Lovely County Citizen: News

Out Standing! HDC, Preservation Society Honors Stewardship (05/23/13)
Restoration of private residences, commercial buildings, public property and sacred space were recognized Thursday night at the annual awards ceremony of the Eureka Springs Historic District Commission and Eureka Springs Preservation Society. Held at the Grand Central Hotel, the ceremony had a surprise visit from a former resident -- temperance leader Carry Nation. ...

COMMENTARY: The influence and benefits of cilantro (05/23/13)
Fresh cilantro when made into a pesto is not only tasty but can be exceptionally good for you. Cilantro is that parsley-like herb used in salsa that gives a delicious zip to the food. When cilantro goes to seed you get coriander but it is the leaves in this case that can be so good for you. In addition to being rich in vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients it can be used as a very powerful chelating (deep cleansing) food, according to a Japanese researcher named Dr. Yoshiaki Omura...

Odyssey continues for Eureka business owners (05/23/13)
In May of 1996, Tony Knight and Sara Fitch Humphery got married in a suburb of Dallas and honeymooned in Eureka Springs. Within the year, her human resources job with a Dallas retailer ended, causing Sara to think about what she wanted to do with the rest of her life and where she wanted to do it. Tony had a moveable profession as a house painter, so their options were open...

Authors draw lots of fans, readers to Books in Bloom (05/23/13)
How many people can you kill in a town of 25? That was the subtitle of Craig Johnson's presentation at Books in Bloom at the Crescent Hotel conservatory on Sunday. Author of the Longmire series, Johnson talked about life in Ucross, Wyoming, and how he came to write a series of mysteries set in the least populated county in the least populated state in the U.S. But he doesn't lack for characters...

Eureka-area representative resigns from Quorum Court (05/23/13)
Dan Mumaugh bid farewell to his fellow justices of the peace at Friday's meeting of the Carroll County Quorum Court. The District Two representative will soon be relocating to Goshen, Mo. -- where he and his wife, Cheryl, have purchased a home. Mumaugh has served the district since 2010 -- during which time he has served as a voice of moderation and compromise on the court...

Church collecting 'tornado tubs' for Moore victims (05/23/13)
First United Methodist Church of Eureka Springs has received a request for tornado tubs from Byron and Janice Mann, the disaster response coordinator for the Arkansas UMC Conference. A tornado tub consists of supplies for relief work. Deadline for tubs to be brought to the church, 195 Huntsville Rd., Eureka Springs, is June 5...

Eureka woman accused of prescription fraud (05/23/13)
A Eureka Springs woman was arrested this week for allegedly falsifying prescriptions to obtain drugs at pharmacies across Northwest Arkansas. Christaine "Christy" Strickland, 31, was arrested on May 14 and charged with three counts of obtaining prescription drugs by fraud -- after prescriptions originally made out to her, but later altered and photocopied, turned up at pharmacies in Berryville, Eureka Springs, Harrison, and Fayetteville...

Two-Hawks has plenty to say about proposal, energy use (05/23/13)
Native American musician John Two Hawks urged area residents on Wednesday to stand against the proposed construction of a 345 kV power line across Northwest Arkansas -- even if doing so meant lying down in front of a bulldozer. The construction, proposed last month by investor-owned Southwestern Electric Power Company, is currently awaiting approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission...

Speakers discuss alternatives to SWEPCO plans (05/23/13)
Members of a public panel strongly were strongly opposed to the proposed SWEPCO high-voltage transmission line from Shipe Road to the Kings River at a forum last Wednesday at the Eureka Springs Auditorium. SWEPCO Public Relations Director Peter Main was invited to the meeting but declined the invitation. ...

EDITORIAL: On tolerance and the fabric of community (05/23/13)
Eureka Springs is a wonderful city and environment, and its people are, by and large, friendly, kind and compassionate. But there is an element in our society -- one that includes a few community leaders -- that appears to thrive on being mean and hateful to other locals, particular via the Internet and social media sites...

Manhunt ends as shooting suspect turns himself in (05/23/13)
After an extensive manhunt, Joe Anthony Gutierrez, aka Gustavo Cerreon-Cervantes, 25, of Green Forest surrendered to Carroll County law enforcement -- moments after the police had tracked him using phone calls made from his cell and Google Earth. "Anytime you can have a situation end like this, it is good," said Sgt. ...

Investigation of sheriff is closed (05/23/13)
An investigation of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office that lasted a year and pitted the county's two highest-ranking law enforcement officers against one another drew to a close Monday. Special Prosecutor Jack McQuarry, appointed to preside over the investigation last summer, said Monday afternoon that Judge Tom Smitherman was filling out final paperwork related to the case...

City's new insurance provider will cover domestic partners (05/23/13)
The Eureka Springs City Council passed Ordinance 2182 and Resolution 619 to change health insurance providers and amend the budget to cover the increase in cost at a special meeting on Friday, May 17. The new policy can include domestic partnerships at any time the need arises, officials said...

'We had no warning' says couple of storm damage (05/23/13)
A severe thunderstorm and straight line winds Monday evening caused damage in parts of Carroll County, mostly on the western side of the Kings River. Hard hit were Don and Marie Turnock, who live at 19379 Hwy. 62 West, in the old Busch post office building. Marie, who owns Spiderwomon Graphics, and Don, who owns Eureka Aircraft and builds and sells remote-controlled model airplane kits, lost the front porch of their house and the roof to Don's workshop/storage building...

Eureka Springs area harådest hit of county storm damage Storm knocks out power to over 21,000 households using SWEPCO, Carroll Electric (05/23/13)
Monday evening's storm caused no injuries, but the Eureka Springs area was hardest hit from downed trees and limbs, and thousands were without electricity until the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Up on Hwy. 187, Jim Butler, owner of C&J Sports in the Grassy Knob area, said he was upstairs at his business and saw a funnel cloud coming straight toward him across Beaver Lake. Trees across the highway were nearly flat to the ground from the wind, he said...

Shoulder to the wheel Rotarian leaves deep impression on landscape of Carroll County (05/23/13)
Dave Baker literally has a lot of get up and go. Every morning, he gets up, puts in some miles on his stationary bicycle and works the Jumble word puzzle. He may sit for a few minutes after breakfast, but by 8 a.m., he's raring to get busy. His philosophy: "When you wake up, get up, and when you get up, wake up."...

ES Superintendent Curtis Turner announces resignation, will take over fiscally distressed Mineral Springs School District (05/17/13)
EUREKA SPRINGS -- It might not have been a surprise that Eureka Springs Superintendent Curtis Turner announced his resignation, effective the end of this fiscal year, at Thursday night's school board meeting. It was revealed in April that Turner had applied for the superintendent's job at the Mineral Springs Saratoga School District and was on the short list of four candidates for the position...

Short story workshop next Monday (05/16/13)
Sanderia Faye-Smith is teaching a Community Writing Program workshop on Crafting the Short Story at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow on Monday, May 20, from 1-4 p.m. Students will work with writing prompts and will begin a short story during the class...

Pine Mountain show to benefit to local women of courage (05/16/13)
As many readers know, RoAnna McDaniel and Susan Chamberlain, both leaders in our community for years, have had a tough battle with medical issues over the past year. They are winning the battle and their future is bright, but, with the fight comes escalating medical bills making the challenge for daily existence almost impossible...

Outdoor movies have begun at Pine Mountain (05/16/13)
Pamela Stewart, owner of the Book Nook, is presenting outdoor movies at the Pine Mountain Village amphitheater in Eureka Springs, starting last Saturday. The premiere show was "Ghostbreakers" with Bob Hope. Stewart said there will be a different classic family movie every weekend on Friday and Saturday nights. This week it's "Whistling in the Dark" with Danny Kaye. Memorial Day weekend will be "Buck Privates" with Abbott and Costello, which features the song, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."...

The envelope please: Youth Advisory Council awards grants (05/16/13)
The Youth Advisory Council awarded $5,225 in grants last week to community service organizations and schools for projects benefitting youth and children in Carroll County. The presentations were made at the Berryville Park Pavilion, with YAC members taking turns presenting the checks...

Carroll Electric announces annual meeting, agenda (05/16/13)
Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation has announced its annual meeting will be held Thursday, May 23, with registration starting at 9:30 a.m., and the meeting at 10 a.m., at the Carroll County Fairgrounds. Members should have received notice, which was mailed out May 9. Enclosed is a ballot for board election...

EDITORIAL: On preserving the planet: Keeping it simple (05/16/13)
Here at the Lovely County Citizen, we do what we can -- little, everyday things -- to help care for Mother Earth. Even though commercial recycling is limited in our fair city (by what can be recycled, what they will pick up, and how much they'll pick up for no extra charge each week), we nevertheless recycle everything the Carroll County Solid Waste Authority will accept. ...

Eureka Springs High School valedictorian does the math (05/16/13)
Keegan Wilbur is good at math. So when the college with the top-rated engineering program in the country offered him a financial aid package that covered more than half the cost, he accepted. That the school's engineering students are recruited right out of college was also a factor...

Old high school furniture goes on the block (05/16/13)
Want to buy the desk you sat in during high school English? Surplus furniture from the old Eureka Springs High School will be up for sale at a community garage sale, school district superintendent Curtis Turner told the district's facilities committee last week...

Quorum Court to consider opposition to SWEPCO plan (05/16/13)
Justices of the peace will consider Friday whether to join the already swelling chorus opposed to the construction of a new power line across Carroll County. The project, proposed by investor-owned Southwestern Electric Power Company, is currently pending before the Arkansas Public Service Commission...

ES School Board to explore compromise on public comment (05/16/13)
At its regular monthly meeting Thursday, the Eureka Springs School Board will discuss exploring the issue of public comment at its meetings, said Superintendent Curtis Turner Monday. The board has been under attack by members of the public in online forums for its decision last month to forbid all public comment of any kind at board meetings. ...

Eureka health-care groups speak out against SWEPCO (05/16/13)
Local health-care providers have joined the ranks of those opposed to the planned construction of a 345 kV transmission line across Northwest Arkansas. The project, proposed by investor-owned Southwestern Electric Power Company, is currently pending before the Arkansas Public Service Commission...

Do the spirits return? Performer taps into Golden Age of Magic (05/16/13)
When he was eight years old, Sean-Paul was bitten by the magic bug in the basement of a Presbyterian church in St. Paul, Minn. He was attending his Cub Scout pack's Blue and Gold banquet. In addition to the awards ceremony, a magician performed. "I watched him right before my eyes turn a glass of ink into a glass of water with a goldfish swimming in it," Sean-Paul said. "I couldn't imagine how it was possible."...

EDITORIAL: Are you listening, school board? (05/09/13)
Less than a year ago, we took the Eureka Springs School Board to task for the failure of its three new board members --who ran in the 2011-12 school year with the promise to be "open and inclusive" -- to live up to that campaign promise. Apparently, not only have things not changed since that editorial, they've gotten worse this year...

Sheriff's office unveils phone app (05/09/13)
There is an app for just about everything these days. Need a virtual whoopie cushion? There's an app for that. Want to propose to the love of your life, but just can't muster the words? No need to panic. There's an app that will display the question for you...

Plaintiffs' attorneys drop Carroll Electric complaint (05/09/13)
Attorneys for plaintiffs Dane Schumacher and Gordon Watkins, who had filed a complaint with the Arkansas Public Service Commission against Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation, have dropped their case, Watkins said in a recent email to supporters, citing lack of funds...

Enter the Emporium -- North Main building gets new life (05/09/13)
Thirty years ago, Dave and Marty Davis bought a small farmhouse on North Main. With the help of their son Matt, they added onto the house, creating Jose's, a large, multi-level restaurant with two patios and a deck. Now, Matt Davis is helping the new owner remodel the split-level building he helped his parents build in the first place...

Eureka Springs Flag Team marches on, again (05/09/13)
Last September, Tina Samuelson was talking to Chad Martin, the school band teacher, when he mentioned that he had been wanting to start a flag team. When Samuelson said she had been in one in high school, Martin asked if she would be interested in reviving the flag team at Eureka Springs schools. She agreed for two reasons...

APSC staff requests hearing schedule in SWEPCO case (05/09/13)
The staff of the Arkansas Public Service Commission filed for approval Friday to set hearing dates in the SWEPCO Shipe Road 345 kV transmission line application. Staff and intervenors direct are tentatively scheduled for noon on Jun 28. APSC has then requested public comments hearings in Northwest Arkansas on July 15 and 16, time and place to be announced at a later date...

Citizen names new editor; Ford photos return (05/09/13)
The Lovely County Citizen has named Kristal Kuykendall as its new editor, effective immediately. Kuykendall has served as Managing Editor for the Citizen as well as for all publications of Carroll County Newspapers since April 2012. As Managing Editor, she has loosely overseen the Citizen staff since last year, and she was responsible for the paper's redesign and content changes last summer. At the same time, she has been the hands-on editor at the Carroll County News, based in Berryville...

Art Wall Additions (05/09/13)
Sandy Martin of the Eureka Springs Arts Commission applies a waterproof surface to new additions to the Eureka Springs Art Wall. The seven panels, created by Eureka Springs High School art students and teacher Jessica Cummings, were installed Wednesday and will be officially presented Saturday at 10 a.m. The Art Wall borders the parking lot on North Main across from New Delhi...

Time changes for May Festival of the Arts events Saturday (05/08/13)
There have been a few time changes for events as part of the May Festival of the Arts on Saturday, May 11. New times are as follows: 10:00 am -- Unveiling of high school panels on the Art Wall. Parking spaces by the Art Wall will be blocked until the event concludes...

Little Switzerland? (05/03/13)
Eureka Springs lives up to its tourism moniker, Little Switzerland, after snow blanketed the area Friday morning, turning the view over the courthouse to the ridge-top pines into an Alpine picture postcard.

Save the Ozarks event in Basin Park rescheduled (05/02/13)
The Save the Ozarks vigil event scheduled for tonight in Basin Park in Eureka Springs has been rescheduled to May 23, due to incoming weather.

Public meeting set for May 8 for Jasper-area hog farm (05/02/13)
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality will hold an informational meeting in Jasper on May 8 to provide information on a permit issued for C & H Hog Farms to operate in Mount Judea. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. in the Carroll Electric Cooperative building at 511 E. Court St., Jasper. ADEQ staff will make a presentation on the permit and will be available to answer questions...

ESDN receives 2013 National Main Street accreditation (05/02/13)
The Eureka Springs Downtown Network has been designated as an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation...

Goodman relents, pays protested tickets, fines (05/02/13)
Ira Goodman, the Eureka Springs resident who joined a movement of sovereign citizens claiming to have foreclosed on all governments and corporations and freeing everyone from their control (Lovely County Citizen, March 21, 2013), has paid his speeding tickets and done community service...

Relay For Life happening Friday evening in Berryville (05/02/13)
This week is Relay for Life Week in Carroll County, thanks to a proclamation signed by Carroll County Judge Sam Barr in preparation for Relay For Life this Friday night. Relay for Life is a fundraising event in association with the American Cancer Society where participants raise money and awareness to combat cancer. ...

Auxiliaries celebrate service (05/02/13)
In the last six months, the 30 members of the Eureka Springs Hospital Guild have donated 1,120 hours of service. They have run a thrift shop, The Purple House, to raise money for scholarships and projects that benefit the patients and staff at the Eureka Springs Hospital. They also provide teddy bears for children in the Emergency Room and cheer up patients who are in the hospital on holidays. A...

All for Dana: Business heals family loss (05/02/13)
On Nov. 11, 2010, Dana Novak awoke to a nightmare. The two-story apartment in Webster, Texas, where she and her four children lived was on fire. The three older children were sleeping upstairs, which was engulfed in flames. Dana managed to get the youngest, Nicholas, who was sleeping downstairs, out of the apartment. Kaitlin, 12, and Christian, 8, didn't make it. Nathaniel, 15, died at the hospital...

Butch Berry appointed to Chamber board (05/02/13)
Butch Berry has appointed to the Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Berry, a native of Carroll County, has been an alderman and member of the City Advertising and Promotion Commission. He is taking the seat vacated by Dan Mumaugh, who has moved away. Selected at the board's March meeting, Berry will complete Mumaugh's three-year term that began in January...

Tourism Day in Eureka set for May 8 (05/02/13)
In observance of National and Arkansas Tourism Week May 6 through 11, Mayor Morris Pate will officially proclaim May 8 as Tourism Day in Eureka Springs. The proclamation will be made at 2 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center at Pine Mountain Village on Highway 62. ...

Guest Editorial: Why bad things happen, indeed (05/02/13)
I'd like to comment and respond to the Lovely County Citizen Editorial, "Why do terrible things happen?" The editorial defines terrorism as "the systematic use of violence intended to create fear, typically perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goals and deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians for the purpose of gaining publicity for a group, cause or individual."...

Going once, going twice Female auctioneer starts Bidding in the Barn (05/02/13)
A few years after moving to Eureka Springs, Carly James built her first business, a drive-through coffee stand on Highway 23. In 2011, she started another business from scratch, Funk'n Eureka, an antique and second-hand store on Highway 62. In March, James started her third business, Eureka Auctions and Market, in the old Perkins Lumber Dry barn on Center Street. ...

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