Lake magazine October 2018

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Breast Cancer

“It’s near and dear to our hearts to keep radiation away from yours.”

- Hunter Boggs, MD

Radiation Oncologist

A love of nature starts early.

Ours did too.

Did you know that frogs are an indicator of the health of water systems? At Alabama Power, we’ve been helping manage and protect Alabama’s natural resources for more than a hundred years, partnering with organizations across the state to preserve the health of our river ecosystems.

Plus, we work hard to care for wildlife habitats and give endangered species the chance for a future. Because we love nature – and frogs – as much as you do.

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Staff

Letter from the Editor

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fter writing last month’s letter to you, I couldn’t wait to get out on the lake and enjoy all the quiet beauty with which I tempted you – the stillness of coves, the wide open spaces, the wildlife. So one Sunday afternoon, Kenneth Boone, my husband Rob and I spent four hours doing absolutely nothing on Lake Martin.

It was heavenly.

Turn to the story on page 40 to get a tiny taste of just how wonderful it is to be at the lake on a sunny Sunday in autumn, and make your plans to be here this month. I’ve already reserved a lake house and a few days off to spend with friends from out-of-town and can’t wait to share with them the best of times at Lake Martin during the best time of year to be here – now!

In the meantime, Amy Passaretti got a tip from Dixie Sailing Club and caught up with the Auburn University team during a practice session at the lake. This collegiate group was all about anything but doing nothing! They were hard at work preparing for upcoming competitions and shared with Amy their training routines and their reasons for choosing our own Lake Martin as the best place to get ready for a winning season. Meet the team on page 58.

Alas, eventually, it will be time to admit that winter is indeed coming to the lake. The water will begin to drop mid-month, and the days will grow shorter. Lake area restaurants, marinas and other businesses will take a break, start winter renovation projects and prepare to reopen next spring. Though the lake will still be open for business and pleasure, several local venues have made or will make seasonal adjustments to their hours. Check them out on page 54, so you can better plan your time at the lake.

In that plan, please mark your calendars for the annual “Renew Our Rivers” cleanup on Nov. 2 and 3. Lake Martin Resource Association President John Thompson shares details of this year’s event in the Lake Martin News feature on page 20. And be sure to send photos of your group of cleanup volunteers to editor@lakemartinmagazine.com.

We always look forward to recognizing your efforts in the cleanup honor roll feature in the December issue of Lake magazine.

Looking forward to another great month on Lake Martin!

Betsy Iler, Managing Editor

Chairman KENNETH BOONE

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Contributors KENNETH BOONE JOHN COLEY JULIE HUDSON CLIFF WILLIAMS LONNA UPTON GREG VINSON

ROB MCDANIEL DONALD CAMPBELL LIZI ARBOGAST BEN WATTS ANN CAMPBELL HENRY FOY

All content, including all stories and photos are copyright of: Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.

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On the Cover Blue skies, fluffy clouds, clear water and deserted islands await those who escape their workaday lives in the city to spend a perfect autumn weekend at Lake Martin.

All through October, temperatures will be warm, but humidity levels will be low, and fewer boaters at the lake means more of everything to enjoy while the fall extension of winter pool water levels continues through mid-October. Join the fun!

Photo by Kenneth Boone

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Contents 24. IT'S ALL FOR LAKE MARTIN Sister Hazel returned to The AMP for this year's end-ofsummer concert Labor Day weekend 30. GONE TO THE BIRDS The CRATA park at Smith Mountain finally takes its place on the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail 40. BEST TIME TO DO NOTHING AT THE LAKE Get the views, beaches and fun all to yourself at the lake this fall 46. SIMPLE STYLE A new lake house at South Ridge offers lots of space, expansive views in cabin style 54. WINTER HOURS Know when your favorite restaurants, marinas and stores at the lake will be open this winter 58. WIND AND WATER The Auburn University Sailing Team prepares for a competitive season with the help of Lake Martin's DSC

46 LAKE MAGAZINE’S MONTHLY FEATURES: 9. LAKE’S QUICK GUIDE TO THE LAKE 10. LAKE SCENES 13. WHERE IS LAKE? 16. LAKE MARTIN EVENTS 20. LAKE MARTIN NEWS 36. NATURE OF THE LAKE 62. FAB FINDS

64. BEHIND THE BOAT 66. LAKE WATCH 68. LAKE PROPERTY 70. CHEF'S TABLE 72. HEALTHY LIVING 74. BIG CATCHES 76. FROM THE CELLAR

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Lake’s Quick Guide to the Lake Lake Martin Area Real Estate Indicators Sales Month

Number of sales

Average selling price

Median selling price

Days on the market

Total houses for sale

Inventory/ sales ratio

34 38 25

$537,660 $542,330 $513,882

$505,000 $392,500 $350,000

230 135 255

271 351 375

10.26 12.80 21.53

August 2018 August 2015 August 2012

The above numbers are derived from raw sales data from the Lake Martin Area Association of Realtors MLS.The sales noted above are for Lake Martin waterfront residential (single family and condominium) sales only. This information is provided courtesy of Lake Martin Realty, LLC (a Russell Lands, Inc., affiliated company).

Return of the Lake's Duck Whisperer

Exponential Growth If it seems like more and more people are coming to Lake Martin, it's true. In the late 1980s, Alabama Power Company estimated that Lake Martin had 2.68 million annual visits. In 2017, primary and secondary tourism data estimated that 26.6 million people visited the lake last year. That's an increase of nearly 1000 percent in about 30 years.

Lake Martin Duck Whisperer Jack Hitchcock of Trillium helped Gwen, his favorite mallard mom, raise nine ducklings this Jack Hitchcock's Gwen raised all nine of her chicks to adulthood year. on Lake Martin this summer Gwen has brought her brood to Hitchcock's dock every year for seven years running. When the ducks started coming if he called to them, Hitchcock's children and grandchildren gave him the mystic title of "The Duck Whisperer."

"Most years, she loses a few of the babies, but this year, all nine of the original brood made it all through the summer," Hitchcock told Lake.

Weather Outlook for October October 2018 Forecast

Historically, the Lake Martin area experiences average high temperatures in the upper to mid 70s with average lows in the low 50s and about 3 inches of precipitation in the month of October.The National Weather Service has predicted that temperatures will be in the normal range and rainfall will be slightly above normal this month.

Year to Date

Precipitation: 39.64 inches Avg. high temp.: 78.2 Avg. low temp.: 57.5 Avg. temp.: 67.8

Our Normal October Precipitation: 3.08 inches Avg. high temp.: 76 Information from the Avg. low temp.: 50 National Weather Avg. temp.: 63 Service.

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Last Month's Lake Levels Summer: 491MSL Winter: 481 MSL Highest: 490.66 Lowest: 489.65 Lake depth is measured in reference to mean sea level. For up-to-date water levels at the lake, visit the website lakes. alabamapower.com.

Lake elevations are subject to change.

Individuals who recreate below Martin Dam and those with boats and waterrelated equipment on the lake should always stay alert to changing conditions.

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Lake Scene n People & Places

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READER SUBMISSIONS (1) Woodstock, Georgia's, 5-year-old Braden Forsyth truly relished his time on Lake Martin over Labor Day weekend. (2) Emma gets cozy with Bear in his home at Lake Martin. (3) Madeline Adams learns important life lessons from her Bops, Larry Bryant.

(4) Pattie Bowling took a picture of this beautiful sunset from the pier at Real Island. (5) Manly and Kris Swearingen's lab, Hank, loves lake time on the floating mat. (6) Harbor Pointe friends Jennifer Gregory, Sue Leonardi and Jamie Witter took in the wine tasting at Catherine's before a Friday on the Green event this summer.

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Lake Scene n People & Places

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READER SUBMISSIONS (1) Kenny and Laura Broome's lab, Sadie, loves Superman-jumping off the dock. (2) Scott and Wendy Lett's son Jackson touched a beautiful rainbow at Kowaliga Restaurant on his ninth birthday. (3) Izzy keeps a watch on the Fountain family's Lake Martin dock. (4) Trey Engle and Huxley Kierbow head for the water during the annual family reunion at the Meyer lakehouse in Windermere. (5) Lights from spectator boats twinkle under the splendor of fireworks on July 4 at The AMP. (6) Drake pulls up a chair on the beach after a long boat ride.

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Where is Lake? n People & Places

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(1) Central Alabama Community College Men's Golf Coach Dave Jennings took Lake along this summer when he coached the U.S. Boys Team at the Junior World Cup in Nagoya, Japan. (2) Casey Turner and Skye Bartlett took Lake to St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy.

(3) Amy and Chris Landers took Lake to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, for their 25th wedding anniversary.

(4) Mike Capizzi, Angela Allen, Nina and Tony Johnson, Lita Snellgrove and John Garrett took Lake magazine to the Steelers Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh.

(5) Lake magazine went to Costa Maya, Mexico, with Brandy Askew Gray, Destiny Williams, Jessica Phillips, Jaydon Brooks,Vickey Sims, Nichole Phillips and Carson Williams.

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Where is Lake? n People & Places

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READER SUBMISSIONS (1) David and Stephanie Chunn took a photo with Lake magazine at Mt. Pilatus above Lucerne, Switzerland, during a river cruise from Amsterdam to Switzerland and along the Rhine River. (2) Debra and Tony Sims and Angela and Ken Ledbetter recently took Lake magazine to Heidelberg, Germany. (3) Sandra and Bo Watwood, Bill and Judy Felkey, George Curley, Jim and Diane Miller, Nancy Curley and Kim Walls took magazines along for a premiere performance at the Lincoln Center in New York City. (4) Sally Chapman, Ann Sims, Ellen Porch, Mary Roberson, Gerri Forbus, Jenny Roberson and Dorothy Holdrige took Lake magazine to Ivy Green, the birthplace of the late Helen Keller. (5) Skip and Karen Eiland celebrated their 50th anniversary on a Disney cruise with their children, grandchildren and Lake magazine.

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If You Believe in Auburn and Love It, Create a Legacy for the

AUBURN FAMILY

When you give a gift of property benefitting Auburn University, you have an opportunity to have an impact on future generations of students. The Auburn University Real Estate Foundation accepts gifts of real property — such as a lakefront lot, primary residence, vacation home, timberland, or farm. These properties can be sold to create a legacy in your name for Auburn University.

A gift of real property can provide you with tax savings, relief from the burden of maintaining the property, and freedom from the hassle and fees of selling.

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To learn more, contact the Auburn University Real Estate Foundation, Inc. at 334-844-8700 or email angie-stephens@auburn.edu.

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Oct. 1 Horizons Unlimited

Terry Robbins will present George Jones: The Crown Prince of Country Music at the Alexander City Board of Education Building, 375 Lee St. from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Membership to the Horizons Unlimited series is $20 per person or $30 per couple.

Oct. 2 National Night Out

Shoreline Management office in Dadeville witll host an open house from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition to a door prize and giveaway items, shoreline management personnel will be on hand to answer questions about permitting, guidelines and applications pertaining to the building of seawalls, boathouses and other structures on the lake. The office is located at 1296 S. Tallassee St., Dadeville. Call 256-825-0053 for information.

Oct. 11 Lunch and Learn

The Alexander City Police Department and the Alexander In this Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama proCity Parks and Recreation Department will host its 35th gram, Captain James Orr with the Alexander City Police Annual National Night out from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Strand Department will discuss ways to Park. Law enforcement officials, protect oneself in an active members of the fire departCALENDAR OF EVENTS shooter situation, which ment, first responders, is a growing international churches and local officials problem. Bring a sack WHAT’S HAPPENING ON LAKE MARTIN from around the county lunch. VCCA will provide will be on site to pass dessert and tea. Program out safety information. begins at noon at VCCA, There will be free hot 5030 U.S. Highway 280, dogs, a bounce house Alexander City. Reserve and slide, music, child space by noon on Oct. 9 ID kits, Sparky the Fire at 256-234-0347.

Dog, Scruff and more.

For more information contact Alexander City Oct. 15-16 Police Captain James Orr Throw Away Days at 256-329-6772.

The Tallapoosa County Commission will provide dumpsters for the disOct. 6 posal of household items Dadeville Fall at five locations from Festival noon on Monday through Located at the Tuesday evening. The downtown Dadeville dumpsters will be availCourthouse Square from able free of charge at the 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., there Alexander City Annex, Fall for Downtown includes the annual pumpkin roll will be vendors, kids’ 395 Lee St.; Double activities, train rides, Bridges on Highway 63; inflatables and arts and crafts. The festival falls in conjuncOld Daviston School on state Route 22; Camp Hill Town tion with the second annual Ducky Ward Soapbox Derby and Hall at 309 Holley Ave.; and Union Community Center at Car Show. For more information about the derby, contact 4191 Highway 50.

No liquids, appliances with compressors, Marrell Ward at 256-469-0339. For vendor applications, call the Dadeville Area Chamber of Commerce at 256-825-4019. tires, batteries, light bulbs, televisions, computers, propane tanks or hazardous or medical waste will be allowed.

Oct. 6 Bibb Graves Car Show

Alumni and Friends of Bibb Graves High School in Millerville will host this fifth annual event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school. Car registrations are $20 each and start at 8 a.m.; spectators are admitted free. The event includes 50/50 tickets, a money tree, door prizes, music, breakfast, lunch and more. Call Billy Barnett at 256-839-5077 or 256-267-1525.

Oct. 6 Alabama Power Company Lake Martin Shoreline Open House

Dr. Mark Conversino will present the Hot Topic of the Day in the military world at the Alexander City Board of Education Building, 375 Lee St. from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Membership to the Horizons Unlimited series is $20 per person or $30 per couple.

Oct. 18 United Way Fashion Show

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Oct. 15 Horizons Unlimited

The Lake Martin Area United Way will host its sixth annual Mardi Gras Downtown Showdown and Fashion Show featuring clothing from local merchants in the United Way

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back parking lot of 17 Main St. in Alexander City. Tickets are $30 per person and VIP tables are available for $500 per table. Hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, local designers/merchants and a silent auction will be part of the evening. The event will begin at 6 p.m., and the fashion show starts at 7 p.m.

All proceeds benefit the Lake Martin Area United Way. The event is sponsored by Emporium Wine and Spirits and Ocie & Belle’s. Tickets available at the United Way office. Call 256-329-3600 or email uw211@unitedwaylakemartin.org for additional information.

Oct. 19 Ray Bonneville at Standard Deluxe

Oct. 25 Lunch and Learn

Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama will host Captain James Orr of the Alexander City Police Department, who will discuss identity theft and how to avoid it. Bring a sack lunch. Dessert and tea will be provided. The program begins at 12 p.m. at 5030 U.S. Highway 280, Alexander City.

Call 256-234-0347 by Oct. 23 to reserve a space.

Oct. 25 Oliver North at Mill Two Eighty

Award-winning Austin singer/songwriter Ray Bonneville will headline at the Little House at Standard Deluxe, Inc., in Waverly. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Visit standarddeluxe.com for details.

Author, former Marine and key player in the Reagan administration Oliver North will be the guest speaker at the Tallapoosa County Republican Party dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Mill Two Eighty. Doors will open for a pre-dinner social at 5:45 p.m. Contact Denise Bates at tallagop@outlook.com or call her at 256-749-0715 for ticket information.

Oct. 20 Fall for Downtown

Oct. 25 The Return

Hosted by Main Street Alexander City and sponsored by Country Financial, this year’s fall festival at Strand Park and throughout the streets of downtown Alexander City will be held from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The event will include sidewalk sales and a kids’ station (at 9 a.m.) with inflatables, face painting and the famous pumpkin roll. Visit Main Street restaurants and lounges, where PATH volunteers will offer A-Peeling Apple Tastings at $5 for five samples. For more information, email Bre Smith at bresmithdowntownac@ gmail.com or call 256-329-9227.

Oct. 20 Wind Creek State Park Halloween 5K Run

Sign in and warm up with stretches at 7:30 a.m. for this annual costumed run at Lake Martin’s state park. The race will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the marina parking lot and will continue throughout Wind Creek State Park campground and picnic areas. Register at www.active.com. Entry is $25 and includes a T-shirt.

Oct. 22 Horizons Unlimited

Nancy Anderson will present The World of Childhood: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Kite Runner at the Alexander City Board of Education Building, 375 Lee St. from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Membership to the Horizons Unlimited series is $20 per person or $30 per couple.

Oct. 24-25 Basic Computer for Seniors

Presented in two modules from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., this class will cover hardware, using a mouse (clicking, double clicking, dragging, cutting and pasting), email, the internet and social networking. Registration fee is $20. Participants should register by Oct. 23. Presented by Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama, 5030 U.S. Highway 280, Alexander City. Call 256-234-0347 for information.

Alexander City Arts kicks off its 2018-2019 50th anniversary season with this entertaining and authentic tribute to the music of The Beatles. The four-piece group sports the same suits, boots, mop-tops, musical instruments and gear and performs the Beatles’ greatest hits. The show will be held at the Benjamin Russell High School Auditorium and begins at 7 p.m. For additional information, call 256-749-8073.

Oct. 26 Lake Martin Golf Classic

This 14th annual golf tournament will be held at Stillwaters Golf and Country Club, and proceeds will benefit the care of the goats on Goat Island, along with K911. There are spots for 24 teams at $500 per team. Prizes are available, along with complimentary breakfast and lunch, gift bags and door prizes. An award presentation will be held after the tournament with live music and dinner. Registration and driving range open at 8:30 a.m. Breakfast sandwiches and refreshments will be available at 9 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at 11 a.m. For more information, contact Michael Langston at 256-750-5200.

Oct. 27 Fall Boogie 7

It’s time again for the one and only Fall Boogie at Waverly, presented by Standard Deluxe. This year’s Southern multi-cultural gathering will feature music by Ansley Oakley, Christopher Paul Stelling, Drew Beskin, John Moreland, Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Lilly Hiatt, Lonnie Holley, Revel in Dimes and The Brook and The Bluff. Early-bird tickets are $30 at www.standarddeluxe.com/shop/fallboogie7 while supplies last. Then the price goes up to $40. Gates open at 10 a.m. Music starts at 11 a.m. on two stages. Bring lawn chairs, friends, family and small coolers. No dogs and no glass bottles allowed.

Oct. 27 Fall Festival at Russell Crossroads

Russell Crossroads will host a working blacksmith, grist

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mill, horseback rides, lawn games, face painting, pumpkin carving and baking and canning contests from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $25. Call 256-397-1019 for information.

Oct. 27 Fifth Annual Wildcat Dash

Hosted by Radney Elementary School, this 5K starts at 7:30 a.m. at RES, with a Trick-or-Treat 1-mile Fun Run to follow at 8:30 a.m. Package pickup begins at 6:30 a.m. on race day. Register by Sept. 7 to receive a T-shirt. Participants can register at RES or online at active.com. The 5K entry costs $25, and the fun run is $15. Fun runners are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes.

Oct. 29 Thirdd Annual Russell Medical Foundation Golf Classic

Wind Creek Park Marina, Union Public Boat Ramp and Real Island Marina. Volunteers can pick up supplies and a Renew our Rivers T-shirt from the designated dumpter locations at 8 a.m. both days. Trash can be deposited until 12 p.m. For more information, contact LMRA President John Thompson at 1942jthompson420@gmail.com.

Nov. 8 Lunch and Learn

River Bank and Trust Tallapoosa President Randy Dawkins will present Better Banking for Seniors at this Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama program from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at 5030 U.S. Highway 280, Alexander City.

Bring a sack lunch; dessert and tea will be provided. Call 256-234-0347 by Nov. 6 to reserve a space.

Season-Long Events

Presented by Russell Lands on Lake Martin, this annual golf tournament will be held at Willow Point Golf & Country Club. Russell Medical plans to purchase a Piccolo Express Chemistry Analyzer with the proceeds from the tournament. Entry is $2,000 for a four-person team. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. followed by a 10 a.m. shotgun start.

Players will receive gift bags, along with food and beverages along the course. Players and a guest are treated to a pre-tournament party Oct. 28 at the Willow Point Cabana at 5 p.m. To register a team or for more information, contact Tammy Jackson at 256-215-7459.

Alabama Wildlife Federation Naturalist Hikes

Oct. 30 Benjamin Russell Band Halloween Concert at The AMP

Library Storytime in Dadeville

Storytime for children ages 5 and younger is held at the Dadeville Public Library every Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Come in costume to this third annual free concert featuring the Benjamin Russell High School Pride dressed as ghosts, ghouls and goblins. The music plays from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Lake Martin Amphitheater, 8878 Kowaliga Rd., Eclectic.

Nov. 1 Lunch and Learn

Registered Nurse Sandra Patten will present the program, Tackling Getting Older, at this event hosted by Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at 5030 U.S. Highway 280, Alexander City. Bring a sack lunch; dessert and tea will be provided. Call 256-234-0347 by Oct. 30 to reserve a space.

Nov. 2-3 Renew our Rivers Cleanup

Hosted by the combined efforts of Lake Martin Resource Association, Alabama Power Company, Russell Lands, Advanced Disposal, Wind Creek Park and TowBoatU.S. Lake Martin, volunteers are encouraged to help remove litter from Lake Martin’s shorelines and adjacent roadways. This annual project removes tons of trash each year, and hundreds of volunteers from around the county step up to keep our Treasured Lake beautiful. Volunteers may work independently, and dumpsters will be available at Kowaliga Public Ramp, 18 LAKE

Every Tuesday and Friday, from 10 a.m. until noon, hike some of Lanark’s 5 miles of trails with an experienced Alabama Nature Center naturalist by your side. Learn how to bird or identify plants and animals; splash through the creek; or catch insects in the meadow. General admission applies and is $5 per person with a $20 maximum per family. The Alabama Nature Center is located at 3050 Lanark Rd. in Millbrook. Visit alabamawildlife.org.

Children’s Library in Alexander City

Mamie’s Place Children’s Library holds themed storytime every Wednesday at 10 a.m. for preschool-aged and younger children. In addition, the children’s library hosts board games and puzzles every Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. For information, call Melissa Finley at 256-234-4644.

$20 on the 20th

The Dadeville Area Chamber of Commerce is asking our community to spend $20 on the 20th of each month to help our local economy.

Children’s Harbor Treasures and Thrift Store

Located on Highway 63 just south of Lake Martin Amphitheater, the Children’s Harbor Thrift Store is open Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. You never know what gems you might find – from clothes and household items to boats. Proceeds are used to help fund the activities at the Lake Martin campus of Children’s Harbor and the Family Center at Children's Hospital. Call 334-857-2008 for more information.

Memory Makers Quilt Guild

Meets the second and fourth Mondays at the Senior Center on the Charles E. Bailey Sportplex campus. Participants

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come and go between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. with a business meeting at 5 p.m., followed by show-and-tell. Bring sewing projects, machines and questions.

Western, bluegrass, Southern gospel and instrumental music featured. For more information, contact Wayne Glenn at 334-541-3302.

Real Island Supper

Trivia Night at Niffer’s Lake Martin

The Real Island community hosts a covered dish supper every third Friday of the month at the Real Island Volunteer Fire Department and Community Room, 1495 Real Island Rd., Equality. Everyone is welcome.

Admission is $3 per adult; bring a covered dish to share. Some nights are themed, so call ahead to find out if costumes or certain types of food are in order. For more information, contact Dianne Perrett at 256-329-8724.

Charity Bingo

Play charity bingo at Jake’s Restaurant at 16 Broad St., Alexander City, at 6 p.m. every Thursday night.

Cards are $1 and proceeds benefit local charities.

Amateur Radio Club

The Lake Martin Area Amateur Radio Club meets the second Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. at the terminal building at the Thomas C. Russell Field Airport, Alexander City, with dinner and fellowship following at a local area restaurant. For more information, contact Michael Courtney at 256-825-7766 or Mike Smith at 256-750-5710.

Naturalist Presentations and Guided Nature Tours

Naturalist Marianne Hudson fills the Naturalist Cabin at Russell Crossroads with children and adults to see and listen to her lively nature presentations with critters, insects, snakes and fowl, just to mention a few. There is never a dull moment with this wildlife biologist as she educates on the beauty of nature in the wild and the outdoor classroom. Check the calendar at Calendar.

RussellLandsOnLakeMartin.com for the scheduled subject matter, dates and times.

The Equality Performing Arts Center

The Equality Performing Arts Center hosts music and other events on the second and fourth Friday nights of each month at 6:30 p.m. on Alabama Highway 9 in Equality. Country/

Every Thursday, Niffer’s hosts trivia night at 7 p.m. Winners receive Niffer’s gift cards. First place gets $40, second place gets $25 and third place gets $15.

Grab a group of friends and come out for a night of games. A bonus question is posted on the Niffer’s Facebook page at 2 p.m. Thursdays.

Clean Community Partnership Cleanups

The third Saturday of each month, volunteers throughout the community are encouraged to meet at Broad Street Plaza at 9 a.m. to pickup supplies and area assignments and help clean up the roads within Alexander City. For more information, email jacob.meacham@ alexandercitychamber.com.

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Lake Martin News LMRA announces annual Renew Our Rivers cleanup details

n Volunteers in the Real Island area will have access to dumpsters located at Real Island Marina; n Volunteers will be urged to separate recyclables, which Lake Martin Resource Association, Alabama Power will be accumulated and delivered to the Alexander City Company, Russell Lands, Advanced Disposal, Wind Creek Recycling Center; State Park and n Nov. 3, volunTowBoatU.S. Lake teers will be shuttled Martin once again to areas within Wind will sponsor the annuCreek State Park al “Renew our Rivers” boundaries; cleanup of Lake n On Nov. 3, local Martin. Last year, the Scout groups will combined efforts of clean designated areas more than 300 volunand gather at Wind teers removed more Creek State Park than 13 tons of trash afterward for a hot from Lake Martin’s dog cookout, courtesy shoreline and roadof Marshall Griffin, ways, which included Manager of Alabama a number of automoPower Company bile tires. offices in Alexander This year’s event City and Dadeville; will once again focus n On Nov. 3, all on littered shorelines, volunteers and paras well as roadsides ticipants in LMRA’s leading to public boat Dixie Sailing Club youth and volunteers made last year's Lake magazine Treasured Mile proramps. Additional honor roll with more than 10 bags of collected trash gram will be invited efforts will be made to Wind Creek State to involve neighborPark to enjoy a hot dog cookout furnished by the Alabama hoods throughout the Lake Martin community.

Power Company shoreline management team.

Volunteers are encouraged to work independently with Volunteers will be available at the dumpster sites to their cleanup efforts and deliver the bagged trash to dumpassist in unloading boats or vehicles during the hours of the sters that will be located at the Kowaliga Public Boat Ramp, cleanup.

Wind Creek State Park Marina, Union Public Boat Ramp Email 1942jthompson420@gmail.com for information. and Real Island Marina. If transporting the bagged trash ~ Staff Report proves difficult, arrangements can be made to have it picked up.

Bring a camera along and ask a dumpster site volunteer to take a picture of your group with your cache of trash; then, send your photo, along with the names of your cleanup group, to editor@lakemartinmagazine.com to be included in the cleanup volunteer honor roll in the December issue of Lake magazine.

Supplies will be available, and each volunteer who delivers bagged trash or items that have been retrieved from the shoreline of Lake Martin, adjacent roadsides or neighborhoods in the Lake Martin community to the dumpsters will receive a custom-designed T-shirt featuring artwork from the “Renew our Rivers” art contest held annually at Stephens Elementary School in Alexander City.

Here is the way it will work: n Volunteers can pick up supplies at dumpster locations beginning at 8 a.m. on both Friday (Nov. 2) and Saturday (Nov. 3); n On Nov. 2, Russell Lands associates and other volunteers will meet at 7:45 a.m. at the Russell Lands corporate office to receive supplies and assignments; n Trash can be deposited in the dumpsters between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. on the designated cleanup days; 20 LAKE

Body found at boat ramp

The body of a South Korean man was found at the Kowaliga boat ramp the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11.

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Marine Patrol Capt.

Gary Buchanan said authorities were called to the scene at 5:45 a.m. where they found 57-year-old Seo Phyo Hong deceased.

Though Hong had a Montgomery address, authorities were unable to locate any local family members at the time.

“We are working through the South Korean consulate to notify any family in South Korea,” Buchanan said.

No foul play is suspected in the death. ~ Cliff Williams

Rescue Squad trains with new sonar equipment

The Alexander City Tallapoosa County Rescue Squad is on the cutting edge of search efforts, thanks to newly acquired sonar equipment.

“This is a good day for us,” Tallapoosa County Emergency Management Agency director Jason Moran said.

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“We got some equipment we can use. It is the latest technology as far as sonar goes. It gives us the ability to locate and find a missing person or evidence like cars or other objects for a criminal case. We are very thankful.”

Similar technology was used a year ago to find Thomas Heulan Spence last August after he dove into the waters of Lake Martin and failed to resurface.

For six days, authorities searched with dive teams, and even a cadaver dog was brought in to search. Finally, the Daphne Search and Rescue Team arrived with new sonar that changed the game. What seemed like minutes after arriving, the team was able to locate Spence’s body and rescuers recovered it providing relief to a waiting family.

The new sonar will be housed by the rescue squad.

“A big thanks to the Alexander City Tallapoosa County Rescue Squad for their efforts,” Moran said. “They are ultimately the ones that will use the equipment along with the EMA dive team and the Alexander City Fire Department Dive team. It will be used to decrease the time to find a missing loved one.”

Area first responders trained with the new equipment to get comfortable with its operation on lake property owned

by Harold Cochran Wednesday.

The sonar is dropped in the water tethered to equipment in a boat. The equipment can provide a 360-degree image from the sonar of things up to 300 feet away. Operators can mark points of interest that are marked on a map with GPS coordinates for divers to take a look. The equipment should speed searches. It is something Alexander City Tallapoosa County Rescue Squad’s Ken Cowart said he hopes will hap-

pen.

“Hopefully, it will speed things up,” he said. “You can have it on your screen on one side and the (search) grid on the other side and mark it.”

The equipment and rescue squad operating the sonar will travel with it like they have done for operations in the past across the state and region.

Cowart said the Alexander City Tallapoosa County Rescue Squad has travelled to other areas for previous recoveries, and they will travel when called upon with the sonar.

The new equipment was purchased through a Department of Homeland Security grant with help for matching funds coming from local businesses and organizations.

“I want to thank our local contributors that helped fund this,” Moran said. “The county commission, City of Alexander City, Russell Lands and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.”

ALEA Secretary Hal Taylor likes the team atmosphere created around the new sonar.

“Thank you for the effort in this team enterprise,” Taylor said.

Taylor said he does not want to see this equipment ever used for the purpose of recovering a lost loved one.

“This is a piece of equipment you hope you never have to use,” Taylor said. “It is one the most modern and updated.

It will cut down on the time to find a car or loved one. You hope you get to leave it in the box and only train with it.” ~ Cliff Williams

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Sister Hazel brought the audience to its feet at this year's Labor Day concert at The AMP

It's all for Lake Martin Sister Hazel returns to The AMP for end-of-summer concert PHOTOS BY KENNETH BOONE

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Ken Block smiles through the concert at The AMP

Sister Hazel wowed the crowd at Lake Martin Amphitheater Labor Day weekend for the last concert of the 2018 lake season.

The signature song from this five-member band from Gainesville, Florida, "All For You," was named Billboard's No. 9 Greatest Of All Time Adult Pop Songs in July, and they poured it out for the Sept. 2 audience despite a rainshower that interrupted the concert for a short while.

The band formed in 1993 and has enjoyed steady growth in popularity. Their 10th studio album, "Wind," was released the first week of September this year, just days after their holiday concert at The AMP. An alternative rock band, Sister Hazel blends jangle pop, folk rock, classic rock 'n' roll and Southern rock in melodic tunes with strong harmony. Bucking the typical alternative rock stereotype, Sister Hazel produces music with optimistic lyrics and an upbeat sound.

Their 1997 hit, "All For You," was No. 11 on Billboard's Hot 100 list. Other popular songs by Sister Hazel include "Champagne High," "Change Your Mind" and "We Got It All Night."

The band took its name from Sister Hazel Williams, a missionary who managed a homeless shelter in Gainesville, Florida. Lead vocalist for the band Ken Block said he remembers Williams' selflessness and generosity and named the band in her honor for her unconditional regard for her fellow human beings.

Williams died in 2016 at the age of 91.

Sister Hazel also headlined the Labor Day concert in 2013

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Gone to the Birds

Birmingham Audubon President Joe Watts points to a redheaded woodpecker that's in beginning birder Marcia Reid's sights

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Smith Mountain is finally added to the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail STORY BY BETSY ILER PHOTOS BY BETSY ILER KENNETH BOONE & CLIFF WILLIAMS

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Dadeville’s Marcia Reid spotted it before anyone else – a redheaded woodpecker feeding two young chicks in the hardwoods along the base of Smith Mountain.

“Yay! The new person spots it first,” she told her seasoned birdwatching companions who continued to search the treetops with binoculars pressed to their faces.

The bird walkers saw nine Reid recently took up bird watchwoodpeckers along the trail, ing as an alternate and complementary including the sharply outdoor activity to the hiking she loves, contrasted redheaded variety and her inaugural outing coincided with the Birmingham Audubon visit to the “The open water, shoreline, mixed hardwoods on the newest addition on the Piedmont Plateau section of the low areas around the lake, and the pines on the dry, rockyAlabama Birding Trails. Smith Mountain was added to the ridge top all provide diverse habitats. During our walk, we list of birding trail sites only last month, after a long delay had brown-headed nuthatches and pine warblers up near due to the firetower restoration and education center conthe fire tower with turkey vultures soaring in the updraft struction projects at the top of the mountain.

Alabama is home to more than 400 species of birds, and from the mountain. Lower down in the mixed hardwoods, we had the yellow-throated vireo, white-breasted East Central Alabama’s Piedmont area includes some of nuthatch and the typical woodland birds, such as blue the best birding sites in the state, said BA’s President Joe jay, Carolina chickadee and tufted titmouse,” said Anne Watts.

Miller, Birmingham Audubon member and founder of the “Some of our birds have limited territory, so you really Alabama Wildlife Center. might be able to go out and see about 350 different speThis month, visitors to Lake Martin’s premier tower cies, which is very good. Compare that number to states viewing site and trails could be treated to an even greater out West, where you might see 250,” he said. variety of birds, as fall migration draws non-resident speAlabama’s blessing of birds is largely due to its biocies over the area on their way south. diversity, explained Sarah Randolph, BA’s outreach and “This area is part of the Mississippi Flyway, which sees communications director.

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more than 325 bird species as they make the round trip each year from their breeding grounds in North America to their wintering grounds along the Gulf of Mexico and in Central and South America. This is also a great place for herons and migratory waterfowl,” she added.

Early morning is the best time to see birds at the lake, as they are most active then, but there’s really no bad time to go looking, Randolph said.

A good bird guide – such as the Sibley Guide to Birds, Eastern Edition – is enough to get started in bird watching, an activity enjoyed by more than 60 million Americans, according to U.S. census data. That’s more than the number of American basketball, baseball and football players combined.

And Reid is enthusiastic about joining the throng. A Florida native, she moved to Dadeville in 2011 and put birdfeeders in her yard. Last December, she participated in the annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count.

Since 1899, the NAS has hosted an annual effort to survey and record bird numbers across the country. Though incomplete and not official, the Christmas Bird Count helps ornithologists follow population and movements trends – such as expanding territories for some species and sudden declines in others. For Reid, the holiday effort made her more aware of what she might be missing right in her own backyard. “There were so many birds,” Reid said. “I just want to know what I’m looking at, and I thought hanging around with birders could help me.”

Her strategy yielded great results, as the mid-morning walk included the siting of two downy woodpeckers, a mourning dove, seven turkey vultures, a flycatcher and seven red-headed

woodpeckers, as well as song or call identification of a yellowthroated vireo, a blue jay, a pine warbler, white-breasted nuthatch, white-eyed vireo and Carolina chickadee. Still, that’s just a fraction of the species that could be seen at Smith Mountain with a bit of time and patience and the help of a pair of binoculars, said Randolph, who also was making her first bird walk at the Cherokee Ridge Alpine Trail Association location.

BA scheduled the Sept. 12 bird walk event in conjunction with the official adoption of the Smith Mountain site on the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail. The site designation and dedication took place prior to a walk up the mountain to visit the new education center at the top.

Catching sight of the red-headed woodpecker before the more experienced bird watchers was exciting for Reid, who promised at the end of the event that she would join more Birmingham Audubon outings and visit the CRATA areas frequently.

“You can just look out your window and up in the trees and get started. I love it!” she said.

Birmingham Audubon is a nonprofit organization that promotes conservation and a greater knowledge of birds, their habitats and the natural world. BA draws membership from across Alabama and conducts field trips and programs throughout the state. To learn more about becoming a member of the Birmingham Audubon flock, visit birminghamaudubon. org.

Get started bird watching with the checklist on page 34, and see how many species can be found at Smith Mountain and other areas around Lake Martin.

Bird watching is easy, said Birmingham Audubon members: Just go outside and look up

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Alabama Birds Checklist Many of these bird species live in or migrate through the Lake Martin area. Check off the ones you see and keep a running list. Make a contest of it with friends and family to see who can spot the most birds at the lake. Consult www.allaboutbirds.org to help you identify species, keep track of your lists and learn more through a wide variety of articles. ____Black-bellied Whistling Duck ____Fulvous Duck ____Snow Goose ____Ross’s Goose ____Greater White-fronted Brant ____Cackling Goose ____Canada Goose ____Trumpeter Swan ____Wood Duck ____Blue-wingedTeal ____Cinnamon Teal ____Northern Shoveler ____Gadwall ____Eurasian Wigeon ____American Wigeon ____Mallard Duck ____American Black Duck ____Mottled Duck ____White-cheeked Pintail ____Northern Pintail ____Green-winged Teal ____Canvasback ____Redhead ____Ring-necked Duck ____Greater Scaup ____Lesser Scaup ____King Eider ____Harlequin Duck ____Surf Scoter ____White-winged Scoter ____Black Scoter ____Long-tailed Duck ____Bufflehead ____Common Goldeneye ____Hooded Merganser ____Common Merganser ____Red-breasted Merganser ____Ruddy Duck ____Northern Bobwhite ____Ruffed Grouse ____Wild Turkey ____Pied-billed Grebe ____Horned Grebe ____Red-necked Grebe ____Eared Grebe ____Western Grebe ____Rock Pigeon ____Band-tailed Pegeon ____Eurasian Collared-Dove ____Inca Dove ____Common Ground-Dove ____White-winged Dove ____Mourning Dove ____Yellow-billed Cuckoo ____Mangrove Cuckoo ____Black-billed Cuckoo ____Groove-billed Ani ____Lesser Nighthawk ____Common Nighthawk ____Chuck-will’s-widow ____Eastern Whip-poor-will ____Black Swift ____Chimney Swift ____Mexican Violetear Hummingbird

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____Rivioli's Hummingbird ____Ruby-throated Hummingbird ____Black-chinned Hummingbird ____Anna’s Hummingbird ____Costa’s Hummingbird ____Broad-tailed Hummingbird ____Rufous Hummingbird ____Allen’s Hummingbird ____Calliope Hummingbird ____Broad-billed Hummingbird ____Buff-bellied Hummingbird ____White-eared Hummingbird ____Yellow Rail ____Black Rail ____Clapper Rail ____King Rail ____Virginia Rail ____Sora Rail ____Purple Gallinule ____Common Gallinule ____American Coot ____Limpkin ____Sandhill Crane ____Black-necked Stilt ____American Avocet ____American Oystercatcher ____Black-bellied Plover ____American Golden Plover ____Snowy Plover ____Wilson’s Plover ____Semipalmated Plover ____Piping Plover ____Killdeer ____Mountain Plover ____Upland Sandpiper ____Whimbrel ____Long-billed Curlew ____Hudsonian Godwit ____Marbled Godwit ____Ruddy Turnstone ____Red Knot ____Ruff ____Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ____Stilt ____Curlew ____Sanderling ____Dunlin ____Purple Sandpiper ____Baird’s Sandpiper ____Least Sandpiper ____White-rumped Sandpiper ____Buff-breasted Sandpiper ____Pectoral Sandpiper ____Semipalmated Sandpiper ____Western Sandpiper ____Short-billed Dowitcher ____Long-billed Dowitcher ____American Woodcock ____Wilson's Snipe ____Spotted Sandpiper ____Solitary Sandpiper ____Lesser Yellowlegs ____Willet ____Greater Yellowlegs

____Wilson's Phalarope ____Red-necked Phalarope ____Red Phalarope ____Pomarine Jaeger ____Parasitic Jaeger ____Long-tailed Jaeger ____Razorbill Jaeger ____Black-legged Kittiwake ____Ivory Gull ____Sabine’s Gull ____Bonaparte’s Gull ____Little Gull ____Laughing Gull ____Franklin’s Gull ____Ring-billed Gull ____California Gull ____Herring Gull ____Iceland Gull ____Lesser Black-backed Gull ____Glaucous-winged Gull ____Glaucous Gull ____Great Black-backed Gull ____Brown Noddy ____Sooty Tern ____Bridled Tern ____Least Tern ____Gull-billed Tern ____Caspian Tern ____Black Tern ____Common Tern ____Forster’s Tern ____Royal Tern ____Sandwich Tern ____Black Skimmer ____Red-billed Tropicbird ____Red-throated Loon ____Pacific Loon ____Common Loon ____Cory's Shearwater ____Sooty Shearwater ____Great Shearwater ____Audubon’s Shearwater ____Wilson's Storm-Petrel ____Leach’s Storm-Petrel ____Band-rumped Storm-Petrel ____Wood Stork ____Magnificent Frigatebird ____Masked Booby ____Brown Booby ____Northern Gannet ____Neotropic Cormorant ____Double-crested Cormorant ____Great Cormorant ____Anhinga ____American White Pelican ____Brown Pelican ____American Bittern ____Least Bittern ____Great Blue Heron ____Great Egret ____Snowy Egret ____Little Blue Heron ____Tricolored Heron ____Reddish Egret

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____Cattle Egret ____Green Heron ____Black-crowned Night-Heron ____Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ____White Ibis ____Glossy Ibis ____White-faced Ibis ____Roseate Spoonbill ____Black Vulture ____Turkey Vulture ____Osprey ____Swallow-tailed Kite ____White-tailed Kite ____Mississippi Kite ____Bald Eagle ____Northern Harrier ____Sharp-shinned Hawk ____Cooper’s Hawk ____Northern Goshawk ____Red-shouldered Hawk ____Broad-winged Hawk ____Short-tailed Hawk ____Swainson’s Hawk ____Red-tailed Hawk ____Rough-legged Hawk ____Golden Eagle ____Barn Owl ____Flammulated Owl ____Eastern Screech-Owl ____Great Horned Owl ____Snowy Owl ____Burrowing Owl ____Barred Owl ____Long-eared Owl ____Short-eared Owl ____Northern Saw-whet Owl ____Belted Kingfisher ____Red-headed Woodpecker ____Red-bellied Woodpecker ____Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ____Downy Woodpecker ____Hairy Woodpecker ____Red-cockaded Woodpecker ____Northern Flicker ____Pileated Woodpecker ____Crested Caracara ____American Kestrel ____Merlin ____Peregrine Falcon ____Prairie Falcon ____Olive-sided Flycatcher ____Easter Wood-Pewee ____Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ____Acadian Flycatcher ____Alder Flycatcher ____Willow Flycatcher ____Least Flycatcher ____Hammond’s Flycatcher ____Dusky Flycatcher ____Pacific-slope/Cordilleran Flycatcher ____Eastern Phoebe ____Say’s Phoebe ____Vermilion Flycatcher

____Veery ____Gray-cheeked Thrush ____Swainson’s Thrush ____Hermit Thrush ____Wood Thrush ____American Robin ____Varied Thrush ____Gray Catbird ____Brown Thrasher ____Sage Thrasher ____Northern Mockingbird ____European Starling ____Cedar Waxwing ____House Sparrow

____Ash-throated Flycatcher ____Great Crested Flycatcher ____Brown-crested Flycatcher ____La Sagra’s Flycatcher ____Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher ____Couch's Kingbird ____Western Kingbird ____Eastern Kingbird ____Gray Kingbird ____Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ____Fork-tailed Flycatcher ____Loggerhead Shrike ____White-eyed Vireo ____Bell’s Vireo ____Yellow-throated Vireo ____Blue-headed Vireo ____Warbling Vireo ____Philadelphia Vireo ____Red-eyed Vireo ____ Yellow-green Vireo ____Black-whiskered Vireo ____Blue Jay ____Clark's Nutcracker ____American Crow ____Fish Crow ____Common Raven ____Horned Lark ____Purple Martin ____Tree Swallow ____N. Rough-winged Swallow ____Bank Swallow ____Cliff Swallow ____Cave Swallow ____Barn Swallow ____Carolina Chickadee ____Tufted Titmouse ____Red-breasted Nuthatch ____White-breasted Nuthatch ____Brown-headed Nuthatch ____Brown Creeper ____Rock Wren ____House Wren ____Winter Wren ____Sedge Wren ____Marsh Wren ____Carolina Wren ____Bewick’s Wren ____Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ____Golden-crowned Kinglet ____Ruby-crowned Kinglet ____Northern Wheatear ____Eastern Bluebird

____ Yellow/E. Yellow Wagtail ____American Pipit ____Sprague’s Pipit ____Evening Grosbeak ____House Finch ____Purple Finc ____Common Redpoll ____Red Crossbill ____White-winged Crossbill ____Pine Siskin ____American Goldfinch ____Lapland Longspur ____Chestnut-collared Longspur ____ Smith’s Longspur ____Snow Bunting ____Green-tailed Towhee ____Eastern Towhee ____Bachman's Sparrow ____American Tree Sparrow ____Chipping Sparrow ____Clay-colored Sparrow ____Field Sparrow ____Vesper Sparrow ____Lark Sparrow ____Lark Bunting ____Savannah Sparrow ____Grasshopper Sparrow ____Henslow’s Sparrow ____LeConte’s Sparrow ____Nelson’s Sparrow ____Seaside Sparrow ____Fox Sparrow ____Song Sparrow ____Lincoln’s Sparrow

____Swamp Sparrow ____White-throated Sparrow ____Harris’s Sparrow ____White-crowned Sparrow ____Dark-eyed Junco ____Yellow-breasted Chat ____Yellow-headed Blackbird ____Bobolink ____Eastern Meadowlark ____Western Meadowlark ____Orchard Oriole ____Hooded Oriole ____Bullock’s Oriole ____Baltimore Oriole ____Red-winged Blackbird ____Shiny Cowbird ____Bronzed Cowbird ____Brown-headed Cowbird ____Rusty Blackbird ____Brewer’s Blackbird ____Common Grackle ____Boat-tailed Grackle ____Ovenbird ____Worm-eating Warbler

____Louisiana Waterthrush ____Northern Waterthrush ____Golden-winged Warbler ____Blue-winged Warbler ____Black-and-white Warbler ____Prothonotary Warbler ____Swainson’s Warbler ____Tennessee Warbler ____Orange-crowned Warbler ____Nashville Warbler ____Connecticut Warbler ____MacGillivray’s Warbler ____Mourning Warbler ____Kentucky Warbler ____Common Yellowthroat

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____Hooded Warbler ____American Redstart ____Cape May Warbler ____Cerulean Warbler ____Northern Parula ____Magnolia Warbler ____Bay-breasted Warbler ____Blackburnian Warbler ____Yellow Warbler ____Chestnut-sided Warbler ____Blackpoll Warbler ____Black-throated Blue Warbler ____Palm Warbler ____Pine Warbler ____Yellow-rumped Warbler ____Yellow-throated Warbler ____Prairie Warbler ____Black-throated Gray Warbler ____Black-throated Green Warbler ____Canada Warbler ____Wilson’s Warbler ____Painted Redstart ____Summer Tanager ____Scarlet Tanager ____Western Tanager ____Northern Cardinal ____Rose-breasted Grosbeak ____Black-headed Grosbeak

____Blue Grosbeak ____Lazuli Bunting ____Indigo Bunting ____Painted Bunting ____Dickcissel

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The five petals of the Cardinal Flower are arranged in two lips

NATURE OF THE LAKE

BY KENNETH BOONE

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Cardinal Flower Popular with hummingbirds and gardeners

If red is Flowers blossom low your favorite on the stem and work color, Cardinal their way up to the top Flower should be at the top of your wildflower list.

This showy perennial produces some of the most intense scarletred flowers of any plant, anywhere.

Its vivid red blooms have also been described as vermillion or crimson.

And we have it growing wild around Lake Martin.

Of course, that’s not the only place it grows.

Cardinal Flower is a native of eastern North America, from the gulf coast states all the way north to Canada.

But here around Lake Martin, this wildflower has lots opportunities to put down roots since it likes wet feet and filtered light. (It can also tolerate full sun, especially in the northern parts of its range.) Any wooded creek bank, slough, marshy

area or oak bottom in the backwaters of the lake would be a likely place to see it.

If you’d like to see it in bloom, go out hunting for it today. Flowers start in midsummer and last until October.

Lobelia cardinalis is the scientific name for this wildflower, which is named after 17th-century botanist Matthias de L’Obel. Both its species name and its common name come from the scarlet robes worn

by Roman Catholic cardinals.

Cardinal Flower is impossible to misidentify. It sends up long, unbranched spikes that can reach 4 feet tall. The bright red flowers begin opening near the ground, and progressively work their way up to the top. The Cardinal Flowers pictured here were photographed during the third week

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Cardinal Flower is attractive in arrangements but emits a milky sap

Leaves are dark green, alternate and toothed

of September along a muddy drainage near Dadeville, and their blossoms had already reached the end of its spikes.

Although it’s not common, Lobelia cardinalis sometimes has white or pink flowers as well.

If you look closely at the flowers, each has five petals. The bottom three are united into a single lip, while the top two smaller petals form an upper lip that looks a little bit like a tiny pair of wings. Five stamens are joined to form a tall tube that is topped with white, hairy brush.

The leaves of the Cardinal Flower are dark green, alternate, toothed on the margins and shaped like slender ovals pointed at each end.

This plant has a thick green to purplish-green stem that can be smooth or have short hairs. It has a root ball that some have likened to a small white mop head.

As you might imagine, these intense red blooms attract ruby-throated hummingbirds, which are the flower’s primary pollinator in our area.

It is such a beautiful flower that gardeners often plant Cardinal Flower in water and butterfly gardens. This wildflower is hardy in zones 3-9, and Lake Martin straddles the line between zones 7b and 8a.

Another good characteristic for gardeners: Cardinal Flower is not typically on the menu for deer or rabbits.

And this plant makes a good cut flower, although the stem does emit a milky sap.

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On the negative side for gardeners, Cardinal Flower is categorized as a short-lived perennial since the wildflower will die after the blooms fade, although the following year it will send up new spikes from the same root ball.

Cardinal Flower is easy to propagate by division, and the plant frequently reseeds itself and grows in clumps or large colonies.

A close relative of this plant is Great Blue Lobelia, which has a very similar shape but purple-blue flowers, and it also grows wild around Lake Martin.

Cardinal Flower is related to tobacco, and some Native American tribes smoked or chewed its leaves and used infusions of this plant to treat many maladies. The Iroquois and other tribes even used the roots to make a face-wash that was said to be a love potion for attracting the opposite sex; however, all parts of a Cardinal Flower contain the toxic alkaloids lobelamine and lobeline, which act in a fashion similar to nicotine, and consuming this plant has reportedly led to death in some cases.

So Cardinal Flower is best enjoyed visually.

Information for this article came from Forest Plants of the Southeast, The USDA Forest Service, the Missouri Botanical Garden, Floridata and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

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See a calmer, quieter side of Chimney Rock at the lake this fall

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Best time to do nothing at Lake Martin Get the views, beaches and fun to yourself this fall

STORY BY BETSY ILER & PHOTOS BY KENNETH BOONE

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Just a smattering of boats can be found at Big Beach this time of year

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It was the best day on the lake all year.

Though air temperatures were still in the low 90s, the humidity was only 77 percent. That, coupled with a gentle fall breeze, swept away the mid-summer haze. The long views over Lake Martin’s big water were crisp and clear. At 84 degrees, the water temperature was just a little cooler than bathwater, and the lake was perfect for swimming, wading and flinking (floating and drinking).

But the best part of it all was that there was plenty of room for all of that and more. No frenzy. No suffocating heat. No noise; no traffic; no agenda.

We left the dock early afternoon and right away breathed easier than we had all summer.

There was very little traffic outside the marina; a few passing boats but no congestion, no merging into a lane of boats like cars on U.S. Highway 280.

“This is nice!” we told each other.

We took the turn around Wishbone Island to the south wide and long, just because we could.

Fewer than a dozen boats dotted the water below an empty Chimney Rock. A couple of cabin cruisers were anchored around the corner at one end. On the other side of the little bay, three flinkers bobbed leisurely near the rock hazard.

Closer to the rock, a couple dangled their feet off the back of their boat. A single sailboat passed

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through on the east side.

Below Lake Martin’s famous hangout, we talked with Derek Eberly and his family and friends.

Eberly owns a marina in Gulf Shores and spends his summers driving parasail boats and gulf tours.

“When the season is over at the beach, we always come up to the lake,” Eberly said. “We always come on this weekend – halfway through September – and it’s the best time to be here. The water is calm; temperatures are just starting to get cooler. We practically have the lake to ourselves.”

Eberly and his friends rent a lake house every year, arriving on a Thursday and heading back to the beach the following Monday. While they’re here, they visit Chimney Rock, find a rope swing in the neighborhood and eat at Niffer’s Place Lake Martin.

We stayed long enough to see three guys climb the rope to the lower Chicken Rock and jump off.

It’s hard to let go of the summer fun when the water is warm and the sun is shining.

We continued on our way, passing Cheeseburger Island. A couple of boats had pulled up on the beach, but we didn’t see anyone camping there.

“Somebody missed a great camping spot this weekend,” we said.

Glancing south, we had a clear view of Martin Dam and saw just one lucky boater who had Goat

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Island to himself with all the time in the world.

We watched a personal watercraft cut back and forth across the water, the wind in the rider’s hair and no boats in his way.

Ambling up toward Anchor Bay Marina, we passed Chad Gilliland in his towboat.

“Busy?” we asked.

“Not today,” he answered.

Circling back, we stopped at a rapidly eroding island to swim and wade. The PWC rider zoomed past us. We climbed back in the boat and swung our lazy-day tour under the Bridge to Nowhere and passed Lake Martin’s beautiful homes along North Ridge. We ducked into a deep slough opposite Midway Island and found ourselves on the backside of the old Blue Hill gold mine where the water was like glass.

We spotted a young eagle and followed him from tree to tree for a time. We tried to be nonchalant, in no particular hurry, so we might get a picture or two, but he wanted no part of it. He flew over an island and was gone, so we continued to wander, waving politely at the few boats we saw along the way.

The water still at summer pool, we slipped

by Smith Mountain Landing but opted not to tie up at the moorings and get out. There will be time for hiking the Cherokee Ridge Alpine Trail Association footpaths in the coming months.

We hesitated at Big Beach where a half-dozen

boats had pulled up on the sand and a big cowshaped raft floated offshore. The beach was all but empty, and only one radio station played across the island.

“Heavenly to have it all to themselves,” we said, and we moved on.

At D.A.R.E. Park, only one young couple on foot meandered across the beach and up the pinestraw path. We waved at them; they waved back.

There’s a certain camaraderie in being the only ones at the lake.

We didn’t drive as far north as Bay Pines, but as the sun was slipping toward the western horizon, we turned south for home.

All the way down the lake, we followed well behind a boat pulling one of those water-sofa floats. The boat weaved back and forth across the diamond-studded water, cutting graceful arcs and giving the riders just a bit of a thrill. The folks on the sofa got a nice long ride, 20 minutes or more.

We stopped and chatted for a minute with a fisherman who said he’d bought the boat the day before in Florida and was out with it for the first time that Sunday afternoon. Hadn’t caught anything yet but was enjoying being out with so few people on the water, he said.

A few minutes later, we pulled into the quiet marina and tied the boat down.

“What a great day,” we said to each other.

Relaxed and unhurried, we headed for dinner.

With no traffic on the water, this boat pulled riders on a tube all the way from Manoy Creek to The Ridge Marina

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Though 4,800 square feet, this lake home features woods that lend a cabin feel

Five outdoor living spaces offer sun or shade whatever the time of day

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STORY BY LONNA UPTON & PHOTOS BY KENNETH BOONE

When Legacy New Homes partners David Chancellor and Corbin Bartgis decided to build in The Ridge, they envisioned homes with unmatched Lake Martin views, relaxing outdoor living spaces and interior touches that provide warmth and an easy living style. That’s just what they achieved in this South Ridge Harbor home by architect Larry Furlong.

At almost 4,800 square feet, the home features four bedrooms and four baths, two half-baths and a bunk area, providing plenty of sleeping space for family and friends. On

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the third floor, an additional 1,200 square feet are plumbed and studded, with electricity roughed in and ready to finish, rounding out the available living space at 6,000 square feet.

Working alongside the builders, decorator Ashley Chancellor designed and selected the architectural details, fixtures and finishes in the home. Exterior siding paint is Sherwin Williams’ Tobacco. The walls are nickel gap shiplap in the main living area, and the walls and ceiling, as well as the cabinetry, are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Ballet White.

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Antler sconces and heavily nailed furnishings emphasize the retreat atmosphere

“Ballet White is a perfect creamy white that isn’t too yellow and not too stark. It’s soft and warm and cozy – a creamy white without the sterile feeling,” Ashley Chancellor said.

Receiving as many compliments as the lake view, Chancellor said, the floors throughout the home are solid white oak planks.

Hardwood Solutions used an oil stain mix of Gris Belge and Titanium Gray for the light, sandy color.

The paired front doors open into a large living area and kitchen with floor-to-ceiling windows availing a wide western view of the lake. Furnishings are neutral with a touch of coral; there’s just enough pop to add interest but nothing to compete with the view.

Decorator Nan Jackson, of Interiors, Etc. by Nan, selected a large wood and metal cabinet for the entry, along with other furnishings in the home, from Johnson Furniture in Eclectic. In addition to the lake view, of course, the focal points of the foyer include a large driftwood horsehead and two light fixtures made of rope that hang from brackets.

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This covered lakeside porch just might be the busiest room in the house

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Large, luxurious bedrooms with lots of windows create a camp feel

Breathtaking views await at every turn

are looking at is such a gorgeous view, and you don’t want to overplay what you add to the space,” Jackson explained.

Jackson added a white painting – a foggy scene with shadows and a gray boat dock – to the foyer wall, again not interrupting the pristine view from the front door to the lake but instead complementing it.

“I go everywhere looking for the right pieces to accessorize a home, and I do a lot of research. I wanted light colors and touches of coral, and I’m all about nature, so I love the mounted antlers by the sliding doors onto the porch and the coral and blue stag painting,” Jackson said.

Family and friends could gather in the great room under a cathedral ceiling that is stained with a custom reduction of Benjamin Moore’s Spanish Moss. Two architectural trusses span the width of the ceiling and draw the eyes upward.

An oatmeal-colored sofa, stain resistant and washable for easy clean up when a busy family enjoys the space, along with four large wooden side chairs upholstered in linen blend, create the seating in front of the stone fireplace.

Annette Sims in Dadeville made the throw pillows in the liv-

Trusses in the vaulted ceiling become art in place

Artwork draws the outside into living spaces

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Close to the water, this home in South Ridge focuses on the beautiful view

A tub alcove in the master provides views while ensuring privacy

ing areas and the bedrooms. A glass-topped iron sofa table skirted in a crisscrossed rope grid adds a nautical touch to the room, as do blue glass fish on metal stands centered on the coffee table.

Jackson continued the coral theme by adding lively floral green and coral cushions to a Magnolia Home kitchen table and benches for a cozy eating area in the kitchen. Large framed prints of fern and leaves adorn the wall.

“For the kitchen, we decided to cantilever drawers over the cabinets, which provide a unique layer of depth in the kitchen that you don’t see often and eliminates the need for a toe kick by giving you extra space when standing and using the counter,” Chancellor said.

Cabinetmaker, Dusty Sheffield from Star Cabinetry in Wetumpka, built all the cabinets in the home, including an island, which Chancellor designed.

“The kitchen island was designed at counter height to be both functional and open to the dining area and great room.

The ends of the bar were decorative to be extra eye-candy – not the usual end of a cabinet. I drew a corbel shape on paper for Dusty, and he made it happen,” Chancellor said.

Goodman pendants by Thomas O’Brien provide comfortable lighting over the island, as well as near a side bar area. The chandelier in the dining area mirrors the shades on the pendants, adding a warm glow. Chancellor added more warmth in selecting the countertops.

“I like natural stone in the kitchen because it mimics the nature of the lake. I chose soapstone slabs – not gray overall but dark with white veining. It brings an element of farmhouse feel to the kitchen,” Chancellor said.

Large appliances are Jenn Air. The Legacy team also selected a stainless steel vent hood over the stove.

For the master suite on the main floor, Jackson selected an American Drew wicker headboard and light-colored furniture. Neutral colors in a swivel rocker by the window, and bedding from Traditions and Linens add to the peaceful setting. The bathroom is light and bright with white subway

Dark soapstone counters and black stools contrast with the creamy white cabinetry

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A fire pit gathers friends and family at the lake on cool evenings

A wet bar keeps traffic out of the kitchen area

Hallway bunks offer spillover sleeping space

tile on the shower walls, gray penny tile on the shower floor and Carrera quartz for the vanity. “We wanted a dressier look in the upstairs bathrooms, so we used polished nickel in the fixtures, just for something different. Dusty did a great job creating a deep drawer under each sink with a cutout for the plumbing underneath,� Chancellor said.

A Magnolia Home black, iron canopy bed with matching dresser and side tables provides contrast in the neutralcolored second master. Prints of turtles in the hallway lead to butterfly prints in the bedroom and bath, continuation of a touch of nature carried throughout the house.

Also on the main floor, the plan allows for a large laundry room and an additional room off the mudroom area for another bedroom or an office space.

Downstairs, pieces of artwork by local Dadeville artist Jim Denny adorn the hallway. A large map of Lake Martin, also created by Denny, hangs near the bar area. An additional fireplace with a large, leather sectional sofa provides another easy gathering area.

For this room, Jackson found a motorcycle bar cart at Johnson Furniture. Replete with tires and steering wheel, the eye-catching, unique piece offers countertop space for serving and a wine storage grid underneath.

Two bedrooms with lake views, two-and-a-half bathrooms and a hallway with four bunks complete the finished terrace level. Accessed through a utility room downstairs, Legacy built a boat and water toy storage area that opens to the backyard for easy lake access.

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Five outdoor seating areas provide even more living and lakeside entertainment space in the yard, which was landscaped by Baker Landscaping in Alexander City. Southern Classics provided the outdoor furniture for the upstairs covered porch, the downstairs screened porch, the fire pit area, a side area for gathering and another grouping near the dock.

Perfect for entertaining family and friends, or as a peaceful getaway from a hectic lifestyle, this home has the details and the view to make time spent on Lake Martin full of joy and precious memories.

For more information about this spectacular Lake Martin home, contact Emily McDaniel at 256-786-9170 or Rhonda Watson at 256-750-2898.

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Crossroads Landing Shuttle 256-496-3677 Friday - Saturday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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Anchor Bay Marina 2001 Castaway Island Rd. Eclectic AL 36024 334-857-2654 Anchorbay.com Tuesday - Sunday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Harbor Docks Restaurant 2001 Castaway Island Rd. Eclectic AL 36024 334-857-3635 Facebook@theharbor.lakemartin Friday 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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Blue Creek Marina 7280 Highway 49 South Dadeville AL 36853 Single-nmarine.com 256-330-2188 Hours will change later in the season Currently Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Catherine’s Market 17 Russell Farms Rd. Alexander City AL 35010 256-215-7070 CatherinesAtCrossroads.com Tuesday - Thursday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Of all the possible lakes Auburn University’s Sailing Club could use for practice, its members are grateful to have Lake Martin and the Dixie Sailing Club as home to their boats and practice field.

The sailing team owns eight 420s; two 22s and a 27, which are all housed at DSC. The eight-year old Auburn University club had to start from scratch after the club was dismantled in the 90s due to lack of interest. Now, the club has more than 90 members, of which about 20 are active on the lake.

“The AU Sailing Club really defies the stereotype of some average college clubs.

We actually enjoy getting out on the lake and spend as much time as possible there,” said Michael Zeller, race side fleet captain.

The choice of Lake Martin was easy, not only due to proximity, said Zeller, but also because of the quiet area where DSC is located, along with the abundant space to practice necessary runs and maneuvers.

“We do have a disadvantage from other colleges who live directly on the water, but Lake Martin gives us a good challenge on

wind. We are able to gauge different types of wind a little easier,” Zeller said. ”But we do have a longer sailing season due to our weather.”

Another huge asset, said Australian native Kolbein Carriço, is the top-notch water quality.

“This is some of the cleanest, clearest water I’ve seen in the world. If you sail, you can’t worry about falling in the water, so Lake Martin provides a good feature for that security,” said Carriço, who transferred to AU from Sydney University in Melbourne.

With more than 12 years of sailing and windsurfing experience off the coast of Australia in rough waters, Carriço brings a unique skill set to the club. He even volunteers his time and knowledge to the DSC youth program.

“I feel like it’s in AUSC’s best interest to express how helpful Kolbein has been this year by bringing his skills and sailing knowledge to our youth as a volunteer. He also serves on the DSCYP board of directors and is a great asset to our officers,” said

Michael Zeller takes sophomore Jeremiah Sain out for a sailing lesson

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Wind & Water AU's sailing team prepares for a competitive season

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Sailing team members also volunteer with DSC's youth program

The Auburn University team keeps its boats at Lake Martin's DSC

Lake Martin is the perfect practice for the AU sailing team

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Stephanie Childers, vice president of the DSC Youth Program.

The symbiotic relationship between AU and DSC is valuable to both parties. The university sailing club members offer assistance during DSC workdays and help with ground maintenance, when possible within their college schedules.

Carriço is vice commodore of the AU sailing team, which means he monitors the water, manages practices and oversees the day-to-day operations.

“The biggest job I have is to keep everyone in my eyesight. Safety is the top priority. Even though sailing is a pretty safe sport, it has the potential to be risky,” said Carriço.

Brett Lattimore, commodore of the fleet, runs what happens at the lake and is in charge of organizing all races and regattas. The team tries to attend four to five races in the fall season and about six in the spring.

It typically compete throughout the Southeast, as the club is part of the Southern Atlantic Intercollegiate Association of Sailing, but members have traveled as far north as North Carolina and as far south as Eckert, Florida.

“We have a very wide range of skill levels in our club. You don’t have to know how to sail to join. A lot of what our club does is having older members teaching the younger or newer members how to sail,” said Zeller.

Jeremiah Sain had never sailed before and visited Lake Martin early last month for his first round of instructions from Zeller and other members. The longer-standing members walked Sain through set up and rigging of the boat, along with launching and learning the ropes on the water.

“I really like to try new things, and I am excited for this opportunity. I love being outdoors and anything that involves being outside,” said Sain, a sophomore at AU. Like Carriço, French exchange student Line Jouan is used to rougher waters off the coast of Hyeres where she is a sailing instructor. Jouan is attending AU for one semester and jumped at the opportunity to join the sailing team.

“I want to try every club because it is the best way to meet people since I am alone here and know no one,” Jouan said.

The Mediterranean Sea, which Jouan sails, is home to many World Cup competitions, and she said she enjoys the waters and softer winds of Lake Martin. Although Jouan has to learn the sailing terminology in English to react quickly on the boat, she said everyone has been extremely friendly upon her visit to the States.

“You have, by far, the most welcoming people here at Lake Martin. It’s amazing,” said Jouan.

“And I have seen a lot of lakes, and there is nothing as pretty as here.”

For more information about the Auburn University Sailing Club, visit its Facebook page.

Wind changes here present training challenges for the team

Kamran Kangal, Jeremiah Sain, Michael Zeller, Michael Hare, Kolbein Carriço, Brett Latimer, Marcus Perkins and Line Jouan

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174 Sailboat Road, Dadeville • $409,000 WHAT A VIEW! Enjoy your morning coffee looking out on the lake from gorgeous windows or on the lakeside porch of this 3 BR/2.5 BA lake home. Features include an open floor plan from lakeside with an open kitchen/living/dining area, tile throughout, nice pantry, breakfast area, gorgeous windows across lakeside in the master on the main level. Stairs leading upstairs are hardwood. Upstairs could be used as an office or second family room and has 2 BR and attic access. Plenty of room for storage. Outside has a storage shed and hot tub (or jacuzzi). Roof and hot water heater are the age of the house. Has a security system. APC leased lot for $400 a month.

RE/MAX Around the Lake Call Amanda Scroggins 256-749-6634 www.amandascroggins.com

43 Lake Vista Lane, Dadeville • $549,900 Add this 3-story, 5 BR/4 BA waterfront home in the heavily desired community of StillWaters to your must-see list! Want a home that you can put your own personal updates and touches on? Enjoy the amazing view of the lake and lounging around on the wrap-around porch, along with plenty of decks for entertaining. Step inside and enjoy the comfort of a spacious living room and kitchen. Downstairs has a half basement that is finished with media room & full bath along with a two car garage.

Lot has a wood seawall. Enjoy fishing and swimming from two different piers on this property! You have to see this one for yourself!

RE/MAX Around the Lake Call Samantha Spurlin 256-786-0650 www.samanthaspurlin.com

246 Blue Creek Circle, Dadeville • $2,100,000 Located inside StillWaters Resort and including all amenities of this amazing neighborhood. 4 bedroom, 5 full bath and 2 half bath quality crafted home! Magnificent lake views! Gorgeous custom cabinets can be found throughout the home! The master suite is located on the main level and the master bath has unique walk in shower, garden tub and heated tile floor! 2 additional bedrooms are also on the main level of the home as well as a spacious formal living and dining area. The kitchen has a stunning view of the lake with an open informal dining and living area and beautiful fireplace! Outside the main level on the huge covered porch which spans the length of the home.

Three Sixty Resort Living at Lake Martin 256.827.LAKE www.concepttoclosing.com

81 Chinquapin Court, Dadeville • $550,000 Come take a look at this StillWaters lakefront home! Fantastic 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home sits on 2 large lots, (just over an acre), however, only has one HOA fee! The home has a main level and upper level above ground as well as a partially finished, heated and cooled basement with a bedroom and bath, which is accessed from the outside.

All StillWater amenities are included. Priced to Sell!

Three Sixty Resort Living at Lake Martin 256.827.LAKE www.concepttoclosing.com

Phase 6, Lot 4 Waters Edge at Longleaf • $200,000 Incredible waterfront lots tucked in the coves of Long Leaf Development, this deep waterfront lot offers breathtaking views, concrete seawall and underground utilities. All lots will be connected to a centralized septic system. Your investment will be protected by the covenants and by-laws of the Water's Edge at Long Leaf.

Three Sixty Resort Living at Lake Martin 256.827.LAKE www.concepttoclosing.com

319 Peninsula Point (Lot 10), Dadeville • $329,000 This gorgeous waterfront lot is the last available lot located on an amazing wooded Peninsula right here on beautiful Lake Martin.

A top is allowed on the boat house on this lot! Centrally located and already surrounded by several stunning homes. The water is gorgeous and deep and the views are breathtaking! The Peninsula at Long Leaf has covenants and by-laws which will protect your investment and ensure an incredible addition to Lake Martin. A concrete sea wall is in place.

Three Sixty Resort Living at Lake Martin 256.827.LAKE www.concepttoclosing.com

Lot 22 White Oak Landing, Jacksons Gap • $535,000 Pre Construction offering. Introducing the Hobe house plan. Designed by Mitch Ginn of L. Mitchell Ginn and Associates, this single level plan offers two options. Option 1 is a 3 BR, 2 BA plan and option 2 is a 4 BR, 3 BA plan.

Each option offers a great open floor plan. Family room opens to a large lakeside porch, which is a great space for entertaining. This is a turnkey development. Chose this plan or one of several other plans suitable for Lot 22. For floor plans and more details, visit www.WhiteOakLandingLM.com Lake Martin Realty Call Damon Story 256-789-9526 www.damonstory.com

Lot 6 White Oak Landing, Jacksons Gao • $640,000 Pre-construction offering. The Sunfish. A basement cottage plan offering 3 BR and 3.5 BA, with lake views from each bedroom. The open floor plan, designed by architect Mitch Ginn of L. Mitchell Ginn and Associates, is perfectly designed for entertaining and lake living. The master suite is located on the main level. The lake level offers 2 BR, 2 full BA, plus a bunk room! With a rec room and summer kitchen also on the lake level, this plan offers easy access to all of your lakeside activities! Seawall, pier and waterfront features included.

For other plans and details see: www.WhiteOakLandingLM.com Lake Martin Realty Call Damon Story 256-789-9526 www.damonstory.com

122 Canoe Point, Equality • $999,000 PROPOSED NEW CONSTRUCTION FOR LOT 3 COTTAGES OF CEDAR POINT. A great lake home by architect Mitch Ginn designed for easy living and entertaining with its spacious great room and open kitchen and dining area. This pre-sale package includes the lot, cottage, seawall, and dock system.

Lake Martin Realty Call Damon Story 256-789-9526 www.damonstory.com

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91 Wind Mist, Alexander City • $324,000 Build your perfect lake home on this great lot with sandy beach and excellent view in Windermere West. Great location near Russell Crossroads. Seller has house plans for lot.

Lake Martin Realty Call Damon Story 256-789-9526 www.damonstory.com

Willow Glynn, Riverside Cottage • $1,115,000 Move-in-ready RLH Construction & designed by Mitch Ginn, this design offers 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 2 living areas and vaulted ceilings in the kitchen and owner’s suite. Enjoy the spectacular water views from both of the spacious covered porches.

Russell Lands On Lake Martin Call Emily or Rhonda 256.215.7011 www.RussellLandsOnLakeMartin.com

South Ridge Harbor, Cascadia • $2,300,000.

The Cascadia, just completed by Legacy Homes, includes a great room, expansive covered porch, owner’s suite with private screened porch, guest suite, natural stone fireplace, study, laundry, & powder room all on main level. 2 more guest suites, large den with screened porch, kitchenette, 2 built-in bunks along the hallway, powder room, & lake toy storage on the lower level.

Russell Lands On Lake Martin.

Call Rhonda or Emily 256.215.7011 www.RussellLandsOnLakeMartin.com

The Ridge, Cypress Ridge $1,545,000 Tour this spectacular lake home with lots of extras including a lakeside fire pit, 2 boat lifts, double PWC port, & more! main level: open living-dining-kitchen, master suite, guest suite, & laundry. Lake level: 2 more guest suites, 2nd full kitchen, 2nd family room. 3rd level: 5th guest suite w/private balcony & theater room.

Russell Lands On Lake Martin Emily or Rhonda 256.215.7011 www.RussellLandsOnLakeMartin.com

47 Oaks Knoll, Jackson’s Gap • $1,563,000 Incredible lake home with 7 BR, 6 full BA, and 4, 1/2 Ba. Convenient to Birmingham, Auburn, and Montgomery. TWO piers, TWO boat lifts, THREE jet ski docks, and a 12 x 20 floating pier. Salt water spa on terrace. Main level boast big fireside views, new TREX deck with a screened in area. Spectacular master bed and bath! Arching doorways leading to spacious rooms with 10, 12, and 14'ft coffered, vaulted and trayed ceilings. So many more features! This is a must see.

Lake Martin Realty Cindy Scroggins 256.794.3372 www.LakeMartinRealty.com

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The Ridge, Double Main • $1,599,000 The Double Main features 2 master suites on the main level including a stone fireplace, JennAir kitchen appliances, powder room, laundry room, & a covered deck. The lake level contains 2 more bedroom suites, a 2nd family room w/entertainment bar, a lake prep room, a 2nd laundry room, & 2 separate bunk rooms with 6 built-in twin beds. The space above the garage is prepped for the addition of a 5th guest suite.

Russell Lands On Lake Martin Call Rhonda or Emily 256.215.7011 www.RussellLandsOnLakeMartin.com

TPI 656 Silver Hill Road, Dadeville • $965,000 Beautifully updated home offers 4 BR, 3.5 BA with stunning views of Lake Martin. This home is perfect for the entertainer. With its massive walkout lakeside deck it offers multiple seating areas, bar, outdoor cooking and a hot tub/ endless pool. Flat lot and easy walk to your pier and boat lift. High ceilings, lots of windows and open great room bring in the outdoors. Kitchen, baths, and bar offers exotic counter tops. Beautiful hard wood flooring throughout. House connected to generator. Too many upgrades to describe. Must see!

Lake Martin Realty Rhonda Jaye 256.749.8681 www.LakeMartinRealty.com

194 Glynmere Drive, Alex City • $595,000 Cute and cozy lake cottage with lake views of Lake Martin.

This home sits high over the lake, secured by armed guards of Willow Point. Nice 4 bedrooms, with an extra space in the basement, open floor plan with an owners suite on main level, 2 car garage, rock fireplace and two levels of outdoor decks for entertaining. The corner lot has a private hot tub for relaxing.

No yard work! A manicured landscaping is all taken care of, a beach and a pool! A must see.

Lake Martin Realty Jan Hall 256.329.6313 www.LakeMartinRealty.com

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Surfing Set-up Personalize the wake with ballast tanks, weight and boat speed

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akesurfing is a water activity that has grown move around on. exponentially in popularity over the past sevSo if you fill all the tanks up and the wake is not as eral years. The main driving factor that started big as you would like, you can start adding external soft this was the surf system that Malibu Boats bags. The same principle applies, so if you came out with, making it much easier to get put weight in the rear you may need to bala big, surf-able wake. ance it out with more weight in the nose.

Most new wakeboard boats come with The speed of the boat also plays a huge their own surf system versions, but this role in the shape of the wave. For the most doesn’t necessarily mean that drivers only part, you’ll want to keep the speed around push the “surf right” or “surf left” buttons.

10 miles per hour. Each boat is different, so There’s a lot more to it than that. you’ll have to play around with it to get it I recommend always filling up all the balwhere you think it’s best. last tanks when surfing, including both the If your boat doesn’t have a surf system, left and right rear tanks, no matter the side the solution is simple. Only weight one side the rider surfs on.

BEHIND THE BOAT of the boat: the side you want to surf on.

And when it comes to really personalizing This is how we surfed for years before surf

BY BEN WATTS the wake, there are several things to always systems came out. The same concept applies keep in mind. The more weight you put in the front of with all of the weighting, other than you only want to put the boat, the longer the wake will get. The more weight the weight on the side of the boat your surfing on. you put in the rear, the taller the wake will get. You don’t want an extreme of either situation because if the wake Ben Watts learned to love wake boarding on Lake is too long there won’t be enough “push” to stay with Martin. He is a student at Auburn University and takes the wave, and if it’s too tall, the wake will be too short to every opportunity to get behind the boat.

Trick Tip: Heelside Backroll For this month’s trick tip, we’ll continue on with the pattern we’ve established in which you learn tricks on both sides of the wake evenly. This creates a balance to your ride and makes tricks flow much more smoothly.

This month, we’ll talk about a trick that is more advanced than the ones previously discussed but is still considered a beginner-level trick. The trick is called a heelside backroll. It is the first invert or flip that we will have talked about.

It sounds intimidating, but it’s actually very simple. You can do this trick one wake or two wake, whichever you prefer, but remember that for a wake-to-wake trick, you are going to need more speed and commitment.

To start out you’ll want to edge into the wake, just like a normal jump; the difference will come when you get to the wake. Once you get to the bottom of the wake, start to edge hard up the wake and away from the boat. Keep the handle close to your hip and look hard over your front shoulder. It is very important that you don’t forget to push off the wake to get the pop you need.

Once you are in the air, keep looking over your shoulder, waiting to see where you are going to land. This is what we call spotting your landing. This trick is considered more a beginner level because the whole trick happens based on your edge. You don’t have to do much other than pop off the wake and edge up and away from the boat, and you will have landed your first flip!

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Do You Recycle?

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ecycling helps to protect our lake, our wildlife, our Recycled aluminum is used in making new cans, airplane watershed and our environment. It helps to beautify our parts, building façades and bicycles. Recycling aluminum cans roadsides. Think about that. Better to recycle or reuse not only saves energy but also reduces the need to mine bauxan item rather than to put it in a landfill or on the roadside. ite ore for new aluminum production.

Save a tree. Recycling cardboard reduces CO2 (greenhouse Glass is crushed and melted; then, molded into new glass gas) emissions by 1 ton for every ton of cardproducts. Glass does not degrade through the board recycled. It saves 17 trees. It reduces the recycling process, so it can be recycled again amount of fossil fuel and water needed to process and again. If you recycled just five glass bottles a pulpwood. A paper mill uses 40 percent less week, you’d be saving enough energy to power a energy to make paper from recycled paper than it CFL bulb for 35 hours. Energy costs drop by 2-3 does to make paper from virgin trees. Recycling percent for every 10 percent of culled material, 1 ton of newsprint saves about 4000 kWh of known as cullet, used in the glass manufacturing electricity. That is enough energy to heat and air process. condition the average North American home for Polystyrene, also known as expanded polyabout six months. styrene foam (recycling code No. 6 known as Have a look at your plastics when considerPS or EPS), should be avoided. Polystyrene is LAKE WATCH ing whether to trash or recycle. As you probably often referred to as “Styrofoam,” which refers to

BY ANN CAMPBELL know, many plastics are stamped or formed with expanded polystyrene foam (EPS), such as disa triangular icon and a number that indicates the posable coffee cups, coolers or cushioning materesin grade of the plastic rial in packaging. It is typically white and is made of expanded Visit learn.eartheasy.com for the article Plastics by the polystyrene beads. It is a very different material from the Numbers. Many other websites list information on the seven extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulation board, commonly called standard classifications for plastics. Some examples of what “blue board,” that is trademarked as Styrofoam and is used as No. 1 plastics can be recycled into are bottles, carpeting, tenthermal insulation and a water barrier. nis balls, fleece jackets, insulation for jackets and sleeping Lobby your favorite restaurants and food outlets to encourbags, T-shirts, sweaters, paint brushes and more bottles. No. 2 age them not to use foam containers and cups. The material plastics can be recycled into lumber substitutes, detergent and breaks up easily and is dispersed readily throughout the natural bleach bottles, trashcans, buckets, toys and traffic barriers. environment. Beaches all over the world – including Lake 66 LAKE OCTOBER 2018

Martin – have bits of polystyrene lapping at their shores, and There are several recycling receiving facilities around the an untold number of marine species have ingested this plastic lake. with disastrous consequences to their health.

The Alexander City Recycling Facility is located at the While it is difficult to find a recycler for polystyrene, some Alexander City Public Works Department, 824 Railey Rd., businesses that provide shipping services are happy to receive Alexander City. It is open for drop-offs 24 hours a day/seven foam-packing chips/peanuts for reuse. days a week and is available to everyone in Alexander City Visit the site of the Alabama Environmental Council at and surrounding areas. Visit www.alexandercityonline.com and www.alabamarecycling.org for an overview of recycling in go to Public Works Department; then, pull up the recycling Alabama. facility brochure for more information. Contact them at 256Most important when considering recycling is to follow the 409-2020. guidelines of the receiving facility. Some facilities are unable The Town of Eclectic’s drop-off recycling center is located to receive glass. Some will only receive food containers, and to the left and rear of the Volunteer Fire Department buildothers are able to receive laundry detergent bottles and other ing at 140 First Ave. downtown. The facility ends its day on non-food containers. Any weekdays at about 4:30 p.m. food-stained materials, such They accept No. 1 and No. as grease-stained pizza box 2 plastics, newspaper and bases (cut off the bottom for broken-down cardboard, but the trash and recycle the top), no glass. See the website at nP lastic containers: Most drop-off facilities used paper plates, napkins, www.townofeclectic.com for want only No. 1 and No. 2 plastics. Some takeout containers, paper towcontact information or call els and jars or cans or bottles 334-541-4429. require that the No. 1 and No. 2 items be with food residue in them Union’s recycling center separated. All items should be rinsed and should not be put in recycling is a service of the Union clean. bins. While the materials Volunteer Fire Department. nP lastic grocery bags: Look for stores offering themselves are recyclable, The building is located at drop off for plastic grocery bags. Items should once they are contaminated 5171 state Route 50. Stop be clean and dry. with food they are useless. by or call 256-825-0016 nA luminum cans: Aluminum cans should be Contaminates like grease, for information on what is rinsed and clean; crushing helps to reduce glue and food residue actually accepted. volume. disrupt the processes needed There are several area nC ardboard: Cardboard should be flattened/ to extract raw materials and stores that accept spebroken down. Recycle only clean and dry could ruin an entire batch. Be cific items for recycling as cardboard. careful. well. The Home Depot in If you aren’t able to comAlexander City accepts CLF nN ewspaper: Newspaper should be bundled ply with the recycling facillight bulbs and household and neatly stacked. ity’s rules, it’s better to put batteries (not auto batteries); n S teel cans: Steel cans should be rinsed and the stuff in the trash. Don’t Lowe’s takes CFL light bulbs clean. Keep separate from aluminum cans. put garbage bags or plastic and plastic grocery bags. nM agazines: Magazines usually have their own grocery bags into recycling Several auto parts, service bin. bins that are designated for and supply facilities accept a nG lass: Glass is usually requested to be sepaother materials. The plastic variety of materials for recyrated into color – clear, brown or green. bags can ruin the processing cling, including used motor Items should be rinsed and clean. Pyrex and machines. Coated milk, cream oil, grease, automotive batterother types of tempered glass are not recyor frozen food or juice drink ies, transmission fluid, gear clable. cartons or similar containers oil and oil filters. Check with nC ooking Oil: After it’s cooled, decant the are not recyclable. your local tire store to see if used oil into a facility provided or other Some facilities decline used tires are accepted. sealed leak-proof container for drop off. shredded paper, as the paper In addition to foam cartons fibers are too short for some and containers, many grocery recycling applications. Check stores also accept plastic groplastic bottle tops/caps for a cery bags and paper bags. symbol number. Those may A final thought: Get a not be acceptable at your recycling center. It’s not likely the refillable water bottle. Sometimes, it’s all you need. same number as the bottle. If it doesn’t have a recycle symbol, it’s not recyclable at most facilities.

Some information for this article was provided by Dow Due to contaminated materials continually being dropped Chemical, www.foamfacts.com and www.foxnews.com. off, despite repeated warnings and signs posted, one nearby city has shut down one of its neighborhood locations this year.

Ann Campbell is a Lake Watch Lake Martin board member A sign stating their position has been posted at the location. and volunteer water monitor.

An example of the impact of non-compliance – a single PVC (No. 3) bottle in a bin containing 900 pounds of PET (No. 1) bottles will cause the entire load to be contaminated.

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Rival Right Rookies Sometimes folks get looney at negotiations

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am not sure what pastor or theologian first said this, that HR people always seem to offer. but a phrase I have heard often is, “Preach the serSo why do some people get really stressed in a real mon to yourself first.” estate transaction? I don’t know. But I know that some This sentence could mean many things in different con- do. texts, but I usually interpret it as advice about advice.

If you spend 10 minutes standing around talking to That is, before dispensing wisdom to any three real estate agents – after they another person, the wise person might look hand you their cards, offer to fax you the in the mirror and tell the person seen there info about a great deal they are about to list to listen up. and tell you how crazy busy they are – they This thought occurred to me last week, will likely tell you stories about their crazias I learned a lesson when trying to decide est clients. Perk up, if you like, because what to repair on my son’s SUV. He is this will likely be the only believable thing about to turn 16 and will be driving by to come out of their mouths in the last 10 himself; my wife and I are trying to make minutes. sure the vehicle is safely operational.

Like I said, I am not really sure why What started as a discussion about the people lose it, but I thought I could provide LAKE PROPERTY practicality of suspension repair on a used some insight into how folks sometimes get

BY JOHN COLEY Ford ended in a tearful, seemingly binary looney during negotiations. choice between saving cash or saving lives.

Continuing the pastor theme, I offer It revealed our priorities – can we calculate the risk that three that all start with the same letter. a repair we thought superfluous might end up causing a wreck involving our little Roo? RIVALRY It was tense (She won. We wound up fixing it all).

Over the years, I have seen both buyers and sellers Similarly, it is pretty well known that buying or sellwalk away from negotiations for some pretty silly reaing a home can be a stressful experience for even the sons. Football. Furniture. Friends of friends. You name most mild mannered of people. I am not sure why this it. One really silly reason is when one party feels that is. Sure, it is a big financial decision, but people cruise negotiation is about a rivalry and doesn’t want the other through other impactful financial decisions without a side to win. lot of drama.

Many times, I have had a couple tell me, “If we For instance, think about the times at work when you can just get them to $X, that would be great!” And have had to make decisions about what, if any, mutual when the other side proposes $X, my side balks. Why? fund you want for your 401k account. Most people Because they wanted to be the side that proposed $X. don’t agonize over that, and it probably has 10 times They wanted the other side to come crawling to them the impact on a possible retirement nest egg. Most and say yes. They didn’t want to say yes to their perpeople meet with the human resources person, select ceived rival’s number because they thought that meant something real quick; and then, bolt to eat the snacks that they lost and their rival won.

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In other words, their goal price didn’t sound so great once the other side proposed it. Yes, it is nuts.

RIGHT Some people have just got to be right all the time.

I know ’em when I see ’em because this is one of my personal weak spots. I love (too much) to be right. I am working on it.

We see this a lot on the seller side of the transaction. A seller will put a sky-high price on a home, and it sits for years because they know what it is worth.

We also see it on the buyer side just as often.

Some buyers think they have come up with a Rosetta Stone pricing model that is accurate to the penny.

They declare, “I have done my research, and this home is not worth a penny more than $X.” Woe to the seller that counter-offers anything above that line, no matter how small the sum. Never mind that $500 on a $500,000 home is about 1/10th of 1 percent, an appropriate margin of error for lunar landings, not residential real estate.

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ROOKIES Rookies make tons of crazy mistakes, but not the kind of rookies you might think. In my anecdotal experience, I have found people that were relatively new to real estate transactions, or at least secondhome transactions, do well. They don’t think they know everything, so they listen and learn. They play and pay fair and don’t get too worked up.

The rookies to whom I refer here are those who don’t know that they are inexperienced. They go out of their way to tell me all about how many homes they have bought and sold over their lifetimes. They humble-brag and subtle-boast about this home and that; how they got it over on some poor seller or buyer or agent (yikes!).

In fact, the more that a buyer or seller lets me know how savvy they are, the more of a challenge I know I will have in helping them because they are likely to succumb to a rivalry or right scenario. If they think of themselves as the greatest negotiators ever, their pride rarely lets them get through a deal without an explosion or two.

Incidentally, I’ve also helped many true real estate pros over the years. These are men and women with 1,000 times my experience and 10,000 times my zeroes. I find them to be disciplined but kind. Firm, but able to keep things in perspective. I try to learn all I can from these folks.

Don’t be tempted to think that I am a perfectly sane and balanced decision maker in all phases of my life. Far from it. Just watch me any time I am at Nail’s trying to decide on what kind of peanuts to buy. Honey roasted? Or the spicy kind? Or what about just plain salted? It takes me 10 minutes of agony to decide how to spend that 50 cents.

John Coley is a broker and owner of Lake Martin Voice Realty. Visit his blog at LakeMartinVoice.com.

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Pinto Beans and Cornbread Ingredients 1 pound dried pinto beans 1 sweet onion, minced small (reserve 2 tablespoons) 4 cloves garlic, minced small 3 bay leaves 3 smoked ham hock 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1/4 cup crumbled cornbread 2 tablespoons whole buttermilk 1 tablespoon thinly sliced chive Directions If you have time to soak your pintos overnight do so, but if you are like me and forgot you can simple place the beans in a pot, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Once the beans have boiled, turn off the heat and allow it to stand for 30 minutes before draining the water. If you did remember to soak your beans overnight this is where you will pick up.

Place beans in a medium pot (beans should come about half way up the sides), add the onion, garlic, bay leaves, ham hocks, salt and pepper; then, add water until level is about 1 inch above the top of the beans.

Bring the pot of beans to a boil then reduce to a simmer, cook for two to three hours or until the beans start to breakdown and release starch. The finished beans shouldn’t be watery but a little like gravy.

Spoon a cup of beans into a bowl; then, sprinkle the reserved sweet onion over the top along with the cornbread. At this point drizzle the buttermilk over the top. Finish by topping the bowl with minced chives, and serve it up.

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CHEF’S TABLE

BY ROB MCDANIEL Rob McDaniel, executive chef and general manager at SpringHouse Restaurant, earned a bachelor's degree in restaurant and hotel management from Auburn University and is a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute.

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Meal Delivery Service: Trick or Treat?

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all begins a very busy season. Maintaining home life can bring some challenges while managing personal schedules, running children to school and partaking in fall activities and sports. At the end of the day, the question is always asked, “What’s for dinner?”

The thought of planning, gathering and preparing meals can be incredibly overwhelming, especially if raising young children. The same can occur for empty nesters that are in another season of life where cooking for one or two brings its own challenges.

Meal delivery services continue to gain popularity with an estimated $1.5 billion in sales reported in 2016. Today, more than 100 companies offer this service, catering to consumers’ demands for taste, health concerns and conditions, diets and eating patterns.

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Reports indicate that 9 percent – or 10.5 million households – have used meal delivery services in the last six months. Of course, you pay for convenience; however, most argue that the meal kits cost less than you would spend at a restaurant and possibly less than you might spend at the grocery store if you were not proactive in using leftover ingredients.

Although meal delivery services are a dime a dozen, the thought process is basically the same. The box shows up at your door and provides everything you need to prepare two or more meals for the week. Sound appealing? The box contains the recipe, along with a detailed description of how to prepare and cook the meal. To top it off, the meal service usually includes pictures showing the end product, along with a nutrient analysis. No grocery store. No leftover ingredients, and most delivery services cater to specialized diets and eating patterns.

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Trick or treat? The answer depends on whom you ask.

It may take some convincing for the older population or those on a fixed budget. Younger adults who are raising children probably won’t take much convincing. Those that enjoy cooking at home and might struggle with food waste and leftover ingredients may be more inclined to try a meal service.

Consumers with limited culinary background could possibly benefit from a meal delivery service, as well. A big benefit is that most meal services offer the first meal at a discounted price or even free.

A meal service is an easy way to provide healthy homecooked meals. The recipes and instructions are usually clear and simple with all meal services. If the home-cooked meal is replacing eating out in a restaurant, you may even save some money.

Meal services differ in the array of choices, ingredient quality, recipe clarity, how the boxes are packed and if the packaging is recyclable. The main reason for the growing popularity of meal delivery services is convenience. After you indicate your food and taste preferences, the boxes arrive regularly. All you have to do is unpack and cook.

Many services offer diet choices, organic and non-GMO food sources. A meal delivery can take you out of a cooking rut by introducing you to new recipes and menu choices. For your convenience yet again, most of the services offer easy sign-up and cancellation.

The box will arrive with everything you need, excepting a few basic ingredients, such as an egg, oil, salt and pepper and basic cooking utensils. Due to the market competition, most of the services provide fresh, high quality ingredients. Prices do vary a bit; however, HEALTHY LIVING you could expect to pay $9 to $12 BY JULIE HUDSON a meal. Some services go a step further by offering specialty cuts of meat, wine or dessert for an extra charge. There are others that offer cuts of meat or seafood ala carte.

The big difference in meal delivery services comes with the type of meals and number of choices they offer. If you are looking to eat in a particular way, search around for vegetarian, vegan, paleo or gluten-free options. Take into consideration how much control you have over your weekly menu. Some services offer only a few choices, and others offer extensive lists.

Taste is another consideration, as some services out rank the others.

Quality of instruction can also vary, with some services providing very clear and detailed instructions, while others assume culinary knowledge of ingredients and technique.

Packaging is one of the most common complaints and a huge consideration. How well do companies pack their boxes, and is the packaging recyclable? This is important because you will have plenty to get rid of or recycle.

You may wonder how to choose the right meal kit delivery service. Consider convenience. Will the service add to your cooking skills? Do they offer a wide variety of menus, and can they cater to your health and lifestyle needs?

All the services are easy to cancel by going online or by making a phone call. This gives you the opportunity to try several before you settle on the perfect service for your household.

A little hint: Always check for promo codes before placing your first order.

The best meal delivery services will take care of the details while allowing you to be the chef, cook, eat and spend more time with your family at home. Meal services may not be for everyone, and they may be useful during just a season of your life.

So is it a trick or treat?

You have to weigh the pros and cons and evaluate what is best for your family.

Julie Hudson is a dietician at Lake Martin Wellness Center in Dadeville.

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ne of the questions that I’m frequently asked is, new lake. In the winter and early spring, even highland lakes “How do you approach a lake you’ve never been to can get fairly dirty. The average water clarity in the Alabama before?”

River is stained compared to the Coosa River impoundments There are a few key things that help me make an educated where it’s slightly stained and Lake Martin where it’s generdecision on how to start. First, I need to know what type of ally clear. water body I’m fishing. For example, if I were telling a fishJust about any of the fisheries in our area are likely to get ing friend from out of town about Lake Martin, I would first stained and even muddy at any given time but especially durtell him that it’s more like a highland lake. He would most ing the winter and early spring. Heavy frontal systems bring likely know from that description to expect deluges with heavy runoff that can dump sedideep, clear water, first and foremost, and if he ment into a creek or river and muddy things up wanted to find water with some color, he would overnight. Being able to predict water color can have to move into the creeks or upriver. tell more about what colors will be most effecSince most highland reservoirs are inhertive and how deep I may have to fish. ently deep and have a lot of clear water, they Knowing the current water level and whether are popular places for people to build homes. it’s rising or falling can make a difference in the With those homes come boat docks that are mood of the fish. As you might expect, this is great cover for fish in clear water because of the more critical the shallower the fish may be. amount of shade they offer. Highland reservoirs There are usually a few fishing reports and often have less cover, such as submerged vegetavideos that can provide helpful insight. Basic tion, and like Lake Martin, they are old enough reports can be helpful if they provide water that most of the natural cover that was available temperature, water clarity and water level. Other when the lake was impounded has broken down. reports may be more specific, telling an angler BIG CATCHES Most of the “lakes” in Alabama are not natuhow deep the fish have been; what types of

BY GREG VINSON ral lakes, but man-made reservoirs instead. Some cover; what types of baits, etc. of the other categories that I can think of quickly The next step in doing homework is map (these are fishing terms) that can distinguish a fishery are study. In map study, I’m going to include satellite imagery rivers, grass lakes (submerged vegetation), natural southern because it’s as much or more important when fishing shallow lakes (common in Florida), hydropower reservoirs (scheduled water. Hopefully, by the time you sit down to study a paper releases), tidal waters and natural northern lakes (common in map or the maps on your electronics, you’ll have a good idea the Northeast). Knowing how a fishery is classified in fishing of what type of fishery it is. terms tells me quickly what I might expect, as well as some Seasonal patterns will have the most influence on how general baits and techniques that could be promising. deep the fish will be. Look for small areas that have a variety The other key part of the equation is the seasonal pattern. of deep and shallow water. This can allow you to check areas This can be narrowed down into a few categories that, for quickly when you start fishing and identify a more productive me, include pre-spawn, spawn, post-spawn, summer, fall and depth range to target. winter.

I like to set up a feature on my Garmin units called depth Spring is broken down by phases of the spawn. This is shading. With different depth ranges highlighted in different the time of year when fishing can change the most in a short colors, I can quickly look across my map of the lake and find amount of time, so it’s important to know or predict what areas that offer a good variety of depth changes. phase the fish will be in.

With satellite imagery like Google Earth, it’s possible to This can be difficult if you’ve never been to the fishery, pick out characteristics like vegetation, general water clarity but it’s possible to have an idea, based on any sources that in different areas, specific cover options, etc. With satellite provide you with water temperature. Coupled with extended imagery, it’s possible to pick out several different types of weather forecasts, you can make a prediction of whether the areas to try on the first day of your trip. Soon, a pattern may fish will be moving in to spawn, actively spawning or on their unfold, and through map study and satellite imagery, a pattern way out. can be uncovered.

The next characteristic you’ll want to consider when fishIn general, the more intel you can gather on a new fishery, ing a new water body is what types of cover are available. If the better. Couple this with any past experiences you’ve had it’s a grass lake, it can even help to know the types of vegwith similar types of fisheries at similar times of the year. etation that you could encounter. For example, Lake Martin These can be great starting points and give you confidence in would appear to have very little cover to a person used to the patterns you expect to prevail. only fishing Lake Guntersville, but a seasoned highland lakes Finally, have a process of elimination in mind that can help angler would quickly notice the number of docks, rocks and you test a variety of patterns in short order. The more quickly stumps and would presume that there would be some manyou can identify a dependable pattern, the more time you’ll made brush piles. have to refine it. This is especially valuable if you are preAnother key variable to consider is the type of forage the fishing for a tournament where it’s all about efficiency. fish have to eat. Most of our lakes in Alabama are dominated by shad species, bream species and crayfish. This can help in Greg Vinson is a full-time professional angler on the bait selection, as an angler tries to match whatever forage the Bassmaster Elite Series and PPA tours. He lives in Wetumpka fish could be feeding on. and grew up fishing on Lake Martin.

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f I had to pick a favorite time of year it would of being a light, fruity red wine with intense color and probably be autumn. And it’s here! Most of low tannins (the stuff that makes your mouth pucker). this year’s grape harvests will have been picked On the topic of red wine, many of us drink reds by now, and the process of turning fruit to juice and exclusively year round. A big, balanced, bold red juice to wine is under way. Remember, it wasn’t that wine is great for sipping and with a cigar. There long ago, early spring, that these same vines began are some I would rather have sans food of any sort, to sprout and flower, and they will again next spring maybe a little cheese. With a big steak or fish or to make more grapes and more juice and more wine. chicken, pork – anything on the grill – red wine is my Isn’t that amazing? preference.

In some ways, the change of seasons signals the So there are two more misconceptions: Red end of something and the start of something different. wine is okay in the summer, and red wine is just fine You might believe that is true of wine in that we tend with white meat. to think of summer as being the season for white wine Granted, a lighter red, the Gamay or Pinot Noir – it sort of is. might be better with lighter fare. That said there is White wine is typically lighter and goes well with credibility to the notion that heartier meals that come the lighter fare that we desire in the heat with the cooler months are often better of summer. Whites are usually chilled, suited to red wine. I get it. higher in acidity and often lower in alcoThere are plenty of reds to choose hol – all characteristics that make them from, the most popular being a toss-up appealing during the hottest time of year. between Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot But it’s not written in stone. White wine Noir. Merlot has been almost forgotten, is a year-round favorite for a lot of peothe results of its popularity in the U.S. in ple, especially those who wouldn’t even the 1970s. Overplanting to keep up with consider drinking a red wine. Wine is the demand led to widespread quality issues, essence of the good life, a continuum, and the comeback has been very slow. regardless of the various varieties and But Merlot, typically rounder, more supstyles we might prefer. ple and with lower tannins than Cabernet, Consider Rosé. It is not only a misis a good wine covering twice the acreconception but also a flat-out lie that the age in Bordeaux as Cabernet Sauvignon.

FROM THE CELLAR season for Rosé ended with Labor Day. One of the most expensive and

BY HENRY FOY Granted, Rosé production and demand renowned wines in the world, Chateau may decrease, but we expect to have Pétrus, is 100 percent Merlot. The other plenty of it until the vintage runs out and the new vin- reds, Shiraz (Syrah), Malbec, Zinfandel, the reds tage begins to ship. from Italy, Spain and the Rhone Valley, for example, We certainly want to have the shelves stocked for should not go overlooked. the holidays, particularly Thanksgiving.

Feeling adventurous? This is also the time of Rosé adds a nice twist to what many may think is year when interest in rich, fortified wines is on the a white wine event. That’s another misconception. Go increase. The best-known fortified wines are Port, ahead and try a Rosé. And if you have a favorite, let Sherry, Madeira and Marsala. Among the five wines your local retailer know well in advance. Don’t wait we will sample at our October wine tasting will be a until the last minute without an alternate plan. style of Madeira called Bual (boh-AHL).

While we’re on Thanksgiving, what happens on the True Madeira is a product of Portugal that is made third Thursday of November? by a process that would destroy most wines: Madeira If you need help with this answer, look back at the is intentionally exposed to heat and oxidation over last 13 years or so of Lake magazine. Most likely, years of barrel ageing to create the wonderful tangy, Beaujolais Nouveau Day was mentioned, if not every burnt caramel flavors that are unique in four styles November at least 90 percent of the time. Call it of wine. Sercial is the lightest and driest; Verdelho is clockwork or a broken record, worldwide Beaujolais sweet and stronger; Bual is richer and sweeter than Nouveau Day has to be recognized, especially if you the first two; and Malmsey is the sweetest, darkest love marketing hype and a light, fruity, fun little wine and richest of all. It is a whole new exciting world of that is closer to Boone’s Farm than Opus One. wines just waiting to be discovered.

The timing and the festive pairing with classic Turkey Day fare has given it the exalted title of Henry Foy is the owner of Emporium Wine and Thanksgiving Wine. Personally, I like the Gamay Spirits with the area’s only walk-in humidor and grape from which Beaujolais is made in the southern cigar lounge, Café 128 and Gallery 128 in downtown part of Burgundy. Nouveau is the first wine of this Alexander City at 128 Calhoun St. He can be reached vintage to be released – a very young wine that is at 256-212-WINE, on Instagram, Facebook and at meant to be consumed early. Other Beaujolais wines emporium128@bellsouth.net. are more substantial while retaining the characteristics 76 LAKE

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Susan Clayton Moore, J.D., is a financial consultant and principal of Moore Wealth Management, Inc., with offices in Alexander City, Auburn, and Montgomery, AL. Susan serves over $150 million in brokerage and advisory assets through LPL Financial and has been a financial planner for over 35 years. Contact Susan at 256.234.2761. Email contact is susan@moorewealthmanagement. com.

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