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Roadwork starts in Dadeville By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Drivers need to be patient while traveling through Dadeville the next few weeks as Highway 280 is resurfaced. “The project will take about six to seven weeks, assuming the weather is good and we don’t find any surprises,� Gary Ingram’s Jeff Harte said. “It will be done in three to four phases.� The project started last week as crews
Crews with Gary Ingram Paving work to remove gravel from the roadway on Highway 280 in Dadeville Monday morning.
from Gary Ingram Paving staged equipment and started work. “We started where East South Street comes into Highway 280 and have milled about two inches off of 1.7 miles of roadway,â€? Harte said. “We then applied a surface treatment. We should start putting down asphalt tomorrow (Tuesday).â€? Harte explained the work will continue west all the way to Horseshoe Bend Road (Highway 49 North). The reason for the See ROADWORK • Page 9
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Deadline nears for Sun Festival Art Contest
Vandalism of political signs reported
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By MITCH SNEED Editor
If you want a chance to see your artwork displayed on T-shirts and promotional material for this year’s Sun Festival, you need to act fast. The deadline for the Alexander City Chamber of Commerce Sun Festival Art Contest is 4 p.m. on Friday, April 27, Kim Dunn with the Chamber said hopes are to have a winner selected no later than a week after the entry period is over, in order to have plenty of time for the shirts to be prepared and printed. The winning art will be featured during the sixth annual Sun Festival to be held between June 1 and June 9. “We just started the contest and opened the window for submissions this week,� Dunn said in March. “We’ve always done it like this, opening the contest up for anyone to submit designs.� The art contest is open to anyone interested in wanting to submit an artistic design, and can be done either by hand or on a computer. However, there are certain guidelines all submissions have to meet in order to be considered
Regardless of your political preferences, damaging someone else’s property is a crime – and that includes political campaign signs. It’s the time of year when campaign signs pop up like weeds all over the area and Tallapoosa County Commission candidate Tony Harris was called to Wind Creek Farm Road Monday morning after someone had drawn horns on his picture that was featured on the sign. “I called the police and they made a report, but I plan to prosecute if they are able to See VANDALISM • Page 3
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HELPING HANDS Weekend trash walk harvests 83 bags of waste; nearly 50 volunteers assist in effort By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Volunteers gathered in downtown Alexander City Saturday morning for the first in a monthly series of trash walks, working to clean up areas throughout town littered with trash on the side of the road. “We had 47-plus participants involved in the trash walk,â€? John Thompson with the Lake Martin Resource Association said. “We had 18 volunteers working on Highway 280. They picked up at least 48 bags of trash along the road.â€? In addition to the concentrated effort on Highway 280, Thompson said other volunteers scattered and tackled other Mitch Sneed / The Outlook areas throughout town, including Airport Road, Elkahatchee Road, downtown and Volunteers work alongside Highway 280 Saturday in the Clean Community Partnership’s weekend trash walk where 83 bags of Dadeville Road, among other places. waste were collected. Lake Martin Resource Association presi- With all of these individuals attacking the See CLEANUP • Page 3 dent John Thompson said more than 47 people participated.
Annual Mule Day set for this weekend
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ACPD has started an initial investigation after filing a report where Tallapoosa County Commission candidate Tony Harris’ campaign sign was recently vandalized.
Boys and Girls Club students get feel for ‘real world’ with visit to local Piggly Wiggly
Wagon train trail rides to be Wednesday through Friday
Have you ever wondered what travel was like before automobiles? Have you ever wondered how food might have been grown before tractors were able to plow hundreds of acres? Grandmothers and grandfathers might be able to recall but if not, the Weogufka Center is offering the chance to learn next weekend with its annual Mule Day. “People like to show off their See MULE • Page 3
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Students from the Lake Martin Area Boys and Girls Club took a field trip to the real world Monday afternoon. Teen Unit Director Crystal Freeman explained the idea of the visit to Piggly Wiggly was to start the education to the students of what it means to work for a wage. “What I have come to realize with this generation, is one they think everything is supposed to be given to them,â€? Freeman said. “The concept of earning money is foreign to them and that you will have to be able to work See PIGGLY • Page 9