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THE CALENDAR, PAGE 5 Looking for events in the Lake Martin area? NEWS BRIEFS County commissioners reschedule meeting for Sept. 28 The threat of bad weather from Tropical Storm Irma forced the Tallapoosa County Commissioners to postpone their regularly monthly meeting. It was announced Wednesday has been rescheduled for Sept. 28th at 9 a.m. in the meeting room in the ground floor of the Tallapoosa County Courthouse in Dadeville. This will allow budget preparation to be completed and presented for Commission consideration at that time. Latest happenings at Dadeville High School Doing their part to help those affected by Hurricane Irma, Dadeville High School will be holding a relief drive Sept. 13 through Sept. 19. Over the course of this week, the school will be accepting donations of bottled water, along with financial contributions. Donations can be given to any Dadeville High School student, or dropped off at the high school office. For more information about the drive, contact math teacher Kim Shelton at (256)825-7848. DHS is also preparing for their Homecoming game against the Holtville Bulldogs on Friday, Sept. 22. Before the game begins at 7 p.m., the annual Homecoming Parade will start around 2 p.m., and the school is inviting the community to come out and participate in the parade. According to a press release from the school, “This year’s Homecoming Theme is ‘Rock the Bulldogs’ and it would be marvelous to have a ‘Rocking’ parade. We are inviting anyone and everyone to support Dadeville High School in the Homecoming Parade.” For those interested in taking part in the 2017 Dadeville High School Homecoming Parade, entry forms can be picked up in the school’s office. The entry fee is $15, and the deadline to submit forms is Wednesday, Sept. 20.
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State Superintendent Sentance resigns
ifications, communication, methods and being handed unfavorable performance reviews, Sentance reached an agreeControversy has been synonymous ment to resign, and tendered a letter to with State Superintendent of Education Governor Kay Ivey, as President of the Michael Sentance since the day he was Board of Education. hired. Wednesday was his last day of Wednesday, he decided enough was employment. No details of the agreeenough. ment were released. After months of questions about qualShortly after delivering his resignaSTAFF REPORT TPI Staff
tion to Ivey, she released the following statement. “Today, I received the resignation of State Superintendent of Education Michael Sentance. I do not take this situation lightly, and as President of the State Board of Education, I will ask the Board to accept his resignation. See SENTANCE • Page 3
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County school board approves new budget By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
if it could help someone else that would be great.” Her mother had done the same thing about a year ago, having discovered a Michigan group called Children With Hair Loss. The non-profit organization provides human hair replacements at no cost to children and young adults facing medically-related hair loss.
Despite board members Randy Anderson and Michael Carter being absent from Wednesday’s rescheduled meeting of the Tallapoosa County Board of Education, Superintendent Joe Windle and the three board members in attendance approved an operating budget for the 2018 fiscal year. Tommy Thweatt, the Chief Schools Financial Officer for Tallapoosa County Schools, presented the budget in the second budget hearing. In his presentation, the projected revenue for the school system was $29,183,689.65, with more than half of these projected dollars coming from the state, and a large portion of the remaining revenue stream coming from its portion of the county’s property tax and the one-cent sales tax. Under the approved budget, the projected expenditures would total $27,273,775.64, leaving the system approximately $2 million in surplus. “There is nothing budgeted for capital outlay right now,” Thweatt said, while also stating funding for administration and auxiliary units, namely principals and library staff within the system would be gained next
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Fifth-grader Zana McWhorter took before and after pictures on her first haircut. She had 10 inches cut off of her 24-inch hair to give to Children With Hair Loss, a non-profit organization that provides human hair replacements to ailing children.
A 10-YEAR TRIM Horseshoe Bend’s McWhorter donates hair to help kids By MITCH SNEED Editor
Zana McWhorter’s blonde hair has been a source of pride since she was born 10 years ago and until Tuesday it had never been cut. The fifth-grader from Horseshoe Bend decided that it was time to get her hair trimmed and help a good cause at the same
time. With a day off school for the weather, her mother Wendy pulled the 24-inch locks into two ponytails and carefully clipped about 10 inches off and placed them in a ziplock bag. “I never had it cut before,” McWhorter said. “I really liked it long, but in doing P.E. and stuff it had gotten to where it got in the way sometimes. So I finally wanted to get it cut and thought
Russell Medical promotes safe sleep education with ‘Baby Boxes’ Dadeville council praises storm prep, readies for future events
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Russell Medical recently embarked on a new initiative distributing free Baby Boxes, developed by the company Baby Box Co., to new parents. The boxes are decorated in a whimsical manner and given to new moms at discharge. Each box contains diapers, wipes, a gown and coupons for various items. But the most important part is the box itself. Each box also comes with a firm mattress pad that allows the box to be turned into a basic, but safe, bed for infants until they are able to roll over. The boxes originated in Finland and have been used for decades as an effort to reduce the infant mortality rate there, according to Baby See BOXES • Page 2
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Russell Medical Obstetrical Nurses display a Baby Box, which are given to new moms at discharge. Left to right are Angel Crocker, RN, Candace Riddle, RN, Jennifer Shurette, RN and Miranda Rollins, RN.
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The Dadeville City Council took some time during their meeting Tuesday night to give special thanks to those who worked hard over the weekend and on Monday to deal with issues popping up from Tropical Storm Irma. “Everyone was out helping,” Mayor Wayne Smith said. “The fire department, the police department, the street department. Even the cemetery department was out there.” Police Chief David Barbour agreed with this, saying it meant a lot to him to see all the city’s departments coming together and work the way they did See COUNCIL • Page 8
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