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Concerns, updates highlight council meeting By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
A small handful of Dadeville residents were present during Tuesday night’s city council meeting to voice their concerns about issues facing the city, as well as presenting updates on where civic projects stood. Rayford Farrington, who volunteers spraying for the city, brought up how easy it was for Ordinance 484, dealing
with abandoned and overgrown lots and property, to be enforced. “The worst mistake we can make is to have an ordinance and not enforce it,” he said. Farrington said he wanted the city to enforce this ordinance, and also mentioned that it had been designed to make it very easy for any resident to file a complaint report about any possible violations of the ordinance. Similarly, Sandy Creek Estates
resident Stephen Badalamenti voiced his concerns about people dumping garbage in a certain spot of the subdivision, which had become a serious issue over the last several months. “The city workers do a good job in cleaning it up, but sometimes, it’s only a few hours later, the site is full of garbage again. I want to see this stopped,” he said. Mayor Wayne Smith said that Police Chief David Barbour was aware of
the problem, and that steps would be taken to resolve the issue, while also encouraging any citizens that may see someone dumping trash to report it to the police department. Dianna Porter was also on hand, giving the council an update on her beautification project at Keebler Park. During her initial work there, other small projects had popped up. Porter said she wanted to add signs along the See COUNCIL • Page 3
Potts reinstated as chief in Camp Hill only to be ousted again
County school board updated on trip abroad
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Things are getting stranger in the never-ending drama that the Camp Hill Police Department has become. At Monday night’s council meeting, Johnny Potts was reinstated as police chief with a strict six-month probation period by the council. The move comes just two weeks after Mayor Ezell Smith demoted Potts. The council spent 30 minutes in executive session and one and half hours in a public hearing discussing issues between Potts and Smith. But just moments after the meeting, Smith delivered a letter to Potts stating his services were no longer needed and granting him another hearing. “I gave him a termination letter after the meeting,” Smith said late Monday night. “It gives him a 10-day due process hearing.” The termination was immediate and Smith again named Danny Williams as interim chief as he was after the July 24 demotion of Potts. Smith stated in the meeting that she could no longer work with Potts and asked the council to back her. Smith presented her grounds for the demotion including conduct unbecoming an officer, refusal to obey orders from the mayor, refusing to return a car to a suspect who was “no billed” by a grand jury in a case and refusing to give the mayor the code to the lock at the police department. Potts refuted most of the claims. See POTTS • Page 3
By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
SCHOOL’S BACK IN Donations help as county schools open to students for the new school year
By DONALD CAMPBELL and CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writers
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To Dadeville Elementary School first grade teacher Top: Amy Jackson speaks with students about rules of the A hallway following lunch Monday on the first day of ha sc school. Above: Ashley Benton with Lakeshore Comm munity Hospital wheels in school supplies the hospital w was donating to Dadeville Elementary School.
Tallapoosa County Teacher of the Year Wes Talton, a social studies teacher at Dadeville High st School was on hand at Monday S night’s meeting of the Tallapoosa ni County Board of Education to C provide the board members with pr an update on the trip he is taking a group of students on following the th end of the 2017-18 school year, ye visiting England, Ireland and Wales. W See BOARD • Page 3
Dadeville teacher promotes AP computer science
Teachers are always buying supplies for their classroom and especially at the beginning of the school year. This year, teachers at Dadeville Elementary School were supplied relief with a donation from employees at Lakeshore Community Hospital at Open House. “We saw where someone local was doing a supply drive and thought it would be a wonderful opportunity for the Lake Martin campus,” said Lakeshore Community Hospital
Two years ago, Dadeville High School began offering a H computer science principles class. co Since then, the class has grown S and an become an AP class, and is currently trying to strengthen its cu partnership with the Edward Bell p Career Tech Center. C What makes this class so valuable is that it is more than just v
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By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Dadeville Kiwanis welcomes Lake Martin Animal Shelter director she said. “They’re moving in the right direction.” Another positive note she talked Lake Martin Animal Shelter Director about was that, thanks to a multitude Mia Chandler was the special guest of individuals and shelters working at last Thursday afternoon’s weekly together, animal shelters like the Lake meeting of the Dadeville Kiwanis Club. Martin Animal Shelter have been able Her presentation included topics like to transport some of their animals to how the shelter works and the positive facilities in New England and Canada changes that have been taking place that have run out of pets available to since she became the director nine years adopt. ago. “In places up north, you’re in the “Change has been happening. People minority if you don’t spay or neuter are being more responsible,” Chandler your pets,” she said. “Just about said. everyone realizes the commitment Since taking over at the shelter, having a pet is. Chandler said she has seen a drop in “Many times, the moment they’re the rate of animals being euthanized, unloaded from the plane, they’ve falling from approximately 60 percent to already been adopted and are ready to roughly 40 percent. go to their new home.” “In most businesses, you want to see Chandler was also proud to say that, the numbers going up. In my job, I want to see the number go lower and lower,” See KIWANIS • Page 5 By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
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Lake Martin Animal Shelter Director Mia Chandler talks to the Dadeville Kiwanis Club last Thursday about the shelter and what they do there.
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