July 4, 2015 Alex City Outlook

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Happy Independence Day!

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July 4 -5, 2015 • Vol. 123 • No. 133 • www.alexcityoutlook.com

TITLES MADE HERE NBA balls start in Alex City, Page 10.

Council to again take on pay hikes

Honoring those who signed for freedom On this day, 56 brave men ratified Declaration of Independence By David Granger

By Mitch Sneed

Outlook Staff Writer

Outlook Editor

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n July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which laid out the reasoning for the colonies’ wish to be free of Britain and its tyrannical king. Fifty-six men signed the document, some famous, others not. Here are a few facts about the men who signed the document that made our country free and the reason we still celebrate this day as Independence Day.  The Declaration was drafted by the Committee of Five – Massachusetts’ John Adams, Pennsylvania’s Ben Franklin, Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson, New York’s

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Let the celebration begin!!

Residents got their celebration started early with events Friday in Hackneyville and Alexander City. Above Rexton Lee kept the crowd in Hackneyville entertained, with his Southern Rock and country sound. In Alexander City, The Nelons performed for the crowd, but Mother Nature provided her own fireworks in the form of lightning, delaying the pyrotechnic display until after Outlook deadline. For more photos from the celebrations, see Tuesday’s Outlook.

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How will the Alexander City City Council follow a work session filled with explanations, accusations, denials, heated exchanges and finger pointing over pay increases to some city employees that legal counsel and council members believe were improperly awarded? Hopefully with some action to put the issue to rest. The city council will hold its regular meeting Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the third floor courtroom at the Alexander City Public Safety Building. Tuesday, the council appeared to be poised to approve some of the raises and reject a $16,561 increase given to the mayor’s executive assistant, as well as one to the city’s human resources director that was given while she was still a probationary employee. The council agreed to take it up at Monday’s meeting. Among the 13 other items on the agenda are the declaring of four properties a public nuisance under the city’s weed abatement ordinance and a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement with Foresite for professional services to renovate Hamp Lyon Stadium.

LOCAL INDEPENDENCE DAY EVENTS ✮ The Crossroads Garden Club will host a pancake

✮ Lake Martin Fourth of July Concert and Fireworks

breakfast today from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Cost is $5.

will be held today At the Lake Martin Amphitheater.. Performances from the Bank Walkers and Nationwide Coverage. Music from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Southeast’s largest fireworks show will take place from 9-9:30 p.m. Tickets to gain entrance to the AMP are $15.

✮ ArtiGras at Russell Crossroads will be held today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

✮ A patriot boat parade will travel today from Kowaliga Marina to Children’s Harbor and back. Join the fun and captain your boat in the parade. Entry is free, but participants must register at the marina. Prizes will be awarded for largest flag, tallest flag, most patriotic decorations and most creative. The parade will begin at 10 a.m.

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✮ The second annual Heart of Waverly Bluegrass Festival concert will start at 11 a.m. at Standard Deluxe in Waverly. Bands will play until 8 p.m. Bring blankets, coolers, chairs and friends. For information and tickets, visit www.standarddeluxe.com.

Dadeville’s Foodland gives autistic man an opportunity

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On Friday, I trod where Andrew Jackson once did. I saw from his vantage point where the Red Stick Creek Indians – armed only with war clubs, bows and arrows, knives, spears and tomahawks – constructed an earthen barricade to protect themselves from Jackson’s encroaching Tennessee Militia. David Granger I stood in almost a direct east-west line with where the See TRAVELER, Page 3

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Jhmiyas Moss, right, bags groceries at Dadeville’s Foodland as job coach Michael Taylor looks on. Moss, 20, was diagnosed with autism at age 8.

By David Granger Outlook Staff Writer

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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park is built on land collected from Alabama Power Co. and the state of Alabama that was once slated to be a part of Lake Martin. The park is located less than 30 minutes from Alexander City.

For almost a month now, Dadeville’s Foodland has featured a new smiling face at the checkout. He’s 20-year-old bagboy Jhmiyas Moss and he’s quickly becoming so adept at his job that few people who come through the grocery would ever know that he has a disability. “He’s doing very well, doing a wonderful job,” said Angie Gonyo, manager of Foodland. “So far, anything we’ve asked him to do, he’s done it. We just have to ask him to repeat his directions back to us and he does what he’s supposed to do.” According to Moss’ grandmother, Faye Tinsley, he was diagnosed with autism when he was 8. See MOSS, Page 3


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