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Pet of the Week

The Pet of the Week is the adorable Canyon! Canyon is a playful, social and energetic 1-year-old mixed breed female who would love to find a home of her own. Meet Canyon at the Good Shepherd Adoption Center, located at 6486 Highway 62 West in Eureka Springs. The adoption center is open from noon to 5 p.m. daily.
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Employee of the Month

Central Supply Manager Leslie Waltz is Eureka Springs Hospital’s Employee of the Month for June 2023. Leslie has worked in healthcare for 30 years, mostly in the pharmacy. She and her musician husband wanted to move to Eureka Springs, so she joined the hospital team in central supply. “I needed a change of pace, but I wanted to stay in healthcare,” Leslie said. “Eureka Springs has a very unique vibe and I’ve loved it for many years.”
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BOOK REVIEW

“Flags on the Bayou” By James Lee Burke c.2023, Atlantic Monthly Press, $28.00, 288 pages There’s right. And there’s wrong.
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Highlanders look to speed things up

The Eureka Springs Highlanders will have a mostly new roster and an almost entirely new style of play when basketball season tips off this fall. The Highlanders, who reached the regional tournament last season for the second consecutive year, lost a pair of key seniors to graduation in Dylan Johnson, the team’s leading scorer, and Shane Holloway, a 6-11 center who was capable of dominating around the basket.
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Wisecrack

Zodiac ARIES: If anyone tells you this week that each moment is a gift and that’s why they call it the present, kick them in the shins, take that gift receipt straight to the Universal returns department and exchange them for a better friend. TAURUS: Don’t look now, but someone is interested in you.
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Hospital now offers speech therapy for Parkinson’s patients

Eureka Springs Hospital now offers speech therapy to improve communication and quality of life for patients living with Parkinson’s disease. Speech therapist Lee Harvill recently became certified in LSVT LOUD, a type of speech therapy that has been scientifically validated for the last 30 years with funding from the National Institutes of Health and other organizations.
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