March 8, 2017 Wetumpka Herald

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Boys and Girls Club receives donation from local church

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By COREY ARWOOD Staff Writer

Officials of the Boys and Girls Club of the River Region announced the Wetumpka Boys and Girls Club will remain open after coming within a month of closing due to budget cuts from the city.

Supporters from throughout the community gathered in the club’s gymnasium in downtown Wetumpka at what was organized by the administration of Ridge Church of Wetumpka as a “community prayer meet.” The president, chair and treasurer of the River Region branch were

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at the meeting, which was largely directed by Rebecca Healey and her husband, Tripp Healey, lead pastor of Ridge Church. Key city figures and community organizers, instrumental in the struggle to keep the club afloat,

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Pictured here, Rebecca Healey presents BGC Director Cheryl See BOYS AND GIRLS • Page 3 Myrick with a check for roughly $13,500 as other supporters look on.

Adullam House Thrift Store moves amid fight for building

Beyer appears before Congress on environmental regulations

By COREY ARWOOD Staff Writer

By COREY ARWOOD Staff Writer

Elmore County Engineer Richie Beyer appeared before two subcommittees of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform as a key witness on the subject of “examining environmental barriers to infrastructure development.” The hearing before the committee was conducted by the Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy, and Environment, along with the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs. Beyer said he was approached by Rep. Gary Palmer, chair of the Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee, to testify by way of his connection with Palmer’s brother, the Franklin County engineer. Texas Repubican Rep. Blake Farenthold, chair of the Subcommittee on Interior, See CONGRESS • Page 2

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The first graduating class of the new Walmart training academy in Wetumpka marches in to their graduation ceremony Thursday in the Walmart Garden Center. The new academy is the first in Alabama and the 77th of 200 such academies Walmart plans to open by the end of 2017.

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Wetumpka Walmart training first in state By DAVID GRANGER Managing Editor

There were brighter smiles on the faces of the Walmart employees who had gathered in Wetumpka from throughout the area on Thursday than there were on the bright yellow and blue “falling prices” signs inside the U.S. 231 store. The employees – or associates, as they are called in the Walmart culture –

were smiling because they were about to become the first 50 graduates of the retail behemoth’s first training academy in Alabama, marching down the aisle in the “auditorium” created in the store’s garden center to receive acknowledgment of their training. They even wore caps and gowns with tassles that they moved from right to left at the ceremony’s conclusion. See WALMART • Page 8

Adullam House Thrift Store has a scheduled grand opening at its new location set for later this month, but the new facility is just one of a number of changes the nonprofit has in store. The grand opening at their new Firetower Road store is planned March 31 and the move carries with it an expansion of the thrift store, its capacities and an addition for the organization’s operations. Those operations are providing for the children of incarcerated women and men in every facet of the child’s life from housing to schooling. Just off of Alabama State Route 14, adjacent to what is known throughout the area as Bumper’s Texaco, the new location boasts three buildings as opposed to their current location off U.S. 231 with its single store space. Store manager Josh Hamby said their last day will be Friday in the store they opened roughly four years See ADULLAM • Page 3

Hansen, Conley to face off in speech contest finals ner-up will receive $500 in scholarship money. Both young ladies are already winners, having bested two classmates each in preliminary contests. Hansen bested fellow Edgewood seniors Morgan Brown and Caity Jo Lee in the school competition. Her original topic was “The Death Penalty: Does it serve a purpose or is it cruel and immoral?” Brown, who finished second, spoke

By DAVID GRANGER Managing Editor

Edgewood Academy senior Kevi Hansen and Wetumpka High School senior Madison Conley will square off next Tuesday at Wind Creek Casino in the finals of the Wetumpka Rotary Club’s annual speech contest. The winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the club while the run-

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on “What can we expect from a Trump presidency? Can he unite a divided nation?” Lee spoke on “What can be done to stop mass killings in the U.S.?” Prior to introducing each of the speakers – all of whom have outstanding academic and athletic achievements to their credit – Bob Reneau, who oversees the contest for the Rotary Club said once when the girls gathered for practicing See SPEECHES • Page 3

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