May 26, 2016 Dadeville Record

OPINION:

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Rising Tide:

Songwriter Guy Clark missed already.

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Jennings excited about future.

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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016

Council addresses sewage, paperwork issue

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

The Dadeville City Council learned of an issue with sewage at the recreation center and that Monroe and Associates is behind on paperwork for the town’s demolition grant at Tuesday’s council

meeting.

The council learned of the sewage issue at the frequently rented facility from a family who held a family reunion over the weekend.

“We rented the rec center for two days for a family reunion,” Patricia Wyckoff said. “The whole time we were there we

were mopping up sewage. We couldn’t use the bathrooms. They were stopped up. We couldn’t use the sink in the kitchen. We had to catch water in aluminum pans. It was just awful.”

The problem caught council members by surprise.

“This is the first I have heard of it,”

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Dadeville High School’s seniors walk tall at commencement The seniors of the Dadeville High School Class of 2016 graduated Wednesday night at Tiger Stadium before a packed house. The seniors celebrated the completion of their high school careers with a toss of their caps following the playing of the Alma Mater. Congratulations to the class of 2016.

Marine Police aim for safe holiday on Lake Martin

The Tallapoosa County Board of Education on Wednesday voted to approve more than 50 personnel moves, more than half of which were transfers of employment from Councill Middle School, which meets for its last halfday of classes today, to other county schools.

Twenty-seven of 31 transfers the board unanimously approved at the specially called meeting were transfers from Councill.

“And that’s all of them, right?” asked board member Michael Carter.

“Nobody lost their job?”

“No one lost their job (from Councill),” Superintendent Joe Windle replied.

Windle said that preparations for moving the Councill students to Dadeville Elementary and Dadeville See SCHOOL • Page 5

Dadeville Kiwanis Club awards key clubbers with scholarships

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

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Believe it or not, the Memorial Day Weekend will be the busiest few days of summer on Lake Martin for boating.

“Memorial Day weekend is usually the busiest time of summer,” Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Marine Patrol Division Sgt. Mark Fuller said Tuesday while riding the lake. “It surpasses

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Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Marine Patrol Division Sgt. Mark Fuller pilots a boat on Lake Martin Tuesday in an event to familiarize media with what they do on the water and to promote safe boating this holiday weekend, which See WATER • Page 3 Fuller said is traditionally the busiest of the year.

All six senior members of the Dadeville High School Key Club received $500 in scholarship money from the Dadeville Kiwanis Club at the Kiwaniians weekly meeting Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Dadeville.

Ben Thomas, Dadeville High School Key Club advisor, said this year’s Key Club seniors were special.

“The benefits of Key Club are intrinsic,” Thomas said. “These young men and women, they get up early, they work, they do things and they get nothing much more than a pat on the back.”

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County’s jobless rate at 8-year low Tallapoosa County’s unemployment rate fell to just 5.3 percent in April, the lowest rate in almost eight years.

The last time that the jobless rate was this low was in March 2008, and the current 5.3 percent is down from the 6.1 percent posted in March and the 5.7 percent that was recorded in Tallapoosa County in April 2015.

To put the local good news in perspective, the county rate was much better than the state average.

The state’s seasonally adjusted April unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, down from March’s rate of 6.2 percent.

“Every aspect of this month’s jobs data reflects positively on Alabama’s economy,” Gov. Robert Bentley said. “More people are working and more jobs are filled. In fact, we are

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re you getting ready for the FREE Summer Reading Program at the library?

This year the focus is on Olympics and fitness; Get Set, Ready, Read! programs are on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. and begin on June 28 and go until July 26. Stop by the library to register your kids!

The Friends of the Library group is hosting Wine & Words at Chuck’s Marina on Friday, June 24. This is the great event combining a Wine Tasting for $5 and a book sale with the live music and pizza at Chuck’s. Be sure to stop in to see what books are for sale and to find a new favorite wine.

The Friends of the Library are having a drawing at Wine & Words for two handcrafted book lamps. To enter your name into the drawing, stop by the library to provide your $1 donation. You can view these amazing lamps at the circulation desk at the library. Two winners will be chosen, each receiving one book lamp.

New Releases in Adult Fiction:

• Aunt Dimity & the Buried Treasure by Nancy Atherton • The Dummy Line

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New Releases in Adult Nonfiction:

• Walking the Himalayas

by Levison Wood Be sure to come to Story Time on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. every week. Come enjoy this fun filled hour with Ms. Marilyn.

Library Notes are provided by Dadeville Public Library Director Abbi Mangarelli.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

The Dadeville Record

Police Reports Dadeville Police Department May 25

• Arrest of a Dadeville man, age 29, on the charge of Domestic Violence occurred on Freeman Drive.

May 24

• A report was filed for Property Damage that occurred on N. Tallassee Street.

• A report was filed for Theft by Deception and Fraudulent Use of a Debit or Credit Card that occurred on Old Columbus Road.

May 23

• A report was filed for Theft of Property that occurred on E. Lafayette Street.

• A report was filed for a Nuisance Property located on South Tallassee Street.

May 22

• A report was filed for Property Damage that occurred on E. South Street.

May 21

• Arrest of a Waverly man, age 50, on the charge of Failure to Appear occurred on South Street.

• A report was filed for Property Damage that occurred on Highway 280.

May 20

• Arrest of a Dadeville man, age 27, on

two charges of Failure to Appear occurred on Highway 280

filed a report for domestic violence.

Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department May 24

• A subject of Coosa County Road 26 in Alexander City was arrested on an active child support warrant.

• A subject of County Road 9 in Waverly was arrested on an active child support warrant.

• A resident of Wood Duck Point in Jacksons Gap filed a report for a dog bite.

• Martin Shelton of Owen Avenue in Bessemer was arrested for a failure to appear child support warrant.

• Payton Bradford of Highway 63 South in Alexander City was arrested for minor in consumption.

• A resident of Frog Hollow Road in Dadeville filed a report for property damage.

May 21

May 20

• A resident of Gilmer Road in Tallassee filed a report for theft of property.

May 23

• A resident of Deer Foot Lane in Dadeville filed a report for theft.

• A resident of Macedonia Road in Tallassee filed a report for theft.

• A resident of Dead Timbers Road in Dadeville filed a report for harassment.

• Dustin Foreman of Veazey Road in Alexander City was arrested for a probation violation warrant.

May 22

• A resident of Campbell Road in Dadeville

May 19

• A report was filed on Highway 49 South in Dadeville in reference to a theft.

• A resident of Quail Hollow Drive in Dadeville filed a report for fraud.

May 18

• Terrance Banks of North Uniroyal in Opelika, was arrested on a grand jury indictment for assault second degree.

• A resident of Tessie Drive in Jackson’s Gap, filed a report for a dog bite.

Ongoing Events SCHOOL REGISTRATION: Victory Baptist Academy, a mission of Victory Baptist Church, is now holding registration for the 2016-2017 academic school year for grades K4 - 12th grade.

For more information call 256-234-2089 or 256749-6451.

SCHOOL REGISTRATION: Faith Christian Academy, a ministry of Faith Temple Church, is accepting applications for the 2016-2017 academic year for grades K3 and up. Applications may be obtained at the Church office at 425 Franklin Street (256-2346421). Tours of the school are available upon request.

SUMMER BAZAAR: Vender spaces available for the June 18 Annual Summer Bazaar/a Lake Martin Laubach Literacy Program and Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama, Inc.project to be held in the parking lots of the Karen Channel State Farm Bldg. For vend-

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ers selling handmade or new items, spaces will be located inside the VCCA offices. There will be limited flea market spaces available outside and along the parking lot perimeter.

All spaces, both inside and outside are available on a first come first serve basis.

If you are talented and would like to set up a table with your goods contact Rita at literacylakemartin@ yahoo.com or Carley at carleyatvcca@gmail.com or 256-234-0347 by May 15, 2016.

AWANA: Wayside Baptist Church hosts Awana Sunday’s from 4:40 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for ages three to high school.

For more information contact George Gardin, student minister at 864580-0343.

VOLUNTEER: Southern Care Hospice is seeking volunteers. Please call Lizz Gillenwaters at 256-2341134 or 256-749-3717 for more information.

WOMAN MEETING: Every first Sunday, Victory Temple Holiness Church hosts a woman’s meeting, at 237 Aster St. in Dadeville. Everyone is invited. The meeting starts at 2 p.m.

READY TO WORK: Ready to Work is a FREE

jobs skills training program offered at Central Alabama Community College Career Center. Classes meet Monday through Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. until noon. Completion of the program depends on the skill level of the individual. For more information contact Elaine Balint, instructor, at 256-2154496 (leave message) or ebalint@cacc.edu.

OFFICE CAREERS: The Office Careers Technology program is funded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and was created to help dislocated workers learn new employable skills.

To qualify for the programs be a dislocated worker (layoff) or a low income family. Anyone interested in the classes should contact the Alexander City Career Center @ 256-215-4494 and ask about the WIOA program. Most all dislocated workers automatically qualify for financial assistance.

The program is 52 weeks and is open entry/ open exit. Students learn at their own pace in a nontraditional classroom setting. Classes begin when students are approved and they may leave when

they receive any or all of the certificates offered.

Classes are Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m.--3:00 p.m. (with a lunch break).

All textbooks and class materials are supplied.

Certificates available are receptionist, inventory clerk, data entry clerk, administrative assistant, accounting office clerk, medical office clerk, legal office clerk.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY: Celebrate Recovery is a Christcentered ministry designed to help hurting people.

It is made up of regular folks who are on a journey toward wholeness; seeking recovery from life’s hurts, habits, and hang-ups.

We meet every Monday at Vertical Point Church, 860 Airport Drive, Alex City. We begin with dinner at 5:45, followed by large group at 6:15 & small groups at 7:15. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome. For more info, call Mike at 256-496-4664.

BEYOND TRANSFORMATIONS: Meetings every second Saturday. Have you been wanting to give back, work with youth, or be a part of a group that makes a difference? Please email iamtransforms@gmail.

com or Call at 334-4406539. Donations of clothes, food, books, computers, school supplies. A building and donations are needed.

AMERICAN LEGION: Post 339 in Cottage Grove is open every Friday night from 8 p.m. until with fried chicken and fish. Music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

SCV MEETING:The Sons of Confederate Veterans meets every third Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at J.R.’s Sports Bar & Grill. Visitors are welcome.

BIBLE STUDY: Come join the Auburn Woman’s Satellite Day Bible Study Fellowship. We’re currently registering ladies interested in studying Revelations.

The course, study guides, seminars and lecture notes are free. This is interdenominational and open to all women at Parkway Baptist Church Holliday Hall, 766 East University Drive, Auburn.

We meet on Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

We will love to have you there. Bible knowledge is not required. Come learn, share, and fellowship. For further information, contact Tricia at 334-546-1386.

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AMATEUR RADIO CLUB: The Lake Martin Amateur Radio Club meets from 6 to 7 p.m. the second Thursday of every month at the Alexander City Airport Terminal Building with dinner and fellowship following at a local area restaurant.

Amateur radio license exams are available after the meeting by prior arrangement. The club also meets on the air (Alabama Emergency Net Victor) on the first, third, fourth and fifth Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. on the club sponsored K4YWE repeater at 145.33 mhz with the 146.96 repeater as backup. All interested can attend our meetings or contact Tim Mayfield K4CWL at 256329-1172 or John Phillips WI4P at 256-212-4063 CAR SHOW: Lake Martin Street Rods and Classic Cars meet every 3rd Saturday at Buck’s Dairy Quick in Alexander City from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Call Danny at (256) 496-0024 for more information.

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Thomas said that, largely because of the club’s senior class, the DHS Key Club was chosen the highest-rated service club of its size in the Alabama district. He said the club members participated in field cleanups, blood drives, raising awareness for different causes and Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

Two Key Club members – Ashley Stephens and Precious Holloway – were chosen for the DHS club’s highest honor, the Gerald Easterwood Scholarship. The four remaining members of the DHS Key Club senior class – Mary Timmons Cross, Kyle Harkins, Jebrunski Johnson and

Raven Tolbert, all received Kiwanis Scholarships.

Each of the scholarships is valued at $500.

Key Club, the oldest and largest service leadership organization for teens, teaches leadership through service to others. Key Club’s 267,000 members build themselves as they build their schools and communities. Key Club’s 5,000 clubs thrive in 30 nations in North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

By performing more than 12 million service hours each year, Key Club members make a difference in their communities and the world, organizing a variety of service

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Key Club encourages volunteering and fundraising for partners March of Dimes, UNICEF and the Children’s Miracle Network.

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July 4. With the July 4 fireworks, there are more boats congregated in one area, but for the overall lake, there will be more boats for the Memorial Day holiday.”

Fuller has some suggestions that come in handy for the first holiday of the boating season. Not only are they tips that will keep boaters safe, but tips that will keep boaters from receiving tickets as the marine officers patrol and stop boaters on a probable cause basis.

“Anytime you are going on a boating excursion, particularly at the beginning of summer, you need to check all of your safety equipment,” Fuller said. “Take your boat to a marina, have it summerized, check all your belts and hoses and all of your fuses. Check your life jackets, you have to have one for everyone on board. It has to fit them, has to be in good condition and readily available.”

There is one thing that will get a

boater pulled over quickly.

“Children under eight have to have life jackets on,” Fuller said. “We are sticklers for that. We are looking for any other safety issues like people riding above the gunnels of the boat and riding on the back sundecks of pontoon boats and the go-fast boats as we call them.”

For those boaters wanting to ride at night on the lake, there is one thing that will make the boat legal and is a safer ride.

“If you are going to be out at night, all of your navigation lights have to work,” Fuller said. You need to be clearly visible. That has been a big issue with our accidents recently.”

That gets the basics of boat safety.

But what about a license?

“Any Alabama resident who is 14 and older who operates or owns a boat has to have a vessel license,” Fuller said. “If you are 12 or 13 and have taken the safety course you get

a license like a learner permit but you have to have a licensed boat operator in the boat that is at least 21 years old.”

Everyone has to have a vessel license that operates a boat, but only a few people are exempt from the exam.

“If you were born prior to April 28, 1954, you do not have to take the exam,” Fuller said. “But you still have to go to the drivers license office and get the vessel classification on your drivers license.”

Fuller has some advice that will make every boater’s experience safer.

“Everyone seems to be in a hurry and all about them,” Fuller said.

“There are other people that have just as much right as you to be here.

If you are in doubt, slow down. The other boater might have taken your right-of-way but that is no reason to get into an accident. It is better to be slow, late and safe.”

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supporting almost 100,000 more jobs now than we were at the height of the recession. We are continuously working to keep that momentum going, with events like last week’s huge job fair in Birmingham that drew more than 5,000 job seekers.”

Alabama’s age and salary employment measured 1,971,300 in April 2016.

“This is a promising month for us,” Alabama Department of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald

Washington said. “There are more people looking for work and more people working this month than there have been all year.

The number of people who are unemployed is down. We continue to see growth in our wage and salary employment, surpassing economists’ growth expectations by nearly 8,000 jobs only four months into the year.”

Wage and salary employment increased in April by 16,500. Monthly gains

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were seen in the trade, transportation, and utilities sector (+3,600), the professional and business services sector (+3,500), and the leisure and hospitality sector (+2,100), among others.

Over the year, wage and salary employment increased 25,400, with gains in the professional and business services sector (+7,400), the trade, transportation, and utilities sector (+5,900), and the education and health services sector (+5,200), among others.

All major Alabama cities, metro areas, and 67 Alabama counties experienced drops in the unemployment rate.

Counties with the lowest unemployment rates are: Shelby County at 4.0 percent, Elmore County at 4.5 percent, and Cherokee County at 4.6 percent.

Major cities with the lowest unemployment rates are: Vestavia Hills at 3.4 percent, Homewood at 3.7 percent, and Hoover at 3.9 percent.

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Area first responders show they are prepared

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shooter crashed into a factory and took hostages, injuring several people in the process Wednesday in Alexander City.

Fortunately for everyone involved it was only a drill.

For almost a month, leaders, first responders and governmental officials met to plan a drill that would test all agencies, as well as Russell Medical Center.

When the drill began, it was very realistic, all the way down to the scanner traffic directing the proper response to the areas where help was needed most.

“You don’t ever know when the real thing might come up,” Alexander City Fire Department Capt. Jeff Brewer said.

“We pray that it never does, but’s a good thing they can do stuff like this. That’s the only way you can be prepared. If you wait until it really happens, it’s too late.”

We agree with Capt. Brewer.

Tallapoosa County EMA Director Jason Moran said Alexander City Police and Fire departments, county and state emergency management officials, the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department, Alexander City Rescue Squad, United Way/211, Salvation Army, Tallapoosa County Department of Human Resources, the Alexander City Board of Education, Amateur Radio Emergency Services, Central Alabama Community College nursing program and Russell Medical Center all played a role in the exercise.

It is very good that all area agencies took the time to make sure the people who protect us on a daily basis have the tools needed to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.

We also appreciate the first responders who took the time to take this important training.

Wednesday’s drill shows that local officials are doing their part to be ready so that damage can be minimized and our community can be as safe as possible should someone do the unthinkable.

We feel confident that if a eal scenarios should unfold like the one that played out in the drill do ever strike, the men and women tasked to help us in the situations are well prepared.

Editorial Songwriter Guy Clark missed already

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ou don’t just listen to a Guy Clark album.

You relish in it, considering every word and phrase, feeling the words as they course through you.

But then Guy Clark, who died last Tuesday at the age of 74, didn’t just write songs.

The tall Texan wrote poetry.

Unfortunately, Clark was so dogged about the construction of his poems – and, yes, he considered his work poetry set to music – and so true to being a storyteller rather than just a lyricist, that many were not familiar with his work.

But the man we lost to cancer on May 17 was a genius songwriter. Though tempted, I won’t call him a craftsman.

“I should have put a stop to that craftsman (stuff) a long time ago,” Clark told Tamara Saviano, a Grammy and Americana Award-winning producer currently working on a biography and documentary film on Clark. “It makes my skin crawl. It’s nobody’s fault but mine because I didn’t step up and say, ‘No, that’s not right.’ I consider what I do poetry. I don’t need to prove I’m a poet in every line and I’m not afraid to speak plainly in my songs.

Not everything needs to be a metaphor and I don’t need lofty words. But it is my obligation as a poet to be faithful to the verse. I write what I know. I write what I see.”

And Guy saw and wrote plenty. Perhaps his bestknown song – “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train” – is his most-often covered. It’s the story of Jack Prigg, “a drifter, a driller of oil wells,” and the

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time he spent with the muchyounger Clark in taverns, pool halls and in an old kitchen.

I’d play the Red River Valley And he’d sit in the kitchen and cry And run his fingers through seventy years of livin’ And wonder Lord has every well I drilled gone dry We was friends me and this old man We’re like desperados waiting for the train Like desperados waiting for the train The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson), Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Bobby Bare, and Mark Chesnutt all covered the biographic “Desperadoes.” But it’s the plaintive, knowing voice of Clark that does it better than any of those artists.

But Clark’s favorite version? True to his thought of his work as poetry, he enjoyed a spoken-word version by Slim Pickens. In fact, it was his favorite version by anyone of any of his songs.

But Clark’s tastes ran strange. His best songwriting buddy – not that they cowrote, but they wrote together – was the enigmatic Townes Van Zant, another Texan most

famous for penning “Pancho and Lefty,” made famous

by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

And the love of Clark’s life was definitely the beautiful Susanna, his wife, who died in 2012 and to whom Clark dedicated his 2013 “My Favorite Picture of You” album, which won a Grammy for best folk album and featured Clark on the cover holding a candid shot of his late wife flipping him off.

My favorite Clark song was an inspirational piece that I’ve tried to live by called “The Cape,” co-written with his wife Susanna.

I’ve tried to trust my cape ever since having first heard the tune.

Eight years old with a flour sack cape Tied all around his neck He climbed up on the garage, He’s figurin’ what the heck Screwed his courage up so tight, That the whole thing come unwound He got a runnin start and bless his heart, He headed for the ground Well, he’s one of those who knows That life is just a leap of faith.

Spread your arms and hold your breath And always trust your cape.

We miss you already, Mr. Clark.

David Granger is a staff writer for The Record.

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Remembering our fallen warriors

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ear Captain Fuller, in science this week, we’re talking about the human body, and I hope your human body doesn’t get shot, but I have homework to do.”

“Dear Caption (sic) Fuller, You are the most kind man in the world to risk your life. For many, it’s the ultimate sacrifice. You do the most for us, so we won’t ever get attacked in the middle of English.”

I received these letters from these precious children while deployed to Iraq eight years ago during my second tour there in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

I thank God every day that my human body did not get shot, and I also thank Him for those men and women who indeed paid the ultimate sacrifice.

As a platoon leader, I lost my two soldiers when they were hit by an improvised explosive device on April 4, 2004, during my first deployment. Philip Rogers died instantly, and Tyanna Felder died from her injuries three days later. There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t think about our fallen warriors and friends.

I try to focus on faith, family, and friends in some way, shape, form or fashion in this column, but today, with respect to Memorial Day, I’m adding freedom

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to the mix. Where would we be without the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice? What freedoms would we have?

Where would you be?

With respect to my fallen warriors, whether or not we should have been in Iraq or not is beside the point.

We were there. Philip and Tyanna raised their right hand and volunteered to serve their nation so that you or your loved ones wouldn’t have to serve involuntarily, and for that we should be forever grateful. Salute.

I have the incredible honor of being the guest speaker at the Memorial Day services in my hometown on Monday. I’ve spoken or performed comedy in a lot of places for a wide range of folks, but as honored and excited as I am to do this, I’m equally as terrified, but I look forward to the challenge.

“If a man does his best, what else is there?” General George S. Patton Some people are unaware of the true meaning of

Memorial Day and lump many of the military related holidays together. While those grateful Americans mean well, it’s important not to confuse Memorial Day with Veterans Day; Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died in the line of duty, while Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans “Another reason I would like to thank you is because you are serving the nation.

Without people like you who join the military, our country would be bad.”

I think this last letter really sums it up. So, to each of you who have ever worn the uniform, we thank you every day for what you have done for this great nation, and we’ll throw you a celebration come November 11, but Memorial Day is for our brothers and sisters from every walk of life who paid the ultimate sacrifice, so that we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our head. That debt can never be repaid, we are forever grateful and will never forget.

Jody Fuller is comic, speaker, writer and soldier with three tours of duty in Iraq. He is also a lifetime stutterer. He can be reached at jody@jodyfuller.com.

Stephanie Kelley represents District 1. Her phone number is 256-8250544. Her address is 171 Wink Drive, Dadeville.

James M. Tarpley represents District 2.

His phone number is 256-825-2522.

His address is 274 East LaFayette St., Dadeville.

Jimmy Frank Goodman Sr. represents District 3. His phone number is 256-8259749. His address is 241 Goodman Road, Dadeville.

Stephanie Kelley

James Tarpley

Frank

Billy Monroe rep- Goodman resents District 4. His phone number is 256-749-4451.

His address is 1670 North Loop Road, Dadeville.

Randy Foster represents District 5.

His phone number is 256-825-7770.

His address is 648 South Tallassee St., Dadeville.

Billy Monroe

Joe Smith is mayor of Dadeville. His phone number is 256-8256691. His address is 725 Henderson St., Dadeville.

Randy Foster

Joe Smith

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Area first responders show they are prepared

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shooter crashed into a factory and took hostages, injuring several people in the process Wednesday in Alexander City.

Fortunately for everyone involved it was only a drill.

For almost a month, leaders, first responders and governmental officials met to plan a drill that would test all agencies, as well as Russell Medical Center.

When the drill began, it was very realistic, all the way down to the scanner traffic directing the proper response to the areas where help was needed most.

“You don’t ever know when the real thing might come up,” Alexander City Fire Department Capt. Jeff Brewer said.

“We pray that it never does, but’s a good thing they can do stuff like this. That’s the only way you can be prepared. If you wait until it really happens, it’s too late.”

We agree with Capt. Brewer.

Tallapoosa County EMA Director Jason Moran said Alexander City Police and Fire departments, county and state emergency management officials, the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department, Alexander City Rescue Squad, United Way/211, Salvation Army, Tallapoosa County Department of Human Resources, the Alexander City Board of Education, Amateur Radio Emergency Services, Central Alabama Community College nursing program and Russell Medical Center all played a role in the exercise.

It is very good that all area agencies took the time to make sure the people who protect us on a daily basis have the tools needed to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.

We also appreciate the first responders who took the time to take this important training.

Wednesday’s drill shows that local officials are doing their part to be ready so that damage can be minimized and our community can be as safe as possible should someone do the unthinkable.

We feel confident that if real scenarios like the one that played out in the drill ever strikes, the men and women tasked to help us in the situations are well prepared.

Editorial Songwriter Guy Clark missed already

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ou don’t just listen to a Guy Clark album.

You relish in it, considering every word and phrase, feeling the words as they course through you.

But then Guy Clark, who died last Tuesday at the age of 74, didn’t just write songs.

The tall Texan wrote poetry.

Unfortunately, Clark was so dogged about the construction of his poems – and, yes, he considered his work poetry set to music – and so true to being a storyteller rather than just a lyricist, that many were not familiar with his work.

But the man we lost to cancer on May 17 was a genius songwriter. Though tempted, I won’t call him a craftsman.

“I should have put a stop to that craftsman (stuff) a long time ago,” Clark told Tamara Saviano, a Grammy and Americana Award-winning producer currently working on a biography and documentary film on Clark. “It makes my skin crawl. It’s nobody’s fault but mine because I didn’t step up and say, ‘No, that’s not right.’ I consider what I do poetry. I don’t need to prove I’m a poet in every line and I’m not afraid to speak plainly in my songs.

Not everything needs to be a metaphor and I don’t need lofty words. But it is my obligation as a poet to be faithful to the verse. I write what I know. I write what I see.”

And Guy saw and wrote plenty. Perhaps his bestknown song – “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train” – is his most-often covered. It’s the story of Jack Prigg, “a drifter, a driller of oil wells,” and the

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time he spent with the muchyounger Clark in taverns, pool halls and in an old kitchen.

I’d play the Red River Valley And he’d sit in the kitchen and cry And run his fingers through seventy years of livin’ And wonder Lord has every well I drilled gone dry We was friends me and this old man We’re like desperados waiting for the train Like desperados waiting for the train The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson), Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Bobby Bare, and Mark Chesnutt all covered the biographic “Desperadoes.” But it’s the plaintive, knowing voice of Clark that does it better than any of those artists.

But Clark’s favorite version? True to his thought of his work as poetry, he enjoyed a spoken-word version by Slim Pickens. In fact, it was his favorite version by anyone of any of his songs.

But Clark’s tastes ran strange. His best songwriting buddy – not that they cowrote, but they wrote together – was the enigmatic Townes Van Zant, another Texan most

famous for penning “Pancho and Lefty,” made famous

by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

And the love of Clark’s life was definitely the beautiful Susanna, his wife, who died in 2012 and to whom Clark dedicated his 2013 “My Favorite Picture of You” album, which won a Grammy for best folk album and featured Clark on the cover holding a candid shot of his late wife flipping him off.

My favorite Clark song was an inspirational piece that I’ve tried to live by called “The Cape,” co-written with his wife Susanna.

I’ve tried to trust my cape ever since having first heard the tune.

Eight years old with a flour sack cape Tied all around his neck He climbed up on the garage, He’s figurin’ what the heck Screwed his courage up so tight, That the whole thing come unwound He got a runnin start and bless his heart, He headed for the ground Well, he’s one of those who knows That life is just a leap of faith.

Spread your arms and hold your breath And always trust your cape.

We miss you already, Mr. Clark.

David Granger is a staff writer for The Record.

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Remembering our fallen warriors

“D

ear Captain Fuller, in science this week, we’re talking about the human body, and I hope your human body doesn’t get shot, but I have homework to do.”

“Dear Caption (sic) Fuller, You are the most kind man in the world to risk your life. For many, it’s the ultimate sacrifice. You do the most for us, so we won’t ever get attacked in the middle of English.”

I received these letters from these precious children while deployed to Iraq eight years ago during my second tour there in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

I thank God every day that my human body did not get shot, and I also thank Him for those men and women who indeed paid the ultimate sacrifice.

As a platoon leader, I lost my two soldiers when they were hit by an improvised explosive device on April 4, 2004, during my first deployment. Philip Rogers died instantly, and Tyanna Felder died from her injuries three days later. There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t think about our fallen warriors and friends.

I try to focus on faith, family, and friends in some way, shape, form or fashion in this column, but today, with respect to Memorial Day, I’m adding freedom

JODY FULLER Guest Columnist

to the mix. Where would we be without the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice? What freedoms would we have?

Where would you be?

With respect to my fallen warriors, whether or not we should have been in Iraq or not is beside the point.

We were there. Philip and Tyanna raised their right hand and volunteered to serve their nation so that you or your loved ones wouldn’t have to serve involuntarily, and for that we should be forever grateful. Salute.

I have the incredible honor of being the guest speaker at the Memorial Day services in my hometown on Monday. I’ve spoken or performed comedy in a lot of places for a wide range of folks, but as honored and excited as I am to do this, I’m equally as terrified, but I look forward to the challenge.

“If a man does his best, what else is there?” General George S. Patton Some people are unaware of the true meaning of

Memorial Day and lump many of the military related holidays together. While those grateful Americans mean well, it’s important not to confuse Memorial Day with Veterans Day; Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died in the line of duty, while Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans “Another reason I would like to thank you is because you are serving the nation.

Without people like you who join the military, our country would be bad.”

I think this last letter really sums it up. So, to each of you who have ever worn the uniform, we thank you every day for what you have done for this great nation, and we’ll throw you a celebration come November 11, but Memorial Day is for our brothers and sisters from every walk of life who paid the ultimate sacrifice, so that we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our head. That debt can never be repaid, we are forever grateful and will never forget.

Jody Fuller is comic, speaker, writer and soldier with three tours of duty in Iraq. He is also a lifetime stutterer. He can be reached at jody@jodyfuller.com.

Stephanie Kelley represents District 1. Her phone number is 256-8250544. Her address is 171 Wink Drive, Dadeville.

James M. Tarpley represents District 2.

His phone number is 256-825-2522.

His address is 274 East LaFayette St., Dadeville.

Jimmy Frank Goodman Sr. represents District 3. His phone number is 256-8259749. His address is 241 Goodman Road, Dadeville.

Stephanie Kelley

James Tarpley

Frank

Billy Monroe rep- Goodman resents District 4. His phone number is 256-749-4451.

His address is 1670 North Loop Road, Dadeville.

Randy Foster represents District 5.

His phone number is 256-825-7770.

His address is 648 South Tallassee St., Dadeville.

Billy Monroe

Joe Smith is mayor of Dadeville. His phone number is 256-8256691. His address is 725 Henderson St., Dadeville.

Randy Foster

Joe Smith

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City Schools assess first year as county announces virtual academy

By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer

Beginning next fall, every high school student in Alabama will have an option to attend public high school without ever leaving home.

Effective next academic year, all public schools in the state must have in place a virtual school through which a student can use his or her computer to take at least high school-level coursework.

Alexander City Schools offered the virtual school option this year for all Benjamin Russell High School students. Tallapoosa County schools will offer it for students in the ninth through 12th grades in the 2016-17 school year.

“We’ll start it at the middle school as well next year,” said Darrell Cooper, superintendent of Alexander City Schools. “We’ve certainly had some parents contact us about it. For different kinds of students, it can be appealing, but it’s not for the average student. For the student to be successful, they have to be motivated, they have to be self-motivated.”

Benjamin Russell principal Anthony Wilkinson said that approximately 25 students enrolled in the BRHS virtual program in its first year, including 15 seniors. He

said, of the seniors, most of them will graduate on time, but “four or five will roll into summer school.

I think they all will graduate, but it will be in the summer. They won’t walk (participate in Friday night’s graduation ceremony) with the senior class.”

“It’s like anything else,” said Wilkinson. “Those students who are go-getters, who are disciplined and who are self-starters do really well. Those that have to be pushed will –just like they likely would on campus – struggle.”

Joe Windle, superintendent for Tallapoosa County Schools, said the addition of the virtual school to the county school system gives parents a menu of educational options.

“The addition of the virtual school gives our parents an additional choice for educating their children,” Windle said. “I think that’s a good thing. “We are now able to offer a choice of going to school in the traditional way, blending the traditional way with online and now we also have the option for parents to enroll their children in the Tallapoosa County Virtual Academy and their entire experience will be online with the exception of coming to campus to take exams.”

A flyer for the county schools’ version of a virtual program, called the Tallapoosa County Virtual Academy, touts as benefits: • Low cost (only occasional fees); • Courses taught by qualified and certified teachers; • The student’s ability to work at his or her own pace and on his or her own schedule; • The opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities such as band, sports and clubs (as long as mandatory meetings of these groups are attended); and • The opportunity to graduate early and a diploma from an AdvancED/SACS-accredited school.

The county schools’ flyer also largely addresses homeschool parents and students.

But Windle said he didn’t expect that many of the parents and students who choose the TCVA will be true homeschool students.

“I think homeschool students will be a small number,” Windle said. “Parents of homeschooled children will consider it, but I don’t think that will be the largest make-up. I think the most interest will come from parents looking for other options.”

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High are progressing.

“We will be finished maybe even Friday with the work at Dadeville High School,” Windle said. “All the classrooms have been done – stripped and re-done. So we’re almost ready.”

The board approved summer contracts for 16 teachers and three administrators for the school system’s summer arts program which will be held at Dadeville, Horseshoe Bend and Reeltown. The program is paid for with federal funds, according to Windle.

“The purpose is to give the students an opportunity to participate in drama, art and music,” said Corrine Garrett, who oversees federal programs for the county system. “The program will run through June, except for Fridays – a total of 16 days. The students will work with the teachers to come up with a skit they will perform at the end of the program.”

The board also approved six non-renewals, all of which Windle said came at the recommendation of the principals in the system, except one recommended by

Council

Windle.

“I didn’t take any of the principals’ recommendations off the list this year,” Windle said. “They are all nontenured personnel.”

Two retirements – one bus driver for Reeltown and one teacher at Dadeville Elementary School – were also approved. A single termination was held over until the board’s next meeting on June 13 to allow for a board hearing at the employee’s request.

The board also unanimously approved the resignations of Patrick Browning, a special education teacher at Councill, who will accept the head coaching position at Pike Road School near Montgomery, and Madison Brooks, an engineering/industrial maintenance teacher at Edward Bell Career Technical Center, whose husband has been accepted to medical school in Georgia.

The June 13 board meeting will be at 5 p.m. in the BOE board room.

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“I thought that was fixed,” Foster said.

The council voted to refund the rental fees for the weekend. The also agreed to see what it would take to solve the problem.

“I have talked with Scott(Parks and Recreation Director Scott Baker) already,” City Clerk Mike Gardner said.

“He is going to get Roto-Rooter to check it out.”

The council learned that Susan Monroe has not filed all of the paper work to go ahead with demolition. If the July deadline is not met, it could mean the city could lose out on more ADECA grants because this one would still be open.

Kay Baker with the Tri-County Child Advocacy Center and Lisa Moncrief with RSVP asked that the council keep them in mind in the budgeting process.

Baker asked the council for help in identifying a building that the advocacy center might be able to use rent free to free up funds for the organization.

Moncrief wanted the council’s help in identifying those in the community who

are volunteering but not registered with RSVP. Registering with RSVP gives volunteers insurance for things not covered by their personal insurance.

Police Chief David Barbour asked for an executive session regarding a personnel issue. The council returned to regular session 25 minutes later and took no action.

The Dadeville City Council also: • approved minutes from the last meeting.

• heard that they may be closer to letting bids on the Lafayette Street paving project.

• heard there was no update on the courthouse square project because they are still waiting for the county’s grant application to be approved.

• heard that the Alabama Department of Transportation is looking into the city’s request for truck route signage around the square.

• heard there were no recreation center rentals to be approved.

The Dadeville City Council will meet again June 7 at 5 p.m.

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New Beginnings Baptist 1076 Coley Creek Rd.

New Elkahatchee Baptist Elkahatchee Rd., Alex City 256-329-9942

New Life Baptist County Road 14, Alex City, 256-329-2635 Victory Baptist 280 By-Pass, Alex City West End Baptist Off 280 West, 256-234-2130 BAPTIST – MISSIONARY Bethlehem Baptist New Site Cross Key Baptist Hackneyville, 256-329-9716

Flint Hill Baptist Hwy. 280, Dadeville Friendship Baptist Our Town Community, 256-329-5243 Hollins Springs Baptist Hwy. 280, Goodwater

The Great Bethel Missionary 520 Christian St., Alex City 256-234-5513 Unity Baptist Robinson Rd., Alex City Zion Hill Missionary Baptist 583 S. Broadnax St., Dadeville BAPTIST – SOUTHERN Bay Pine Baptist 1480 Bay Pine Rd. Jackson’s Gap, 256-825-4433 Bethany Baptist Church Bethany Road Bethel Baptist Smith Mt. Rd., Jackson’s Gap 256-825-5070 Beulah Baptist Smith Mt. Rd., Jackson’s Gap 256-825-9882

Mt. Zion Baptist Hwy. 22, New Site Mt. Zion East StillWaters Dr., 256-825-4991 Mt. Zion West Our Town Community, 256-234-7748 New Elam Baptist Hwy. 9, Burtonville, 256-234-2037 New Bethel Baptist Rock St., Dadeville, 256-825-7726 Peace & Goodwill Baptist Cottage Grove Community Alexander City, 256-377-4634

New Providence Baptist Pearson Chapel Rd., Alex City New Rocky Mount Baptist 670 Peckerwood Rd., Jackson’s Gap 256-794-3846 New Salem Road New Site Rd., New Site, 256-234-2932 Old Providence Baptist Off Hwy. 63 N., near Hackneyville

Orr Street Baptist 1000 “O” Street (Hwy. 63N) Alex City, 256-234-3171

Camp Hill Baptist Downtown Camp Hill, 256-896-2811

Perryville Baptist Perryville, 256-234-3588

Daviston Baptist Daviston, 395-4327

Mt. Sinai Baptist Fish Pond Rd., Coosa County 256-329-2337

New Pine Grove Baptist Off Hwy. 22, Perryville

Calvary Heights Baptist Elkahatchee, Rd., Alex City 256-234-7224

Liberty Church 1034 Liberty Church Rd. Willow Point Alex City

Mt. Olive Baptist Hwy. 280 & Jct. 49, Goodwater

New Life Baptist Jackson’s Gap, 256-825-6190 / 256-329-2635

Old Union Baptist 1106 Davis Circle Jackson’s Gap 256-596-1873

Jackson’s Gap Baptist Church 21 East Church St. 256-825-6814

Mt. Calvary Baptist 329 King St., Alex City, 256-234-5631

New Hope Baptist Lake Martin, off Hwy. 63 256-329-2510

Calvary Baptist 819 Main St., Dadeville, 256-825-5989

Comer Memorial 941 E. Church St., Alex City 256-234-2236

Miracle Missionary Baptist 1687 “I” Street 256-215-9788, 256-215-9787

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Mt. Zion Baptist Hwy. 63 South, Alex City 256-234-7748

Shady Grove Baptist Jackson’s Gap Community

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Ridge Grove Missionary Baptist Alexander City, 256-234-6972

Mt. Carmel Baptist 3610 Dudleyville Rd., Dadeville

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST Liberty Baptist 1365 Hillabee St., Alex City 256-329-8830

Macedonia Baptist Macedonia Circle, Goodwater 256-839-5793

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Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist 835 Valley Rd., Camp Hill 334-257-4442

Mountain Springs Baptist Off Hwy. 22, Daviston

New Concord Baptist Off hwy. 49, Dadeville, 256-825-5390

Early Rose Baptist 201 E Street, Alexander City

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Lebanon Baptist Mt. Carmel Rd., Dadeville, 256-234-7541

Seleeta Baptist Booker St., Alex City 256-329-2685

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Pine Grove Baptist Eagle Creek Rd., Dadeville

River of Life Worship Center 407 Hillabee St., Alex City, 256-329-9593

Darian Missionary Baptist Church Pearson Chapel Rd., Alex City 256-329-3865

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Pine Grove Baptist Camp Hill Ray Baptist Rockford Hwy., Alex City, 256-234-7609 River Road Baptist 148 Dean Rd., Alex City, 256-234-6971

Eagle Creek Baptist Hwy. 49, Dadeville, 256-825-6048

Rocky Creek Baptist Samford Rd., Cowpens Community

Fellowship Baptist Buttston Community Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church on Claybrook Drive, Alex City 256-839-5339 First Baptist Court Square, Alex City 256-234-6351

Rocky Mount Baptist Hwy. 22 E., Alex City, 256-329-2327 Rock Springs Baptist Jackson’s Gap, 256-839-6263 Russell Farm Baptist Hwy. 63 beyond Our Town

Dadeville Church of Christ East LaFayette St., Dadeville Meadows St. Church of Christ 306 Meadows St., Alex City Pleasant Grove Church of Christ 1819 Bay Pine Rd, Jackson’s Gap Southview Church of Christ 2325 Dadeville Rd., Alex City 256-329-0212 CHURCH OF GOD Alex City No. 2 A.C.O.P. Church of God Local Street, Alex City Bread of Life A.C.O.P. Church of God Hwy. 280, Kellyton Cedar Street Church of God 711 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Alex City Dadeville Church of God 425 Horseshoe Bend Rd. (Hwy. 49 N.) Dadeville 256-825-8820 Marshall Street Church of God 428 Marshall Street, Alex City 256-234-3180 New Faith Tabernacle A.C.O.P. Church of God “J” Street New Harvest Ministries Church of God Hwy 280 & Coosa 28 256-329-2331 Pentecostal Church of God 163 Franklin Street, Alex City 256-215-4055 The Church of God 13th Ave. N., Alex City 256-329-1696 Washington Street A.C.O.P. Church of God Washington Street CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY Church of God of Prophecy 303 Poplar Rd., Alex City, 256-234-6941 CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1515 Worthy Road, Alex City (Corner of Worthy Place and Dadeville Road) CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Dadeville Church of the Nazarene Corner Hwy. 280 and 49, 256-825-8191 EPISCOPAL Saint James Episcopal Church 121 South Central Ave., Alex City 256-234-4752

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Duncan Memorial U.M. 3997 Hillabee Rd., Alex City 256-234-6708 First United Methodist 310 Green St., Alex City 256-234-6322

Goodwater U.M. Main St., Goodwater, 256-839-6661 Haven United Methodist 410 Christian St., Alex City 256-329-8394

Mt. Godfrey New Site New Site U.M. New Site, 256-234-7834 Pearson Chapel U.M. Pearson Chapel Rd., Alex City

Sunnylevel United Methodist 3202 Hwy. 63N, Alex City 256-234-6877 Trinity United Methodist 280 By-pass, Alex City, 256-234-2455 Union United Methodist 4428 Hwy. 50, Dadeville 256-825-2241

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First Presbyterian Okefuske, Dadeville, 256-825-4081

First Congregational Christian 11th Ave. South, Alex City

Town Creek Baptist Camp Ground Rd., Alex City

Kellyton Revival Center Co. Road 87 South Kellyton

Passion Church 3340 Hwy. 63 N., Alex City 256-409-9590

CATHOLIC St. John the Apostle 454 N. Central Ave., Alex City 256-234-3631

The Family Worship Center 365 Scott Road, Alex City METHODIST – UNITED Alexander City Methodist 11th Ave. N., Alex City 256-329-1284 Bradford Methodist Hwy. 9, Goodwater

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Zion Hill Baptist Hwy. 79, near Horseshoe Bend

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PRESBYTERIAN First Presbyterian 371 Jefferson St., Alex City 256-329-0524

UNITED PENTECOSTAL Alex City Apostolic 3708 Robinson Rd., Alexander City, 256-329-1573

Liberty Life Christian Center 321 “S” Street, Alex City

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PENTECOSTAL Pentecostals of Dadeville 115 West Columbus Street Dadeville, 256-596-3411

Sunny Level Baptist Church Sunny Acres Subdivision Sewell Street

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METHODIST – INDEPENDENT Daviston Independent Methodist Daviston, 395-4207

Family Worship Center 1676 Sewell Street 256-839-6895

Lake Pointe Baptist 8352 Hwy. 50W, Dadeville

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Red Ridge United Methodist 8091 County Road 34, Dadeville 256-825-9820

FULL GOSPEL Dadeville Foursquare Gospel Church Old 280 By-pass

CHURCH OF CHRIST Alex City Church of Christ 945 Tallapoosa St., Alex City 256-234-6494

Attorney at Law 135 N. Tallassee Street • Dadeville, AL

Liberty United Methodist Liberty Rd., Hackneyville

Sixth Street Baptist Sixth St., Alex City, 256-234-2408

Lake Martin Baptist Hwy 34, Dadeville 256-825-7434

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Kellyton U.M., Kellyton, 256-329-1681

Good News Baptist Church 10493 Hwy. 280, Jackson’s Gap 256-825-2555 Hackneyville Baptist Hwy. 63 N., Hackneyville

Kendrick Baptist Church Nixburg

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Hillabee Campground UMC 120 CC Road, Alex City Sunday School 10am Sunday Service 11am

House of Restoration Holiness 519 Slaughter Ave., Camp Hill, 256-749-2373, 256-896-2904

Kellyton Baptist Kellyton, 256-329-1512

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Flint Hill U.M., Alex City 256-234-5047

Sandy Creek Baptist Alex City

Jackson’s Gap Baptist Jackson’s Gap, 256-825-4951

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First United Methodist Dadeville, 256-825-4404

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Comer Memorial U.M. 427 East Church St., 256-329-3467

First Baptist Tallassee St., Dadeville, 256-825-6232

Wayside Baptist 21 Wayside Circle, Alex City 256-234-5564

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Hillabee Baptist Hillabee Rd., Alex City 256-234-6798 Horseshoe Bend Baptist Hwy. 280, Dadeville

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GAP Fellowship Ministries P.O. Box 1571, Alex City Jehovah-Jireh Ministries 252 Tallapoosa St., Alex City 256-215-4211 Leap of Faith Outreach Ministry 886 Terrance Drive, 256-234-7119 New Bethel Fellowship Church 5474 Rock Springs Road Jackson’s Gap 256-825-3367 The Baha’I Faith 740 Newell Street, Camp Hill 256-896-4007 The Word Bible Church 161 Main St., Alex City, 256-215-5646

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Hooper lead the way for Republicans in Alabama

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few weeks ago former Alabama Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper Sr. died at his home in Montgomery at age 91. He was the epitome of the southern gentleman. He was also one of the founding fathers of the modern Republican Party in Alabama.

Hooper Sr. was a GOP leader long before it was cool to be a Republican in Alabama. He was the state’s longtime National Committee Chairman as well as a one-time party chairman. Many of Hooper’s early GOP stalwarts, like Wynton Blount and Jim Martin, used to jest that there were so few Republicans in the state that they could call a state executive committee meeting or convention in a phone booth.

Hooper was a marine as a young man. He graduated from Birmingham Southern and then the University of Alabama School of Law. During this time, he married the love of his life, a beautiful Kappa Delta at Alabama from Montgomery, “Mrs. Marilyn.”

He began his law career in Montgomery. He was elected probate judge of Montgomery County in 1964 and reelected in 1970. In 1974, he was elected as a circuit judge in Montgomery.

In those Montgomery judgeships, he was the first Republican elected since Reconstruction.

However, he became the ultimate Republican political pioneer in 1994 when he became the first Republican chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. In fact, he was the first Republican state justice since Reconstruction.

Today, Republicans hold all nine seats on the Alabama Supreme Court. Hooper broke the ice and paved the way. As a jurist, Judge Hooper was seen as a role model for other judges.

He was nonpartisan and fair.

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STEVE FLOWERS Columnist

Both Democrat and Republican lawyers said he was friendly and treated them with respect and regard in his courtroom.

Suburban Alabamians began voting Republican in the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon presidential race. In fact, Nixon carried Montgomery. The tide turned totally in 1964. The state voted overwhelmingly for Barry Goldwater in what became known as the Southern Goldwater landslide.

Alabamians not only voted for the Republican standard bearer, Goldwater, but a good many pulled the straight Republican lever. This Goldslide put five new Republican congressmen in office, including Bill Dickinson, Jack Edwards and Jim Martin. Judge Hooper also rode this tidal wave to become Montgomery Probate Judge. He used the slogan “Put Barry in the White House and Perry in the Courthouse.” However, this would not to be his toughest race.

Hooper’s perseverance and resolve were exemplary as he won the 1994 State Supreme Court Race and broke the stranglehold that the plaintiff trial lawyers and Democrats held on the Supreme Court. At that time, the state’s and nation’s business communities were incensed at the jackpot justice haven that Alabama had fostered.

They were determined to root out the plaintiff lawyer-oriented/ Democratic court. We were called “tort hell” in a cover story

by Time Magazine.

The Business Council of Alabama backed Hooper. They also hired one Karl Rove to work on the campaign. The Alabama trial lawyers backed incumbent Sonny Hornsby. It was a bitter and expensive campaign. Hooper narrowly beat Hornsby in the November election by less than 300 votes out of 1.1 million cast.

Hornsby and the trial lawyers challenged the election. After a long court battle and several recounts, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Hooper the winner by a final margin of 262 votes.

After Hooper’s win in 1994 the wall was lifted. The Republicans swept the court and have not relinquished any of the seats on the State Supreme Court.

Due to the state’s mandatory age limitation of 70 for judges, Hooper could not run again in 2000. However, if he could have run, his reelection would have been much easier than in 1994.

Judge Hooper is survived by his wife of 63 years, Marilyn, along with his sons, John, Walter, Conwell and Perry Hooper, Jr. and a host of grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

Perry Hooper, Jr., affectionately known as “Perry O.”, was my best legislative buddy. He has enjoyed a stellar career highlighted by 20 years as a state representative from Montgomery.

Judge Hooper was a fine gentleman.

See you next week.

Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist. His weekly column appears in over 60 Alabama newspapers. He served 16 years in the state legislature. Steve may be reached at www.steveflowers.us.

Public Meetings  Alexander City Board of Education meets on the third Tuesday of each month.

Meetings are held in the board office at 375 Lee St. or local school at 5 p.m.  Alexander City Council meets on the first and third Mondays of each month.

Meetings are held in the courtroom at the old city hall at 5:30 p.m.  Camp Hill Town Council meets the first and third Mondays of each month.

Meetings are held in town hall at 6 p.m.  Community Action Agency of Chambers, Tallapoosa, Coosa will holds its regular board of directors meetings every other month at the Central Office in Dadeville.  Coosa County Board of Education holds called meetings at least once a month.  Coosa County Commission meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held in the Coosa County Courthouse in Rockford at 9:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday and at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday.  Coosa County Industrial Development Board will hold its regularly scheduled meeting the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Board Room in the courthouse in Rockford.  Dadeville City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. in city hall.  Daviston City Council meets the third Monday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Daviston Fire Department.  Goldville Town Council meets the second Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the town hall.  Goodwater City Council

meets on the second Tuesday of each month.

Meetings are held upstairs in the courthouse at 6:30 p.m.  Jackson’s Gap Town Council meets the second Tuesday of each month.

Meetings are held in town hall at 6:30 p.m.  Kellyton Town Council meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the community center in Kellyton.  New Site City Council meets the second and fourth Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in the Conference Room in the Town Hall.  Ray Water Authority meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. at the Ray Water Authority Office.

All customers are invited to attend.  Rockford Town Council meets the second Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held in town hall at 7 p.m.  Tallapoosa County Board of Education meets on the second Monday of each month. Meetings are held in the new central office at 679 East Columbus Street, Dadeville, AL 36853.  Tallapoosa County Commission meets the second Monday of the month at 9 a.m. in the courthouse in Dadeville, with a pre-meeting also open to the public 30 minutes before each regular session.  Tallapoosa County 911 Board will meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the 911 Administrative office at 240 West Columbus Street, Dadeville. Call 825-8490 for more information.  Walnut Hill Water Authority meets the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited. Call 8259841 to inquire about the agenda.

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Celebrating our students’ achievements and more

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ur family had a wonderful reunion on the homestead last week! The occasion was the birthday of Bill Peters Sr. (whom we call “Smokey”), so he and his wife Marie came to Dadeville along with other relatives, nieces, nephews, in-laws, babies, husbands & wives… etc. We had a wonderful few days and everyone found a place to sleep and plenty to eat. Pete and Lisa were terrific hosts and Grammy had a GREAT time!

Happy Birthday, Smokey. Everyone got back home safely and we all have great memories.

DHS GRADUATION NEWS: We had a BIG crowd of happy folks at graduation last night! Ninetyeight graduating seniors with big smiles, parents and lots of friends there.

Valedictorian Precious Holloway and Salutatorian Asia Cross are both outstanding students who earned recognition and success.

On May 19, the Dadeville Kiwanis Club gave six graduates scholarship checks, as follows: Precious Holloway, Ashley Stephens, Mary Timmons Cross, Raven Tolbert, Kyle Harkins, and Jerbrunski Johnson. It was a special Kiwanis-Key Club awards ceremony and both our principal, Chris Hand, and faculty scholar, Ben Thomas were present and proud of our wonderful Key Clubbers. (KEY is an acronym, standing for “Kiwanis Educating Youth”).

We are the only Kiwanis Club in Alabama (so I am told) that has our students join us for lunch meetings during school hours. Thanks to our wonderful Principal Hand for allowing this. We shall really miss the students during the summer months!

KIWANIS CLUB’S GOLF TOURNAMENT @ STILLWATERS: It’s on Wednesday,

BETTY HAYES Guest Columnist

June 15, starting at 9 a.m. Please call Chairman Tony Johnson (256-3296185) or stop by Lil Lambs & Ivy to ask questions of Peggy Bullard (256-825-9415). We hope to have a good crowd! Lots of prizes for you GOOD and/or lucky golfers! Come one, come all!

WELLNESS CENTER NEWS: The Wellness Center would like to thank everyone who came out and/ or donated to this year’s Breathe for Bunn walk. We had a very successful turnout with over 50 participants coming out to walk, and we raised over $5,000 for Ashley’s double lung transplant account. Ashley and her mother are now in North Carolina where they are waiting on a transplant so they were not able to be with us this year. We will still take donations if anyone is interested in donating to their account. Thank you all so much!! Please call the Wellness Center (256-827-0198) with any questions.

LINE DANCING NEWS: Betsy Keown’s line dancing class is happening at the Dadeville Recreation Center, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. until noon for a fee of $1 per class. There’s room for you so call Betsy at 256-825-3985.

LAKE MARTIN BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS: Get ready for Vacation Bible School on June 12-17 from 5:30 until 8:30 each night, for kids ages 3 through 5th grade. This year we will also have an Adult VBS, so you can bring your kids and stay and learn as well. Register today!

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NEWS: June 12 – 17, Youth, ARMS Mission Trip to Livingston, Alabama.

June 26-30, Vacation Bible School July 11 – 15, Youth at Blue Lake Camp “Oakwood Experience Basic Training”.

RED RIDGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NEWS: Join us for our Memorial Day service at 9:30 a.m. A special quartet will sing “Blades of Grass and Pure White Stones.” The choir’s anthem will be “No Greater Love,” featuring a duet by P. J. Armour and Cindy Pierce.

The Outreach Committee needs volunteers to work the Crisis Center in Alex City May 30-June 1. Please volunteer if you are available.

UMW is sponsoring their annual picnic at the Girls Ranch in June and they need bingo prizes for the girls.

Please keep this in mind. North Alabama United Methodist’s annual Conference Mission project is the Bazillion Book drive. The drive was conceived by the NAC Ministry with the Poor Operational Team to help each conference congregation make a difference in the lives of children in their community all year. The goal is to collect as many new (or like-new) children’s books for third grade and younger as possible. The books will be sorted and distributed to approved agencies and ministries in our area. A collection box will be placed in the RR fellowship hall until June 2.

Red Ridge, 8091 County Road 34, Dadeville, redridgeumc.org., 256-825-9820 Paul Messer is pastor.

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Today’s Events

REPUBLICAN PARTY MEETING: Perry Hooper Jr. will be speaking Thursday May 26 at 7 p.m. at Queen’s Attic at the Tallapoosa County Republican Party meeting.

Hooper who is the state vice-chair of the Trump campaign will be speaking on the RNC convention and delegate process as well as Donald Trump.

May 26, 2016

May 14 - May 28

WETUMPKA DEPOT PLAYERS: I Hate Hamlet will be presented by the Wetumpka Depot Players through May 28. For ticket information call 334-8681140 or go to wetumpkadepot.com.

May 24

PIANO RECITAL: Piano students of Sandra Stark are having their elementary recital Tuesday, May 24 at 7 p.m. at Faith Temple. It will feature Elisie Lin, Alyssa Channell, Jaylynn Welch, Riki Lin, Mackenzie Deas, Lolly Dye, Kadie Stark, Harrison Jones, Chloe Jackson, Janya Smith, Lexi Robinson, Brian Thompson, Annie Zhang, Drew Daughtry, Campbell Thomas, Anna Claire Stark, Riley Jackson, Murphy Spurlin, Serenity Smith, Christina Zou, Chapman Marlow, and Ann Lee.

pickup for the butts will be Friday morning, May 27, beginning at 10:00 a.m. at Sixth Street Baptist Church.

For more information, or to place and order, please contact Sixth Street Baptist Church at 256-234-2408 or email Pastor Matt Haines at mhaines@sixthstreetbaptistchurch.com

May 28

ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL: Bibb Graves School is hosting an arts and crafts festival May 28. There will also be a car show.

CHURCH FELLOWSHIP: New Adka Church is hosting a day of fun, fellowship and fun May 28 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Bring your family and lawn chairs.

There will be games for children and adults with volleyball, inflatable games, matching games, ball pit and more.

There is no cost for the event.

May 26

REPUBLICAN PARTY MEETING: Perry Hooper Jr. will be speaking Thursday May 26 at 7 p.m. at Queen’s Attic at the Tallapoosa County Republican Party meeting. Hooper who is the state vice-chair of the Trump campaign will be speaking on the RNC convention and delegate process as well as Donald Trump.

May 27

OLD FASHIONED GOOD TIME: The old Coosa County/J.D. Thompson School campus will be the site of a real old fashioned good time, going back in the day with fun. Activities will include a May Pole, horseshoes, car games, two-hole golf, bingo, art contest and more. Concessions will be available but please no large bills.

Kendall Burton will be the guest speaker.

Please bring a lawn chair.

BOSTON BUTT SALE: The Alexander City Methodist Church is selling tickets for Boston Butts for Memorial Day. Cost is $28 for one or $50 for two.

BOSTON BUTT SALE: Sixth Street Baptist Church is pre-selling Boston Butts from Good Ol’ Boys Restaurant for you to have for your Memorial Day Weekend.

The butts are $30 each and the proceeds will go to help support our mission team going to Uganda this July to share the gospel with the Acholi people. All orders must be pre-ordered and pre-paid. The

May 27-29

POP UP SHOPS: Lakeside Mercantile 4th annual Pop Up Shops & Tent Event will be May 27-29 featuring outside vendors, food and fun with East Lake Coffee Shoppe, Unique Home Decor, local art, jewelry, apparel, and gifts.

Hours are: Preview Friday May 27 1 p.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday May 28 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday May 29th 10-4, and closed Memorial Day

May 28-29

ART ON THE LAKE: Children’s Harbor Lake Martin Campus is hosting Art on the Lake May 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and May 29 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Art on the Lake provides an opportunity for artists from all over the Southeast to showcase their art including canvas, jewelry, pottery and sculpture are available for purchase with a portion of the sale benefitting Children’s Harbor.

May 29

CHURCH HOMECOMING: Hillabee Camp Ground United Methodist Church will hold homecoming on Sunday, May 29. A covered luncheon will be held.

Everyone is invited to attend.

ARMOUR UP: Hatchett Springs Baptist Church Women’s Ministry is hosting

May 29 - June 3

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Highway 63 South in Alexander City is hosting Submerged!, a vacation Bible school May 29 through June 3 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. nightly.

May 31

PGA JR. LEAGUE: Lakewinds Golf Club is starting a PGA Jr. League June 8.

You need to register by May 31 and there will be leagues for children of all ages up to 16 years old.

You can register at www.pgajlg.com

June 3

GOSPEL CONCERT: The Hyssongs will be presenting a concert of Gospel Music at Bay Pine Baptist Church Friday, June 3 at 7 p.m.

Dell, Susan, and Richard Hyssong travel full-time as the award-winning Hyssongs. their energetic family ministry combines family vocal harmony, humor and brass instruments to delight audiences through the powerful medium of music.

The group has been singing together as a family for 20 years.

June 4

INTRO SAILING: The Dixie Sailing Club is hosting a introduction to sailing event June 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The introduction includes an oral presentation and on the water capsize and recovery.

Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to skipper a sailboat. It is open to children as well as adults.

FARM TOUR: Lake Martin QDMA and Tallapoosa County Treasure Forest Assoc. will sponsor a Wildlife Habitat Tour June 4, including timber management and wildflowers on Jerry and Genelle Brown’s Farm near Hackneyville, Al. (1030 Saxon

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Frank Tapley, Brian Childs, Ronald Ingle, Janet Carr, Jimmy Sewell and Jimmy Wilson are celebrating their birthday.

Armour Up Sunday, May 29 at 9 a.m.

Guest speaker will be Sister Pauline Norris-Thomas of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Goodwater and former Morning Star District Women’s President.

MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE: Alexander City will host a Memorial Day Service Sunday, May 29 at 2 p.m. at the Veteran’s Memorial at the Sportplex. Everyone is invited to attend.

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Robyn and James Smith are celebrating their anniversary.

Rd. Goodwater, Al.) Whiskers Catfish will provide lunch after the tour which will begin at 8:30 a.m. The event is free but everyone is asked to call the Tallapoosa County Ext. Office at 256-825-1050 to register, or Jerry Brown at 256-839-5154.

PASTORAL ANNIVERSARY: New Adka Church is hosting its 21st Pastoral Anniversary Banquet for Rev. and Sis. Edward Milner June 4 at 5 p.m.

CHURCH HISTORY CELEBRATION: Trinity United Methodist Church invites everyone to join in a celebration of its past and future Saturday, June 4 at 4 p.m.

Trinity will look back at its ministries of the past with history, photographs, and memories of members and former pastors will be shared as we look to plans for the future.

Refreshments and fellowship will follow.

CRUISE IN: Lord’s Cruisers are hosting a cruise in at Arby’s on Highway 280 Saturday, June 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

All antique cars, trucks and bikes are welcome. Listen to the music of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

For more information contact Rod Sizzers at 256-794-3844.

GOLDFISH SPRINT and TURTLE RACE: Wind Creek State Park will host a goldfish sprint and turtle race June 4.

Activities will begin at 3 p.m. and the race starts at 5:15 p.m.

Dress your turtle for best dressed turtle. There will be $1 goldfish for sale . First, second, and third place winners will be recognized for best dressed turtle, turtle race and the goldfish race.

Park entrance fees apply to noncampers.

June 5

CHURCH HOMECOMING: Bay Pine Baptist Church is hosting homecoming June 5 at 10:30 a.m. Guest singers will be Redemption Song. The pastor is Edward Frantz. Everyone is welcome.

June 6

SUMMER READING KICKOFF: Mamie’s Place Children’s Library is kicking off the Summer Reading program June 6 at 10 a.m. at the Sportplex Gym. There will be a fun run, entertainment and kids free lunch.

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Ridiculously early college football predictions After standout spring performance, Jennings excited about future

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University of Alabama sophomore Anfernee Jennings, seen here before last season’s home game against Tennessee, is looking to make an impact in his second season with the Crimson Tide.

By ROBERT HUDSON Sports Editor

Spring in Tuscaloosa was a return to form for former Dadeville Tiger Anfernee Jennings.

The University of Alabama sophomore linebacker made his presence known in the Crimson-White Game in front of 76,212 fans at Bryant-Denny Stadium on April 15.

Jennings had six tackles and three sacks in April’s game.

It was a year in the making as Jennings said he worked hard to return from a ruptured disk in his back that slowed his start with Alabama before last season.

“It felt really good to be out there. It was a whole year to wait because of my injury, but it felt great to be back out there on the field playing with my teammates,” Jennings said. “Spring went well. I know I have a lot of improvement left, but I’m looking forward to getting back and see-

ing what I have to do to be a better player, a better teammate, a better student.”

Jennings said it was an injury that had lingered since high school. He said he fought hard to get back on the field and contribute any way he could.

“I had ruptured my disk. It happened in high school, but I just kind of played through it. I guess when I moved on and got to college it got worse, so they noticed that and fixed it,” Jennings said.

“I had no other choice because I wanted it to be fixed and wanted to be pain free.

My rehab went excellent. I worked as much as I could. They expected me to be out longer than I was. I actually came back faster than they thought I would.

When I got back, they had me on scout team, so I competed and did whatever the coaches asked me.”

It is his coaches that Jennings credits with preparing him to play to the best of his abilities.

“All of the coaches, they prepare you

the best way possible. I consider my coaches the best of the best,” Jennings said. “They do what they do and they get you ready for the action on field.”

After being a member of last year’s national championship team, Jennings said he is excited to have a chance this season to get on the field and make his mark. He said he hopes the spring game was the only the beginning.

“We were just having fun in the spring game basically because I knew that was really my first bit of action like that in a college environment,” Jennings said.

“So, I’ve just been adjusted to that and now I’m ready to play some winning football for coach and the University of Alabama. I’m very excited. I know I’ve got a lot to do and a lot in front of me, but I’m ready to compete and get into it.

I look forward to everything that I’ve got ahead of me, the workouts, practices and everything. I’m ready to get back to it.”

Local coach offering free summer camps in Dadeville

By ROBERT HUDSON Sports Editor

Children looking to stay active this summer will have a free option in the Dadeville area.

Coach Michael Taylor will put on free training camps for cheerleading, band, baseball, basketball, football, soccer, softball and tennis at the Dadeville Elementary Playground this summer.

The free training camps will be held each Monday and Tuesday starting at 5:45 p.m. from June 13 to July 26.

Taylor said the camps were started last summer to give area youth a place to play for free.

“I’ve been part of quite a few camps, but this one is the second one I’ve done. I did this camp for half a year last year,” Taylor said. “The reason for this camp is a lot of kids don’t have the money to pay for some of the camps that are out there during the summer.

So, what I decided to do since Dadeville and the Camp Hill area doesn’t have a YMCA or a rec department that keeps the

kids for the whole summer, I figured I’d volunteer my time and use my own money and equipment that I purchased to keep the kids busy for two days a week during the whole summer.”

Camps are open to all school-age children and equipment will be provided. While nothing has been solidified, Taylor said the camps will be conducted in conjunction with local coaches.

“What I am doing is taking some of the positive people from the community and bringing them together that have actually coached before and know a little bit about the sports the kids want to play in,” Taylor said. “There will be quite a few parents and coaches who will come out and step up.

I’ve talked to the high school, elementary school and middle school. So, who will show up, I don’t know for sure, but there will be quite a few that participate. We’ll probably have anywhere from 100 to 200 kids out there throughout the summer.”

For more information contact Taylor at 334-549-2337.

Cal Burton, Reeltown 2016 All-Area Baseball Team

 Corley Woods (Sr.), P/INF, BRHS (10-2, 52 strikeouts, 2.53 ERA)  Cal Jones (Sr.), OF, DHS (.516 batting average, .967 slugging percentage, 41 RBI, 10 home runs, four triple, 17 doubles)  Neal Turner (Sr.), C, BRHS (.305 batting average, 17 RBI)  Cole Noble (Sr.), P, RHS (7-4, 3.61 ERA, .316 batting average)  Cal Burton (Jr.), SS, RHS (.364 batting average, 1 home run)  Jonah Schmidt (Sr.), P, Central-Coosa  Trevor Stover (Sr.), P/UTL, Central-Coosa  Isac Holt (Sr.), C, Horseshoe Bend  Landon Wilson (Jr.), SS, DHS (.441 batting average, 50 hits, four doubles)  Carson McClendon (Jr.), C/OF, DHS (.439 batting average, .526 OBP, 14 doubles, 26 RBI)  Timmy Lawson (Jr.), SS, BRHS (.381 batting average, 1 home run, 30 RBI  Shep Flurry (Jr.), 2B/OF, RHS (.386 batting average)  Joby Newman (Jr.), 2B, RHS (.341 batting average)  Darius Jackson (Sr.), P/OF, BRHS (.349 batting average, 23 RBI, 2.97 ERA, 35 strikeouts)  Bradley Mann (Sr.), P/1B, Horseshoe Bend

very year about this time, I dig incredANDY ibly deep GRAHAM into my proSports phetic resColumnist ervoir and make 10 ridiculously early predictions about the upcoming college football season.

If you’re not familiar with my column, it’s uncanny how impeccably accurate my prognostications have been over the years. If you are familiar with my column, just play along and don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story. This is no joke.

I had a dream about an old friend on Sunday night. She called me out of the blue on Monday afternoon because she had a dream that made her think of me.

Is that The Twilight Zone theme I hear?

Apparently, my psychic powers are at their peak in the month of May. I apologize if my potent brain waves adversely affected anyone else. Visions of the future can be chaotic, so bear with me. Here are 10 ridiculously early predictions about the 2016 college football season.

1. South Carolina bounces back from a 3-9 debacle in 2015. Will Muschamp’s influence improves the defense immediately, but the overall talent gap is too much to overcome. The Gamecocks go 7-6 and lose to West Virginia in the Liberty Bowl.

2. While Jim Harbaugh might not exactly be the easiest guy to like, he did a tremendous job in Ann Arbor last year.

I foresee Michigan going 11-1 in the regular-season and defeating Wisconsin 31-20 for the Big Ten championship in 2016.

3. Auburn will name Sean White it’s starting quarterback three weeks into fall camp. John Franklin III will have a “package” that’s built-in to the game plan. White incurs a high ankle sprain in the 3rd quarter of game two and Franklin takes over. In the best traditions of Wally Pip, Franklin never releases the starting role again.

4. The Ole Miss Rebels were one insanely-bizarre-overtime-loss-againstArkansas away from heading to their very first SEC Title game a season ago.

Quite frankly, the 2016 schedule is brutal. Colonel Reb can’t live up to expectation and finishes the season 9-4.

5. Alabama freshman QB Jalen Hurts causes a stir during fall practice, but Cooper Bateman takes the first snap against USC. A game the Tide will win by 17 points. Nick Saban is curt with the media.

6. Stanford’s Mr. Versatility Christian McCaffrey wins the Heisman Trophy dispelling the myth of East Coast bias and creating a new myth of West Coast bias.

7. LSU running back Leonard Fournette leads the SEC in rushing with 2072 yards and 24 rushing TD. Les Miles says weird things, wears his hat a little funny and still coaches the Tigers in 2017.

8. Kevin Sumlin wears out his welcome in College Station after five years with a 7-5 regular-season. A declining win total and unrest among the players forces a change.

9. Gus Malzahn restores the faith of the Auburn people (for a year or two anyway) with an offense that averages 464 yards a game which is good for No. 3 in the SEC. 10. The four teams playing for it all in the College Football Playoff are Clemson, Michigan, Oklahoma and Alabama.

Graham is a sports columnist for The Record.

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