We just reached a membership of 9900.

Based on a recent online poll, we live in:

• Russellville (37%)
• In rural Pope County or an unincorporated place in the county (19%)
• Somewhere in Arkansas, but outside of Pope County (16%)
• Dover (9%)
• Pottsville (5%)
• Atkins (4%)
• London (4%)
• Outside of Arkansas, but in the United States (4%)
• Hector (1%)
• Outside the United States (1%)

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Photo from Mt. Nebo State Park on a foggy April 27, 2017, morning.

This photo is interesting because of the plume of steam rising from the nuclear plant.

On April 26, with Unit 2 in an outage, Unit 1 tripped due to a partial loss of offsite power when a tornado in Yell County damaged high-voltage transmission towers.

With power unavailable for the system that provides cooling from the lake, a backup cooling water system called “emergency” feedwater (EFW) was used. One of the EFW pumps is steam-driven. Steam was also released for cooling via atmospheric dump control valves.

Note: at other similar plants, the backup cooling water source is called auxiliary feedwater (AFW).

(This photo was designated as public domain by photographer “ksblack99” https://www.flickr.com/photos/ksblack99/34185230943/)

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https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/lamar-grocery-21040/

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Orange means fully booked for that area. Blue means available bookings.

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Arkansas State Archives

I have no other information

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JP Bill Sparks wants to talk about a proposed “constitution amendment.”

He requested that a discussion about the constitution amendment proposal be added to the April Pope County Quorum Court meeting agenda.

So, it was added as item 6 on the agenda.

No information about specifics is available.

The Quorum Court meeting begins at 5:30 PM [April 3, 2024].

It can be viewed on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGLzbSysws

——UPDATE—UPDATE——

All JP Sparks was looking for was a discussion of potential Pope County liabilities in the event that the petition drive succeeds and Pope County is subsequently removed from Amendment 100.

How would Pope County be affected if Cherokee Nation Business were to pay out on the EDA and the amendment was changed in November?

The answer is that the EDA would have been a windfall for Pope County, and Pope County would have no liability if CNB/CNE lost the license and lost the right to have a license in Pope County.

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The discussions revealed that some of the JPs were under the impression that the last Supreme Court Ruling invalidated the Economic Development Agreement (EDA) between Pope County and Cherokee Nation Businesses.

It did not. The EDA is a contract. It is a contract that remains in full force and effect.

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In this image, on the left are Justice Lane Scott, lobbyist John Burris, and Justice Bill Sparks, from a photo taken at election headquarters after the March primary. Bill Sparks, from his official Pope County JP photo, is on the right.

Justices Scott and Sparks are both opposed to a casino in Pope County.

John Burris works for Capitol Advisors Group, a lobbying firm in Little Rock that often represents the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Choctaw is funding the current petition efforts of Local Voters in Charge to amend the Arkansas Constitution and remove Pope County from Amendment 100, the casino amendment. They have contributed over $250,000, and rumors say they may contribute as much as $10 million.

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[Discussed in an earlier post, The Cherokee Agency Reserve]

In the early 1800’s, the Illinois Bayou was a meandering stream istead of what we see today.

Dwight Mission was a missionary settlement along the bayou’s bank. Part of its actual site may be below the lake.

Indian Agent William Lovely’s widow, Persis, at the request of the Cherokee, was to be allowed, in an 1817 treaty “to remain for life” at her home next to the agency. In the May 6, 1828, Treaty with

The Western Cherokee that relinquished the Arkansas lands of the Cherokee, that provision was missing. In an 1830 letter, she wrote, “in consequince i am a houseless wanderer at sixty years of age.”

Norristown was on the river and, during the 1830s, would see displaced thousands crossing on the Norristown ferry to follow the military road laid out by Lieutenant Jefferson Davis to the Indian Territory.

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