The Trussville Tribune – Sep. 28 - Oct. 4, 2022

By Hannah Curran Editor

TRUSSVILLE — Dozens of parents of Hewitt-Trussville High School students gathered at Trussville Southside Bap

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Trussville council heard from several concerned parents regarding recent threats at TCS, Trussville mayor holds press conference

By Hannah Curran Editor

TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville City Council heard from several con cerned parents on Tuesday, September 27, regarding the recent threats that occurred at Hewitt-Trussville High School (HTHS).

By Crystal McGough Associate Editor

“I appreciate everyone that we had here tonight,” Choat said. “Their message is loud and clear, which we understand, and that’s why we had already, before the meeting tonight, scheduled this very important meeting tomorrow to talk about things that are concerning to not only me and the council, but to the parents. I think this is what we needed to hear.”

Many parents voiced sim ilar concerns that they want change. Some parents spoke on the recent decision to place HTHS Principal Tim Salem on administrative leave until further notice.

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By Hannah Curran Editor

TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville City Schools (TCS) Board of Education (BOE) discussed how they would potentially spend the City Trust Fund and the in

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By Crystal McGough Associate Editor

SPRINGVILLE – The Springville City Council vot ed Monday night to adopt its

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Joy Young, a current as sistant principal, will be the acting principal at HTHS during this time, according to an email to HTHS parents from Trussville City Schools (TCS) Superintendent Dr. Patti Neill.

To read the full story about the Trussville City Council meeting, visit www.trussvil letribune.com.

Trussville Mayor Buddy Choat held a press conference Tuesday morning addressing the threats from the city’s

standpoint. No school board members were present at the meeting, and Choat explained he wanted residents to under stand that even though it is a school board issue, the city is in it with them.

“They’re part of us, and we’re part of them,” Choat said during the press confer ence. “We’re going to be in this together.”

Choat explained that Dr. Neill and school board mem bers offered to be present during the press conference, but he believed that this was a city meeting.

“I felt like they would be put on the spot for things that they really couldn’t answer as far as what their disciplinary action was going to be,” Cho at said during the press con ference. “This is really about what we did as a city and how we move forward with inves tigations of any kind of threat to our schools.”

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Adelynn’s Army moves mountains to raise awareness for rare disease

By Hannah Curran Editor

PELL CITY — A Springville family is hosting their second annual fundrais er walk, “No Mountain Too High for OCNDS,” on Sat urday, Oct. 1, at 10:30 a.m., at Lakeside Park in Pell City, to bring awareness to OkurChung Neurodevelopmental Syndrome (OCNDS).

They will have raffles such as Alabama football tickets, a photography ses sion, merchandise, and gift cards. All proceeds will ben efit the CSNK2A1 Founda tion.

Adelynn Cole, 5, was di agnosed in 2019 with OkurChung Neurodevelopmental Syndrome (OCNDS), a rare genetic disorder first iden tified in 2016. OCNDS is caused by a mutation in the CSNK2A1 gene. The gene CSNK2A1 creates a protein called CK2, which plays a crucial role in development. Therefore, a mutation in this gene disrupts typical devel

opment.

“You can walk in your neighborhood; you can walk wherever it doesn’t matter,” David Cole, Adelynn’s fa ther, said in a previous inter view. “We’re trying to raise money for the foundation to help Adelynn find a cure or find a treatment for the con dition.”

Adelynn is the only re ported case of OCNDS in Alabama, and there are few er than 200 reported cases worldwide.

David said that everyone diagnosed with OCNDS is affected differently; in Ade lynn’s case, she can’t walk. David explained that when Adelynn was diagnosed, he discovered he also had the gene for OCNDS, but he nev er experienced any develop mental difficulties growing up.

To donate or find a way to help raise awareness about OCNDS, visit www. csnk2a1foundation.org/do nate/ and join the fight against OCNDS.

By Loyd McIntosh For The Tribune

CENTER POINT — The Center Point City Council ap proved a resolution amending the city’s business license fee

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Blocked doorway at Main Street room brought up again at Leeds Council meeting

By Nathan Prewett For the Tribune

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Planning and Zoning considers changes to Trussville Springs

By Hannah Curran Editor

TRUSSVILLE — The Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Board held a special session on Wednesday, Sept. 21, to consider changes to the Trussville Springs Master Plan.

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Trussville’s ACTA presents ‘Murder Is A Game’

By Hannah Curran Editor

TRUSSVILLE — Truss ville’s ACTA presents “Mur der Is A Game,” by Fred Carmichael and directed by Suellen Wilkins, on Sept. 2324 and Sept. 30 – Oct. 1 at 7 p.m., and Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 at 2:30 p.m.

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Springville Council approves 22-23 budget with amendment to increase employee life insurance premiums

Center Point amends business license structure, awards grants to attract new business

HTHS parents meet to discuss threat, plan to address Trussville City Council on Tuesday

TCS BOE discusses Athletics Master Plan, remote learning day for HTHS

Irondale City Council passes 22-23 budget, approves bond refinancing

IRONDALE – Members of the Irondale City Council met for a finance committee meeting prior to Tuesday’s regularly scheduled city council meeting to discuss questions and concerns over

LEEDS – The subject of a blocked doorway at the Leeds Main Street meeting room that has been brought up in the past two meetings of the Leeds City Council was once

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Adelynn Cole (Photo courtesy of David Cole)

The Trussville City Council was packed with parents voicing their concerns about recent threats at the HTHS. (Photo by Scott Buttram.

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Moody ES awarded for EdSTREAM in Motion program

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MOODY — Moody Ele mentary School (MES) was awarded for being an Ex emplary High Performing School by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program for its EdSTREAM in Motion program.

MES offers EdSTREAM as a supplemental service that provides morning care, after noon care, and camps. Ed STREAM (pronounced Ex treme) because this program provides (extreme fun) edu cation in science, technology, reading, engineering, art, and mathematics. This program offers multi-sensory activities while learning through play.

“I think a little over a year ago in the application process, they highlighted the EdSTREAM Program as an extra factor in the Blue Rib bon process because of all that it offers for our kids,” St. Clair County Superintendent Justin Burns said. “It was an extremely important piece of becoming a Blue Ribbon School, and Jason Tuggle is the director over that pro gram, and he does a phenom enal job.”

The program is a high-quality enrichment ex perience, providing oppor tunities for the growth and development of children in grades K-3rd with activities such as stations and work shops (examples of stations and workshops includes: organized games, physical activities, robotics, art, com puter lab, etc.). The purpose of these stations and work shops is to foster creativity, build curiosity, and encourage learning.

“It provides all kinds of opportunities for the stu dent’s enrichment; they get to go places and experience things,” Burns said. “He pro vides all kinds of trips for them, but also educational experiences. My own kid is a part of the EdSTREAM Pro gram, and he loves it.”

Moody’s first school was a rock structure built in 1879. Due to growth in the com munity, the St. Clair Coun ty Board of Education was forced to build a new struc ture, now known as MES, and establish a middle school. The new elementary building

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was completed in 1990. By the spring of 1998, a wing with additional classrooms was completed. In 2003, ex pansion soon became neces sary, and construction was again completed on a second wing, containing classrooms, restrooms, a computer lab, workroom, and library media center. MES now holds 828 students.

“So the elementary school does a great job of growing their students,” Burns said. “It’s a huge part of the Blue Ribbon process as well, but I know that the highlighted piece was what EdSTREAM

offers for all of our students.”

MES’s school-wide plan has been designed to provide a comprehensive education al program for all students in grades K-3. Their primary goal is to provide instruction that will enable students to meet and exceed state and federal standards. In addition, they believe that improving the learning environment and teaching strategies will ulti mately result in greater stu dent achievement.

The Tribune reached out to Moody Elementary School Principal Lance Cisco but did not receive a comment.

After gathering informa tion yesterday and at the end of last week, it was brought to the city’s attention after the fact that the notebook was found last October, Cho at explained.

“The principal at the high school admitted that he had the notebook and had it in a draw. Nobody and I want to emphasize nobody knew about this except three peo ple have been confirmed to know about it, possibly a fourth,” Choat said.

Choat said that none of those individuals included anyone at the central office, including TCS Superinten dent Dr. Patti Neill, council members, or school board members.

“After a meeting with Mr. Salem, our high school prin cipal, Dr. Neill, and one of our board members, it was made clear to us that the threat was reported by a student who went to a teacher who report ed it to the counselor, who then went to Mr. Salem, and at that point, we were called him from the city’s side to in vestigate,” Choat said during the press conference.

The Trussville Police De partment (TPD) was inves tigating the alleged terroris tic threat that was made on Friday, Sept. 16, when they were notified that, last school year, the same student had created a “death notebook” containing 40 names total, 37 names of students and three names of celebrities.

A parent source said that five students whose names were written in the book had specific methods of their death. The parent said that one of the methods was “shot by an AK-47.”

Rush said in a previous interview with the Tribune that the student responsible for the “death notebook” created it based on the show “Death Note,” where a char acter discovers a book that, if someone’s name is written in it while the writer imagines

that person’s face, he or she will die.

The student has been re portedly suspended, accord ing to the Rush. In addition, concerned parents have in formed The Tribune that the student was allegedly sent to alternative school for 20 days after a hearing was held with the school system on Tues day, Sept. 20.

Rush said TPD has no tified all the parents of the students whose names were written in the book. Howev er, the parents of the student responsible for the book were not notified when the original incident took place.

According to a memo randum of understanding passed by the Trussville City Council and Trussville City Schools in 2020, as soon as any incident that threat ens school safety occurs on school property or occurs at a school-sponsored event, the SRO is to be notified as soon as is reasonably possi ble. The agreement further states that “TPD shall take the lead on all incidents in which a criminal charge or delinquent act is alleged to have occurred.”

“The concern is at a high level right now about a pos sibility of this even happen ing in Trussville,” Choat said during the press conference.

“We’ve always said that we’re not the exception it could happen here; fortu nately for us, nothing has happened.”

During the press con ference, Choat was asked if they were any other incidents at Trussville City Schools where law enforcement should have been notified and wasn’t. He responded by saying that there weren’t any to his knowledge.

Choat said during the press conference that once the city was notified of the incident, the Trussville Po lice Department began per forming procedures for these types of circumstances.

“They went to the stu dent’s house, looked for any weapons that would be, a

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possibility to be available for this threat, and found none,” Choat said during the press conference. “I want to make it clear that the City of Truss ville has supported and will continue to support public safety as well as school safe ty as a number one priority. We cannot do that without communication.”

Choat said that the inci dent occurred due to the total lack of communication be tween the Hewitt-Trussville High School (HTHS) prin cipal, the city, and the Truss ville City Schools (TCS).

“We have to have an un derstanding that we are in this together,” Choat said during the press conference. “It’s not us against them we are there, we have spent hun dreds of thousands or mil lions of dollars over the years to protect our students and our faculty, and we’re going to continue to do that.”

When asked about the dis ciplinary actions surrounding the incident, Choat explained that TCS is gathering infor mation.

“That will be a person nel matter that they will deal with, our responsibility to the schools is to appoint our board members,” Choat said during the press conference. “We have confidence in them. They are fully aware that a mistake was made.”

Rush was asked during the press conference if the student would be a problem in the future.

“You have that possibility with any student, but there is definitely a possibility for that,” Rush said during the press conference. “It will al ways be there and will be a situation from this point for ward.”

The full video of the press conference and council meeting can be found on the Trussville Tribune Facebook page.

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again discussed on Monday, Sept. 19, which led to a backand-forth between Mayor Da vid Miller and others on the matter.

In a past meeting, a res ident spoke during public comments about a doorway at the Leeds Main Street meeting room leased by the Water Works Board that was barricaded and then sealed off, blocking access to an area with restrooms. Miller has since insisted that the reason for walling the door way was to protect sensitive documents in the city-owned part of the building.

At the Sept. 5 meeting, Councilman Eric Turner and Miller had a tense exchange about the council not being notified of appropriations to construct the doorway. Mill er said some decisions could be made without speaking with the council first.

The council returned to the subject last night, with Turner this time requesting that the wall be taken down. In the following discussion, Miller said that there would need to be clarification on code modification before re moving the wall.

“It’s very possible that if we don’t close it off, it’s con sidered over 5,000 square feet,” Miller said. “Which means that we would have to (install a sprinkler system in) the entire building, and that’s way over $100,000.”

Turner then asked, “What would have happened if we hadn’t built that?” Miller re iterated that the Water Works Board was notified of plans to seal the doorway and it was mentioned at a past meeting with them.

Some board members were present at the coun cil meeting, where member Cary Kennedy spoke from

the audience and said that they have a use agreement for the common area where the restrooms are located, asking why they would have such a thing if the wall was there.

Miller replied that the use agreement stipulates that the city be notified if that part of the building was being leased and that the board did not do that. He also said that the board was notified, though Kennedy said they were not.

After some further ques tioning from Kennedy, Turn er then again made a motion to remove the wall, to ap plause from the audience. However, Miller stressed again that leaving the door way open may have to entail installing a sprinkler system, which would be expensive.

Turner amended his mo tion to include getting an opinion on the sprinkler sys tem and voting pending ap proval that it would not be needed before removing the wall.

Kennedy spoke again and pointed out that while the meeting room has an ingress or entry point, the wall now prevents an egress. Water Works Board Chairman Ed die Moore then stood and spoke, saying that the wall is partly theirs and wants for it to be open.

He also asked if it would not be considered trespass ing with the wall being built by the city, to which Miller reiterated that the board had been notified of his intention to build it.

Councilman Johnny Dut ton asked if it would be pos sible to build a security door in place of the wall that can be opened by those allowed a key. Councilman Kenneth Washington suggested that the city meets with the board to hash out an agreement.

“We need to sit down

with both sides and work this out like gentlemen,” Wash ington said.

After further discussion, the council voted to table any action on the wall until the next meeting.

Among public comments was Leeds Main Street Di rector Amber Vines, who encouraged unification and gave updates on the program.

“We must all come to gether to push our communi ty forward; it’s very import ant to do that,” Vines said.

She reported that the Main Street Alabama re source team is in town and will be conducting inter views and studying the city. She added that there will be a vision session on Sept. 20, at 5 p.m., at Leeds Middle School.

In other business, the council:

• Appropriated $50,000 for Leeds Main Streets

• Appropriated $5,000 for the Leeds High School Band Boosters

Appropriated $3,000 for the Woman’s Literary Club of Leeds Appropriated $15,000 for the Leeds Arts Council

• Approved an agreement with Regional Planning Commission to develop a Comprehensive Plan update Adopted and ratified the January 2022-August 2022 city expenditures and payables

• Approved the demolition of a building on Thorn ton Street deemed to be unsafe

• Gave a property owner on a building being con sidered to be unsafe on Beech Street 30 days to have an architect provide a plan to bring the build ing up to code Nathan Prewett can be reached at nthomasp6@ gmail.com.

budget for the 2022-2023 fis cal year with an amendment to the section regarding employ ee life insurance premiums.

The proposed budget had life insurance premiums set equally at $10,000 for all city employees. Previously, fire and police department employees had a premium of $30,000.

“In the budget, we in creased the (health) insurance from 50% to 75%,” Councilor Sherry Reaves said “We im plemented the merit plan. We discontinued the opt-out. We have a $10,000 life insurance across the board.”

After deliberation on the risks and responsibilities first responders face, in compari son to other city employees, as well as overall fairness to ward all employees and their families, the council agreed to increase the life insurance premium across the board to $30,000.

“It’s these little things that make a big difference,” Mayor Dave Thomas said. “For example, … our police officers (used to be) one of the highest paid in the county; we had the best benefits in the county. Now, we’re middle of the pack. I don’t like being in the middle of the pack. I want to be out front, and if that means raising the death ben

efit for all of our employees to $30,000, let’s do that. Let’s do what we can, taking in cremental little steps to make things more appealing so that we can attract firefighters and paramedics and police offi cers, as opposed to going the other direction.”

The council approved a motion to amend the budget to reflect the increase from $10,000 to $30,000, and then approved a motion to adopt the amended budget.

The council also unani mously approved funding for Springville’s “Sesquicenten nial Celebration” in an amount not to exceed $30,000.

“This is our 150-year cel ebration,” Faith Community Fellowship Springville Cam pus Pastor Mike Ennis said. “We’re looking at a number of things: fireworks, music, actually commissioning some art that would outlive the cel ebration – something we can leave behind.”

The date and location for the Sesquicentennial Celebra tion is yet to be determined.

“As far as the money, I would prefer that future gen erations question that we spent too much rather than not enough,” Thomas said. “This is a big deal –150 years. We need to blow the lid off this thing.”

In other business, the council approved the fol lowing:

Motion to fund three street lights in Village Trace subdivision

• Motion to amend job de scription, hiring criteria for new firefighter recruits

• Motion to create tempo rary administrative posi tion

Motion to approve K9 Of ficer compensation in the amount of $3,600.40

• Motion to approve MOU for School Resource Of ficers

• Motion to approve fund ing request from Parks & Recreation in the amount of $37,935

Motion to renew Miss Historic Springville schol arship contract for 2023

• Ordinance 2022-06, amending business license ordinance regarding resi dential rental properties

The next meeting of the Springville City Council will be Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, be ginning at 6 p.m.

Crystal McGough can be contacted at mcgoughcrys tal@gmail.com

TCS

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tist Church on Sunday night to discuss an incident at the school involving a terroristic threat.

Also discussed was an al leged “death notebook” which school officials collected in October of 2021 from the same student involved with the threat. Trussville Police Chief Eric Rush met with the par ents and provided a timeline of events, and answered ques tions from the group.

Rush told the parents that police were unaware of the notebook until they opened an investigation into verbal threats made during the cur rent school year. He also said the parents of the suspended student had not been told about the notebook.

“I want to keep the parents informed, and that was my goal tonight,” Rush said.

The meeting was organized by several parents and was not open to TCS administrators or the media. However, Tribune publisher Scott Buttram was permitted to attend the meet ing as the parent of an HTHS student.

Buttram would only pro vide a broad description of the meeting, choosing to allow parents to contact the Tribune directly with their comments if they choose to do so.

A parent of one of the stu dents, Nathan Pruett, said the next step is to bring it before the Trussville City Council.

“We’re trying to get as many parents to show up to the city council as we can, so that’s where it starts,” Pruett said. “As far as the meeting is concerned, we’re just trying to address concerns that all of us as parents have; to make sure that the transparency is where it needs to be between the po lice department and the schools and to make sure we get the

safest schools in the state.”

The notebook contained 37 names, mostly of HTHS stu dents.

Rush said in a previous in terview with the Tribune that the student responsible for the “death notebook” created it based on the show “Death Note,” where a character dis covers a book that, if some one’s name is written in it while the writer imagines that person’s face, he or she will die.

Concerned parents have informed The Tribune that the student was reportedly sent to alternative school for 20 days after a disciplinary hearing was held with the school system on Tuesday, September 20.

According to a memoran dum of understanding passed by the Trussville City Council and Trussville City Schools in 2020, as soon as any incident that threatens school safety occurs on school property or occurs at a school-sponsored event, the SRO is to be notified as soon as is reasonably pos sible. The agreement further states that “TPD shall take the lead on all incidents in which a criminal charge or delin quent act is alleged to have occurred.”

“Chief Rush called me this morning to inform me of this situation,” TCS Superin tendent Dr. Patti Neill stated last week. “We are working with Chief Rush and the TPD

within our threat assessment protocols on a ‘Death Note’ copycat list. I used quotation marks because there is a series on Netflix called Death Note where a Japanese anime is used to depict a character who has magic ‘mind’ powers. This anime character has the power to kill others if he writes their names in a notebook and imag ines their death. I was told to day that a student wrote names of HTHS students, Biden, and Trump, and the student re sponded that his notebook was a fantasy notebook. Based on the TV show, the owner of the notebook has magic powers, and they could imagine a per son getting hit by a bus, and it would happen; or imagine a person is eaten alive by ants and it would happen, or imag ine that a person drowns and it happens, etc. You can find more information about what we’re dealing with by googling Anime Death Note and watch the trailer on Netflix.

“Trussville City Schools has a process in our Code of Conduct if there is a threat or a perceived threat. We are going through that process at this time with the Trussville Police Department. The police department and all of us are hypervigilant when it comes to school safety and we appre ciate their help. Please know that our schools are safe, and we have outstanding SROs in every school.”

Springville City Council meeting on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022 (Photo by Crystal McGough)

BOE

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stallation of a remote learn ing day for Hewitt-Trussville High School (HTHS).

TCS Superintendent Dr. Patti Neill stated that the fund is almost $7 million, and to spend that money, it has to have board approval first in the form of a resolution, and the next step is that it goes to the city council.

“Originally, we did ask for $5 million of the $7 million to build [the new BOE] build ing,” Neill said. “So we had a resolution to pull $5 million out of the $7 million fund to build this new central office. As it turns out, that money is still sitting in one of our ac counts, untouched, because we got the Public School and College Authority (PSCA) money for this building.”

TCS still holds the $5 mil lion untouched because they can’t touch it without city council approval. The resolu tion presented to the board is to pull out up to $7 million to go forward with a portion of the athletics master plan.

“We have that in several phases, but the first phase is ready to go with board ap proval and council approval for funding,” Neill said. “It’s essentially the beginning of the Athletics Master Plan and the turf projects for multiple sports.”

TCS Athletic Director Lance Walker said this will be a good start as far as the finan cial standpoint and would be about a third of the overall full planning.

“With this phase, the areas that we will be working with would be turfing our competi tion fields for soccer, softball and baseball, also have a turf field to the right of the field house that will be covered as a multi-sport covered facility, and then the fields behind the middle school as an alterna tive for this project as well,” Walker said.

Walker said this was de cided after considering what

properties TCS can pull that would positively affect the community.

“If you look at these five different games with soccer and baseball itself, obviously those sports, what we’re doing to the right of the fieldhouse will impact a lot of sports and a lot of people,” Walker said. “Then the field behind the middle school fieldhouse, like we’ve discussed before, was probably the most used field in Trussville with P.E. class es, and with the Parks and Rec activities in mind, so we feel like pulling in these spe cific items for the master plan would be a good start for us.”

Walker said they’ve had a lot of people think positively about it.

“If we can get the field be hind the middle school, that would be the only practice field that we would be turf ing,” Neill said. “We would also consider alternate lines for football, soccer, and la crosse. They would be col ored turf lines, no paint, just sew them in for them to play sports and teach on those.”

Hewitt-Trussville Middle School Principal Jennifer Ab ney said they use the field for all their P.E. classes during the day.

“I think having the lines there will be beneficial for us academically but then for all of the multiuse throughout the community and with our practice teams as well,” Ab ney said.

Walker said they have to see how long the process takes and make the best deci sion on when to start because they would need to determine if they could finish the proj ect before the various seasons start or if they needed to wait until after the seasons’ end.

Hewitt-Trussville High School Band Director Mi chael Guzman discussed the Music For All National Fes tival in Indianapolis, Indiana, from March 30, 2023, to April 3, 2023.

“This time last year, we were really fortunate to re

ceive the news that we were accepted to perform at the Southeastern Regional Con cert Band Festival through Bands of America and Music For All,” Guzman said. “It’s a really big opportunity for our band and kind of put us on the national stage. They select ed students from all over the southeast, and I think a little over 250ish high schools ap plied for nine positions, and we got one of those.”

Guzman said they had a great performance in Atlanta, and students got to work with some of the top college direc tors; after that performance, HTHS’s name got around.

“I was encouraged to ap ply to the national concert band festival,” Guzman said. “I think it was maybe over 650 High Schools applied for six high school positions. There are different tiers, but we were selected from the very, very, very top tier, so we’re super proud of this. It was just incredible.”

HTHS has several fund raisers that are happening, and they’re doing some Snap Fundraising in the fall and in early January because it is for a select group of students; it is a top concert group.

“It’s approximately 65 students who are going to be traveling to Indianapolis,” Guzman said. “There’s going to be about 3,000 students in Indianapolis participating in various events, and we are at the very top of it. For the selected group that took nine high school groups and nine middle school groups, and

so what that means for us is that we’ll be performing some very high-level music and getting ready for the travel up there, and we’ll spend several days in Indianapolis at Music For All.”

HTHS students are going to have the opportunity to work several times between now and March with various college band directors that are either going to come in via zoom or to the HTHS campus to work with them.

“Several composers of the pieces that we’re performing are going to be coming in, so we’ll have two interactions with them,” Guzman said. “Students are going to get to work with some high-level college professors, not only band directors but also within their area.”

Guzman said it’s roughly $75,000 to take the group to Indianapolis.

“It’s a pretty big price tag, but it is definitely something that’s well worth it,” Guzman said. “From a prestige stand point, just to even apply to this now that we’ve been ac cepted, we won’t be able to apply for another five years. It’s very, very, very selective.”

The board also discussed a remote learning day for HTHS. Tim Salem, HTHS principal, explained that PreACT required state testing is October 11.

“Our 10th grade, of course, is our largest class; we have 446 10th graders,” Salem said. “We will also be testing any repeating ninth graders who have the credit. So that’s a lot of testing environments. We’re talking about an envi ronment of a lot of teachers to do this correctly. So there really isn’t an opportunity to have school for everyone and do all the testing as it’s sup posed to be done.”

The proposal would be that 9th and 11th graders would be remote, 10th graders would come to school for state-re quired testing, and 12th grad ers would have a college visit day on October 11, 2022.

Moody City Council accepts Springview subdivision streets

By Nathan Prewett For The Tribune

Moody — The Moody City Council met very briefly at City Hall on Monday, Septem ber 26, where they accepted the streets of the Springview Subdivision for maintenance, a matter that was brought up at the last meeting.

Prior to the meeting, sever al residents who are members of the Springview Homeown ers Association voiced con cerns about responsibility for paying for the streets’ mainte nance. They were told that the developer of the subdivision never made a request for the city to accept them for upkeep.

They were advised to send a letter to request acceptance in which the city would share a percentage of the cost with the residents.

At tonight’s meeting, the council voted unanimously to accept the streets, though the city will not accept sidewalks, as was pointed out at the pre vious meeting. A report from the city engineer said that the streets are not currently in need of any improvements.

In other business, the council:

Approved a request from Police Chief Thomas Hunt to repair car #332 for $607.40,

• Approved Hunt’s request to repair car #347 for $456.75,

• Approved Hunt’s request to repair car #353 for $583.48,

Approved Hunt’s request to repair car #350 for $1,018.00,

• Approved Hunt’s request to replace police lights on vehicle #350 for $439.00,

Approved a request by Library Director Sara Roberts to surplus approx imately 250 books and items that will be offered for sale for no less than 4 weeks. Remaining items will be donated to local non-profit organizations, Approved sending city employee Andrea Machen to attend Retail Show and Conference in Nashville, TN at a cost not to exceed $1,600,

• Approved Lee’s request to pay Green and Associ ates for an appraisal on the city’s commercial proper ty on Carl Jones Road for $1,800, Approved Lee’s request to purchase two AEDs for the fire department for $2,688, funded through American Rescue Plan Act funds, Approved Lee’s request to send out annual fire dona tion cards for $5,311.83, Approved Lee’s request to purchase new laptop and software for the Civ ic Center (to livestream events and games) at an estimated cost of $1,500 and not to exceed $2,000, and

Approved Lee’s request to purchase 50 Veterans Day banners and six brackets for an estimated total cost of $1,475 and not to ex ceed $2,000 and

• Approved Lee’s request to purchase giveaway items for Oktoberfest for $420.90.

Meetings are held on the second and fourth Monday of every month at 6 p.m. at Moody City Hall on 670 Park Ave.

HTHS Athletic Director Lance Walker discussed the Athletics Master Plan (Photo by Hannah Curran)

Mayor James D. Stewart Jr.’s proposed 2022-2023 budget.

Councilperson Cindy Cuellar raised several ques tions about line items such as administrative health insur ance – which was showing its budgeted amount at $0 – worker’s comp insurance, management consulting ser vices, funds designated to public schools, and the fuel budget for the police, fire and public works departments.

Additionally, Cuellar had her own amended form of the budget that she had prepared to present to the council.

Once Cuellar and the rest of the council were satisfied that all questions had been an swered, the council proceed ed to unanimously approve its 22-23 fiscal year budget under the consent agenda.

Resolutions 2022-R-175, 2022-R-176, 2022-R-177, 2022-R-178 and 2022-R-179 approved budgets for the General Fund, Capital, Water Department, E-911 and Court. The overall budget leaves the city with a proposed surplus of $3,584,512.34 for the 2223 fiscal year.

Under the regular agen da, in a 4-1 vote, the council passed Ordinance 2022-23, providing for the issuance of

$1.7 million over the next three years so that we could (pay off the short-term debt) in 2025. It would’ve been retired. What I struggle with in looking at this bond and the way that it’s been restruc tured … we would basically refund that (short-term debt) and then reissue more debt … What is troubling for me is that this is a 20-year, long term (bond). … This doesn’t make sense to me when we are in a state where we can pay a short-term bond … and save on all that interest.”

Mayor Stewart said when the city took out the shortterm loan to purchase Zamora Temple, “the intent was never

plans on what we’re going to do, because we never would have purchased it if we didn’t have an idea of what we were going to do.”

In other business, the council approved the fol lowing:

• Resolution 2022-R-173, authorizing the allocation of public funds to Camille Witt in the amount of $567 from the 21-22 FY Discre tionary Fund of Councilor Cindy Cuellar to be used exclusively for landscap ing materials, delivery and labor that will be done along the right-of-way en trance into Bramblewood Resolution 2022-R-180, authorizing the allocation of public funds to Shades Valley High School in the amount of $8,000 from the 21-22 FY budget to be used exclusively for Shades Valley girls and boys basketball teams Resolution 2022-R-182, authorizing the mayor to make assets of the city available in support of commercial filming and/ or print projects within the city and to establish a pol icy for the amount of fees to be charged for the use of such assets

“Murder Is A Game” will have you on the edge of your seat trying to solve the game, but is it all a game? That’s what the audience has to fig ure out.

“It’s a marvelous little piece of theater entertain ment,” Wilkins said. “Any body that comes to this show will have a wonderful eve ning.”

“What I’m asking is that we get back to the way it al ways has been, where the council meets in a finance committee meeting with the mayor and the department heads and talk about some of the major (items) that have been identified here to get an swers to the questions,” she said. “I am not comfortable with approving a budget with out being informed, without having answers to questions.”

During the regular meet ing, Cuellar had the oppor tunity to ask her questions to Mayor Stewart and some of the department heads. In response to her question con cerning administrative health insurance, that line item was amended to $70,000.

$6,780,000 aggregate princi pal amount General Obliga tion Warrants (Series 2022A) and $6,855,000 aggregate principal amount General Obligation Warrants (Series 2022-B) by the city of Iron dale.

The purpose of these bonds is to allow the city to purchase real estate, as well as refinance the city’s shortterm debt from the purchase of the Zamora Temple.

Councilperson Cuellar was the sole member of coun cil to vote against the ordi nance.

“What I struggle with here is that the city has the funds in our reserve accounts,” she said. “It made sense to set aside in an escrow account

to take $5 million out of the reserve fund to be able to pay that off. The goal was always to have the short-term financ ing, so that (the city could consolidate it with) all of the purchases that we are getting ready to make.”

Stewart said that when the city first purchased the Zamo ra Temple property, the goal was to create a “recreational oasis” for the city of Irondale.

“If I sum this whole sto ry up, we are now in control of over 266 acres in one of the prime areas in the city of Irondale and we are looking to develop a new city inside of the city,” he said. “So, I don’t want anybody to think that the land is just going to sit there, that we have no

Resolution 2022-R-183, authorizing the mayor or his designee to dispose of property listed in Exhibit A to Resolution 2022-R116 through disposal as trash items by the Irondale Public Works Department • Resolution 2022-R 184, authorizing the alloca tion of public funds in the amount of $500 from the 21-22 FY Discretionary Fund of Councilor John London to Shades Valley High School to be used exclusively for the Shades Valley High School cheer leaders

Additionally, the council passed a resolution to change its next regularly scheduled meeting from Tuesday, Oct. 4, to Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. That meeting will take place at Irondale City Hall, beginning at 6 p.m.

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Sloan and Toby Bigelow are writers experiencing dou ble writer’s block, and their agent has rented a beautiful rundown estate to get the juices running. In addition, the agent has planned a week end of murder and mystery. The only trouble is, what is a part of the game and what is not?

“Sloane is obviously the better half of the writing team with her husband,” Heather Duncan, who plays Sloan, said. “They’ve gone to this murder weekend, and she doesn’t know what’s going to happen, but she’s all in, and he’s not.”

Duncan said things begin to flip upside down and ev erything goes crazy.

“There are lots of differ ent themes and different sto rylines that they can catch,” Duncan said. “They can ei ther know exactly what’s go ing on or not, but they’ll still enjoy every minute of it.”

This show will provide laughter and suspense as you whisper what you think will happen next to your friend. The various twists and turns make the show irresistible, and the cast members make it their own.

“It’s a who done it, and it’s a comedy – sort of a two-forone,” Kevin Garrett, playing Stephen, said. “It’s not real heavy, but it’s not a piece of fluff either. It’s something that you can sort of think about and try to solve.”

As the Bigelows work through the game, nothing is as it seems, and the hilarious plot twist makes that appar ent.

“They’ll pick up on the clues, eventually,” Wilkins said. “But it’s fun to see the different characters and their attitudes. I like to sit in the audience now that I’ve got it all cast and we’ve rehearsed it. I sit out there and chuck le every night at something different because I see some thing different. The charac ters are starting to develop lit tle quirks or master gestures, something that’s very unique to them. It builds these char acters that the audience will fall in love with.”

Wilkins said that the audi ence will find themselves say ing, “Oh, I like that one…,” and “He’s weird…,” and “Ah, I bet you she is…”

You can get tickets online at actatheater.com.

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Left to right: Councilperson Robert Box, Councilperson Cindy Cuellar (Photo by Crystal McGough)

ACTA's Murder Is A Game is directed by Suellen Wilkins (Photo by Hannah Curran)

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The City Council approved the original plan around 2007. Initially, the developer went to P&Z with requested chang es, and the board “determined that continued changes, in the manner they were requesting, constituted a major change to the PUD and would need to be brought back before the current council.”

After some months of con versations, the board has a plan that unanimously passed P&Z last night and will go before the council with a favorable recom mendation.

According to Councilmem ber Ben Short, this PUD was approved 15-16 years ago, with a total unit count of 586 dwellings; this new plan will lead to a solid reduction in total dwellings, add additional green space, allow for the comple tion of a permanent entrance to the community, and adjust the mixed-use/commercial compo nent to areas that make more sense.

“The original plan called for a max of 80 planned at tached family (townhomes) and a max of 160 multi-family units (three-story condos) for a total possible max of 240 units with in these product types based on the original density map,” Short stated.

Short explained that the new plan removes the multi-family category (condos) entirely and changes the number of attached family (townhomes) to a max of 111 units for this product type.

“Through a series of meet ings, we’ve negotiated with the city that we will eliminate our multi-family product and move the mixed-use area to the north side of the railroad tracks so that once you cross the tracks, that will leave it as strictly residential,” Barry Stalnaker from the Offices for Trussville Springs LLC said.

Short explained that while this is an increase in 31 possi ble townhome units, it’s a sig nificant reduction (possibly 160 condos) in overall units when

you factor in the removal of the multi-family category, which in his opinion, is a better outcome here.

“Trussville Springs is al ready built out, and what we’re proposing to do is add a row of townhouses going back towards what will be our new entrance,” Stalnaker said. “Then with that, about 12 cottages beyond the new entrance, we’ve reconfig ured this area so that we are sort of emulating our phase one, so we have layers.”

Stalnaker added that there would be “larger riverfront houses” on the river side and then two layers of cottages that are already “river loaded.”

“The river houses are front-loaded because we don’t want to put an alley on the river part, but we require all of the garage doors to be perpendicu lar to the street so that you don’t drive down the street and see a bunch of garage doors,” Stal naker said. “The cottages will be relocated, and then we’ve lined the rail line with town houses and the industrial park townhouses.”

Stalnaker said this will shield the neighborhood from any of the adjoining uses and as much as they can from the rail line.

“Between the railroad and the highway was already zoned commercial, so we’re not changing that, on the other side of the highway was zoned com mercial and what we’re chang ing is we’ve added an area of mixed-use,” Stalnaker said. “What we’re hoping to attract is either at a grocery store, which would help warrant a traffic light, and also we’ve been ap

proached by a senior living fa cility that might be interested.”

Stalnaker said the mixeduse could be a variety of dif ferent types of commercial, whether it be office space, re tail, or maybe even some resi dential.

The original plan called for 19.5 acres of commercial prop erty, and the new plan shows 14.19 for a reduction of 5.31 acres.

The mixed-use category shows a small increase in acre age, going from 10.9 to 11.3.

“With the reduction of 5 commercial acres adding .4 to this category is still a solid trade-off from my perspective,” Short stated. “Overall, this PUD has been ongoing for a long…long time, and with these changes and a PUD update, we can hopefully get these resi dents their permanent entrance and move toward finishing this community, which is long over due.”

Short explained that the original plan called for 35.7 acres of green space, and the new plan now has 39.35 acres of green space.

“On the top of the new map, you’ll see T4A1 and T4A2 that connects via Cherokee,” Short stated. “The P&Z approval last night was conditioned on these sections meeting our current R-1 zoning to match the charac ter of what surrounds that area. This will more than likely lead to a further reduction in the unit count for those categories.”

The favorable recommen dation will be presented to the Trussville City Council for con sideration at the second meet ing in October.

Center Point

From front page structure during the Septem ber 15 city council meeting. The new structure increases the new business license an nual fee from $100 to $200.

The amendment is de signed to bring the city’s business license up to par with other cities in the area while generating an expect ed increase of approximately $246,000 in annual revenue for the city. The addition al income will help the city provide better services to city residents, according to Center Point Council President D.M. Collins.

“We’ve had this fee for our business licenses for some time now,” Collins said. “We are trying to bring more rev enue into the city so that we are able to provide more ser vices to our residents; this is just one way that allows us to do that while remaining more comparable with other cities around Center Point.”

While Collins and Center Point Mayor Bobby Scott says the change in the business li cense fee structure simply brings the city up to speed with neighboring cities, the move is part of an overall plan to im prove Center Point’s business climate. The city’s elected and civic leaders are currently exploring ideas to fill vacant

commercial property, lure new businesses, and spur a new era of entrepreneurship in Center Point.

“We’re having meetings with different people and some of the main property owners in the city to come up with a plan to fill vacant buildings in the city,” Scott said.

Collins said the Economic Development Committee, on which she serves as chairper son, is developing new incen tives programs to help existing small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs to consider an choring in Center Point.

“One of the things that we’re doing internally is cre ating programs to incentivize businesses to come into the city,” Collins said. “For exam ple, the city has created a pair of grant programs for quali fying businesses; the Capital Improvement program, a grant for existing businesses, and the New Business Incentive program.

“The New Business incen tive program is a grant that of fers a maximum of $10,000 to assist businesses with fees and other costs that they accumu late to open a business here. That could be anything from marketing, assistance with build-out for a storefront, or anything that could bring them into the city.”

The grants are funded through the city’s ARCA funds

which are earmarked to assist municipalities with the task of rebuilding their business communities following the COVID-19 shutdown. Collins said the city is specifically tar geting small businesses with these grant programs.

“This is really created to incentivize small businesses and brick-and-mortar busi nesses to come into the city of Center Point,” Collins said. “We really want to target those small businesses with these programs.”

Recently, Center Point awarded Steve Fishman of Sigsoog LLC with each grant to assist with plans to con vert the old Lee’s Pawn Shop building on Center Point Park way into a medical facility.

“We have a medical des ert here in the city, and I think this would bring great oppor tunities to the City of Center Point,” Collins, who has a background in health care, said. “Fortunately, we do have a doctor’s office that serves Medicare patients, but for the middle-aged, young adults, even young children, we don’t have primary care options in the city for our other popula tions.”

Collins said she would like to see additional retail options, such as clothing stores, casual dining restaurants, and bank ing, choose to do business in Center Point.

Dynamic Discs Iron City opens new location in Trussville

From The Tribune staff reports

TRUSSVILLE – Dy namic Discs Iron City held a grand opening on Tuesday, Sept. 20, for its new Truss ville location, located off of Exit 141 in the Valley View Shopping Center, behind Taco Bell.

Dynamic Discs Iron City is a partner store of Dynamic Discs, a disc golf manufactur er based in Emporia, Kansas.

“We sell all brands of golf discs and equipment,” Chris Pierce, of Dynamic Discs Iron City, said in a press re lease. “Besides the actual discs, we sell bags, carts, towels, targets and other disc

golf related gear. We also can assist with disc golf course design and installation.”

DDIC Trussville is the company’s third retail loca tion in the Birmingham Met ro Area, with the other two being in Homewood and Gar dendale. A fourth location in Calera is expected to open by the end of the year.

Leeds announces National Night Out event

From The Tribune staff reports

LEEDS — The City of Leeds announced the Nation al Night Out event on Tues day, October 4, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Leeds Memorial Park, located at 1159 Mon tevallo Road.

The City of Leeds invites you to join thirty-eight mil lion neighbors and sixteen thousand communities across the nation for National Night Out, an annual communi ty-building campaign that

promotes police-community partnerships and neighbor hood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live.

There will be free food, face painting, balloon ani mals, inflatables, and give aways. Meet local law en forcement and firefighters and enjoy fun for the whole family.

Learn more about Nation al Night Out at NATW.ORG.

Leeds Arts Council puts their spin on ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’

By Hannah Curran Editor

LEEDS — The Leeds Arts Council is taking the iconic “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring and is put ting their spin on the wildly hilarious and twisted play.

Many know the show from the subsequent film “Arsenic and Old Lace,” but the Leeds Arts Council hopes to leave the audience laugh ing and wanting more with their production of the 1939 play.

“Arsenic and Old Lace” is a story of two sweet old la dies, Martha Brewster, played by Donna Love, and Abby Brewster, played by Karen Carroll, and their nephew, Mortimer, played by Chris Bever, who discovers that his sweet old aunts are actually serial killers.

“Expect twist and chaos, especially when Mortim er’s long-lost brother, Teddy [played by Carter Sander son], comes in,” Skaggs said. “Mortimer kind of starts to put into motion a plan to pin everything on Teddy since he’s crazy and to save his aunts from the consequences of what they’re doing. Teddy is a legit murderer, like a seri al killer.”

However, the aunts be lieve their actions are mer ciful and a form of “charity” because “they’re just putting lonely old gentlemen out of their misery.”

“You would be surprised at what these little old ladies are doing,” Love said. “There, not what they appear to be; we’re just doing charity.”

Carroll explained that she and Love are like sisters in real life, and to play sister in this play has been a delight.

“We’ve been in other plays together, so it’s been fun,” Carroll said. “We just want people to come out and enjoy themselves.”

Zach Skaggs originally cast as Mortimer Brewster, took over the director’s posi tion after the original director stepped down. This produc tion will be his first time in the director’s seat, and he said this play holds sentimen tal value. Skaggs’ father was cast in the same play many years ago, and now the play has come full circle.

“My dad played Teddy Brewster, the brother who thinks he’s Theodore Roos evelt,” Skaggs said. “So this is the specific show that he was in, and I’ve known about it for many years, ever since I was young. I’ve always want ed to be in it, which is why I auditioned for it, but getting to direct it was pretty awe some, too.”

The show went through a slight recast when Skaggs be came director, but he said the farcical black comedy is still as twisted as ever.

“We’ve got a really great cast,” Skaggs said. “We’ve got some folks that have

stepped up, and we’re really looking forward to sharing it with the community.”

Bever stepped into the role of Mortimer when Skaggs became the director, and he said it’s been an excit ing experience, and he hopes the audience will enjoy it as well.

“We’re trying to make it thematic and as immersive as we can for the audience,” Bever said. “So just a fun night and get ready for the crazy.”

The question remains will Mortimer be able to success fully frame his brother, or will he get tied up in the chaos of it all?

“Just be ready to laugh, be ready to sit back and enjoy,” Skaggs said. “It’s just an en tertaining and funny story. We will serve special refresh ments during the show, so come on out.”

Buy your tickets for “Ar senic and Old Lace” at lac. booktix.com. Showtimes are Friday, September 30, Satur day, October 1, Friday, Octo ber 7, and Saturday, October at 7 p.m. and Sunday, October 2, and Sunday, October 9, at 2:30 p.m.

Ribbon cutting with members of the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Walker/Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce)

Mortimer (Left), Abby, and Teddy Brewster (Right). (Photo by Hannah Curran)

National Night Out (Photo courtesy of the City of Leeds)

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Mary Lou Goodson

january 29, 1928 ~ september 18, 2022 (age 94)

Mary Lou Goodson, 94, of Leeds, passed away at her home on Sunday, September 18, 2022, surrounded by her family. Mary Lou was born Mary Lou Mitchell on January 29, 1928, in Birmingham, Alabama.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Edward Lee Goodson; her sister, Judy Dickinson; her mother, Pearl Mitchell; and father, Ira Mitchell. She is survived by her brother, John Mitchell; sons, Steve Goodson (Sharon), Lee Goodson (Anna), and David Goodson (Lindsay); grandsons, Brian Goodson (Rachel) and Zachary Goodson; granddaughters, Tonya Crutchfield, Julie Watters (Eric), and Rachel Jones (Ryan); great-grandchildren, Lea Elliott (Shane), Sarah Crutchfield, Church Watters, Mazzy Watters, Henry Goodson, John Thomas Goodson, Hayes Goodson, Graham Goodson, Will Jones, and Audrey Jones; great-great-grandchil dren, Zayne Elliott, Ava Elliott, and several nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held at Kilgroe Funeral Home in Leeds on Sunday, October 2, at 1 p.m., with a service following at 2 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Goodson requested that donations be sent to the Leeds First United Methodist Church.

William (Bill) Charlie Davis

june 23, 1949 ~ september 15, 2022 (age 73)

William (Bill) Charlie Davis, born on June 23, 1949, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on September 15, 2022. Bill is preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Mary Lou Davis and sister Barbara Owen. Bill Davis loved God. He loved travel ing with his wife Linda, and spending time with his family. His hobbies included hard work, restoring classic cars, homebuilding, and home improvement projects, and being at their family home on the lake. He lived in Irondale, AL and was a member of Church of the Highlands. Bill is survived by his wife of 53 years, Linda Davis, his sons Scott Davis; spouse: Beth Davis, grandson Hayden Davis, and Tim Davis; spouse: Jen nifer Davis, brother Frank Davis Jr; spouse: Tommie Sue Davis (deceased), Sisters: Glenda Rooker; spouse: Frank Rooker (deceased) Kathy Hindman; spouse: Rick Hindman. Graveside service will be held on September 21st at Jefferson Memorial Gardens in Trussville at 10:00. Memorial and Celebration of Life service will be held on September 21st at Church of the Highlands Grants Mill Chapel at 11:30. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or any cancer charity of your choice.

Dorothy Westbrook Couch november 16, 1924 ~ september 15, 2022 (age 97)

Dorothy Westbrook Couch was called home to be with the Lord on September 15, 2022 at age 97. Dorothy was born on November 16, 1924, in Winfield, Alabama to the late Hester Ward Westbrook and the late Lether Greene Westbrook. Dorothy attended elementary, junior high, and high school in Winfield. She actually met her future husband Robert in third grade on the school bus. It was love at first sight for him. It took a while for her. After graduating from Winfield High School, Dorothy relocated to Birmingham to begin a career, first in retail and later in business ad ministration at Bechtel-McCone Aircraft Modification Center as World War II began. Dorothy and Robert married in 1943, just prior to his shipping out to the Pacific The ater for two years. After the war Dorothy and Robert raised three boys to adulthood, moving from Birmingham to Jasper, Montgomery and Northport, Alabama for Rob ert's career. Dorothy was an accomplished homemaker, loving wife, harried mother of three boys, and still found time for music, art, ceramics, and flower gardening. Travels in the American West, especially New Mexico and Arizona, inspired her artistic creativity. Many of her landscape and still life paintings reflect the special feel of those places. Dorothy was a Charter Member of Eastern Hills Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, a member of First Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and a long-time member of Huffman Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She was active in Sunday school, senior choirs and many projects with her church friends. Dorothy was also a long-time “Candy Stripe Girl,” a volunteer group of seamstresses at what is now Saint Vincent’s Hospital East that made comfort pillows for heart surgery patients. Dorothy had a long life full of love for her family, her friends, her community and her Lord. Dorothy is survived by her three sons, Robert L. Couch, Jr. (Kay); Michael A. Couch (Karen); Kenneth W. Couch (Carol); by her four grandchildren Leigh K. Kennedy (Patrick); Noel B. Couch (Ashley); Amiee Couch; Kimberly Chance (Jim); and by her ten great-grandchildren Mackenzie, Leila, Audrey, Quinn and Nora Couch; Blue and Jordan Kennedy; Harlee, Shiloh and Rhys Chance. Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents; her loving husband Robert L. Couch Sr.; her sister Lynn W. Bell; and her brother Howard W. Westbrook. The family will receive friends on Saturday, September 24, 2022 from 9 AM to 10 AM at Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home. Services will follow at 10 AM in the chapel. The interment will be at 3:30 PM at Winfield City Cemetery in Winfield, AL.

James Lloyd Lincoln march 8, 1933 ~ september 16, 2022 (age 89)

Jim Lincoln, age 89, of Birmingham passed away September 16, 2022. He was pre ceded in death by parents Hayden and Mary K Lincoln, grandson Blake Bailey, son Jimmy, wife Sherry K Lincoln, and sister Helen Reynolds. He and Sherry shared 55 years of marriage and enjoyed traveling and attending church together. Jim served as a funeral director for over 60 years, helping families in the Birmingham area and Huntsville area. Jim is survived by daughter Pat, Kelly Simpkins (Eddie) and son Alan Lincoln (Margaret). He is also survived by six beautiful and talented grand children Derek, Heath, Adam, Natalie (Spencer), Shelby, and Ben. Other survivors include great grandchildren Brooklyn, Faith, Blakely, Layla, Leon, and nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held September 20, 2022 at 11:00am-12:00pm with a graveside service to follow at Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home.

Patricia Cash Burns

april 9, 1948 ~ september 16, 2022 (age 74)

Patricia Cash Burns was born on April 9, 1948 and passed into Heaven on Septem ber 16, 2022. She was preceded in death by her mother, Lou Anna Palmer Cash, father Hershel Cash, sister Betty L. Cash, and brother Howell Cash. She is survived by her husband James Melvin Burns, son Brian Cecil Cole, her sister Sarah Ruth Cash, brother Randall Cash, sister-in-law Janett Burns Ross, nephew Tony Cash, and numerous other nieces, nephews, and cousins.

She was born in Gadsden, AL and moved to Birmingham at age seven. She was educated in Birmingham Public Schools, including Woodlawn High School. She graduated with honors from the University of Montevallo, and the Birmingham School of Law with highest academic honors.

During her employment in her Legal career, she was employed by the Trust De partment of SouthTrust Bank, the firm of Costello & Stott, the Bessemer Division of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, The Legal Aid Society of Birming ham, the Office of the City Attorney of Birmingham (for almost three decades), the Constitutional Law Professor at the Birmingham School of Law, and finally as the Municipal Judge for the City of Fairfield.

Subsequent to her retirement, she spent her waking hours in care of her family, working in her beloved exquisite landscap ing of yard and gardens, Bible study and service to her Shades Mountain Baptist Church, to which she had belonged since 1987. During the decades of service at Shades Mountain, she served in adult Sunday school, taught 5th grade girls Sunday school, worked in the nursery and other roles.

During her decades at Shades Mountain, she developed countless deep and loving friendships that fortified her in the trib ulations of her long final illness. The family wants to express our deepest appreciation to the doctors and support staff at UAB in their valiant efforts on her behalf.

Everyone who loved her should rejoice in a life well lived.

A Celebration of Life in her honor will take place at the Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, located at 1591 Gadsden Hwy, Birmingham, AL 35235. The date is Sunday, September 25, 2022, and the times are 12:30 pm for visitation and 2 pm for the funeral service.

Vernon Eugene Joiner

may 1, 1927 ~ september 17, 2022 (age 95)

Vernon Eugene Joiner, age 95 of Birmingham, AL peacefully passed away at his home into the presence of our Lord and Savior and reunited with loved ones who preceded him. These include his parents, Harvey Parks Joiner and Annie Dean Join er and other much loved family of two brothers, two sisters, and friends. He leaves the love of his life for 54 years, his wife, Ida Lee Keenam Joiner, his stepson, Mark Marsh, two grandsons, one great granddaughter and several nieces and nephews.

Vernon attended Fairfield High School, served active duty in the Army, and retired from Birmingham Southern Railroad with 39 years of service. He was a member of Trussville First Baptist Church.

The visitation for Vernon will be held at Jefferson Memorial in Trussville on Friday, September 23, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. A graveside service will imme diately follow the visitation at 2:00 p.m. at Jefferson Memorial’s adjoining gardens.

Larry Douglas Gilmore

may 26, 1942 ~ september 20, 2022 (age 80)

How are Grief and Mourning Different When a Loved One with Alzheimer’s Dies?

When a loved one has Alzheimer’s, the grieving process typically starts long before the person actually passes away. Grieving can begin the day you learn of the Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Or you may notice feelings of grief as your loved one begins to lose their memory and starts to struggle with daily tasks.

As the person with Alzheimer’s capacity declines, feelings of loss can become more profound. Even though you want to do everything you can to slow down the progression of the disease, there is often not much you can do. This can make you feel hopeless or out of control.

It may feel like your grief is a never-ending rollercoaster, and your feelings will likely be unpredictable. You may feel angry one day and sad the next. There will be moments of happiness in there too, and that may even cause feelings of guilt for feeling happy while a loved one continues to suffer.

After your loved one passes, you will grieve and mourn again. However, it is common for surviving spouses and family members to feel a sense of relief that their loved one is no longer suffering and that this chapter in their own lives has closed. Unfortunately, this can also lead to survivor’s guilt because you feel guilty for feeling relieved. Know that these feelings are normal. They do not make you a bad person or mean that you didn’t love the person enough.

Ways to Manage Grief

Face your feelings. Instead of trying to hide from your feelings or push them aside, embrace them. Know that sadness and grief will be a part of your life and that this is ok.

Know that many people will not understand your grief. Many people think grief happens when someone dies, not when that person is still alive. So they may not realize you are grieving while your loved one is still alive.

Make sure you talk to someone and share your feelings. This may be a trusted friend or family member or even a counselor or therapist.

Take care of yourself. It may be hard to muster the energy to socialize at this time, especially as you need to spend more time caring for your loved one.

Spending time with friends can help you to be a better caregiver. Try to carve out time for things you enjoy and that bring you joy.

Give yourself time to heal. It would be nice to be able to know exactly when your grief will end, but that is impossible to know. It will be a long process. Know that eventually your grief will start to subside, and you will start to feel happy.

Henry T. Snow, Jr.

july 24, 1923 ~ september 20, 2022 (age 99)

Henry Thomas Snow,Jr., born July 23, 1923, passed away September 20, 2022

He is survived by his sister-in-law , Faye Snow (Terry); brother-in-law, Arnold Hill (Jane); nephews, Craig (Wendy) and Mike Hill (Debbie); nieces Renea McCollum (Roger) and Kristy Hambric (Jeff); two grand nephews, Brandon Hill (Gretchen) daughter, Harper and Blake Hill; and three grandnieces, Julia Wildman (Nick), Sar ah Thompson (Chris) and Terry Hambric

He served in the U.S.Army in WWII, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge under General Patton.

He played professional baseball for a team in Brewton, Alabama, where he stayed in Mrs. Gillis' boarding house. married her daughter, Sylvia, his wife of 61 years, who passed away July 15, 2011.

He graduated from Jacksonville State Teacher's College and was coach and teacher at Tarrant High School for 30 years and served on the Board. He had earned a

Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Masonic lodge #670 West Jefferson, Alabama. With a membership of over 70 years.

Larry D Gilmore, 80 of Locust Fork passed away peacefully at 1:45 am Tuesday the 20th of September 2022. He is survived by his wife Judy Gilmore, two sons Mi chael Gilmore of Fayetteville, AR and Ricky Gilmore of Riverside, AL, two stepsons, Billy Quick of Locust Fork, James Quick of Daphne and their wives Jeni and Jessica, respectively, plus eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Service will be held on Friday the 23rd of September at Locust Fork Baptist Church in Locust Fork, AL with the viewing at 10:00 am and the service following at 11:00 am. A graveside service with military honors will be held at Highland Memorial Gardens in Bessemer, AL at 1:00 pm

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Leeds crushes Sylacauga

Hewitt lays waste to Vikings, 49-8

By Zack Steele For The Tribune

BIRMINGHAM —

Thursday night, Hewitt Trussville made the short trip down Old Springville Road to take on a familiar foe in the Huffman Vikings. Hewitt was looking to rebound from a stinging 17-7 loss to Hoover last weekend. Huffman pro vided the perfect opponent to clean up the offensive mis cues that plagued the Huskies a week ago.

Hewitt won the toss and deferred to the second half. Huffman took the opening kickoff and immediately went 3 and out. This would become a recurring theme for the Vi king offense.

After a Huffman punt, Hewitt needed only four plays to find the endzone, with Kennedy Mitchell scor ing on a thirteen-yard scam per. Rigg would add the PAT, and it was 7-0

After a second consecutive three and out, Hewitt would

take just 3 plays to score, this time with Peyton Floyd hit ting Kadius Barnes for a 21yard touchdown pass. Rigg converted the point after, and Hewitt led 14-0.

The third consecutive 3 and out for Huffman would this time lead to a 9-play drive that finished up with a tight end drag route a la Au burn in the 2010 Iron Bowl, with Donovan Price doing his best Phillip Lutzenkirchen

By Will Heath For The Tribune

SYLACAUGA — The second-ranked Leeds Green Wave had its full arsenal on display Friday night, for the first time in over a month.

They didn’t disappoint, racking up over 400 yards in a 51-7 victory at Legion Sta dium over Sylacauga.

The Green Wave, with se

nior quarterback Jarod Latta “fully healthy” after an ankle injury sidelined him in Week 1, got rushing touchdowns from five different players on Friday. Latta accounted for the other score, on a 60-yard pass to do-everything skill player Conner Nelson.

“You can see we operate more efficiently,” said Leeds head coach Jerry Hood.

The game even provided

Leeds (5-0) a chance to show off its tailback depth. Starter Jeremiah Hunter suffered an ankle injury, and gave way to backup Miles Jones. Jones finished with 125 yards and a touchdown.

“It was a good experi ence,” Jones said. “When Jer emiah got hurt, I just knew I had to step up my game and

File photo. (Photo by Ron Burkett)

Leeds head coach Jerry Hood has led the Green Wave to a 4-0 record and No. 3 ranking in Class 5A so far this season. (Photo by Ron Burkett)

Moody blanks Shelby County

By Johnny Sanders For The Tribune

COLUMBIANA — Jake Ganus took his 411 Boys to his old stomping grounds on Friday night and stomping is just what they did, crushing Shelby County 47-0.

“It feels good. I live on the border of Chelsea and Columbiana.This is about 12 minutes from my house,” said Ganus, “I played here in 2009 and 2011.”

The Moody defense was dominant, only giving up 68 yards of total offense and get ting their first shutout of the season. The offense wasn’t too shabby either, putting up more “video game numbers” and leading the Blue Devils to a 47-0 win.

The opening drive of the game would be one of only two times Moody’s offense would not score a touchdown on the night. After holding the Wildcats to a punt, Moody got the ball at their own 13yard line.

From there, Cole McCarty would find his running back, Blaine Burke, on an 87-yard touchdown pass that saw Burke outrun the entire Shel by County defense. When Moody got the ball back, Burke took just one play to

score again, this time on a 63-yard burst with 1:20 left in the first quarter. Burke fin ished the night with 6 carries for 90 yards and a touchdown along with 2 receptions for 114 yards and a score as well.

The second quarter would start with a short field for the Moody offense and, from 11 yards out, McCarty would find Davion Dozier for a touchdown with 10:53 to go in the half. Another failed drive for Shelby County would lead to another McCarty to Dozier connection with the quarter back scrambling and finding his receiver in the back corner of the end zone on a spectac ular diving catch, making it 28-0 with 6:24 to go.

Dozier had 3 catches for 60 yards and 2 touchdowns. Scoring in pairs and scor ing on one-play drives was the theme tonight, as Burke scored twice, then Dozier and then, enter Kolby Seymour. McCarty, who finished the night 8 of 11 for 225 yards and 4 touchdowns, would find Seymour from 59 yards out to make it 34-0 with 4:32 left in the half.

Kolby would then line up at running back and, once again, it would only take one

Center Point whips hapless Fairfield, improves to 5-1

By Todd Robinson For The Tribune

CENTER POINT — The Eagles overcame a pair of interceptions from star quar terback Jabari Collier to beat Fairfield, as Collier also ran for a score and passed for an other, and all-world tailback Troy Bruce pounded out 178 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries in a 27-6 victory.

Collier was 10-of-17 for 131 yards, including a 60yard touchdown pass to Ke Marius Horne in the third quarter that put the Eagles up for good.

Bruce opened the scoring with a 17-yard run to paydirt with 3:11 remaining in the first quarter, but Fairfield an

Turnovers key in ClayChalkville loss to Thompson

By Bobby Mathews Sports Editor

ALABASTER — ClayChalkville turned the ball over four times in a 17-14 loss against defending 7A state champion Thompson here on Friday, September 23 in a game that featured a pair of stout defenses.

The last turnover, quarter back Kamari McClellan’s sec ond interception of the night, came with time winding down. Thompson was able to kneel out the clock to preserve the win. But the Warriors looked very human against a Clay-Chalkville team that came into the game riding the longest active winning streak of any team in the state.

That streak — 20 games — is now broken.

The Cougars outgained Thompson 275 yards to 261, and a salty defense gave ground only grudgingly. With the exception of a couple of big plays, the Cougars played this one about as tight as they could.

McClellan hit Mario Craver for a a 37-yard touch down in the second quarter to pull within 3, trailing 10-7 at the break, and the Cougars did something unimaginable after the score: The team that always goes for two actually kicked a point after. Daniel Diaz made two extra points in the game for Clay-Chalkville, Aaron Osley ran for 112 yards and a score, most of that com

Troy Bruce file photo (Photo by Ron Burkett)

ing on a 77-yard scamper for a touchdown that left every Thompson defender eating his dust.

But the turnovers hurt, and in more ways than one. Har

Kamari McClellan and the Clay-Chalkville offense had a tough night in a loss to defending 7A state champion Thompson on Friday, September 23. (Photo by Ron Burkett)

Moody quarterback Cole McCarty hands off to Blaine Burke. (Photo by Ron Burkett)

Leeds paints the town green for homecoming

From The Tribune staff reports

LEEDS — In prepara tion for Leeds homecoming, Leeds Main Street and Leeds local artist Chris Barentz of ‘Chris bARenTz Originals’ painted the town green.

“With the permission of the business owners, we wanted to help them express their school spirit,” Jamie

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swered with a score of their own in the second quarter, tying it up when Ju’maria Hamilton hit Jakorrion Brad ley for a 20-yard score with 10:28 left in the half. Neither team was able to add an extra point, so they went into the break tied at six.

Collier broke that tie in the third with his 60-yarder

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ried and harassed all night, McClellan was stripped on the Cougars’ first possession, deep in their own territo ry. While the defense — led by DJ Barber and Matthew Yafondo — was able to stop Thompson from scoring, the Warriors found the key to beating Clay-Chalkville.

Putting constant pressure on McClellan forced him into

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play for him to find paydirt, this time from 36 yards out.

“We just put in that for mation this week. I honestly didn’t think I was going to get the run call but when he called it, I hit the hole and I was gone,” said Seymour, “The video game numbers come from the receivers and quar terback and running back, but I’ve got to give credit to the whole O-line. They are doing what they are supposed to and

Stidham, Leeds Main Street Board Member, said.

The parade step-off is at 1:30 p.m. and is put on by the Leeds High School SGA. Leeds High School plays the Southside Panthers at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 30.

Take a stroll down the Leeds downtown district and feel the excitement as they prepare for homecoming week.

to Horne with 5:41 left in the quarter, and Antonio Sebas tian added the point after.

From there, Collier scored on a 1-yard run with 1:04 left in the game to make it 20-6 after the PAT.

The Eagles caught a break on Fairfield’s ensuing pos session when Terrence Tubbs stepped in front of a Hamil ton pass, picked it off and re turned it for. touchdown. The extra point was good, and that

two more turnovers, and the Cougars never got the kind of momentum they’re used to. And even then, McClellan still out-dueled Thompson quarter back Zach Sims. McClellan was 14-for-26 for 168 yards and a touchdown, while Sims was 16-for-23 for 137 yards.

And even with the turn overs, Clay-Chalkville had two chances to win the game at the end. Going for it on fourth-and-goal from the three, the Cougars’ best

that’s the reason we’re put ting up these numbers.”

The second half would begin with Shelby County fumbling the kickoff and giv ing Moody the ball at the 35.

On the first play, the ball was errantly snapped but Cole McCarty would find a way to pick the ball up, scramble and find Burke for 27 yards to set them up inside the 10. Jon Cade Carroll would get his name called on consecutive plays, the last of which would find him bulldozing defend ers en route to a 2-yard touch

Leeds Main Street is a non-profit, volunteer-driv en organization. Downtown Leeds has welcomed two new businesses, and over 1,000 volunteer hours have been reported since June 1, 2022. If you want to become involved or want your win dows painted for the parade route, reach out to Amber Vines at leedsmainstreet@ gmail.com.

gave Center Point enough to win, 27-6.

The Eagles improved to 5-1 on the season (1-1 in 6A Region 6). Center Point rolled up 323 yards of total offense and held the ball for 25 minutes of the 48-minute game, keeping Fairfield’s de fense on the field and tiring them out.

Center Point will travel to Irondale to play Region 6 ri val Shades Valley next week.

player, Jaylen Mbakwe, was stopped for no gain with just over two minutes left. But the defense stood tall again — 15 individual players scored at least one tackle on defense for Clay — and forced the War riors to punt from their own end zone.

With the ball back and just over a minute left, McClellan threw his second pick to end the Cougar threat. Thomp son knelt down to run out the clock and preserve the victory.

down, his first of the year.

The teams would trade possessions with Moody punting at one point, but the reserve defensive players would preserve the shutout. “It means a lot. We came out here. Coach put in the new game plan and we executed and they ran some good stuff against it and we just, at the end of the day, we took care of it,” said Carson Dillashaw of the defensive performance.

Moody, now 6-0, will wel come Springville to The Bill next Friday for Homecoming.

On Friday, September 30, 2022, beginning at 9:00 AM, the Election Officials will begin checking and/or “test voting” and sealing the Electronic Vote Tabulating machines which will be used in the October 11, 2022, City of Center Point ‘s Special Election. The tabulator voting tests will be conducted at Jefferson County General Services located at 520 Medco Road, Tarrant AL 35217. The testing is open to the public.

Proper notice of the time and place of these test has been given as required by Alabama law.

Mounties pulls out road victory

By John Goolsby Special to The Tribune

Bessemer — The Besse mer City Tigers hosted the Shades Valley Mounties in a non-region game Friday night. The first game between the two teams was played in 1921, and the most recent game was played in 2015. The Mounties and Tigers have played 26 times previ ously, with Bessemer holding a 14-11-1 edge in the series.

The first quarter was a defensive affair, with both teams trading punts and un able to get on the scoreboard.

The Tigers scored first on a 59-yard run by Jalen Wil liams. The PAT was good, and the Tigers led 7-0 with 11:44 remaining in the half.

On the next drive, the Mounties converted a fourth down conversion on a 28-yard pass from junior quarterback Steve Brown to junior wide receiver Kendarius Irvin. An apparent 10-yard touchdown run by junior Ethan Johnson was called back due to a pen alty. Three plays later, Valley scored on a 15-yard strike from Brown to Irvin. Jair Aguilar converted the PAT, and the game was knotted at 7-7 with 7:40 remaining in the half.

On Bessemer’s next pos session, the Tigers converted a third and ten with a 40-yard pass. Two plays later, Bes semer completed a 16-yard pass to the Valley four-yard line. The nine-play drive was capped off by a two-yard touchdown run by quarter back Chris Whittsett. Bes semer City held a 14-7 lead with 1:39 remaining in the half after the successful PAT.

The Mounties began their next drive on the Tiger 35yard line and answered back quickly with a 10-yard com pletion to sophomore Ji’Quez Daniel, a 5-yard run by soph omore David Ware and a 15yard completion to Irvin. Val ley tied the score at 14-14 on a one-yard touchdown run by Johnson and a successful PAT with ten seconds remaining before the half.

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imitation. Hewitt’s lead bal looned to 21-0 after the Rigg PAT.

Huffman would pick up a little momentum and two first downs on their next drive but would be forced to punt back to Hewitt.

Hewitt again was on the move. This time Floyd would find Jaden Loving for a 10yard score. Rigg added the point after, and the Huskies were cruising.

Floyd would find Loving again with 8 minutes to go in the half, giving the Huskies a 35-0 lead after the PAT.

After another stalled Huff

The Mounties received the opening kick but were forced to punt.

The Shades Valley de fense held the Bessemer of fense from picking up a first down. Senior Jacob Mahand blocked the Tiger punt, and fellow senior Malique Steele recovered it at Bessemer’s 26-yard line.

A Valley penalty moved the ball back to the Tiger’s 36-yard line. Brown connect ed with senior Roderick Craig on a 25-yard completion to the Bessemer 11-yard line. The Tiger defense stiffened and sacked Brown on fourth down and took possession of the ball.

The Mountie defense came up with a big stop on third down. Seniors Kordell Steel and Landon Saxton pressured Whittsett out of the pocket and forced a scramble. He was forced out of bonds by junior Clayton Garrison and senior Kaleb Tolbert be fore picking up the first down.

After the Tiger punt, the Mounties broke the deadlock on a 36-yard lateral from Brown to senior Christian Thomas for a 36-yard touch down. The extra point was blocked, and Valley held a 2014 lead with 11:42 remaining in the game.

man drive, Floyd would find Barnes once more to chalk up his 5th touchdown pass… of the half. The PAT made it 35-0.

Hewitt would get it back once more before the half. And Melton would waste lit tle time, sprinting to the end zone for a 45-yard touch down. After Rigg’s PAT, it was 49-0 at the half.

Peyton Floyd finished the first half, and the game for that matter, 16-18 for 166 yards and 5 touchdown pass es.

Hewitt’s defense would allow 44 total yards in the first half, holding Huffman to 1 of 9 on third down.

Hewitt emptied the bench

The two teams were un able to move the ball and traded punts on their next two possessions.

The Tiger offense moved the ball 65 yards in seven plays and scored on a 1-yard Chris Whittsett run. The extra point sailed wide left, and the game was tied at 20 with 4:43 remaining in the contest.

The Mounties took over on their 35-yard line and moved down the field on two completions to Thomas and two to Daniel. A carry by Thomas and three con secutive carries by Johnson pushed the ball inside the Tiger’s ten-yard line. With 12 seconds remaining, Steve Brown scored on an 8-yard run. The PAT failed, and the Mounties led 26-20.

Shades Valley brought the Bessemer City returner down on the ensuing kickoff and es caped with a 26-20 victory.

“It was a hard-fought win,” head coach Rueben Nelson said. “The kids fought hard, and I think they learned some things tonight. We will go back and get ready for next week,” he said.

The Mounties move to 4-1 and will host Center Point in an important region contest next week at Frank Nix Sta dium.

es in the second half. Huff man would add a touchdown late in the third quarter to make the score 49-8 after a two-point conversion. That would be the final.

In a halftime interview, Head Coach Josh Floyd was pleased with his team’s fo cus.

“We came out tonight and bonded after last week. We needed it,” Floyd said. “It’s good to get our starters some rest and get some fresh faces out here who work hard all week.”

The win improves Hewitt to 4-2 on the season. Next week, Hewitt travels to take on Thompson in a game with huge playoff implications.

Public Notice is hereby given of the test-check of voting tabulators.

Captains: Kordell and Malique Steel (Photo courtesy of John Goolsby)

Photo courtesy of Amber Vines

just take over.”

He had plenty of help. The Green Wave finished with 310 yards rushing as a team.

“We want to be multiple,” Hood said. “Want to give the defense a lot to look at. We play some great teams com ing up, so we better not just line up one way and run the same play.”

That offense complement ed a defense that strangled Sylacauga (0-6) for most of the game. The Aggies did manage 130 yards of offense, most of it on a fourth-quarter drive that netted them an Ash ton Machen touchdown.

“We’re going to come

play you, whoever you are,” Sylacauga head coach Rob Carter said. “Wherever you rank, we’re going to snap it up and give it our best effort.”

The Green Wave defense also forced 3 turnovers on the night. The first, an intercep tion by Miles Ashford on Sy lacauga’s first pass attempt, set up Nelson’s first score, a 7-yard run from the quarter back spot.

Nelson finished with 132 all-purpose yards, and two touchdowns. Leeds also got touchdowns from CJ Doug las, who ran 49 yards for a score on a fake punt, and Ka vion Henderson, lined up in the backfield on the goal line right before halftime.

“ I can put anybody wher

ever really, and all of us don’t just play one position,” Latta said. “It’s also a hard thing for a team to scout that’s playing us.”

With 5 wins under its belt, Leeds can now look forward to the meat of its region schedule. South side-Gadsden comes to town next Friday for Homecom ing.

“They are very capable of whipping our tail,” Hood said. “That’s as far as we need to look forward, because if we don’t take care of that one we’re struggling uphill. We’ll rest up for the weekend and see if we can give them a good game.”

Sylacauga will hit the road to face Beauregard.

Redskins spoil Springville’s homecoming

By Loyd McIntosh For The Tribune

SPRINGVILLE — The red hot Oneonta Redksins rolled over the Springville Tigers Friday night, 53-22.

Springville (0-5) came into the out-of-region, inter-clas sification contest with a new hurry-up, no-huddle plan on offense and looked to keep Oneonta’s defense on its heels. However, the undefeated Redskins were too much for the Tigers. The Redskins, 5–0 and ranked No. 4 in the state among 4A schools, took ad vantage of mistake after mis take by the Springville offense en route to a 31-point win.

The game seemed to start on a good note for Springville as the defense forced the Redskins potent offense to punt after their opening drive stalled on the Tigers’ 47-yardline. With senior quarterback Asa Morrison working from the shotgun, the Tigers’ spedup offense opened their first drive from their own 18-yardline and quickly began moving the ball downfield.

Morrison looked crips in the first series, completing his first three passes of the game to three different receivers, Noel Cox, Jake Isbell, and Baylor Sandlin. However, Springville’s opening drive stalled on their own 43-yardline, forcing the Tigers to punt. This is where the trouble be gan.

and costly mistakes. The Ti gers committed six turnovers Friday night, three of them coming on snaps to Morrison that flew over his head to be recovered by Oneonta.

Following the game, Cle ments had some choice words about his young squad’s per formance, challenging his players to punch back when their opponent lands a shot and to build on what they do best.

“I think that we challenged somebody to fight, and once we got in that fight, we started second-guessing ourselves,” Clements said. “I don’t know what else to say, and I don’t know what else to do, but at some point, we’ve got to de cide if we’ve had enough.”

undefeated team laying waste to everyone in its wake, in a key Region 6 matchup. Clem ents knows his squad has its work cut out for them but wants them to not focus on what the front of their opponent’s jersey says during practice next week.

“I’m going to tell them that they’re playing someone else in another color. I don’t care if it says Moody, Lincoln, Leeds, or Southside,” Clements said. “I have one rule around here –just do your job. That’s what I’m going to tell them. I don’t care who we’re playing, where we’re playing them at, and I don’t care what their record is. We have more Springville is sues to worry about than other people.”

Leeds is Team of the Week

After a 400 yard perfor mance by the Leeds offense, the undefeated and #2 ranked Leeds Green Wave are the team of the week.

Leeds is 5-0 on the year and tied for the region lead with cross-county rival Moody for first place. The Leeds defense was again dominant, allowing

only 130 yards of offense, and forcing three turnovers.

Leeds faces Southside Gadsden in an important re gion game this Friday.

The snap to quarterback/ punter Morrison was high and slow, allowing Oneonta’s Ja cob Handley to break through the line and block the punt. Star running back Da’marion “Fluff” Bothwell, playing on special teams, scooped up the ball for an easy 20-yard touch down return, his first of many end zone visits on the night.

The blocked punt is em blematic of the Springville dichotomy that has plagued Head Coch John Clements all season long – moments of brilliance unraveled by sloppy

The star of the game was “Fluff” Bothwell, a six-foot, 205-pound battering ram of a running back with the best nickname in high school foot ball. Fluff found himself in the end zone more times than the Springville ground crew while racking up more than 300 yards in a punishing display of strength and speed.

“You have to give credit to Oneonta because they have a really good football team, and they play the way you’re sup posed to play,” Clements said. “They play like they’re trying to hurt people. That’s what this game is. It’s not a contact sport. It’s a collision sport.”

Up next for Springville is a trip down I-20 to take on the Moody Blue Devils, another

Despite the tough loss and the key mistakes, Clements wanted to call out his team’s kicker, Payton Griffin, who he believes has performed admi rably under difficult circum stances.

“I’m proud of Payton. He’s somebody who came to our team late, he’s worked his butt off to get kicks where we want them kicked and he did that tonight,” Clements said. “He was perfect on all of his extra points, he’s putting in tireless hours, and he’s putting in tire less hours practicing kicking, sometimes by himself. So, yeah, I’m proud of Payton.”

Springville will travel to Moody High School on Fri day, September 30. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Cameron Jennings Earn Player of the Week Honors

Pinson Valley backup quarterback Cameron Jen nings is the Alabama Ortho Spine and Sport player of the week after his performance in relief in Friday night’s game vs Homewood.

With the Pinson Valley offense struggling, Jennings gave the Indians the shot in the arm they needed, leading two scoring drives to give Pinson a 21-13 victory.

“Cam’s been exactly what he’s needed to be for us this entire season,”said PVHS head coach Lee Guess, “He’s waited his time.’

Pinson Valley, now 4-2 on the year, hosts Huffman this Friday.

Cameron Jennings (Photo by Bobby Mathews)

File Art (Photo by Ron Burkett)

File photo. (Photo by Ron Burkett)

Cameron Jennings