Citizen of the Week

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...

Slick Brown and Tracy Johnson are this week’s Citizens of the Week. They were nominated by Jacqueline Wolven, who pointed out their enthusiasm for being part of Mardi Gras for the first time and hosting the 5th Annual Black Light Ball for Main Street Eureka Springs. “They brought...

Gloria Stevens and Patrick Lujan are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The number of visitors to the cemetery here has really picked up since the fence was cleared. The two hardworking employees that are almost always there are Gloria Stevens, the sexton, and Patrick Lujan, the superintendent/...

All the folks involved with Krewe du Kork are this week’s Citizens of the Week. Krewe du Kork was nominated by Peggy Kjelgaard, who said the group was established in 2017 to follow the institution of Social Aid and Pleasure Club, celebrating wine, spirits, food, fun and cultural...

Mother Betsy Porter is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Porter was nominated by Cheri Lacock, who said Porter is a familiar face at St. James Episcopal Church where she is the assisting priest. Porter is very active in community outreach, serves on the Flint Street Fellowship Board and has cooked and served there for...

Karen Welch is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Welch was nominated by Nan Johnson, who said the dogs and cats of Good Shepherd Humane Society are grateful to Welch for all she’s done over the years. Welch has volunteered days each week at the thrift stores and at special events, planted and tended...

Crystal Roberts is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Roberts was nominated by Rick Draper, who said Roberts held a toy drive for local children who would not have had a Christmas without it. “She was able to get donations from our county citizens and...

Cameron DeNoewer is this week’s Citizen of the Week. DeNoewer was nominated for pledging to donate one can of cat food for each haircut he did in December to Good Shepherd Humane Society. His patrons went an extra step and started dropping off cases of food and cat toys. He mentioned...

Rachal Hyatt is this week’s Citizen of the Week. The Eureka Springs High School guidance counselor, Hyatt helped organize the Angel Tree program to ensure children in need have a very merry Christmas this year. Hyatt is also one of the reasons Homecoming was such a success this...

Virginia Ralph and Bobby Matthews of mömandpöp are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The two performed at Santa in the Park and the Wampus Wonderland Downtown Night Market on Saturday, delighting the crowd with songs of the season. To nominate somebody for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha...

John Rankine is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Rankine was nominated by Jeff Danos, who said Rankine works tirelessly as a true advocate for the local arts scene. The monthly art exhibitions he curates at Brews, Danos said, showcase the best of Eureka’s homegrown talents. “These...

Eureka Springs city gardener Tom Beckendorf is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Beckendorf is the main person responsible for the Christmas decorations around town. Parks director Justin Huss thanked Beckendorf for all he has done over the past month...

K.J. Zumwalt is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Zumwalt was nominated by Mickey Schneider, who said Zumwalt has had restaurants in Eureka Springs for 25 years and has always held community fundraisers there. Zumwalt has donated more time, space, money and food than anyone else...

All our local veterans are this week’s Citizens of the Week. The Citizen is proud to honor those who made sacrifices to ensure out continued freedom. To nominate someone for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha Jones at Citizen. Editor.Eureka@gmail.com...

Andy Green is this week’s Citizen of the Week. The events coordinator for the City Advertising and Promotion Commission, Green was nominated by Jacqueline Wolven for putting the spark back in the Folk Festival by bringing headliner Lucinda Williams. “Folks came in from all over...

Carrie Gay is this week’s Citizen of the Week. Gay is the coordinator for the Eureka Springs Community Center’s after-school program, where she encourages students to do their homework, work on crafts and play with friends. To nominate somebody for Citizen of the Week, email Samantha Jones at Citizen.Editor.Eureka@gmail.com...

Greg Kresse and Cynthia Dupps are this week’s Citizens of the Week. Kresse and Dupps sprayed their hair pink as part of Pink Out Night at Eureka Springs High School, an event that helped raise $450 for the Washington Regional Cancer Support Home. They stepped up to the challenge in good fun to help others...