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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018
Have issues overeating during the holidays? Local woman gives tips for Thanksgiving, year round By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
It happens every year in November and December. Families and friends gather for the holidays and the interactions are often centered around food. Grandma’s dressing, mom’s sweet potato casserole, turkey, ham and breads of all sorts seem to be on the buffet. Don’t forget the desserts of 20 different varieties, too. There is nothing wrong with eating at family gatherings but it appears we are visiting the buffet too often while overloading the plate over and over again. A national study shows Alabamians are among the most overweight residents in the U.S. See OVEREATING • Page A5
‘Christmas Lights Around the Square’
Wigfield named managing editor
Dadeville prepares for tree-lighting event Sunday
Veteran journalist Jimmy Wigfield, who has 43 years of experience at newspapers in Alabama, has been named the managing editor of The Alexander City Outlook and its affiliated weekly newspapers owned by Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. — including The Dadeville Record. Wigfield, 57, a native of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, succeeds Mitch Sneed, Wigfield who was killed in an automobile accident in July. “We are very fortunate to have a person of Jimmy’s background and education at Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.,” president/publisher Steve Baker said. “As we continue to enhance the newspaper, we needed someone with See WIGFIELD • Page A5
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Floyd’s Tree Service employees put up the tree to be used in Sunday’s tree-lighting event at the courthouse square.
If you know of someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder, want to better understand the condition and learn about many of the resources available for those with ASD, email Melissa Mullins at melissaspedadv@gmail.com.
volunteer for the Autism Society of Alabama and a trained special education advocate. Those diagnosed with Autism Mullins has learned a great Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and deal about the disorder over their families can sometimes feel the past decade and a half since overwhelmed to receive the news Torrie is on the autism spectrum. but the condition does not have to “While I’ve been an advocate be faced alone. for the autism community for two Melissa Mullins, a local years, I’ve been an advocate for mother whose daughter Torrie is her since she was diagnosed,” autistic, has for the last two years Mullins said. been a volunteer ambassador As an ambassador for Autism representing Alabama for the Speaks and a volunteer for the organization Autism Speaks, a See AUTISM • Page A3 By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Melissa Mullins, left, is the mother of Torrie Mullins and is a volunteer ambassador for Autism Speaks. File / The Record
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o help mark the start of the Christmas season, the Everything’s Art art guild in Dadeville is sponsoring “Christmas Lights Around the Square” Sunday afternoon at the courthouse square in Dadeville. “Cheryl Haggerty, who runs a beauty salon here in Dadeville, said she was so inspired by how lit up the square in Alexander City was last December,” said Rick Hidding with Everything’s Art. “She was the inspiration for this event.” The fun begins at 3 p.m., with several choral groups providing musical entertainment throughout the event. There will be hot chocolate and warm punch for attendees, while children will have the chance to meet and take photos with Mrs. Claus. Hidding said two mailboxes will be set up for children to mail letters to Santa, while a table with paper and pencils will give children who may not
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