Potty Talk

Okay, snideness aside, I have to take my hairpiece off to both the sung and unsung heroes still trekking back and forth to Joplin and Denning delivering goods and helping others clean up what's left of their material lives. ...When things are normal, we don't think about where people go to the bathroom when there are no bathrooms to go to, but the instant Pastor Phil Wilson of First Christian Church heard folks living in tents in Denning didn't even have a pot to -- you know what -- in, he reached in his pocket to make sure his wallet was there and went straight out the door to procure four bedside commodes. ...On June 22 he took ten folks to Denning on a second trip to help with debris removal and deliver the potties. ...Those who made the trip were Jerry Parks, Steve Hudson, Larry Pinkerton, Barry Neideffer, Jack Bleich, Phil, Joe and Roberta Smith, and James and Estelle McKinney. ...They ran into volunteers from Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas who had somehow found out about an Arkansas town too small to be on FEMA's map. ...And to think they could have been here racking their pipes, buying stuff and sucking down Coronas instead. ...BTW, just in case you have an extra shovel, Denning is about 87 miles south of Eureka Springs off Hwy. 23.

Newly added to the Day Late and Dollar Short report: Around the first week of May, there was a big Shrine On do down at Main Stage. ...Part of the celebration was the erection by Mr. Shrine and others of an outdoor community shrine on the parking lot side of the building. ...The idea was for the community to add to it all during the month of May until it became a thing of wonder by June 1. ...Didn't happen. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. ... One could sigh and point out the fact the Eureka Springs community, if left to themselves, rarely works together on anything. ...But, lo and behold, about the middle of June someone finally remembered to add something to the shrine... Thank you, mystery artist. May the pottery gods shrine on you.

Meanwhile, did she or didn't she? Way to go Janet! You have us holding our collective breath to see if you'll officially resign at the city council meeting July 7. ...And did someone forget to put the town's official shuffle season on the calendar? ...People pop in and out of jobs around here like cubes in a Boggle game. ...Shake the cage and, sure, the cubes spell different things; but they're the same cubes. ...Yvonne Kline resigned as city finance director but is now in another capacity, and rumor is the person in that capacity was demoted to a position that someone got fired from so the person who got demoted could have a job. ...Same thing going on at the CAPC, except they actually do have a couple of new cubes. ...Harpy alert: new meat!

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