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Eureka Springs Hospital is offering outpatient speech therapy for adults. Speech therapy helps people who have communication difficulties, cognitive deficits and swallowing disorders.

A fundraiser for the Flint Street food bank was held June 10 at the Ozark Mountain Hoedown in Eureka Springs. Two tables of non-perishable food items and $863 in cash and checked were raised and presented to the food bank. Pictured, from left to right, are Robert Jones, Diana Senica, Mickey Fanfield, Baylee Bass, Dusty Wilson, Barb Childress, Mike Nichols and Gary Smith. Submitted photo

The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center is located at 202 W. Madison Ave. in Berryville. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Lunch is served at noon each weekday. The suggested donation for ages 60 and up is $4. There is a $6 charge for those under 60 and all carryout meals. Breakfast is served Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Menus are subject to change.

June kicked off the Berryville Library’s 25,000 Leagues Under the Sea Summer Reading Program. This year, a local family has agreed to donate $1 for each hour read up to $25,000.

Several Carroll County students have been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2022 semester at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, the school has announced. Local students named to the Dean’s List are Marco Garcia Montes, Natalie Roy al and Samantha Witherby, all of Berryville; Hayden Nance of Eureka Springs; and Bianca Rosales and Katherine Tanner, both of Green Forest.

Nonprofits in Carroll County can go to www. arcf.org/givingtree to apply online for Giving Tree Grants through Carroll County Community Foundation, an affiliate of Arkansas Community Foundation. Applications must be submitted online by Aug.15.

Mercy Hospital Berryville Auxiliary celebrated its Ruby Jubilee, 40 years since its reorganization in 1982, at its annual meeting. Dr, Bill Flake was the keynote speaker who related the history of the auxiliary and his mother, Blanche, who was instrumental in the reorganization.

Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry (right) and city council member Bill Ott (left) recently attended the 88th Annual Conference of the Arkansas Municipal League in Little Rock. Also attending was Eureka Springs city attorney Forrest Jacobi (not pictured). Submitted photo

When Joe Mills moved his family to Berryville in 1968, little did he realize his first coaching job after graduating from the University of Arkansas would turn into a lifelong career at Berryville High School and that Berryville would become his home in retirement.

Students in the Eureka Springs School District will once again have to pay for meals after a vote by the district board during its meeting on July 11. “Meals have been free the past couple of years,” said district superintendent Bryan Pruitt, “and now we’re going back.