If my book is not ready, should I attend?

Yes, and here’s why. Because our conference is small and informal, you’ll be able to visit with the presenters over lunch and throughout the day. You can talk about your project.

Even if it’s only an idea. Are you excited about it? Can you share that passion? Please don’t buttonhole one of our speakers and pin him to the wall, but it’s valuable to have a brief discussion about your project. For two reasons. It gives you the chance to practice your pitch, which I’ll discuss below. And you might hear some advice from a publishing/ marketing perspective.

Once at a conference, I heard an exchange between an aspiring writer and an agent. The writer was embarking on a King Arthur tale, and the agent sighed and observed just how many of those were in the market.

So, had I been that writer and my King Arthur story possessed my heart, I’d go ahead and write it, market be damned. If not, I might think twice about it, especially if I had another idea that the agent thought more marketable.

When you attend a conference like PUBLISH!! before your book is finished, you are not under any pressure, and your tasks for the day are to learn all you can and make useful connections. Have fun, win friends.

What Should I Do Before I Attend?

1. Research the presenters. Look up the websites of their companies and see what they publish. Don’t pitch a paranormal romance to an editor who doesn’t handle that genre.

2. Be able to describe your project in three or four sentences. Imagine this. You’re sitting beside a publisher at lunch. She turns to you. “What do you write?” Duh. Well, ok, it’s about a man. And a woman. Who fall in love.

Yawn. Not being able to state the premise of your book is one mistake.

But another is to reel off a memorized robotic spiel. So be prepared but remember that you’re talking to a real person with whom you can have a conversation. More than anything, share your passion for this project. Why are you so excited about it?

Because if you can articulate that, then you just may get the publisher interested in it as well.

Be professional. Confident but not arrogant. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Make a list of all the things you’d like to know.

For example, if you have a children’s manuscript, should you accompany it with illustrations? Does their house submit manuscripts for prizes in your genre? How do they support the marketing of their books, realizing that, whoever publishes it, they will expect YOU to market it. But will they advise you on a website and a social media presence or will you be on your own?

Don’t talk all the time. Listen to what’s being said around you. You can learn a lot.

And be sure that you get contact information.

Make notes to keep with their cards. Because if you take three years to finish this book, you may forget where you met them or what they said. But it will still be a great opening to a query letter if you can say, I met you at the PUBLISH!! convention in Eureka Springs and you indicated an interest in my novel, The Brilliance of Poodles.

What exactly is a “pitch” and what should it include? A pitch is that three-sentence description of your book that I mentioned earlier. Some of our speakers will be “taking pitches” which means that you will have a few minutes to sit down privately with them and tell them, in those few carefully crafted sentences, what your book is about.

You can learn all about pitches on the internet. Your pitch must convey the genre and basic premise. And it should have a hook that makes the agent or publisher want to know more. For great examples, go to the bookstore and read the back covers of published books. Go to Amazon and read the descrip-

tions of popular books.

Write your pitch, read it every day between now and July 27, and tweak it. It should be succinct and powerful. It should be the best thing you’ve ever written. Email it to me, and I’ll give you my first impression.

But then, when you deliver it, remember that it’s not life and death, this is not your only chance to get published, and it’s all about enjoying the journey. Because the more joy you feel as a writer, the more you love your story, the better you will transmit that passion and joy to the person catching the pitch.

PUBLISH!! Your Questions Answered will be held at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center on July 27 from 9-4. The cost is $50. Register by emailing me at al-

isontaylorbrown@me.com or phoning 479 292-3665. Or register online at villagewritingschool.eventbrite.com.

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The Village Writing School coming workshops • July 27 – PUBLISH!!

Your Questions Answered • August 17 – BLOG Right!!

Jackie Wolven • September 7 – INSPIRE! Writing from the Soul Linda Apple • September 21 – Character Jan Morrill, author of The Red Kimono published by U of A Press

Alison Taylor-Brown has an MFA in Fiction and a lifetime of teaching experience from preschool to university levels. She directs The Village Writing School, whose mission is to foster the development of area writers through workshops, writers’ circles, and coaching. Her column, Notes from the Village, appears weekly. To talk to Alison about your writing goals and dreams, contact her at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or 479 292-3665.

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The Village Writing School

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My First Writing Income

emember the United Church of Christ? The church hall with the Ballroom Dancing & Etiquette Classes for 8th graders where my mother said girls get pregnant? Well, I finally did get to check out the inside of that building halfway through 11th grade.

In Junior English class, we received a handout detailing the International Lions Club’s annual “World Peace” Essay Contest. What a notion. It was December 1966. The Vietnam War’s Operation Rolling Thunder had flown nearly a million sorties by then, with thousands of American men joining their fruitless efforts, bleeding and dying month after month. And here I was, sixteen years old and hardly even been out of town, contributing my five hundred naïve, optimistic words on achieving World Peace.

I gave it my best shot, between doing my homework, cooking dinner and changing my little brother’s diapers. A few weeks later, I learned I had won first prize at our local level. $100, to be awarded at the monthly meeting of the Webster Lions Club.

The night of the meeting was intensely cold. It was also a school night. I finished my homework and got dressed in my sister’s pumpkin-colored, heather wool Bobbie Brooks sweater with its matching skirt. The skirt was a little big in the waist so I folded it over a couple of times. It was only a little creased across the thighs. I didn’t have time to iron it. I brushed my hair and asked my mother if I looked OK. Of course I looked OK. My parents didn’t accompany me.

No one looked up as I closed the front door behind me. Maybe Andy Williams had a TV special. I drove myself to the United Church of Christ with my faithful companion, Overwhelming Fear.

The Town Hall clock was striking eight as I carefully parked my father’s Ford at the corner of Church and Main, under the streetlight closest to the church hall. All the stores were closed.

Lights were out and doors were dark-

ened. Park benches across the street were empty. The shutting of my car door echoed the melancholy stillness.

The sky was so inky black that night that even the tiniest, most remote dots of starlight watched me from afar.

Ice and snow crunched under my boots as I climbed over the crusty pile of dirty snow between the street and the sidewalk and carefully ascended the frosty brick steps to the double door entryway. The stairs had been recently cleared and a snow shovel stood guard at one side. My ragged breath came out in little puffs of steam. I think I can, I think I can.

I approached the doors and gently pressed the thumb-piece of an elegant brass door handle with my gloved hand.

The door swung open on bright hinges, inviting me inside. The hallway was dark, but a slant of light on the carpet showed me the way. I glanced into the room to see what awaited me; then I hung my shoulder bag and my Sunday coat on a coat rack, stuffing my gloves in one pocket, my knit hat into the other.

I pushed my hair up off the back of my neck and fluffed it up a little to remove any hat hair effect.

Insanely self-conscious, I was steps away from entering a fluorescent-lit room populated only by businessmen in suits and ties. The Mrs. Cleavers must have been at home washing the dinner dishes in their high heels. Even the second prize contest winner was a male, a Senior, and he was there in a sports jacket with his flannel-shirted father.

I literally quaked.

Somehow, I made my way to the front where I was directed to a cold, metal folding chair on the dais, facing all of these men. A vast sea of suits and ties and freshly barbered hair. Not a word was spoken. All eyes were to the fore.

As soon as I sat down, I panicked that maybe they could see up my skirt, even though my legs were tucked modestly to one side. I was also quite cold—and lonely—in that unwelcome way that metal, folding chairs make you feel.

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To support our local 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 or call (479) 292-3665

This Week’s Writer: Linda Herbert

Without warning, a tiny spot on my left cheek, just about an inch to the left of my nose, began to twitch involuntarily. My cheek just kept twitching and twitching. What was wrong with me?

I felt my armpits drench and my face flush as a wave of heat spread over my body. Did anyone notice? The realization dawned on me that this might be what a “nervous tic” was. Maybe. Or maybe I was having a heart attack. My father had had a heart attack.

The twitching continued. I suffered through the reading of the previous month’s minutes while the white-faced clock, high on the back wall ticked patiently.

Finally, it was time for the awards.

I sat there on the cold, metal folding chair while the winner of the second prize received his award and rejoined his Dad. Then it was my turn. I can’t remember if they read my essay aloud.

I stood up, approached the podium with tentative steps, and accepted a white #10 envelope. I’m sure that I must have expressed a weak thank you, but truthfully, I can really only remember the fluorescent ceiling lights and the suits.

And the smell of Old Spice.

My return trip to the entryway is unclear. I retrieved my coat and buttoned it on, digging for my car keys while tucking the envelope into my shoulder bag. The twitching stopped. I retraced my steps into the night. Inside the car again, I started the engine, put the heat on high and waited for the windows to defrost. I pulled out the envelope and untucked the flap. Drawing out the check, I held it forward, tilting it towards the lamplight to read my name neatly typed in Courier font after Pay to the Order of.

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

In Holcomb Gardens My love, there were times We dwelt in the clear― As when, lying on the floor Of the world, we watched Clouds clear, east to west, The sky surprising us with sunset.

We didn’t know it was late.

In this town, there’s little sun, And the ground holds strident cold Most all year long. And I’m strong Enough to view need for what need is― Just the body’s lovely fire― And no eternal flame.

Linda Hebert reads voraciously in a cottage on Beaver Lake.

Until her first Village Writing School workshop,”writing was on a very hard-to-reach shelf of unfinished business.” Linda now writes passionately and is convinced of writing’s power to heal through an objective examination of the past.

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Horton Hears a Musical Berryville students take stage at Inspiration Point

By Jennifer Jackson Last summer, Donesa Mann visited the Vocal Music Camp at Inspiration Point, home of Opera in the Ozarks. Mann, the new choral music teacher for Berryville Schools, wanted to see if the camp was something her junior and senior-high students should attend.

“I was so impressed with what they do,” Mann said. “It’s more than a choral concert. Every kid in the camp has a solo.”

This year, six Berryville students will attend the vocal camp, which starts this Sunday (July 21) and four Berryville string students are going to the string/piano camp the following week. And both weeks, students, faculty and artists in residence will take the stage, giving concerts and performances that are free and open to the public.

“It’s hard to believe, but they put together a full musical in a week,” Mann said. “It was a great performance last year.”

This year’s musical is a full-length version of “Seussical,” which happens to be the musical Mann’s junior-high students presented a shorter version of this spring.

The coincidence prompted many of Mann’s students to apply, and the Carroll County Music Group provided four with scholarships, according to president Mary Dolce, one for the full $350 fee and three partial scholarships of $250.

“That meant they only had to pay the $100 deposit,” Mann said.

The CC Music Club also gave one full and three partial scholarships to four Berryville string students who are attending the Piano/String Camp the following week, Dolce said. The camp includes classes in electronic keyboard and composition, with free evening performances nightly, starting with a faculty recital (see schedule below). There are also concerts by the Altius String Quartet, student chamber music groups, and the string orchestra. The week concludes with the Monster Piano Concert.

“We will have acoustic pianos and 10 digital pianos on stage,” said Kathryn

Hickman.

Hickman, a music teacher in Laughton, Okla., started the Inspiration Point summer music program in 1992 with the piano camp. The backstory: she had been looking for a natural setting to hold a piano camp for youth, and had discussed the idea with Jim Swiggart, Opera in the Ozarks general director. One day, he called and said “If you really want to go with this, this is the summer to do it.”

“The first year we had 25 students, with Andrew Coopersmith as artist in residence,” Hickman said. “The next year, he suggested we add strings.”

They started the Vocal Music Camp 10 years ago, Hickman said. When a colleague suggested the students put on a Broadway musical review, Hickman’s reaction was skeptical.

‘I thought it was crazy to do that in one week,” she said.

The review evolved into a full-scale musical. How they manage it: parts are cast ahead of time and the music mailed to the singers three weeks before camp.

That allows the students to focus on learning staging and choreography when they arrive, Mann said. Expectations are high during the week, she said, and students must come prepared.

“If you don’t know your music when you arrive, they ask, “What have you been doing all summer?” said Makaila Dycus, a Berryville senior.

Dycus, who transferred from Eureka Springs H.S., has attended Vocal Camp for four summers. The faculty treats everyone like a paid, professional performer, she said, which makes for an intensive week of classes and rehearsals.

“You really have to love musical theater,” Dycus said. “You are on- the-go all day.”

Also attending the Vocal Camp from Berryville are Lacey Mock, Chandler Mann, Aidan Seel, Seth Strait and Mary Bartell. Student recitals will be presented during the week, with “Seussical” performed on Saturday, July 27, at 8 p.m. .

The week concludes with the Choral Mu-

Photo by Jennifer Jackson

Berryville High School students gathered at the high school last Saturday to rehearse songs from “Seussical.” Shown in costume in front of the set are, from left, are Lacey Mock, Makaila Dycus, Chandler Mann (as Horton), Amy Angeloni, Aidan Seel and Seth Strait.

sic Concert on Sunday, July 28, at noon.

Berryville students Cassie Culhane, London Burleigh, Holden Yekelchek and Timothy McDonald will attend Piano-String Camp, July 28 through August 4. With the possible exception of the Altius String Quartet concert, all performances will be in the outdoor covered amphitheater on the IPFAC grounds, 15 minutes west of Eureka Springs on Highway 62 near Inspiration Point.

“Very few residents know about these summer camps,” Dolce said. “The public is invited to attend at no charge.”

The Piano/String Schedule: Sunday, July 28, 8 p.m.: Faculty Showcase Recital Monday, July 29, 8:30 p.m.: Competition for students in piano and string divisions. Awards in senior high and junior high age groups.

Tuesday, July 30: String Quartet Concert with Altius String Quartet. (May be at Eureka Springs Auditorium.)

Wednesday, July 31 & Thursday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m.: Solo and duo recitals.

Friday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m.: Concert of original music by music composition class, followed by solo and duo recitals.

Saturday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.: String Extravaganza: String orchestra, chamber music groups and Altius Quartet.

Sunday, Aug 4, 11 a.m.: Monster Piano Concert Inspiration Point Fine Art Colony’s week-long youth camps are designed to help students develop skills and provide experience in keyboard, vocal and string performance. Open to students entering seventh grade through graduating seniors. For more information, go to opera. org and click on youth camps, or go to the ipfac facebook page. Affiliated with the National Federation of Music Clubs.

Founded in 2008, the Carroll County Music Group promotes music arts and education in the county, with special focus on young musicians. For more information, contact Mary Dolce, 479-2534939. CCMG is part of the Arkansas Federation of Music Clubs and the National Federation of Music Clubs.

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Calendar of Events July 18: Poetluck at Writers’ Colony Writer-in-residence Mara Novak will read from her novel in progress, “A Brief Diversion,” this Thursday, July 18, at Poetluck.

She is visiting from Chester, Vermont, where she started her book during a year-long class with Cresent Dragonwagon, called “This is the Year You Writer Your Memoir,” but she didn’t write a memoir. Instead, she wrote a book about a small-town physician entangled in the fear and politics surrounding the growing proof of Oxycontin abuse. His license is summarily suspended because of his prescribing practices.She has a BA in writing from Columbia and spent the next 20 years gathering material and making false starts, she says. Her time at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow will be spent editing the first novel she has finished. Poetluck brings together established visiting poets and writers with local poets and writers, aspiring writers, songwriters and all those interested in the creative process. Everyone is welcome, and local writers can read from their work for up to four minutes. The evening starts with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Writers’ Colony, 515 Spring St. in Eureka Springs.

Please join us and bring a dish to share.

July 19: Libraries’ Super Science Friday Natalie Casey with Hobbs State park bringing a series of summer science programs to Carroll County Public Libraries as part of the Dig Into Reading Summer Reading Program. On Friday, July 19, the topic will be “Creature Culture.” How does our culture affect how we see nature and the world around us? “Creature Culture” will be at the Green Forest Public Library at 10 am, Berryville Public Library at 1 p.m., and Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library at 3 p.m. All programs are free of charge and open to all ages. For more information visit us online at www.carrollmadisonlibraries. org, on Facebook, or call Green Forest 870438-6700, Berryville 870-423-2323, or Eureka Springs 479-253-8754.

itual Center will host local author and spiritual mentor Melissa Clare on Monday, July 22. Says Clare: “Plant Spirit medicine is an ancient healing tradition that is still practiced by most indigenous groups. It is being restored to the Western world by Eliot Cowan whose research into plant based healing modalities led him to his Indigenous teacher Don Lupe from the Huichol tradition of the Mexican Sierras.” The basis of the medicine is communication with the plant spirits – no physical part of the plant is used – and the challenge is in the diagnosis, as this method of healing is about treating the root cause, not the symptoms. Melissa will share her own story about becoming a plant spirit medicine healer, and discuss the Chinese five elements and the process of “ dream journeys.” This event will be at 68 W. Mountain St., downstairs in the Christian Science Edifice, from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information, contact Ronnie Young, (479) 253-5065. All are welcome.

July 23: HI Photo Guild meeting The membership of the Holiday Island Photography Guild welcomes local photographer and blogger Lorri Carter as the featured speaker at their next meeting, to be held on Tuesday, July 23, at 3 p.m. at the Holiday Island Country Club, lower level, room A. Carter will share some of her experiences with photography blogs and how to put the old adage “practice makes perfect” into action. Her current area of concentration is on birds and how this challenges the photographer to make quick decisions. All those interested in photography are invited to attend.

July 23: Benefit for storm victims, The Turnocks There will be a Dinner and Auction Benefit for Don and Marie Turnock on Tuesday, July 23 at 6 p.m. at Retreat at Sky Ridge.

They were strongly affected by the storm on May 20, which destroyed Don’s workshop, supplies and equipment he needs to continue his business. This benefit will help them to restore their livelihood. If you would like to donate an item(s) for the auction, please July 22: Mountain Street Spiritual contact: Lisa 479-244-6777 or e-mail Lisa: Center meeting The newly-named Mountain Street Spir- snowleapord27@yahoo.com.

July 23: Contemporary worship concert On Sunday, July 28 at 7 p.m. at the Pine Mountain Jamboree Theatre in Eureka Springs, Fan the Flame, a contemporary worship band from Eureka Springs, will be having a night of worship and would like to invite you to join them. This will be a night dedicated entirely to praise and worship music. They desire to give the community an opportunity to come together in one place to worship God unhindered. With that in mind, there will be no guest speakers. Also, there will be no admission charge. For more information, visit www.fantheflameband.com, or on Facebook at http://www.fb.com/fan.the. flame1 or email them at band.fantheflame@ gmail.com July 27: Publishing help for writers The Village Writing School’s conference on Publishing will present information on the options today’s writers have for publishing their manuscripts. It will take place at the Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center on July 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The conference brings together publishing experts from New York and St. Louis as well as the Arkansas/ Missouri region. Cost is $50. For more information or to register, contact Alison Taylor-Brown at alisontaylorbrown@me.com or (479) 292-3665. Tickets are available online at villagewritingschool.eventbrite.com.

Aug. 2-3: HI Elks Lodge Yard Sale Holiday Island Elks Lodge No 1042 is participating in the Yards & Yards of Yard Sales in the Eureka Springs/Holiday Island area. The Elks sale will be held Friday, Aug. 2, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 3, from 8 a.m. to noon at the lodge at 4 Park Cliff Drive in the Park Shopping Center in Holiday Island. Shoppers should refer to Map #1 on the Yard Sales maps. The sale includes furniture, bedding, linens, home décor, craft supplies, kitchenware, collectibles, tools and more.

Aug. 2-3: Yards and Yards of Yard Sales The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the 19th Annual “Yards and Yards of Yard Sales” from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 2 and Saturday, Aug. 3. So clean out the basement, garage, storage shed or attic and maximize your sales

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by joining in this popular event. There’s something for everyone. Stop by the Chamber of Commerce located in The Village at Pine Mountain on Highway 62 East to sign up for this event and to receive your official yard sale participant sign. The registration fee is $15.00, and if you sign up by July 22 you will be guaranteed placement on the official “Yards & Yards of Yard Sales” map. For more information, please contact the Chamber of Commerce at 479- 253-8737.

Aug. 15-17: Annual Bluegrass Festival The Annual Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival will be jam-packed with lively and talented musicians for three days on Aug. 1517. Mr. Big, a.k.a. Joe McClung Sr., is back with the Bluegrass Family Reunion. McClung brings talented bluegrass acts from all over the region for this event. The Bluegrass Festival kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. with a watermelon social in Basin Park.

Free watermelon and water will be provided.

Thursday through Saturday evening after the music around town, musicians will be having jam sessions at the Guest House International Swiss Holiday Resort at 2015 E. Van Buren. Free music starts at noon on Friday in Basin Park and will continue on Saturday.

There is a grand finale on Saturday night at The Auditorium withbluegrass legend Jesse McReynolds. Ticket prices for the show are $15 and will be available at www.theauditorium.org or at the door. For more info call 479-253-7333.

Aug. 17: Texaco Country Showdown The 32nd Annual Texaco Country Showdown at Pine Mountain Theater will be on Aug. 17 at 2 p.m. Local radio station KTHS will host the local competition. The Texaco Country Showdown welcomes individual acts or groups with up to seven members to compete. Acts also must not have performed on a record charted in the top 100 country format of Billboard, Radio and Records, or Gavin Report within eighteen months preceding the local competition. To ensure fairness, a uniform judging system is used on all levels of competition. A $20 entry fee is required of all acts entering the Texaco Country Showdown competitions produced by participating country music radio stations. Entry forms are available at KTHS. For more information call 870-423-2147 or visit kthsradio.com. Entries must be received by Aug. 2.

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Lively Entertainment

By Kristal Kuykendall

By Kristal Kuykendall

Much-loved, familiar faces & those Damn Arkansans Following are my recommendations and previews of what I believe will be the best live music in Eureka Springs this weekend: FRIDAY One of Eureka Springs’ younger original music acts — with the most impressive songwriting I’ve seen around these parts — Chucky Waggs, is headlining what is sure to be a relaxing-but-upbeat good time along with special musical guests on Friday, July 19 at Chelsea’s Corner Cafe & Bar. Chucky Waggs, which is actually Adam Wagner of Mountain Sprout fame, will perform with some of his more talented musical friends beginning around 9:30 p.m.

Chucky Waggs features upbeat acoustic guitar music with vocals in the style of traditional Americana, classic country, folk and blues, with a little bit of old punk flavor thrown in for good measure — though the “punk” mostly comes through in the lyrical form, not the musical stylings.

Wagner explains: “The melody and chords and song structure are more rooted in old-time, traditional music, Americana, folk and blues stuff, while the lyrics are a bit more modern — I still listen to a lot of the old punk bands I grew up with,” he says.

“One of my favorite songwriters is Shane MacGowan from The Pogues, because he has a way of writing songs that could be 100 years old or they could be current. I’m into that.”

Still wondering if you’ll dig Chucky Waggs? This might help: If you like anything about Bob Dylan’s music or Arlo Guthrie’s songwriting, or if you enjoy an energetic acoustic set that somehow never drags and features strong but beautiful male vocals and some gifted, technically superior guitar-picking, you will love Chucky Waggs.

His new album, released in January, is a pleasure to listen to. If you’re lucky, you’ll

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make it to this show and go home with a new Chucky Waggs CD. And if we’re all lucky, his “friends” playing with him at Chelsea’s will include a fiddle this, too, thrown into the sound mix of Wagner’s friends for great measure. I’m tellin’ ya, you will thoroughly enjoy this performance.

Chucky Waggs’ show at Chelsea’s begins around 9:30 p.m. Ages 21 and up are admitted. Admission $5. Chelsea’s is located at 10 Mountain St., 479-253-6723.

ALSO FRIDAY A young-ish band consisting of three Eureka Springs brothers — Josh, Chris and Nick Bower — will perform on the outdoor covered patio stage at New Delhi Cafe on Friday, July 19.

The band, called SxRex — pronounced S-X-Rex — has one of the most unique and melodic folk-rock sounds I’ve heard in these parts in a while. Their sound features hard-rock drumming, blues-influenced bass lines and a heavy dose of Celtic and folk musical flavor — and a mandolin to boot; think Queens of the Stone Age plus a mandolin meets Mumford & Sons.

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SxRex’s biggest strength is its soulful, on-the-mark lead vocals by personable and fun-to-watch frontman Josh Bower, who also plays mandolin and guitar, depending on the song.

The group’s scores of original tracks range in sound from straight-out rock to Celtic-flavored folk-rock and progressive-bluegrass tunes.

The group is known for long, variety-filled sets that include trippy instrumentals — think Ireland’s answer to Widespread Panic, plus psychedelics — and songs covering a wide range of genres, including Celtic rock (a la Flogging Molly and the Pogues), modern blues-rock (a la The Black Keys), reggae (a la Bob Marley), and progressive jam-grass (a la Mumford and Sons or Murder By Death. They even have a comically heart-felt country song about a dog.

SxRex also covers a wide range of popular hits, including tracks by Queens of the Stone Age, The Black Keys, The Misfits, Rage Against The Machine, Scissor Sisters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ween and Mumford and Sons, among others.

The group — formed in early 2011 after Josh Bower had performed solo and with

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other groups in Colorado and Austin, Texas — has already played two tours in Colorado, including venues in Conifer, Carbondale, Denver and Steamboat Springs.

SxRex puts on a hell of a show that will appeal to a wide variety of music fans: folks who dig everything from Widespread Panic, Flogging Molly, The Pogues, The Black Keys, Mumford and Sons, and Trampled By Turtles to Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, and Murder By Death.

SxRex performs at New Delhi from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. on July 19. No charge for admission; open to all ages. New Delhi is located at 2 N. Main St., 479-253-2525.

SATURDAY Damn Arkansan hails from Northwest Arkansas and specializes in alt-country/indie-rock music.

Now on the heels of their third studio release, “Save Yourself,” Damn Arkansan has drawn comparisons to acts ranging from Wilco and the Jayhawks to Pavement and Ben Kweller.

One national music critic writes of Damn Arkansan: “The music of alt-country heroes like Dawes and early Wilco flows through the veins of Damn Arkansan along with a

little bit of Ben Kweller’s pop sensibility.

The result is a breed of music that bridges the gap between Americana and indie rock,” says Wyndham Wyeth of Paste Magazine.

Damn Arkansan will perform a free show at Pied Piper / Cathouse Lounge from 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, July 20. Ages 21 and up admitted. Pied Piper / Cathouse is located at 82 Armstrong St., on the south end of the Main Street downtown strip, on the left.

479-363-9976.

THURSDAY, JULY 18 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant, 12 Spring St., 479-253-7837: Stephen Emery, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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

• Jack’s Place, 37 Spring St., 479-2532219: Karaoke with DJ Goose, 8 p.m. to midnight • Squid and Whale, 37 Spring St., 479253-7147: Open Mic Musical Smackdown, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 19 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: Hogscalders, noon to 3 p.m.; Hogscalders, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Berean Coffee House, 4032 E. Van Buren, 479-244-7495: David & Desiree, 7 p.m.

• Blarney Stone, 85 S. Main St., 479-3636633: TBA, Open Jam Session, 8:30 p.m. to close • Cathouse / Pied Piper, 82 Armstrong St., 479-363-9976: Arkansauce, 8 p.m. to midnight • Chaser’s, 169 E. Van Buren, 479-2535522: Muddy River, 9 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Chucky Waggs and Company, 9 p.m.

• Eureka Live!, 35 N. Main St., 479-2537020: DJ & Dancing, 9 p.m. to close • Eureka Paradise, 75 S. Main St., 479363-6574: DJ & Dance music, 8 p.m.

• Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Juke Box, 9 p.m.

• Jack’s Place: Live Music, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

• Legends Saloon (Lumberyard), 105 E. Van Buren, 479-253-2500: DJ/Karaoke, 8 p.m.

• New Delhi Cafe, 2 N. Main St., 479253-2525: Kevin Riddle, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Sx Rex, 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den, 45 Spring St., 479363-6444: Strange Derangers, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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

• Squid & Whale: Black Water, 9 p.m.

• Voulez-Vous Lounge, 63 Spring St., 479-363-6595: Gone Was Here, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 20 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: James White, noon to 3 p.m., Stephen Emery 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Blarney Stone: Shawn Colvin Trio, 8:30 p.m.

• Cathouse / Pied Piper: Damn Arkansan, 8 p.m. to midnight • Chaser’s: JAB, 9 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Sam & the Stylees, 9 p.m.

• Eureka Live!: DJ & Dancing 9 p.m. to close • Eureka Paradise: DJ & Dance music, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

• Henri’s Just One More, 19 1/2 Spring St., 479-253-5795: Juke Box, 9 p.m.

• Jack’s Place: Live Music, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.

• Legends Saloon (Lumberyard): Thundercrow, 9 p.m.

• New Delhi Cafe: Kevin Riddle, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Pete & Dave, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den: Isayah’s All Stars Duo, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Blew Reed & the

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a relief, she said. A musician, Gallina books the bands at Chelsea’s, and used to play in the Camptown Ladies, voted the best band in Eureka Springs in 2000. But she hasn’t picked up her banjo or guitar since she started creating in yarn. Working with a crochet hook lends itself to creativity because unlike knitting needles, you can go in any direction at any point, even in circles.

“For me, it’s like a paint brush,” she said. “I don’t ever use a pattern. It’s either add a loop or lose a loop.”

For the Bentonville exhibit, Gallina has recruited people to make granny squares, including Joyce Eggert, sister of Chelsea owner Vicki Brown. Vicki Hardcastle is crocheting squares and also creating a crochet shotgun for a hunting scene. Wetzel, along with being Gallina’s muse, made a huge donation of yarn.

“Now people can come over to the house and help out,” Gallina said.

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Flatheads, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Tavern: Ozark Thunder, 8 p.m.

• Squid & Whale: Local Kine, 6 p.m.; Annual Birthday Bash featuring Black Water • Voulez-Vous Lounge: Gone Was Here, 9 p.m.

SUNDAY, JULY 21 • Basin Park Hotel Balcony Bar & Restaurant: Jeff Lee, noon to 3 p.m.; Jeff Lee, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Blarney Stone: Open Mic, 7 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Chucky Waggs, 6 p.m.

• Eureka Paradise: Local night • New Delhi Cafe: Dime Box, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Rowdy Beaver Den: Philbilly, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Squid & Whale: Local Talent Showcase MONDAY, JULY 22 • Blarney Stone: Magic Monday • Chaser’s: Live entertainment, 9 p.m.

• Chelsea’s: Springbilly, 9 p.m.

TUESDAY, JULY 23 • Chelsea’s: Open Mic Night, 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 • Chelsea’s: Sundell Walls & Eubanks, 9 p.m.

Gallina plans to keep on hooking – “Everything I see I want to crochet,” and would like to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the world’s largest pom-pom. She’s also toying with the idea of using crochet for stop-action animation, visualizing an ocean wave rising and crashing, crocheted fish swimming through the water. In the past, she’s taught free-form crochet – check her “Gina Crochet A Gallina,” facebook page for information about future classes or call 830-220-1210. A Gallina crocheted chair, table and lamp are for sale at Gryphons Roost, a gallery and day Spa on Spring Street next to the Palace Hotel.

“Yarnography” opens on Tuesday, Aug. 6, with an artists’ reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Press Room, 121 W. Central Ave., on the square in downtown Bentonville. Crochet costumes encouraged. Limited-edition prints of the 3 by 3-foot images and smaller prints will be for sale. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Norberta Philbrook Gallery.

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the same time too?

10:30 a.m. — Caller reported a suspicious man sitting in the middle of a street near downtown. An officer looked for the man, but was unable to locate him.

8:46 p.m. — A caller reported there was someone in her apartment who would not leave. Officers arrived and advised the subject to stay somewhere else for the night. ...and don’t ‘cha come back no more, no more, no more, no more.

July 10 7:44 a.m. — Caller reported a man laying by a vehicle behind the parking lot of a local bank. An officer responded and found the man to be resting, not intoxicated. He was asked to move on.

8:56 a.m. — An officer responded to take a report when an employee called from a local motel that a guest had a gun stolen from his motorcycle.

10:42 a.m. — Caller reported a vehicle approaching town, officers located the vehicle turning down another road and out of city limits. So what were they doing?

1:29 p.m. — Complainant reported 2 dogs were in an old car in the parking lot of a local grocery store. Officer responded, but there was no car fitting the description to be found. Obviously, the dogs finished their shopping and drove away.

1:42 p.m. — A caller said there was a cement truck pouring cement and blocking the road without any traffic control.

The responding officer discovered there was traffic control and he assisted them.

1:50 p.m. — A caller reported that 4 motorcycles were parked in the red zone in front of a local hotel. The cycles were gone when the officer arrived.

3:02 p.m. — An employee from a local Inn advised that a man was in the parking lot, threatening to beat his wife.

The man peeled out of the lot with the wife and kids walking. An officer made contact with all individuals resulting in the arrest of a female with outstanding warrants. Can’t we all just get along?

3:22 p.m. — A local liquor store advised that a 5th of vodka had been shop-

lifted. An officer responded and took a report. Smile, you were on candid camera!

4:16 p.m. — Another local liquor store called to advise there was a guy that threatened to pull a gun on him, but had headed out. Several officers responded to look for the vehicle and speak with the store employee.

7:48 p.m. — A local restaurant prepared a sandwich for a guy that didn’t have the money for it. The employee got the sandwich back, but called because the man was acting weird. An officer arrived and arrested the individual for public intoxication.

July 11 10:40 a.m. — A caller requested an officer to standby while she got her stuff from her house, ordered by the court. An officer did standby.

6:17 p.m. — A driver called to report another driver who seemed to be inebriated, driving left of center, just coming into town after driving that way for a few miles. The officer located the vehicle and made a traffic stop. It turned out this driver was used to straight flat roads.

He’s out of luck for that here!

8:23 p.m. — A local realtor called to advise that a neighbor of a house that was supposed to be vacant, had some people in and out of it. An officer went to the house and there were no signs of anyone in the area.

10:03 p.m. — A local hotel manager called to ask for an officer to locate a woman who was intoxicated and having problems nearby. The officer found her and told her it was time to go home for the night.

11:45 p.m. — CCSO advised to be on the look out for a stolen vehicle. The female had thought the person taking it might have been headed to town. Officers never did see the vehicle.

July 12 2:18 a.m. — A night clerk at a local Inn advised that a man had stolen items from the vending machine and took off in a dark sedan. Officers responded and arrested him for breaking and entering, theft of property, possession of paraphernalia, possession of burglary tools AND driving on a suspended license. Anything else?

7:32 a.m. — An officer noticed a dog running loose downtown. The dog’s home address was known, but no one was home. Apparently the dog was out looking for them.

9:05 a.m. — A caller from a local lodge advised that a vehicle hit a trolley-stop sign, ripping it out of the ground, leaving their side mirror behind. A witness was able to describe the vehicle, including, it’s missing a side mirror! Public Works was notified to repair the sign.

9:07 a.m. — A sick groundhog was reported by a caller, stating it was wandering in his yard. Animal Control responded and removed the animal.

9:19 a.m. — An animal control officer picked up a small dog running loose. He was able to return the dog to the owners, giving them a warning about the city leash laws.

1:09 p.m. — A caller reported that she received a call from a man with a foreign accent, claiming to be from Publisher’s Clearing House and that he had a cash award and vehicle to deliver to her, she was then transferred to another man that stated she was being recorded by the FBI and he instructed her to go to a certain store to pick up a ticket for $299.00.

THIS WAS A SCAM, and she was advised to contact the Attorney General’s office. Beware folks!

9:11 p.m. — An employee from a local care facility called to report that some unauthorized people broke into the kitchen and were stealing food. Officers responded and arrested an individual for theft of property.

9:29 p.m. — A man called to report a vehicle parked in the fire lane at a local pub. When officer arrived, they had already left.

July 13 12:43 a.m. — A call came from a man reporting that his neighbors were arguing, screaming and yelling. The female wanted to leave, but couldn’t get her vehicle started. The officer responded and gave her a ride.

1:27 a.m. — Officers responded to a call from a local apartment complex, advising that a female had been screaming.

The officer located the apartment and the argument was over, but there was an arrest made, as there was a warrant for the

man.

4:09 a.m. — A woman called to notify animal control that a neighbor is letting out their dog to run loose again. Remember, we have a leash law here.

6:07 a.m. — A security guard from a local hotel found a fine-box that had been removed from a parking meter and laying on the ground, he had also seen one near the Post Office. The responding officer replaced the boxes. Wouldn’t that be “Another Fine Mess”? (for you youngin’s that’s from Laurel & Hardy) 5:12 p.m. — A call from a local Inn advising there were several out of control bikers asking for rooms, she told them to leave and they threatened her.

They left and headed down the street. No report, just calling to make aware.

5:14 p.m. — A man called to say he was involved in a wreck in front of a local discount store. He requested an officer so there could be a report taken for both vehicles.

7:52 p.m. — CCSO advised that a man from a restaurant outside of town was yelling and screaming as he left. Officers were unable to locate his vehicle.

7:59 p.m. — A man called from near a local hotel trolley stop, saying that a jogger had screamed and yelled at him and his wife. Officers responded and arrested a man for disorderly conduct.

8:33 p.m. — A local lodge owner reported that a room had been rented to 2 people, but many other people were coming and going from there and smoking marijuana. The responding officers advised the subjects to go somewhere else.

11:22 p.m. — An employee of a local fun park business advised that 2 suspicious men were just hanging around, they had been asked to leave but only moved to a picnic table. Officers responded and arrested one of the men for a warrant for failure to appear for possession of drug paraphernalia. CCSO picked him up.

July 14 2:09 a.m. — An owner of a local restaurant advised there was a group of drunk people outside arguing, he had asked them to leave, but they wouldn’t.

Argument had to do with a beer bottle having been thrown from a nearby bar.

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The Natural Way The science of staying healthy

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f you decide to take charge of your health and make well informed choices then use science Jim Fain to guide you. Science is the measure of usefulness on those things that are physical in our world. If you have an illness or cancer then there is a physical manifestation of something that can have profound meaning behind it. At the very least is the wake-up call involved.

This sort of understanding is about the healing of the ailment and cannot be easily separated from the treatment of the condition. But, treating the condition as a physical manifestation is required in almost all cases. Science is a reliable guide though the human spirit is very involved so be very certain to pay attention to your best knowing.

In science, mathematics is used to express value. Statistics give a measure to the likely outcome. This is called probability. With any illness if you do nothing the probability is 50% that you’ll get better or worse. The goal is to find medicines that will shift the probability in your favor. To choose these medicines you can rely upon what you are told or you can research on your own and make up your own mind. Sometimes a little bit of both. Science will hedge when telling what it thinks. Mostly, phrases like “may help” or “could be” are used as science can only tell you of the probability of the outcome not what will actually happen. Be wary of anyone telling you absolutes as well as anyone who offers treatments without outcome studies showing probability.

Remember, the website found online through the MedLine search function http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed is a free site to find scientific information on supplements/herbs. One thing to watch for here is the difference between “in vivo” and “in vitro”. In vivo means in the living body while in vitro means in a test tube or laboratory setting. Not everything in vitro translates to - in the living body, though it very well might. Lots of science exists on supplements/herbals and much of it supports the use of them with many ailments including cancers. Look for yourself by going to the MedLine website and searching for “modified citrus pectin”. You’ll be surprised.

Wisecrack Zodiac ARIES: You won’t find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but you’ll likely find some lightly chewed gum or a new outlook on life. Either one won’t hurt you a bit.

TAURUS: The best things in life may be free, but building a road to get there will cost you plenty. Grab a machete and some coupons and start whacking your way to happiness.

GEMINI: You’ll be tempted by a treasure trove of small, shiny things on Thursday. Stay on track, because there’s one big, glittery reward waiting at the end of the day. Clear your evening for some one-on-one time with your Precious.

CANCER: In the claw machine of life, you’re just grabbing air. Spend a few quarters and work on your technique; that Spongebob plushie will be yours before you know it.

LEO: Something fresh and lovely will come into your life on Friday.

Could be a new sweetheart, or you just may find that missing bottle of Febreeze in your car. No matter what you find, your life will smell better.

VIRGO: Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t make things better, it just gives you a hot, grainy view of life. Pull your head out so you can hear the beep-beep-beep of the garbage truck about to back over your butt. Getting out of the way is also another option.

LIBRA: Don’t worry if you haven’t found your soulmate; some people have weirdly shaped souls that are hard to fit. Instead of going through life alone, find a close match and stuff the gaps with tissue paper.

A happy life is worth a few blisters.

SCORPIO: You don’t have to hit the bulls-eye every time, but your ideas should at least hit the same wall on occasion. If your ideas aren’t pointy enough for darts, just consider them as spaghetti; whatever doesn’t stick will squish between your toes.

SAGITTARIUS: You know what you want, but do you realize how to get it? Give up on the Rube Goldberg

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plan and just walk over to say hello.

Sometimes it is that easy.

CAPRICORN: If wishes were horses you would need a far bigger shovel. Saddle up one of those notions and see how it rides. If nothing else, you’ll get some fresh air.

AQUARIUS: Don’t sweat that mistake you made on Monday. If everyone were perfect, there would be no plastic surgery, gum erasers or reality TV. You should only wor-

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ry if those missteps turn into Honey Boo Boos.

P I S C E S : You’re not up the creek without a paddle, but you wouldn’t mind a couple of arm floaties right now.

Work those muscles, because you have the strength to swim against this current. When it comes to fishies, you’re a salmon at heart.

Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Eureka Springs’ county 8. A choral composition usually of a sacred character 13. Microscopic gelatinous mass found swimming in Black Bass Lake 14. Lead Belly’s dream girl 15. Marching orders 16. Gets closer 17. BB or pop follower 18. Grime 20. Toper 21. Puts in order; arranges in regular rows 24. Car cap 25. 100 bani in Romania 26. Bismarck is in its north; Pierre is in its south 28. Small tapestry 31. Let animals out of a small enclosure 32. Anchovies, e.g.

34. It can be higher than a king or lower than a deuce 35. Exist 36. Things that need to be tied up to finish a job, (2 wds.)

41. Abbr. on a headstone 42. Wading bird with a long, slender, curved bill 43. Anger; dander

44. Nodal anagram 46. Insane person affected by the moon 49. Great ape, (abbr.)

50. Prominent 51. Obeys; terrible things to waste 52. Uses a drawknife on logs DOWN 1. Items in a freighter’s hold 2. Love affair, (Fr.) 3. Shape of King Arthur’s table 4. Soak flax 5. Kimono sash 6. Carriage with a raised outside seat for the driver

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7. Within the law 8. It’s sometimes served with lamb, (2 wds.)

9. Mined mineral 10. Place to purchase oolong, (2 wds.)

11. On or along the way 12. Order that stopped H-bomb explosions, (2 wds.)

19. Commie 22. Plural of ilium 23. Baby birds in the treetops 27. Body part with a cap 28. Ivan the Terrible’s realm 29. Deductive; self-evident

30. Outline a trip before leaving 33. Cry 34. Guess it’s true 37. What Dorothy did to the tinman when they first met 38. Niter 39. Place to ditch a plane, with the 40. Splinter groups 45. Also 47. Pen point, but not pinpoint 48. Suffix denoting a collection of similar items

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By the time the officers arrived, they were gone.

2:09 a.m. — A call came in about a disorderly drunk female leaving with 2 men, arguing about a beer bottle being thrown from a nearby bar. (yes, connected to the previous call) Officers were unable to locate her.

3:53 a.m. — Caller advised that a man was passed out on a sidewalk near a dumpster at a local bar. Officer responded and arrested the man for public intoxication, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. They also arrested another man for a warrant from another city, he was also given a citation for drug paraphernalia.

2:39 p.m. — Caller reported a female had just stolen a T-shirt and was last seen with 2 other females. They thought she had a tracking bracelet on her ankle, but officers were unable to locate her.

Hmmm, tracker must not work!

4:07 p.m. — Someone called to report a male subject with a Jesus sign was stopping traffic in town to speak to people. An officer located and advised him to stay out of the road and not to stop people in traffic lanes to talk to them.

Good advice!

5:37 p.m. — A man was arrested for public intoxication after a caller said he was stumbling in a parking lot, carrying a pan.

5:41 p.m. — A caller reported an altercation between a male and female on the side of the road outside of town. They

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had been driving separate vehicles, but the female and passed the man’s vehicle screaming as she passed. All information was given to the CCSO incase they came into town.

6:55 p.m. — A call came from someone at a local fast food drive-through to report a female appeared to be intoxicated and had children in the vehicle with her. Officers did not locate her within city limits.

9:59 p.m. — Caller advised of a group

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of six to ten kids were playing in the parking lot, jumping out of trees and being loud and disturbing the residents.

An officer responded and requested they keep the noise down. They agreed to leave the area.

July 15 6:20 a.m. — CCSO advised to be on the lookout for a female who had sent a text to her family indicating she was possibly suicidal. Officers were advised.

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Malia Markel Rutherford

Malia Markel Rutherford, a resident of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was born January 2, 1956 in Great Bend, Kansas, a daughter of Wayne Edward and Shirley Ivonna (Sadberry) Markel. She departed this life Friday, July 12, 2013 in Eureka Springs, at the age of 57 years.

Malia loved working with flowers and was a great landscaper. She loved all animals, spending time with family and friends and cooking.

Malia is survived by one son, Lee Lynch of Pauls Valley, OK; her parents, Wayne and Shirley Markel of Edmond, OK; one brother, Sterling Markel and wife Melissa of Oklahoma City, OK; two grandchildren, Echo and Erik Lynch of Purcell, OK; her

January 2, 1956 – July 12, 2013 companion, Mark Stauffer of Eureka Springs, AR; one niece; two nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Malia was preceded in death by one brother, Rickey Gene Markel.

Memorial service will be 2:00 P.M. Friday, July 19, 2013 at Nelson’s Chapel of the Springs with Reverend Stan Adams officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service. Memorial donations may be made to the Good Shepherd Humane Society, 6486 Highway 62 East, Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com.

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Starting in 2014, health insurance providers will not be able to deny applicants or charge applicants more because of pre-existing conditions. This is true even if the applicant has been denied in the past. The only exception is grandfathered plans – individual plans that specifically state a grandfather clause as it applies to pre-existing conditions.

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Great food and efficient service in a pleasant family-friendly, smoke-free environment.

OUR 22nd YEAR

Open Daily at 5 P.M.

26 White St. on the Upper Historic Loop PLENTY OF FREE PARKING

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July 18, 2013 – Lovely County Citizen – Page

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Photos by David Bell

In a town known for its fine dining and arts, the annual Fleur Delicious Weekend is a celebration of what locals can take for granted. Across the city, art, wine and fine food were on display at restaurants, B&Bs, shops and galleries alike.

The start of the Waiter’s Race. It was over in less than 30 seconds.

Vincent Peyrat, a representative of the Bordeaux region winery Grands Vins de Girond, explains the wine regions of France to participants of the Cottage Inn Cooking School.

A gathering at Mount Victoria B&B.

Photo By Jennifer Jackson

Linda Box of Eureka Springs and Mary Ruth Hudspeth of Berryville, right, check out the grapes growing at Keels Creek vineyard on Sunday. The two were attending “Sips at Sunset,” the ‘fini’ event of Fleur Delicious Weekend.

Rebecah Gabriel of Mount Victoria B&B and Nancy Baxter gets a scratch behind his ears from Jess Smith, at Ashton Shaw, age 15 but wearing #14, won the Wait- Cochran of Eureka Springs at the watermelon Eiffel left, and Tiana Theiss, both Walmart interns from Minnesota.

Tower in the parlor of the inn. er’s Race. He works at DeVito’s.

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1800’s shotgun-style farmhouse nestled on private wooded acreage offers end of road privacy and endless possibilities.

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Cedar home w/guest house on 8.29 (+/-) acres, pond, beautiful mtn. views & land. The home features large open rooms, geothermal heat, generator, large windows, 2-car garage, 1-car carport, detached 3-car carport w/storage, guest house w/kitchenette, bath.

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This home boasts an open living/dining area that has a gas log fireplace. With the split floor plan, provides privacy. A great deck for entertaining and a fenced back yard.

2 car garage. Utility laundry room. Close to all Holiday Island amenities. $135,000.

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Nestled in the heart of historic downtown.

Beautiful wrap-around porch and luscious gardens hidden behind stone walls. Recently renovated with attention to details. 2 oversized bedrooms, hardwood floors, bright and airy. Off-street parking and much more. $174,000.

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Beautiful cedar cabin set in the woods on 3.1 acres includes all wood oak floors that are 3/4” thick & eyebrow skylights. Wonderful wood features throughout.

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One of Eureka’s best business locations, offering a rare opportunity of living quarters and business. The building offers all the charm of Eureka.

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