Stories from Monday, December 24, 2012

AARP gives to local charities (Holiday Island ~ 12/24/12)
Carroll County AARP gave donations to five area charities at its meeting Dec. 10. The funds came mostly from monies collected at the Cornerstone Bank parking lot in Eureka Springs, the group's only fund-raiser during the year. Four charities received $50, and one, the Holiday Island Singers, received a double donation of $100 because last year they were left out when the Singers were considering disbanding. ...
HISID tables amenity cards to non-property owners (Holiday Island ~ 12/24/12)
HOLIDAY ISLAND -- In a long discussion Wednesday over changes to its amenity usage rules and fees, the Holiday Island Board of Commissioners voted to table selling amenity cards to non-property owners until it can obtain legal opinion. A draft of Reg. 42, which amends the current amenity rules and fees, establishes several categories of fees for non-property owner families and individuals in 2013, including annual, monthly and weekly access cards...
Domestic partners to be recognized in HI? (Holiday Island ~ 12/24/12)
HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Whether the term "domestic partner" stays in a draft of a regulation governing the use of amenities at Holiday Island remains to be seen, but it represents a change from how the historically conservative community has viewed families and households...
Mediation fails in two lawsuits, so HISID headed to court (Holiday Island ~ 12/24/12)
HOLIDAY ISLAND -- HISID attorney Matt Bishop turned out to be wrong when he petitioned the Western District Court in November for formal mediation in the matter of two lawsuits against HISID. After a first failed attempt at informal settlement in October, he wrote to Judge G. Kent Crow that a "trained mediator is typically able to overcome" the squabbles that prevented settlement the first time...
HISID says it will sue county over property taxes (Holiday Island ~ 12/24/12)
HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Holiday Island will soon become embroiled in a third lawsuit, as the Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to direct the district manager to proceed to sue the county. In his report to the board, District Manager Gerald Hartley said he had received a letter from Carroll County Tax Assessor Jo Ann Harris. The district has been in dispute with Harris over whether it owes property taxes on quit-claimed and foreclosed lots, which number in the hundreds at this point...
Passion Play may get some help, after all; Christian radio network trying to help save GPP (Local News ~ 12/24/12)
EUREKA SPRINGS -- A Christian radio station network is attempting to help save and keep open the Great Passion Play. The Gospel Station Network, based in Ada, Okla., which has affiliate stations broadcasting in 21 cities in five states, is throwing its weight and its fundraising efforts behind the GPP in an effort to stop the foreclosure that is just getting under way and will become final on Dec. 31 if $110,000 is not raised by then...

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