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Sessions talks history, water at Horseshoe Bend By Corey Arwood Outlook Staff Writer
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Sen. Jeff Sessions shakes hands with Horseshoe Bend Military Park Superintendent Barbara Tagger Friday. Sessions was given an interactive tour of the park and facilities.
Sen. Jeff Sessions got at a personal history lesson from park rangers at Horseshoe Bend National Park on Friday. He was given a comprehensive course by an interpretive ranger and the park’s superintendent, Heather Tassin and Barbara Tagger, on empire, colony, slavery and ultimately the resistance that shaped the historically rich and
tragic background of what was once the Creek Nation. Sessions appeared interested and engaged as he was escorted throughout the park facility and shown the ways of life of Creek people, and the settlers that replaced them. At one point he even compared the conflicts that occurred in the region centuries ago to the modern day warring throughout the Middle East. After his tour he comment-
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By Cliff Williams Outlook Staff Writer
For the last seven years Nancy Miller has been helping with the Trinity United Methodist Church’s Community Thanksgiving Day Meal and this year is not different. “It is just a blessing to be able to serve,” said Miller who is the Outreach team leader at the church. “We are all blessed.” The meal was started to help those less fortunate. “We started it because we found some people that could not afford a Thanksgiving meal,” Miller said. “It’s also for those that don’t want to eat alone.” There are no takeouts for the free meal and for a good reason. “We try to make it feel See DINNER, Page 3
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ed on current issues concerning Tallapoosa County and the Lake Martin Area, especially in regards to rights and disputes of water resources among neighboring states. Sessions said that one of the biggest issues for the area right now was protecting the water that supplies Lake Martin. He mentioned the continued disputes with Georgia and Florida over rights to flows from the Tallapoosa and See SESSIONS, Page 3
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This aerial view of fall leaves in full color near Chimney Rock on Lake Martin is one example of the beauty offered in Tallapoosa County. That beauty made the Washington Post declare our county as Alabama’s Most Beautiful county.
ALABAMA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL
Washington Post ranks Tallapoosa as state’s prettiest By Corey Arwood Outlook Staff Writer
Tallapoosa County was recently named the “prettiest” county in all the land of Alabama. It held the top spot in the Washington Post’s list of “The 7 Prettiest and 10 ugliest counties in Alabama.” Elmore and Baldwin were deemed the lesser worthy runners-up, and some of the “ugly” counties had names like Dekalb, Bullock and Crenshaw. The Post article Post article was called “Every county in America, with
areas ranked by scenery and climate,” which got its numbers from the USDA and what is called the natural amenities scale. This scale takes into consideration the degree and amount of “natural amenities” present within every county of the US. These amenities consist of geographical variations like the presence of water, such as lakes or rivers, and mountainous terrain, among other factors like how temperate each region is throughout the See BEATUFUL, Page 3
By Mitch Sneed Outlook Editor
Three people, two Republicans and one Democrat, have qualified to run for District Attorney in Alabama’s Fifth Judicial Circuit. Republican’s Damon Lewis of the New Site area and William G. “Bill” Harris of Chambers County have qualified and Jeremy Duerr has qualified to run as a Democrat. The three are hoping to follow E. Paul Jones who announced earlier this year that he will not seek reelection. Ironically, Lewis and Duerr work under Jones now and often work together as prosecutors in some cases. Joe Windle will run unopposed for another term as superintendent of Tallapoosa County Schools. Windle, a Democrat, was the only candidate to file paperwork before the Nov. 6 deadline. In other races in Tallapoosa County, the District 4 post on the Tallapoosa County School Board drew three qualifiers on the GOP side. Jerry Bynum, Carla Talton and John Prophitt seek the seat currently held by Karen White. In District 3, incumbent Republican Michael Carter was the lone qualifier in either party, See RACES, Page 9
Alexander City’s Foshee family to be featured on Family Feud By David Granger Outlook Staff Writer
Alexander City’s Foshee family’s been a’feudin’. No, they haven’t taken up firearms against a rival clan. Instead, they matched wits with them on one of television’s most popular game shows, ‘Family Feud.” And while the the family’s contractual obligations keep the public from knowing the results until the shows air later this month, two family members say the Family Feud experience is one they’ll never forget. “It’s a wonderful experience,” said Alexander City’s Melissa Wilson, who joined with her first cousins Shana Foshee and David Church,
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her daughter, Brittany, and David’s mother, Marilyn Brown, to make up the Foshees’ team. “If any family ever gets the chance to do it, they should. Steve Harvey is a very Christian man. He gave a testimony every day.” “You do recordings in the morning and two in the afternoon,” said Church, who lives, like Brittany and Shana, in Birmingham. “During each taping, he would talk about he had messed up, how much it meant to get an education and tell everyone to follow Christ and not get into that gangbanger lifestyle.” Church said that Harvey, Submitted / The Outlook perhaps the most popular host The Foshee Family poses for a team picture with “Family Feud” host Steve of the show since it started Harvey. Pictured are from left David Church, Marylyn Brown, Brittany Wilson, See FEUD, Page 9 Harvey, Melissa Wilson and Shana Foshee.