Stories from Wednesday, February 22, 2012

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Soaring majestically above us, riding warm updrafts across the entire sky without a single wingflap while looking for something dead to eat, vultures evoke emotions as diametrically opposite as politicians in an election year. To some, vultures are grand and graceful creatures that keep our land free of blighted carrion. ...

Photo submitted Robert Allen of Berryville came up with a great idea to raise funds -- he's renting a toilet as a lawn decoration to announce birthdays, anniversaries, etc. He wants to be a student ambassador with People to People. He's raising money to go to France, Italy and Greece for three weeks for $7,000, which will cover transportation, housing and food. The toilet is decorated in the flag colors of the three nations he plans to visit. For information, call (870) 929-6028,...

Jordan Moyer (left) of Eureka Springs walked in the Mardi Gras parade Saturday with her grandmother, Kay Moyer, who was visiting from Tennessee. Mac the Great Dane also dressed up for the event.

Plans are in place for the 4th Annual Church Choir Festival Sunday, March 18, at 4 p.m. at Holiday Island Community Church, 188 Stateline Dr. This event is presented as part of the Woodward Memorial Concert series and is open to the public, with a freewill offering...

Royal Regency member Zeek Taylor sported a prodigious artistic costume at the Mardi Gras Hookers and Jokers Ball Thursday evening at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center. Tickets had been sold out for the night and the crowd swelled into the hundreds...

Green Forest looking for homes, farms to cure cat overload