Feb 24, 2017 Alex City Outlook

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Pipeline project on schedule By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

The Sabal Trail Pipeline will be operational by the end of June. “The pipeline should be in service by June 30,” Sabal Trail’s Andrea Grover said. “When we started the permitting process three and half years ago, we thought we would be operational by early May. It is still amazing how fast they are getting everything done.” Grover said that despite those early projections, the

project is on schedule. “When started construction in September, we had an operational start of the end of June,” Grover said. “I would say that the pipeline is on schedule.” Grover explained that construction would be complete before June 30 but before they can start pumping gas certain things have to happen. “Construction will be complete before then,” Grover said. “But ahead of the operational start, there are several See SABAL • Page 3

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The Sabal Trail Pipeline is projected to be complete and in service by June 30.

New Site delays final decision on police, senior center Council opts to get more information By MITCH SNEED Editor

LOVE YOUR HEART

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Above, speakers Vickie Lutz, Tammy Coker and Pam Robinson listen at the Heart Luncheon Thursday. Below, about 100 attendees snack on Chicken Salad Chick and listen in on the presentation of heart health tips and shared stories of heart attack and strokes.

Local women share heart-felt experiences at Heart Health Luncheon By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

Pam Robinson and Vickie Lux shared their stories of a heart attack and a stroke to area women in hope that they might learn from their stories at the Russell Medical Women and Hearth Health Luncheon. Both had similar experiences and felt symptoms but ignored them. See HEART • Page 3

BRHS Senior Blitz preparing students for workforce interviews

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The New Site Town Council decided Tuesday to use some recent developments to evaluate the things they are facing before moving full-speed ahead. With the retirement of Public Safety Director John McKelvey, Mayor Phil Blasingame said that the council was hoping to look at the two positions in the department before making a decision on “Sometimes you any new personnel. “We felt like this just have to be was great time to do realistic and while that,” Blasingame that ( a new senior said. “We have the two positions and we center) is decided to look at the something we want job descriptions and to do eventually, titles and possibly we think we can do get with some other some things to the towns and see what they did before current facility making a decision. now,” “Sometime you find that someone —Phil Blasingame else may be doing New Site Mayor things that would make sense for you. So we will do that and then at the next meeting take a look at what we have found and make a decision on which way to go before we start See NEW SITE • Page 3

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Next week Benjamin Russell High School students will go on a rapid fire set of interviews over two days with a number of community leaders to work out precareer jitters and fine tune their job-seeking skills. Principal Anthony Wilkinson said at the Senior Blitz about 200 students would move from table to table every 15 minutes, over an hour, in interviews with local community leaders. In place of a boss, economic development officials, the school superintendent, local bankers and preachers would interview the students. He said they will work on the students’ soft skills as part of a broader effort called the Bridge

Program initiated around 2014. School reports state, “The foundation of the Bridge Program is to encourage students to think about their dream career and then develop a plan to make the dream become reality. Students are challenged to learn content through the application of critical thinking skills to explain rigorous yet relevant real-world problems rather than participate in simple lectures and solve worksheets.” Wilkinson said he would much rather them be nervous with us (BRHS) than in an official job interview. The program has also increased the attendance of the school’s cooperative program, as Wilkinson said it has went from about 16 to more than 100 students from its formation in 2013. See BRHS • Page 3

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River Bank & Trust’s Randy Dawkins speaks with a student at a previous Senior Blitz event.

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