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The Inspiration Point Rural Fire Department Auxiliary will host a pancake breakfast fundraiser from 8 am. to 10 a.m. Saturday, May 20, at the fire department located at 301 Ozark Automotive Road in Eureka Springs.

Lady Highlanders junior Avery Meyer finished third in the girls discus competition at the 2A-1 district track and field championships on Wednesday, April 26, at Eureka Springs High School. Meyer threw the discus 75 feet, 2 inches.

The 3rd Annual Ladies’ Tea for area women will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The same day a familiar face was hired to lead the Eureka Springs City Adverting and Promotion Commission, a well-publicized member of the commission stepped down. At the CAPC’s regular meeting on Wednesday, April 26, finance director Scott Bardin, who has been interim tourism director the past three months, was unanimously picked to become the commission’s executive director.

The Good Shepherd Humane Society is set to receive a $5,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of its lifesaving work for animals in Carroll County. Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger and healthier.

Mark your calendar and don’t miss Celebration Choir of Carroll County’s Spring Concert “Singing in Glad Celebration” beginning at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the St. Elizabeth Parish Center on Passion Play Road in Eureka Springs.

District 3 Justice of the Peace Harrie Farrow, who represents Eureka Springs on the Carroll County Quorum Court, said at the court’s April 18 meeting that many concentration camp survivors had no homes to return to after the end of World War II because their families had been killed and their homes had been confiscated.