Stories from Monday, June 26, 2006

EUREKA SPRINGS -- On Saturday, June 24, at 10 a.m. The Great Passion Play held a special celebration for the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the Christ of the Ozarks Memorial Statue. The general public was invited to attend the event held at the base of the Christ of the Ozarks...

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Open Door, the ministry offering free Sunday night meals to local residents since October, will close its doors Sunday, June 28, for the summer. Hot dogs with all the trimmings will be available in the garden next to St. James Episcopal Church, 28 Prospect St., between 5 and 7 p.m. that day...

Inspiration point -- When the curtain goes up at Opera in the Ozarks, Echo Sibley, a 1996 Eureka Springs High School graduate, will be in the spotlight. Sibley, daughter of Sandra Synar of Eureka Springs, stars in "Suor Angelica," a riveting and heart-rending tale premiering at the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Center west of Eureka Springs on Tuesday, June 27...

BERRYVILLE -- A belt filter press to decrease sludge volume by 80 percent may be on its way to Berryville if city leaders in Springdale accept Mayor Tim McKinney's bid. McKinney said the belt press is a $300,000 item that Springdale is moving along during an upgrade at its wastewater treatment plant...

eureka springs -- The Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce released a position paper on Monday, voicing its support for the continued operation of the City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC) and the tax it collects. The CAPC has come under increasingly vocal attack in recent months, and a petition has been circulating calling for a referendum on the elimination of the commission and its two percent tax on lodging, restaurants, attractions and retail gift shops...

Ruth Aleen Ellis Hale, a daughter of Mana Mae Hilton Ellis and Fred James Ellis, was born March 5, 1909, near Crane, Mo. She died June 21, 2006, at The Christian Care Center in Garland, Texas at the age of 97. She spent her youth on a farm between Baxter and Nauvoo, Mo., on Indian Creek...

JUANITA HELMLINGER a resident of Berryville, was born June 6, 1908, in Carroll County, a daughter of Jeremiah and Fanny (Teters) Warren. She died Wednesday, June 21, 2006, in Berryville at the age of 98. Juanita was a member of the Cove Church and the Cove Extension Club. She was a homemaker...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Berryville High School and Carroll County were well represented by Ginger Recinos and Trevor Gies at the Arkansas High School Coaches Association All-Star soccer games Tuesday. Gies played defense on a West squad that won for the first time, 3-2, in the three years of the event, with one of those goals a spectacular bicycle kick by El Dorado's Hunter Anthony. No surprise, Hunter was named the game's Most Valuable Player at the end...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- The Holiday Island Ladies League Play of the Day for June 21 was Team Low Net. 9-HOLE WINNERS 1st Flight-- 159- Nancy Crouse, Marie Brandenburg, Sheila Forrer and Marilee Brodbeck 2nd Flight-- 162- Ginny Jankowski, Pat Woodward, Wanda Straka and Cheryl Pierson...