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BY DREW TERRY Northwest Arkansas Times

Posted on Sunday, June 18, 2006

Dickson Street and the Downtown Square capture many of the headlines about Fayetteville, but the city’s economic scale tips more to the north each year as developments set forth a decade ago continue taking shape.

The Northwest Arkansas Mall became a commercial anchor 30 years ago, followed in the 1990s by the creation of the still evolving Spring Creek Centre."

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NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source: "Children’s museum planned for area

By Rachel Lianna Davis Staff Writer // racheld@nwanews.com

Posted on Sunday, June 18, 2006

BENTONVILLE — With the world-class Crystal Bridges Museum in town, some residents want another museum for children.

So they’re making it happen.

Thirty local volunteers have taken the first steps in creating the Children’s Museum of Northwest Arkansas, now an incorporated, nonprofit organization."

Remembering Mr. G

GuardOnline.com :. Batesville Daily Guard: "By Nick Nesler, Guard Staff Writer
Published Monday June 19, 2006
Photo Submitted
GARY GARDNER and wife Joyce pose for a picture recently. The couple met at a family dance in Mountain Home. Gardner passed away recently after battling heart disease and polio.

POCAHONTAS — For those who contracted it, polio was a devestating disease, but Gary Gardner never let its effects stop him.



“I called him a little bee, because a bee’s not supposed to fly, its anatomy isn’t right and neither was his, but it didn’t stop him,” said his wife, Joyce Gardner."

Times Record - Van Buren To Discuss Street Rights Of Way

Times Record: "Monday, June 19, 2006 8:28 AM CDT

Van Buren To Discuss Street Rights Of Way

By Betsy Turner

Times Record • bturner@swtimes.com

Resolutions that would set public hearings on abandoning street rights of way in two areas, the annual levying of taxes for the city and the acceptance of a property insurance bid are some of the routine business on the agenda for today’s regular Van Buren city council meeting.

Alderman will vote on setting public hearings July 17 for the purpose of considering the abandonment of rights of way on Mary Allen Street between South 11th and 13th streets and also in an area off Old Alma Road. A resolution accepting a $9,392 bid for property insurance also will be considered. According to the resolution, the Arkansas Municipal League submitted the only bid to cover the lights and poles at the Field of Dreams."

Carroll County News Online - Ed Pharis is hanging up his scissors

Carroll County News Online: "After a 57-year career, Ed Pharis is hanging up his scissors
By E. Alan Long, Carroll County News

BERRYVILLE - For most of the last 57 years, Ed Pharis has viewed the world from the windows of his barber shop on the east side of the Berryville Square.

The passing of that era, however, will be observed when his family hosts a retirement reception for him from 2 to 5 p.m. at the barber shop on Sunday, June 25.
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NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source: "Arkansans will have a chance to grab at a Hollywood dream through an open casting call June 17 for one of several speaking roles in a movie planned to be filmed in Northwest Arkansas.

Auditions for the movie War Eagle, from a story by North Little Rock’s Vincent Insalaco, will be from 10 a. m.-4 p. m. Saturday, June 17, at the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, 100 Main St., North Little Rock, near the Main Street Bridge, Insalaco said.

An open casting call gives anyone a chance to show their acting talent and, perhaps, even a shot at future fame. Aspiring actor"

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Carroll County News Online: "Berryville native unveils his plan to develop 180-acre Arthur Carter estate
By Anna Mathews, Carroll County News

BERRYVILLE - The potential for hundreds of new homes is on the horizon in Berryville, with Pesca Construction poised to purchase 180 acres.

The acreage includes 100 acres in city limits and another 80 outside. It is the late Judge Arthur Carter's estate, held in trust with all proceeds going to the care of his surviving wife Marie, who now resides in Pea Ridge.

Closing on the property is expected to take place any day."

Wal-Mart's Data Center Remains Mystery

Wal-Mart's Data Center Remains Mystery: "Wal-Mart's Data Center Remains Mystery

By Max McCoy, Joplin Globe Investigative Writer
CNHI News Service

Call it Area 71.

Behind a fence topped with razor wire just off U.S. Highway 71 is a bunker of a building that Wal-Mart considers so secret that it won't even let the county assessor inside without a nondisclosure agreement.

The 125,000-square-foot building, tucked behind a new Wal-Mart Supercenter, is only a stone's throw from the Arkansas line and about 15 miles from corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.

There is nothing about the building to give even a hint that Wal-Mart owns it."

Branson Missouri: Wayne Hicks

Branson Missouri: Wayne Hicks: Wayne Hicks
Meet Wayne Hicks - A little Bit of Country - A little Bit of Rock and Roll. Wayne Hicks reminisces about his tenure as owner of a restaurant called the Liberty Tree in Berryville, Arkansas. The Liberty Tree is named after an early American tradition during colonial rule. Each town assigned a tree where citizens would meet to speak of freedom and the American way, the designated tree was called the Liberty Tree. Wayne recalls a Vietnam Vet who was asked to quell a possible citizen uprising during the Vietnam years', "Would You ever shoot an American Citizen?", Wayne asked. "Yes", the patron replied, "If I was asked to shoot a civilian I would have turned that gun around and shot the sergeant - and he was an American citizen". Telling the story, Wayne begins to choke up a little.

Berryville Arkansas - Little Portion Hermitage

A minor: "knew that Talbot was a Franciscan monk who had been in the middle of the country folk-rock scene in the late '60s and early '70s with the band, Mason Proffit. I knew he was the founder and director (or 'Spiritual Father and Minister General') of the Brothers & Sisters of Charity and the Little Portion Hermitage and Little Portion Retreat & Training Center in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.

What I did not know was that going through a divorce was instrumental in his decision to join a 'secular' Franciscan order in 1978, and that he remarried in 1989 with the blessing of the Catholic Church. (His wife, Viola, is a former nun and teacher.)

According to the Brothers & Sisters of Charity website, they are a Catholic based community made up of an integrated monastic expression of celibate brothers, celibate sisters, families and singles located at Little Portion Hermitage in Berryville, Arkansas, and a domestic expression of those world-wide in their own homes. This unique religious community is the only community of its type in the United States to be granted canonical status in the Catholic Church."

Eureka Springs, Arkansas a directory of Eureka Springs' artists, art galleries, hotels and B&B's.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas a directory of Eureka Springs' artists, art galleries, hotels and B&B's.: "The Eureka Springs Artists Registry provides an online presence for this community of artists to show their work to art patrons, galleries, and museums around the world. As a community, we extend our hand and welcome you, visit Eureka Springs and Meet the Artists."

BohemianStorm Travel � Eureka Springs an American Style Top 25 Arts Destination!

BohemianStorm Travel � Eureka Springs an American Style Top 25 Arts Destination!: "April 26, 2006
Eureka Springs an American Style Top 25 Arts Destination!
April 26th 2006 Posted to US

Tucked away in the picturesque Ozark Mountains, which offers solace and rejuvenation to travelers, Eureka Springs was recently selected as one of America’s Distinctive Destinations, by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It has also been designated a National Historic Landmark and is an America in Bloom winner.

A mecca for artists since the 1800’s, Eureka Springs is currently home to over 200 working artists and 20 art galleries. "

List of caves in Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arkansas, especially North-western Arkansas with its karst topography, is known for its many caves. This list of caves in Arkansas concentrates on caves that converted into tourists atractions and is arranged from oldest to newest and includes the location and date they opened to the public.

* Onyx Cave (1893)-Eureka Springs
* Diamond Cave (1925) - Jasper
* Cosmic Cavern (1927) - Berryville
* Mystic Caverns (1928) - Marble Falls
* Old Spanish Treasure Cave (1930s) - Garvette
* Blanchard Springs Caverns (1973) - Blanchard Springs
* War Eagle Cavern (1978) - Rogers
* Bull Shoals Cave () - Bull Shoals
* Hurricane River Cave () - Pindall


List of caves in Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Green Forest, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Green Forest is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,717 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Location of Green Forest, Arkansas

Green Forest is located at 36°20′6″N, 93°25′58″W (36.334924, -93.432655)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.9 km² (2.3 mi²), all land.



Green Forest, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Grand View Motel - Berryville, Arkansas

The Grand View is a stately building that has over looked Berryville’s Public Square for more than hundred years. The rooms all offer wonderful views and the interior still has the original wainscoting and wood trim. From the outside, the building appears in advanced decay. Glancing in the windows of the commercial spaces shows indistinguishable piles of building material, junk, and pigeon poop. This belies the true condition of the building. The electrical has been redone, the building has new plumbing, with fourteen new bathrooms, and ninety percent of the sheet rock work is done. In addition two new furnaces, designed to work in sync and rotate load, have been installed.



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The Lovely County Citizen of Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Blues Festival: the good, the bad and the ugly

Dale McCurry
Updated: 6/8/2006

EUREKA SPRINGS – Although several local music venues reported good crowds, there were mixed reactions from the community at large concerning the success of this year’s Blues Festival.
The “reunion” event saw the return of such performers as Taj Mahal, Reba Russell, John Mooney, Jimmy Thackery, Sonny Landreth, The Cate Brothers and Patrick Sweany in venues around town during three days of music and mayhem.
The official word
Festival director Sally Thackery told the Citizen it was too early to have complete numbers, but she felt the weekend went
well considering it is in its “rebuilding phase.”



The Lovely County Citizen of Eureka Springs, Arkansas

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UAPD event designed to teach parents, children about safety

Northwest Arkansas Times

Posted on Thursday, June 8, 2006

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/nwat/News/41530/

The University of Arkansas Police Department is hosting its ninth annual Discovering Safety event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Bud Walton Arena. The event is free.

The community event aims to teach kids safety lessons in a fun environment while reminding parents of the precautions they need to take to protect their family during the summer.


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Native American powwow set for Father’s Day weekend

By Tonya McKiever Staff Writer // tonyam@nwanews.com

Posted on Thursday, June 8, 2006

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/35852/

EUREKA SPRINGS — The Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and Foundation are gearing up for their yearly powwow. Turpentine Creek provides a lifetime refuge for abandoned, abused and neglected big cats with emphasis on tigers, lions, leopards and cougars.

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