Citizen of the Week

Cathy Handley is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Handley brought the idea of working with Samaritan’s Feet to provide free shoes for Carroll County children to the Eureka Springs Rotary Club five years ago. This past Sunday, Rotary sponsored its now-annual back-to-school shoe giveaway, all because Handley shared her experience with Samaritan’s Feet many years ago...

Sandy Martin is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Martin graduated from the University of Central Arkansas’ Community and Economic Development Institute on Aug. 3. The institute is a three-year program that trains community leaders, elected officials and economic development professionals on how to strengthen their local economies and build communities. ...

Jay Wilks is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Wilks is the main organizer of Out in Eureka and has been working on the Summer Diversity Weekend events, featuring a play by Del Shores and performances in Basin Park all day Saturday. To nominate somebody for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha Jones at Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com...

Chuck and Pattie Jarrett are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The couple runs A Cup of Love Ministry, where anyone can get a free meal Monday through Friday starting at 10 a.m. A Cup of Love is one of the only resources for Carroll County’s homeless population...

Kim Clark is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Clark was nominated by Gene Bland, who said Clark has been working hard with Dan and Suzie Bell to make the ECHO Village sustainability housing project possible. Everything she does, Clark said, is to honor God. “God loves us so much, it is beyond our imagination, and in God we live and move and have our being,” Clark said. “Life is a gift from God, and every breath we take is God offering us life.”...

Frank Egan is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Egan, who passed away last week, was one of the grassroots organizers of the Ozark Mountain Folkfair in 1973. He was a skilled artist and sculptor. Egan loved gardening and ran a farm for the last 10 years. He will be missed by all who knew him...

All the members and officers of American Legion Post #9 are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The group celebrated its birthday on Monday, July 2, marking 99 years in Carroll County. Over those years, the organization has hosted food drives and other events benefitting the community and its veterans...

Dr. Dan and Suzie Bell are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The Bells are behind the ECHO Village project, which aims to create more affordable housing in Eureka Springs. They also helped found the ECHO Clinic to provide low-cost medical support for locals in need...

Jean Elderwind is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Elderwind was nominated by Penny Sullivan for her championing of the Eureka Springs Community Center. “The old high school sat there like Grandma needing help and no one knowing what to do with her!” Sullivan said. “Jean was part of a vision to improve the community.”...

Cecille and Virgil Berry are this week’s Citizens of the Week. Rick Smith nominated the couple, along with their son Joshua, for donating fresh produce to Flint Street Fellowship every Monday. The couple owns Piney Creek Garden, where they grow organic fruits and vegetables...

Eureka Springs Post Office employee Lauren Mantooth is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Mantooth was nominated by Pat Kasner, who said Mantooth recently helped organize a food drive for the local food pantries in Eureka Springs. “The response from the area citizens was huge and has been a wonderful food replenishment to the area pantries,” Kasner said. “She weighed the food, packed the truck and delivered it all to Flint Street Fellowship.”...

Dr. John Muller, pictured on the left, is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Muller was nominated by the Good Shepherd Humane Society’s board and staff for his dedication to the animal shelter. Muller has been providing his services to the Good Shepherd community since 1978. In addition, he has volunteered many hours taking care of the wonderful dogs and cats in Carroll County...

This week’s Citizen of the Week is Eureka Springs Elementary School Principal Clare Lesieur. Lesieur was nominated by her staff, who said they love working with her. “She is so supportive of her staff and students, working hard for us to have the best elementary school!” one teacher said...

Paul Wilson is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Nominated by Peggy Pot, Wilson has been running his iconic Italian restaurant, Ermilio’s, in Eureka Springs for 28 years. “More importantly, Paul is a generous and kind man who regularly steps up to help when asked to support a worthy cause in our community,” Pot said. ...

Steve and Audrey Falkowski are this week’s Citizens of the Week. They were nominated by Fiona Richards, who said the couple hosted the 3rd annual Chili Cook-off in Eureka Springs. “Steve being a world champion chili cook has traveled to many states to compete and judge,” Richards said. “He knows his stuff. The best part is they donate money to Good Shepherd Animal Shelter from this event. Now that’s hot.”...

Shilah Molina is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Molina was nominated by Mary Howze, who said Molina helped organize the first ever clean-up on Highway 187. “She organized an entire event starting with a shuttle ride to Highway 62 and 187, where the pickup started, to ending with multiple live bands and a donated potluck to thank the volunteers,” Howze said. “Three miles of Highway 187 were covered, and it was mostly thanks to Shilah and her mission to get it done.”...

The Crescent Hotel and Equity Bank are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The two business recently collaborated to provide warm-up jackets for the Eureka Springs High School soccer teams. Here, the players give the jackets a try. To nominate somebody for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha Jones at Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com...

The Crescent Hotel’s Jodie English Brown, left, and Fresh Italian Bistro’s chef Troy Cherry are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The two saved the evening for the Eureka Springs Rotary Club on March 29, when the Crescent Hotel lost electricity around 3 p.m. ...

Peggy Kjelgaard is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Kjelgaard has received the 2018 Governor’s Award for Arts Community Development, through her dedicated support of the arts in Eureka Springs. She served as the executive director for the Eureka Springs School of the Arts for 10 years, when the school grew from less than an acre of land with a single building to 55-plus acres of land with seven teaching studios, an instructor cottage and an administration building. ...

Bren Marshell is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Marshell has been putting on the 2nd Saturday event in Eureka for the past few months, where the community comes together to hear musicians and enjoy some food. According to Fiona Richards, many new friendships have been formed because of the gathering. “Thanks, Bren,” Richards said. “We are proud to be your friend!”...

Jordan Moyer is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Moyer was nominated by several members of the community for putting together the Highlanders Care Fun Fair on Saturday, March 17, at the Eureka Springs Community Center. The event included a variety of games for kids, a silent auction and two movie showings in the gym. It was a fundraiser for the community center...

Syama Barden is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Barden recently built and installed the Little Free Pantry at the Eureka Springs Community Center. It’s a covered box where people can drop off non-perishable food to help their neighbors, and people who need help with food can get what they need. Barden did this as his Eagle Scout project with the help of other scouts and other helpful people from the community...

Leslie Purdy-Hoyt is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Purdy-Hoyt was nominated by Powell Hardware employee Tracey George, who said Purdy-Hoyt comes in often to purchase spray paint and a cleaner to clean or paint over graffiti in Eureka Springs. “Her motive is that Eureka is too beautiful of a town to have such ‘defacing or tagging’ ruin it,” George said. ...

Dale Eis is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Eis was nominated by Al Selleck, who said Eis has held “Dale’s Coat Drive” through the Holiday Island Elks for the past four years. Eis collects gently used coats, jackets, sweaters and sweatshirts at the Elks Lodge and redistributes the items through...

Mary Popovac is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Popovac was nominated by Diane Schwarz, who called Popovac an outstanding leader. Born in Louisiana and now a resident of Eureka Springs, Popovac brought intelligence, class, a sunny personality and the ability to get things done...