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Ruling: Directors run Great Bethel church the authority to manage it. Judge Ray Martin’s Tuesday ruling sides with the plaintiffs who were seeking clarity through a lawsuit as to which set bylaws of three different bylaws the church was
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
A partial resolution has been issued in matters at Great Bethel Missionary Baptist Church giving the board of directors of the incorporated
TPI’s Granger dies at 58
managed under. “After due consideration and deliberation of all evidence presented, in light of the law that applies thereto, the court hereby finds that the documents entitled By Laws and listed as Exhibit D to
Plaintiff’s Complaint are in fact and law control the governance and operation of Great Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Inc.,” Martin’s ruling reads. The ruling clarifies the Board of Directors from 2013 incorporation as Great Bethel
Double-murder suspect gets extra attorney
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STAFF REPORT TPI Staff
Tallassee Tribune Managing Editor David Granger, 58, died Tuesday afternoon following a stroke he had nearly two weeks ago. Granger started working for Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. when he was hired as a staff writer at The Alexander City Outlook in January 2015. In December 2016, Granger Granger took the position of managing editor for TPI’s Elmore County newspapers overseeing The Tribune, The Wetumpka Herald and The Eclectic Observer. Granger is from Opp and had been living in Equality with his wife Lynn Holley Maynard Granger for many years. He graduated from Elmore County High School in Eclectic and earned a bachelor of arts in journalism in 1984 from Auburn University. Throughout his multi-decade journalistic career, Granger earned several awards from the Alabama Press Association and Alabama Sports Writers Association. In the APA’s 2018 Better Newspaper Contest, Granger was awarded third place for his column, “Holidays bring fireworks… to my kidneys!” in the Best Humorous Column category. He also earned second place in Best Editorial Column or Commentary for “Facebook killing sparks quests for answers.” Granger was a big sports fan and a large space of his heart was dedicated to the Atlanta Braves and Auburn Tigers. TPI staff members are sad to lose a piece of their work family and said Granger will be missed but always remembered for his talent and humor.
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BRHS marching band preparing for fall By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Summer vacation has not yet ended and the first high school football game of the 2018 season is still a month away, but a handful of students are back in school and getting ready for this fall. Members of the Benjamin Russell High School marching band returned to action last week, preparing for the upcoming marching season. “Right now, we have about 155 students in the marching band,” Director Dale Bloodworth said. “Things have been going well. They were a little rusty last week, but we were able to shake the rust off pretty quick and get to the instruction right away.” Bloodworth described this year’s marching show, “Some Nights,” as being all about how people experience nighttime and dreaming. See BAND CAMP • Page 6
BRHS trumpet players, top, warm up before rehearsing the fall show during Tuesday morning’s band camp session. Prior to rehearsing part of the show, members split into instrument groups and held warmup exercises.
The trial of Dean Carl Stevens, who is accused of the 2015 murders of a brother and sister he shared a mobile home with in the Goldville community is set for October, despite the defendant requesting a Stevens new defense attorney be appointed. “I am taking extraordinary measures here,” Judge Ray Martin told Stevens in court Tuesday. “I am going to appoint you a second attorney.” Martin told Stevens he was appointing Robin McIntyre to represent him as well as Stevens’ originally appointed attorney, Charles Gillenwaters. Stevens told Martin he thought Gillenwaters was not working for him. “He seems to be more interested in what he wants to do,” Stevens said to the court. “I understand I did not kill two people.” Stevens, 53, is facing two counts of capital murder in the Oct. 8, 2015 shooting deaths of Dianna Mitchell Sharpe and Robert Wayne Mitchell. See HEARING • Page 3
Omega Missions presents plan to Dadeville Kiwanis By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Adam Spates from Omega Missions was the special guest speaker at Thursday’s meeting of the Dadeville Kiwanis Club, talking about the plans he and his family, all of whom are a part of the mission group, have in taking the gospel to a city in Nicaragua and ministering to locals through the revival of a youth baseball league. Originally from Harpersville, Spates and his family have lived for the past several years in the Lake Martin area. Kiwanian Kim Russell introduced her guest, saying she knew Spates and his family through her church, First Baptist Church of Dadeville and was happy to be able to welcome him and let him share the story
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of his mission with the rest of the club. Spates described the location of his mission, Carinto, Nicaragua, as a key port on the Pacific coast of the Central American country. While somewhat similar to Dadeville in terms of land area, Carinto has a population of 21,000 people within its limits. The average salary in town is $120 a month, and a majority of the city’s population lives in houses made from whatever salvageable materials the people were able to get their hands on. “I was on a mission trip in 2000 in Venezuela, and it was there my heart for this got expanded,” Spates said. Since then, he has gone on Donald Campbell / The Outlook several mission trips, but it was Adam Spates with Omega Missions speaks to members of the only recently he felt pushed to See KIWANIS • Page 10 Dadeville Kiwanis club recently.
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