UA finally publicly shares development plan that includes construction equipment and dump truck road through Old Main Lawn and arboretum

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Not every leaf forms in the usual way

Please click on images to ENLARGE view of rare fused leaves of Asclepias viridis, the spider or antelope horn milkweed at World Peace Wetland Prairie on May 31, 2011.

Fayetteville Street Committee to consider UA plan to use Lafayette Street and the center of the Old Main lawn for a construction route for at least the coming two years. Please attend the meeting tonight

Are the trees and peaceful beauty of the Old Main lawn significant to you? Check these photos and consider whether a construction road should be built right through the middle of it.

Street Committee expected to hear University of Arkansas request to remove parking spaces along Lafayette Street for two years in order to allow easy access for dump trucks and huge construction machines to use the street for access to Old Main Lawn and arboretum instead of using shorter, less intrusive access from Dickson Street or Maple Street: If you care, be there, please

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Street Committee 6:15 or Immediately following Equipment Committee

City Clerk

Time: 6:15 PM

Location: Room 326

 Fayetteville city hall

For background on this issue, please see photos on Flickr
And video clips on Youtube. I posted five of the several clips I recorded that day. Wind ruined the audio (I should have stood closer to Paula) in parts, but it is better than no video. If you run the first clip, the others will likely show up as available when it ends. My full you tube channel with more than 250 items is at aubunique's channel.

Fran Alexander's column in the business section of the Sunday paper was excellent.
And I posted a few photos on some of my blogs and on facebook.
And Richard Drake's item in Street Jazz on the Arkansas Times blog undoubtedly has drawn statewide attention.
I spoke about it at some length at Thursday's Council of Neighborhoods meeting with the support of Nancy Allen. That should be on government channel again this week. And I'll ask for a copy tomorrow and post it on You Tube, also.
Most Fayetteville residents and UA graduates especially don't need to visit all these sites to figure out how they feel about digging a wide construction road through the Old Main lawn and arboretum. But all the links offer talking points to help prepare to speak before the street committee.

World War II vets scarce among National Cemetery visitors on Memorial Day 2011 at Fayetteville National Cemetery

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Please use this link to see many more photos taken today at Fayetteville National Cemetery.

World War II veteran Vaun Schell on May 30, 2011, at Fayetteville National Cemetery

Memorial Day 2011 at Fayetteville National Cemetery

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From: rowjone@yahoo.com
To: rowjone@yahoo.com
Sent: 5/25/2011 10:04:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: reminder of Memorial Day
May 25, 2011
Memorial Day 2011
Hello to everyone, this is your reminder of the duties of Memorial Day.
This Saturday morning the 28 May we will meet at the National Cemetery in Fayetteville at 7 AM. We will install the large flags around the Avenue of flags. There has been an Eagle scout who made project of making all the receptacle’s able to receive a flagpole without a fight. I believe we will be able to to have all the flags up by eight o’clock. Mrs. Barbara Pixley will have hot dogs cooked up and Larry Nixon is going to bring a couple of tables and his turkey fryer and we will keep them hot in water. The only thing that is needed will be”ICE”,everyone bring a bag, Barbara has arranged for all condiments, bread, water, soda pops. They think the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and interested parties will be finishing the declaration of tombstones by 9:30 AM. That hour and a half would give us plenty of time to prepare and be ready to feed the volunteers. This would complete our duties until Monday morning.
Monday morning 30 May
The motorcycles will meet around the circle at the VA hospital by 8 AM. We will pick up newspapers and possibly small American flags at volunteer services, then assemble in the main waiting room of building one and deliver the paper and flags to the inpatients. You will have a short period of time to visit the patient’s. Please be sure and thank them for their service.
We have to be in line at the main gate at 0920. The Fayetteville Police Department will escort us to the National Cemetery. The first vehicle will be the flag trailer and truck. Then we can have six motorcycles that are flagged out behind the trailer three motorcycles, two abreast. When we hit Martin Luther King Blvd., those seven components will turn right and continue to follow the escort to Government Street.
The rest of the motorcycles and cars if any will continue down School Street to 11th St. Where we turn right on 11th Street, go to the old sale barn to park.
I am inclosing a couple of attachments. One of them is the program for Memorial Day the other is an invitation to participate, please hand out as many of these as you can this week. The program informs you of the start time, completion and what to expect in between. Please send a small write up about yourself if you are on this program. Sam has requested something so he can introduce you at the podium. This will be very helpful. It means the young ladies with buglers or reading a poem.
I have taking annual leave for Thursday and Friday. Don’t hesitate and get hold of me for chores or information. I was informed I cannot take Tuesday off to be able to help with retrieving the flags at 10 AM.
Sincerely yours,
Raymond Jones 479-409-8058

Memorial Day 2011 at Fayetteville clearly a flag day

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Peace-garden-tour information and map below

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Please click on link to photos from 2010 peace-garden tour.
Please click on link to photos from 2007 peace-garden tour.

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Peace Gardens Tour details

6^th Annual Peace-Garden Tour 2011

On May 28^th, from 10am – 3pm the Omni Peace Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology invites everyone in NW Arkansas to attend the 6^th annual Peace Gardens Tour. This year’s tour features 8 beautiful and dynamic gardens in Fayetteville. Attendees will receive a special treat when they visit Marie Riley’s garden, featuring new garden sculptures by Hank Kaminsky, known as, ”The Sacred Ground Project.” The cost for the tour is $10. For ticket information and garden descriptions, please visit www.omnicenter.org or call 935-4422.
The Omni Peace Gardens Network was established six years ago to celebrate the relationship between nature and inner and world peace. The motivation was to offer an opportunity for the public to connect with nature as expressed in beautiful gardens. A garden environment lends itself to self-discovery and helps us define the kind of society we wish to inhabit; one that deepens our reflection about peace and justice and environmental stewardship (hence the name “Peace Garden”). These gardens serve essential human needs while at the same time provide habitat for native species.
In 2006, the first year of the Peace Gardens Tour, five Fayetteville gardeners volunteered to open their gardens to the public where a half hour video of the event was recorded and cablecast on Community Access Television. In 2007, gardeners from east Fayetteville to Prairie Grove participated and last year more gardeners were added to the roster. Also in 2007, Omni agreed to join with the Local Food Movement to combine beauty along with nutrition.
This year’s self-guided Peace Gardens Tour showcases the following gardens:
 * ‘Julia Ward Howe Peace Gardens’ (est. )
Peace Gardener Marie Riley

Location: 525 N. Olive, one block north off Maple St.
Description: Dedicated in memory of Julia Ward Howe, who
in 1872 began proclaiming that June 2 every year would be
a Mother’s Day for Peace. Marie has carved out each part of
her garden year after year starting with a corner garden in the
sun featuring knock-out roses, shasta daisies, poppies, grasses,
and salvia. The backyard garden has expanded with the use
of native stone, terracing, and a wide array of shade perennials
and herbs. A new outdoor plaza, and sun garden was added in
2005.  Recent additions include a new terraced rock garden, concrete leaves, and mosaics. In addition, Hank Kaminsky’s new sculpture series ‘You Are Standing on Sacred Ground’ will debut in Marie’s garden.
Emily's No-Plant-Left-Behind Peace Garden" (est. 1998)
Peace Gardener: Emily Kaitz Location:  5 E. Davidson, 72701
Description:  “The garden is a terraced rock garden in front of my house in a triangular space between 2 driveways.  I started it in 1998 when I moved to Fayetteville.  It is somewhat chaotic, with a variety of plants including daffodils, grape hyacinth, iris, day lilies, several other varieties of lilies, including the spectacular Leslie Woodruff  (from Arthur Evans, Gravette), cornflower, daisies, myrtle, larkspur, coreopsis, peonies, roses, flox, and probably something I'm forgetting.  It blooms continuously from March through July. Working in my garden and the natural beauty of the blooming flowers always gives me a feeling of peace and contentment."  Every foot of Emily’s yard is enhanced with flowers, terraces, rocks.Starting at noon Emily will host a white wine tasting featuring 5 of her favorite white wines - free to anyone who comes to the garden as part of the tour.
“Blue Birds of Peace Garden” (est. 2004)    Location: 951 Missouri Way, Fayetteville, 72701 Peace Gardeners : Nancy Maier and Marshall Carter
Description:  “The focal point of my peace garden is an Ozark flagstone tree-shaped patio designed by Quinn Landrum and built by Quinn and his father, the artist M.M. Kent. The center of the patio is a single orange stone sun with rays extending outwards. The patio is a sunny stop for relaxing, doing yoga, painting the garden, or meditating. Next to the patio is a terraced planting area for sunflowers, lavender, and butterfly bush. The area is surrounded on three sides by a fence and several birdhouses. Before the garden was even completed, a pair of bluebirds had built a nest and raised a family.”  It Includes a Peace Pole.  Additional flowers: daisies, Solomon Seal, zinnias, spearmint, geraniums, lilies, sedum.  There’re also vegetables: squash, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes.  And a Zen white sand garden which adds to the general beauty and cheer.
‘Peace Trees Garden’ ( est 2006)
Location:   2008 W. Cleveland St., Fayetteville, 72701 Peace Gardener Cathy Boyd
Description:  Peace Trees Garden is located one house away from the intersection of Cleveland and Sang.  On the east side of my house is a lot belonging to me which is excellent for parking and the gate beside the carport leads directly into the back yard.  I have owned and lived in this space since 1975.  At the time of closing, the house had been vacant for a year and the yard required a brush hog before anyone could step off the back porch.  All of the huge oaks and pine trees were here; everything else has been added through the years.
Although only 5 blocks from the university, the garden comprises almost 2 acres and no neighbors are plainly visible. It is a haven of tranquility in a bustling neighborhood and the back porch is a perfect spot for me and my two dogs and three cats to relax.  All the cats are keen students of ornithology and the porch is a perfect observation post. The dogs and many people enjoy cooling off in the swimming pool in summer.
“The Garden of Peace and Tranquility” (2009)
Location: 517 E. Prospect Street, Fayetteville (approx. 1 block west of Mission, small red house) Peace Gardeners: Frank and Marty Burggraf /
Description: Despite health issues and the ravages of ice storms, this retired lifelong professor of landscape architecture has transformed this yard containing very little original landscaping into a green oasis in just a couple years time. The Garden of Peace and Tranquility is ever expanding and maturing, and features noteworthy hosta and iris collections, a new vegetable garden, Japanese maples, many perennials and a water feature. A delight.
* Anne Reichardt's Peace & Serenity Stroll Garden
Peace Gardener: Ann Reichardt
LOCATION: 17095 Lake Sequoyah Drive
DIRECTIONS: From the intersection of E. Huntsville Rd. and Crossover Rd. drive east 3 miles to Lake Sequoyah Drive. OR from S. School Ave take Martin L King Blvd. east toward Elkins for 5.4 miles (@ 1.5 mi it becomes Huntsville Rd or Hwy 16 east). Turn left onto Lake Sequoyah Dr. for 2.1 miles; ok to park in Fire Dept. lot on right, house and studio are on left, 2 acre stroll garden is "up back".
DESCRIPTION: Come celebrate our heritage in the garden that was begun 5 years ago to honor the natural character of the rural Arkansas landscape while incorporating Soto Zen accents. Along the strolling boulevards there is a labyrinth consisting of 28 wave-form berms for walking, a carved 9 ft. natural-rock egg-carin with chamber, a 45 ft. "copperhead" arising from an original hand-dug well on the site of the old homestead, a goat-barn and meditation loft, a "mini-Stonehenge" and other elements among painstakingly cleared (from invasives and green briars) native plants which are flourishing. Er-Gene Kahng, violinist for the U of A faculty chamber Orchestra, will play---perhaps with friends--- in the garden's central gazebo mid-afternoon.
* Peace Gardener Unity Center For Conscious Living
4880 W. Wedington Dr., Fayetteville, AR 72704
Contact: Kate Guendling
Unity is located 1.6 miles west of Hwy. 540 on the right/north side of Wedington Road, look for the sign.
It is the position of Unity Worldwide Ministries to urge all Nations, their leaders, and their people to turn to God (by whatever the name) for guidance during these challenging times and to pursue peace, not war, for this is what honors the god of all our faith traditions. Unity stands for peace in our lifetime.
Unity Center for Conscious Living in Fayetteville, Arkansas has named its outdoor labyrinth “Peace in Our Lifetime Garden”. You are invited to step into the labyrinth, walk the sandy path to the center and experience the peace that passes all understanding. In the center of the labyrinth you will find our peace pole presented to us by Omni Center. You are also welcome to visit our community garden, “Unity Organic Garden”.
* World Wetland Peace Prairie
1121 S. Duncan Avenue
A public owned and volunteer maintained public park featuring native wetland prairie which is open free year round during city park hours.

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Don Conner, president of the Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods, uses his truck and trailer to haul donations from fire station 1 to a Walmart trailer at the fire station on Hollywood Avenue near MLK Jr Blvd. More photos including other stations and many of the firefighters who helped load the trucks and who will continue accepting donations at their duty stations through the weekend please visit Flickr

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Please see Aubunique Flickr site for more photos from the event.

Fire station no. 1 at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, May 26, 2011

Don Conner's trailer full at 10:28 a.m.

Time to unload trailer to Walmart giant trailer at 10:32 a.m.

Council of Neighborhoods collecting non-perishable food and other items for Walmart truck to take to neighboring communities and cities for tornado victims at all Fayetteville firestations: Please attend meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 26, 2011, and help us get your neighborhood onboard for this effort: Video below is from February 2011 meeting of Council of Neighborhoods. Please attend and represent YOUR neighborhood.

Non-perishable food dropoff at Fayetteville fire stations for May 22 Storm Victims in Neighboring Communities

05/24/2011

Mayor Lioneld Jordan has arranged for each city fire station to be a donation drop-off for the community to bring non-perishable food items that the City will get transported to the affected neighboring communities. 

Community donations of non-perishable food items and water can be brought to any of the seven Fayetteville Fire Departments between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. this week.  The City of Fayetteville Fire Departments are located around Fayetteville as follows:

Fire Station 1 (Central Fire Station) is located in the downtown district of Fayetteville, just two blocks West of the Downtown Square at 303 W. Center.

Fire Station 2 is just two blocks north of the University of Arkansas campus. It is located across the street from Leverett Elementary School at 708 North Garland.
Fire Station 3 is located on the South East Side of town at 1050 S. Happy Hollow Rd.
Fire Station 4 is located on the North end of town, located at 3385 Plainview.

Fire Station 5 is located on the North East side of town at 2979 N. Crossover Rd.

Fire Station 6 is on the West side of town, located at 900 Hollywood.
Fire Station 7, located at 835 N Rupple Road.
The Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods is partnering with the City of Fayetteville to assist in transporting the donated items early next week. For more information about how your neighborhood can help out contact Julie McQuade, Community Outreach Coordinator, at (479) 575-8302 or jmcquade@ci.fayetetville.ar.us .

The anti-dote to Rash Limberger's lies

It's truly scary.

The federal budget that was introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and passed in the House of Representatives last month is being voted on in the Senate this week. And in all my years of working in Washington, DC, I can honestly say that I've rarely seen anything this alarming.

That's why I need you to take just a minute and send a message to your senators right now.

You've probably already heard about the Ryan budget because of its radical proposal to eliminate Medicare as we know it. But it's worse than that. It's clear that what he's calling the "Pathway to Prosperity" should really be named the "Pathway to Poverty," given what it means for most Americans. The Ryan pathway is a wrong turn for America. It only brings more prosperity to insurance companies, Wall Street fat cats, and the wealthiest companies and individuals in America while dumping the rest of us in a dead end. It's outrageous.

And it must be stopped in the Senate: Please take action against this radical bill right now.

• Ryan's budget includes deep cuts to federal programs that fund state and local governments at a time when many states are already in crisis, and more and more people need their services. It's nothing short of another outright attack on public employees and the services we provide.
• The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that Medicare beneficiaries' premiums and other out-of-pocket expenses would double when compared to Medicare as it is now – from $6,150 to $12,500.
• Ryan claims this bill would reduce the deficit by $4.3 trillion. What he doesn't say is that it's almost entirely wiped out by the $4.2 trillion in tax cuts to benefit the wealthiest Americans. Indeed, it would reduce the tax rate for prosperous corporations and reduce the tax rate paid by the wealthiest to its lowest level since 1931.

This budget proposal is so radical that even some Republicans, like Newt Gingrich, are distancing themselves from it. And while home during recess, many of the House Republicans who voted for it (all but 4 did) were taken to task at town hall meetings by the same people who voted for them last November.

It's clear that the voices of working Americans are being heard and making a difference in this fight. So please, speak out against this extreme proposal today by sending a message to your senators. Let them know that you won't stand by while Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security are dismantled to pay for tax breaks for the rich and subsidies to oil companies.

In solidarity,
Chuck Loveless
Legislative Director
AFSCME

This video running at 11 a.m., 5 p.m., and 11 p.m. today on Fayetteville Public Access Television (formerly the CAT) at 218 on Cox Cable and 99-something on AT&T U-verse as well as simulcast on the Your Media (formerly CAT) Web site

 Short takes are recorded between 5 and 6 p.m. Mondays and between 11 a.m. and noon on Thursdays for broadcast numerous times the following week. All a resident of Fayetteville has to do is show up with appropriate identification and ask to do a short take. Free speech is the rule. Share your thoughts and your photos or your home video. Read a poem, essay or sing a song. Imagination a plus. Accurate information appreciated. Opinions tolerated. Mistakes overlooked. If you live in Fayetteville, this is your time. So join me there and share. Very few cities offer such a wonderful free service.

Garden tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday: Watch Dick Bennett's video for details, please

Habitat project's new time and date 6 p.m. Monday June 6: Learn how to get your yard certified as a part of Fayetteville's community wildlife habitat at 6 p.m. today at the Fayetteville Public Library: Free to all who are interested

The City of Fayetteville Environmental Action Committee and the Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association have rescheduled the Wildlife Habitat Project Summer Speaker Series for Monday, June 6, 2011, at 6pm at the Fayetteville Public Library.  

Terri Lane will discuss the goals of the wildlife habitat project, the importance of suburban landscapes as habitat, and how Fayetteville residents can create and certify wildlife habitat on their own properties. 

This event is free of charge and open to the public. 

 Cancelled because of stormy weather

Community Wildlife Habitat Speaker Series

TONIGHT 6-7pm Fayetteville Public Library

Learn how to create certified wildlife habitat on your property. 

Terri Lane will discuss the goals and status of the project, as well as specific ways in which residents can provide for our native wildlife populations, helping Fayetteville become the first National Wildlife Federation Certified Community Habitat in the state of Arkansas.

Paula Marinoni speaks during news conference at the corner of Arkansas Avenue and Lafayette Street in Fayetteville AR

Hey, UA, send the dump trucks another way, not through Old Main Lawn with its ancient trees listed as the Old Main Collection of the UA Campus Arboretum

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For more photos made today at the area where UA officials want to open up a construction-equipment road, please see Flickr link.

UA to build road through Old Main lawn
By admin today at 3:44 pm.
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By Chad Woodard and Bobbie Foster
The UA will build a service road that will have an entrance onto Old Main lawn at Arkansas Avenue where a three-way stop light will be placed. The road will be an access to the center of campus for construction on Ozark and Vol Walker Halls. Facilities Management aims to start construction on the road in two or three weeks.

A protest was held Sunday, May 22 at 5:00 p.m. in front of Old Main.The protesters were voicing anger over a service road.

Protesters in front of Old Main, Sunday May 22. Photo By Chad Woodard

The goal was to get the word out to UA alumni and students, said Paula Marinioni, protest organizer and historic preservationist.

“Thursday morning I found out, because I was asked if I could meet at Carnall Hall; I didn’t know what it would be about,” Marinioni said, “I came out here this morning to see if they did it during the night; they have no one to stop them.”

UA staff plan to remove the road after consturction on Ozark Hall and Vol Walker Hall are complete.

“[The road] is a temporary, unfortunate event,” said UA Chancellor G. David Gearhart.

“Our objective is to preserve and enhance our two most historic and valuable buildings,” said Laura Jacobs, UA director of strategic communications, “this proposal provides the least disruption to our grounds and our traditions of all feasible options.”

The cost of the project is unknown.

“It is not fully designed yet,” said Mike Johnson, assistant vice chancellor of Facilities Management, “we will not know how much it will cost to construct until the design is finished.”

“[The] front lawn of Old Main should not be degraded,” Marinioni said, “makes me sick.”

The site was considered sacred ground by the UA after someone tried to place a building on the south side of the lawn some years back, Marinioni said.

Part of the rock wall will be removed in the construction as well as part of senior walk and some facility tunnel-top accesses will be covered by the road.

“We will carefully restore the wall and grounds to their pre-construction conditions, as we did when we undertook the restoration of Old Main in the late 1980s and Carnall Hall in the early 2000s,” Jacobs said.

A big concern was keeping the trees safe, Gearhart said, some of those trees are hundreds of years old; it is the best access to those sizable construction projects without harming any trees.

“They will take apart the wall, number the bricks and put them back two years later, and it will take out at least two trees,” Marinioni said.

“Moving these big trees will kill them, but that dosen’t matter to them,” said Fran Alexander, environmental activist and UA donor and alumnus, at the protest Sunday.

“The roots of the trees must have oxygen, if soil is put over the roots it is a slow and suffocating death,” she said, “many of these trees’ roots are at the wall so the whole lawn is like a map of roots.”

As for senior walk, it is being carefully documented, Johnson said.

“We are currently documenting it so people can access it online. We want to protect it to the best of our abilities,”Johnson said, “we will return everything to its original, and in my opinion, an even better state.”

The construction on Ozark Hall and Vol Walker are slated to begin around Nov. 1st, Johnson said, but the construction will finish on Memorial Hall and the ROTC building in time for classes to begin in the fall.

“In 1871, we got the UA here because of the special spirit in Fayetteville. This was such a big deal that an architect was hired to design Old Main in a Parisian style, with the road of Lafayette ending at Old Main,” Marinioni said, “It was meant to endure time and these people want to destroy it.”

The road will assist trucks carrying large equipment and steel for the renovation of the two buildings.

“They are going to put a metal cloth down, put red dirt on top of it and then put chat on that,” Marionioni said, “It will be 20 feet wide, so students will not be able to cross this for two years.”

This is not the first road to be built through the center of campus, Johnson said.

“There was a road and turnaround in the late 1920s or 1930s,” he said, “we are doing more research on that.”

“We are as much, if not more so, concerned about the history,” Johnson said.

The UA is planning several actions that will celebrate the history and traditions of this part of campus during the construction, Jacobs said.

“The campus administration is committed to historic preservation and restoration to our campus and our actions under Chancellor Gearhart attest to that,” Jacobs said.

Old Main does not only belong to the UA, but to Arkansas, Marinioni said.

“This belongs to the citizens of Arkansas not to the people who are making those decisions,” Marinioni said, “the Old Main lawn is the entrance to the UA. It is the face of the UA.”

Sixty-something photos on Flickr showing scenes from Block Party in downtown Fayetteville. Later this evening, see photos and clips from news conference expressing UA grads' and Fayetteville residents' disapproval of UA plan to build road through University of Arkansas Arboretum on the lawn of Old Main.

Block Party photos at Flickr.
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Paula Marinoni's call to action to stop incredibly intrusive road through Old Main Lawn to facilitate UA construction plan

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Link to Demozette story:  Democrat-Gazette

Friends, associates, concerned citizens and alumni;

You will see in the Northwest Arkansas section of the Democrat Gazette today that the university plans to cut a road thru the front lawn of Old Main.

They plan to ask the city to take the parking off of Lafayette Street from Gregg to Arkansas Avenue so the dump trucks can have the full street.  Then they plan to take apart the historic rock wall at the end of Lafayette Street and cut into the lawn to ramp up to the surface.  They say they will put everything back in two years when they’re done.  They think this is the best option.  Read the article.

They are running up the flag to see if it flies.  If we don’t act quickly they will do it and, like they have done before, come in the middle of the night if they have to.  They ALWAYS wait to do these things until after the students have left and the student newspaper, the Traveler, is shut down so the students will have no voice or even know about it until it’s too late.

Back in the university master plan process of 1997 & ’98 someone wanted to put another academic building on the south end of the front lawn.  I protested quickly.  But fortunately the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, likely the most conservative group of individuals in the State of Arkansas, protested also and said that the front lawn of Old Main was “Sacred Ground”.  About a year ago I organized a meeting to discuss the historical difference between special places, spirit of place and sacred ground.  About 50 residents of Fayetteville attended.  I pointed out that “Sacred Ground” doesn’t have to have a religious connotation.  A place can be made sacred in the minds and hearts of people because it is traditionally and unwaveringly held in such high regard and with such high reverence as to render it worthy of protection from any kind of degradation.  It was agreed that the front lawn of Old Main was the only place that totally qualified in this category.  We also agreed in the discussion, that we could hardly think of another such site in all of Arkansas that was universally known and held in such high regard.  It was also discussed that the high regard and reverence was timeless, that it would hold true at any point of time, but increased as time went on.

The front lawn of Old Main is the soul of the University of Arkansas.  To cut a road for dump trucks thru the middle of the front lawn of Old Main would be an unprecedented degradation to the “Sacred Ground” and the disregard would be a disgrace to every alumni in the history of the University of Arkansas.  To even think this is Ok is a violation of trust and duty to the hearts that hold this space dear.  This is a disastrous mistake.

Citizens of Fayetteville, Alumni of the University of Arkansas, Citizens of the Great State of Arkansas, speak up and speak up fast or it will be done!

Protest tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) at 5:00p.m., on the front lawn of Old Main, at the end of Lafayette where they plan to cut the wall.  Bring signs, banners, lawn chairs and most importantly, your voice!  Spread the word!

Respectfully,

Paula Marinoni

Paula Marinoni

pm@PaulaMarinoni.com

479-466-4128

Please visit OMNI peace-garden tour Web log linked below for information on upcoming May 28, 2011, peace-garden tour

 OMNI peace-garden tour information online.


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Deirdre Shepherd sings 'In the End' as background theme for Bill Ames' video about Tommy Grace and the homeless young people in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the 1990s

Flagpole at Fayetteville Senior Center in Walker Park struck by lightning early afternoon Mqy 20, 1011

Flickr photos from May 20 2011, at Fayetteville Senior Center.

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Senior Center flag pole an hour after it was hit by lightning on May 20, 2011

Dirt blown out of the ground by lightning  sprayed to the top of the flagpole!

Fema visiting homes in Fayetteville today to document storm damage

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John Rule's 'Iris Manifesto' deserves a full reading at the Fayetteville Public Library

John Rule reads rough draft of his copyrighted "Iris Manifesto" in mid-spring 2011: Part ONE.

Penstemon's Halloween face

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Native wild white Penstemon the star of the prairie show in Northwest Arkansas this week

For set of photos of Penstemon on Flickr, click this link.

Please click on image to ENLARGE photo of Penstemon on May 15, 2011.

For more photos of Penstemon growing wild in Fayetteville, Arkansas, please see Flickr photos.

For information about the white, native Penstemon digitalis pictured here, please see following link from Kansas.

Fukushima update on video

Fukushima - One Step Forward and Four Steps Back as Each Unit Challenged by New Problems from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Coral honeysuckle a vine to protect

Please click on image to ENLARGE view of native trumpet honeysuckle in south Fayetteville, Arkansas, on May 13, 2011. The Lonicera sempervirens is a harmless, noninvastive, native American member of the honeysuckle family that deserves to be propagated as widely as possible where it is found. Too bad we can't send all our Lonicera Japonica back to its native land.

Geese hatched on what is now Hill Place Apartment complex fill dirt wander the parking lot wondering why it doesn't feel exactly like home

Canada goose at Hill Place parking lot on May 13, 2011