Stories from Friday, December 23, 2016

By Samantha Jones Citizen.Editor.Eureka @gmail.com The Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission has completed its 2017 budget. At its regular meeting Dec. 14, the commission approved the 2017 budget. The approval came after a lengthy workshop, where the commissioners agreed to pay $40,000 for The Auditorium's utilities to help the city out. ...

The Berryville City Council voted to approve the city's 2017 operating budget at its meeting on Tuesday. Council members were given copies of the proposed budget at the Dec. 6 meeting. Mayor Tim McKinney said the budget totals about $12 million. He credited city treasurer Sally Phillips and administrative assistant Jay Lee with helping craft the budget...

The Grim Gym was filled to the brim with gifts on Friday, Dec. 16, and Green Forest Intermediate School students got to have Christmas a week early. Principal Chandra Anderson said the nonprofit Attitudes for a Cause of Washington, Ill., purchased gifts for all 210 students in the school...

Little Rock-based Heifer International is a great example of the old saw, "Give people a fish and you feed them once; teach them to fish and they can eat for life." The charitable organization has taken that to heart and over the years grown into one of the major non-profits that not only trains people in developing countries in the skills of self-sufficiency but also provides them with the means with which to remain self-sufficient. ...

Dec. 15 Jimmy Ray Armer, 30, Alpena, was booked on battery in the third degree. Lea Candace Bradley, 30, Green Forest, was booked on possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and on hold for Boone County. Patricia Jean Burris, 38, Rogers, was booked on failure to pay...

A neglected theology book from my shelf, layered with dust and giving off that familiar "old book smell," has a section titled, "Incarnation." That's the religious word used to describe Jesus' birth, the miracle whereby God became "flesh and dwelt among us."...