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Vote on Internet will come next week Schools have asked that $6,250 monthly payment be reinstated the end of the meeting Tuesday.

“Open discussion is always good,” said Councilman Bill Baker. “Everybody had a chance to talk and express their opinion.”

In 2011, the city agreed to make the payment monthly for three years to help the schools provide Internet service to students at home and elsewhere in the school district. Last November the city stopped making the payment and earlier

LAURA GADDY Consolidated News Service The Piedmont City Council met Tuesday to discuss whether it will uphold on an agreement to make a $6,250 Internet payment to schools.

The work session lasted for more than an hour and the council plans to vote on the matter next week, but whether the city will reinstate the payment was unclear at

this fall Superintendent Matt Akin asked the city to resume it.

Since then the City Council has been discussing whether it should reinstate the payment. At a meeting earlier this month it postponed a vote on the matter at Councilman Ben Keller’s request to discuss it in greater detail.

Councilman Mark Harper, who was appointed to the council at the last meeting, was the only member to speak

out in support of reinstating the payment during the work session Tuesday.

“This is an agreement that came from the city before,” Harper said. “We should honor it.”

Councilmembers Frank Cobb, Brenda Spears and Keller each questioned the affordability of the expense during the meeting. They pointed out that the city is ■ See COUNCIL, page 3

PIEDMONT SCHOOLS

New walkway brings new worries

Trent Penny/ Consolidated News Service

A Piedmont High School student crosses a new crosswalk on 5th Avenue near the high school on her walk home from school.

Sidewalk, bridge and crosswalk are part of state’s Safe Routes to Schools project LAURA GADDY Consolidated News Service A freshly poured sidewalk in Piedmont stretches past the high school’s athletic fields, over a nearby creek, alongside a small clearing and to a new crosswalk that is worrying some city leaders.

“I just don’t want us to sit here until

some child gets hit, maybe gets killed,” said Councilwoman Mary Bramblett during a council meeting this week.

“Some of the cars are stopping. Some of the cars are not stopping.”

The new crosswalk was built at the base of a small hill at the east end of the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue, about one block from the middle and elementary

school campuses. Drivers who approach from the south have a clear view of the crosswalk and a blinking light that hangs over it. But the hill blocks the view of the crosswalk for a short time from drivers coming from the north.

The sidewalk, a small bridge and the crosswalk are all part of the state’s Safe Routes to Schools project,

approved by the Alabama Department of Transportation. The walkway is about four-tenths of a mile long and, once complete, is expected to cost about $122,000, according to Carl Hinton, the city’s special projects manager.

A 50-foot prefabricated bridge that is ■ See SIDEWALK, page 7

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Jim Garner campaigned for new high school Worked as mayor to get structure built

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In the early ‘80s, after giving it a lot of thought, Jim Garner decided it was time to throw his hat in the ring and run for mayor of Piedmont, the town in which he was born and reared. He ran and he won.

He was mayor from 1980-84.

A lot of things were on his agenda, but none more important than Piedmont’s youngest. He had felt for a while that Piedmont’s students needed and deserved a new school and a place for their recre-

ational activities.

Talk had been going around about building a new school for a few years, but Garner wanted to get the ball rolling.

“The idea had been tossed around since the late ‘70s,” he said. “But we couldn’t get anybody to support the idea. So I ran on that platform.”

After his election in the fall of 1980, the subject of construction of a new school became more serious.

“When I was elected, I was pro educa■ See GARNER, page 7

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There were some good races this year The political spotlight has been focused on Mobile for most of this year. They had a historical and sensational mayor’s race that ended in early fall. It resulted in a new mayor, Sandy Stimpson. Incumbent mayor Sam Jones lost to Stimpson after eight years in office.

Although mayors do not run under partisan labels, it was a classic Republican versus Democrat race.

Stimpson is a wealthy white businessman.

Mayor Jones is the classic African American Democratic politician. Both men are in their 60s and have been successful in their careers.

Stimpson will approach running the port city in an open and businesslike fashion. He defeated Jones with a plan that always works in politics. He outspent him and, more importantly, he outworked him.

Politicos who watched the race said they had never seen a better run campaign nor seen a candidate stay on message as well as Stimpson.

They say he worked harder than any candidate in Mobile mayoral political history. He probably wore out about a dozen pairs of Gucci shoe loafers walking the streets of Mobile shaking hands.

Stimpson would make an excellent candidate for governor in the future. However, it has been suggested he probably will never undertake that mission because he loves Mobile and his family too much. Most of his children and grandchildren live close to him in Mobile.

As if the mayoral race was not entertaining political theater enough, we had a race for an open congressional seat to watch in coastal Alabama. Jo Bonner’s retirement from congress left his seat open

for a political fray.

There was a bevy of candidates seeking the open Steve seat.

Flowers congressional Bradley Byrne began as the obvious frontrunner and man to beat and he emerged as the victor Inside The Statehouse after a long primary and tumultuous runoff. Bradley will go to Washington as a freshman congressman and will follow in the footsteps of Frank Boykin, Jack Edwards, Sonny Callahan, and Bonner.

The race was interesting.

Byrne always had the money, organization and establishment endorsements. As mentioned, there was a large field of candidates seeking the seat. Therefore, it was obvious that there would be a runoff. Not surprisingly the evangelical candidate, Dean Young, who was endorsed by Roy Moore, emerged as Byrne’s runoff opponent.

The runoff became very contentious and received national attention. Observers statewide and nationwide were watching the race because of the schism that has evolved within the Republican Party ranks. Byrne was the establishment candidate. Young was the reactionary Tea Party evangelical candidate. National Party leaders say this rift will continue to play out across the country

in the 2014 election cycle.

Byrne, who is a lawyer, former state senator and former chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system, defeated Young by only 3,600 votes. Byrne prevailed by a 52.5 to 47.5 percent margin. The runoff became so bitter that Young has refused to endorse Bryne in the perfunctory general election against a Democrat. “This party is deeply divided. It is as wide as the Grand Canyon and as deep as the ocean,” said Jonathan Gray, Young’s campaign consultant.

Bryne won his victory in the upper income enclaves of Mobile and Baldwin counties. Young received most of his votes in the rural areas of the district. Young lost his own precinct in Orange Beach. Bryne’s campaign strategists attributed his victory to a sophisticated, get out the vote operation. They boasted of having 18,000 door knocks and 50,000 live volunteer calls.

Indeed, they may be right. Both sides must have knocked on a lot of doors because the runoff drew 20,000 additional voters to the polls, more than the first round of voting on September 24th when nine candidates were on the ballot. This 40 percent increase and turnout is unprecedented in a special election runoff. Both these South Alabama races exhibit the cardinal rule in Alabama politics. Although a lot has changed politically with sophisticated computer technology, money and hard work still prevail.

Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist. His column appears weekly in more than 70 Alabama newspapers. Steve served 16 years in the state legislature. He may be reached at www.steveflowers.us

Rare job allows Bynum man chance to travel

Recently, I enjoyed meeting John Cater, the father of Chloe Cater, one of my students. They live in Bynum. Cater is a man with an unusual job -- traveling the world as an expert mechanic who specializes in working on radial aircraft engines.

In order to learn more, I visited in the Cater home. Chloe sat nearby and studied her homework as her father told his story but not before she explained, “He really gets into this stuff.”

Cater, 67, told how demand for his work takes him throughout the United States and to exotic places such as Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Argentina, Guam, the Philippines, and, once, he flew to Greenland -the most memorable place he has been.

He said the radial engines, some of which have 3,700 units of horsepower and are as tall as 12 feet, were first built in the 1900s. The technology was used in both world wars. The radial engines are built with cylinders in a row around a crankcase.

Air, rather than liquid, is used to

Sherry Kughn Sherry-Go-Round cool the engines, which allows the aircraft to travel lighter.

Cater said the demand for his skills exists because some people collect and still fly antique aircraft. The average cost for one such airplane can be up to two million dollars, which means the high cost makes owners particular about choosing mechanics.

“They don’t let just any jackleg person work on them,” said Cater, who chuckled as he prepared a meal for his elderly father. “They don’t want anybody breaking their toys.”

Cater gets calls both day and night for his services. “I never know how these people find

me,” he said.

Cater talked more about the Greenland project. The place he went was only about 550 miles from the North Pole.

On that particular job, Cater was later mentioned on a Nova feature film, which can be seen on Youtube by searching for the words “Nova B-29 Frozen in Time.” (Be sure to see parts 1-3.) The time is set in 1994 when Cater was asked to take the place of a sick member who had been on a team of men.

Their goal was to rescue an abandoned B-29 bomber that had been used in World War II. Its name was Kee Bird, and it was the same type of aircraft that had dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In 1947, the Kee Bird had developed problems in flight and had “belly-landed” while on a secret mission. The crew had been rescued, but the B-29 often sat encased in ice except during Greenland’s brief summer months. More than four decades later, prior to 1994, an

man named Darryl Greenamyer and a team of other enthusiasts worked on a plan to bring the Kee Bird back to the United States. The team arranged for supplies to be shipped then flown to Greenland where the bomber sat. Cater worked on Kee Bird’s engines for seven weeks. Ironically, after the project was complete and as the Kee Bird was taking off, a fire broke out in a fuel line and destroyed the entire plane. However, Cater never forgot the experience of working in a land where the cold was so dry and severe that the skin on his hands peeled off upon his return home.

Cater never realized he would experience such unusual events when he entered the military.

“When I went into the Navy in 1964, I told them I wanted something I could use when I got out of service,” he said.

The Navy trained him to work on aircraft, but he didn’t stop there. When his service ended in 1969, he used the GI Bill to attend the Alabama Institute of Aviation Technology in Ozark

where he became certified to work on civilian aircraft. Later, he obtained the Air Frame and Power Plant license, which gave him the highest training available for aircraft mechanics.

Cater worked at various jobs and moved around until he found himself in South Texas where he met his wife, Crisilda. They started their family there, where older daughter Circe was born. Later, in 1999, the family moved to Calhoun County to be closer his parents. His mother has since died.

Cater worked on airplanes until 2004 when a decline in the industry due to the 9-11 attack in New York City led him to seek work at Southwire in Heflin. Now, though, the industry is revived. Cater is back to working on radial engines – a job he loves.

“I love the money, working on the old airplanes, and seeing unique places,” he said.

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The holiday that America has forgotten Thanksgiving is the holiday Americans have forgotten. Of course, retail stores have literally jumped from Halloween to Christmas for years with Thanksgiving serving more as Black Friday eve than anything else. But worse than that: families are being diverted from giving thanks together as families, and are being divided into hunting, shopping, and football parties.

One of the many contrasts in Scripture is between those who give thanks to God and those who don’t.

The Apostle Paul points out repercussions of not giving thanks: “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. “ Romans 1:17.

Failing to give thanks to God from Whom all blessings flow is a sure sign of cultural and moral degradation. In elementary school we used to learn about pilgrims who gave thanks to God for bringing them safely to America where they could worship as God led them. Do schools still teach about pilgrims coming to America seeking

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I was fortunate to be raised in a Christian home with a family Daniel tradition of giving Gardner God thanks and glory for all His provisions.

Every year we would trek to Saulsbury, TN, to share a bountiful My Thoughts Thanksgiving meal with cousins, uncles, aunts, and grandparents. It was a glorious tradition!

We enjoyed turkey and dressing (two kinds: one with onions and one without), real, not canned, cranberry sauce, a wide assortment of casseroles and vegetables, and special treats like ambrosia! One table was reserved for desserts ranging from coconut cake to pecan, sweet potato, and pumpkin pies as well as fruit cobblers. My grandmother always made a bowl of country spaghetti, just in case we didn’t have enough food!

As we all gathered around the tables that made one long table, Granddaddy would always pray, thanking God for all the blessings He had given to our family in the past year, and thanking Him for all the blessings He continued giving to us. It was not so much asking God to bless our food. It was about giving thanks. It was a reminder of where all this abundant food came from.

And, it was a reminder of where all blessings come from.

This year will be the first year in two or three decades

our family will return to Saulsbury for Thanksgiving.

This year, I’ll be the oldest family member. We’ll celebrate by eating a big feast with many of the old favorites, and probably a few new favorites. We’ll catch up with each other and talk about what’s coming up in the new year. And, we’ll give thanks to God for His most bountiful blessings with which He has continued to bless us all these years.

We live in a fallen world in which fewer and fewer people take time to give thanks for God’s blessings.

Failing to acknowledge God, to honor Him and to give thanks surely makes people bitter and jealous.

It’s our choice.

We can go with the flood of people who are too busy with all the stuff to make time to give thanks.

Or, we can choose to thank God as individuals and as families and enjoy the blessings He has continually provided for us.

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Community Calendar • Dogs for the Deaf, located in Central Point, Ore., is a non-profit organization that rescues dogs from animal shelters and trains them to help adults and children with different disabilities, challenges, and needs. For example, a Hearing Dog is trained to alert its owner to household sounds that could affect his or her safety and an Autism Assistance Dog would keep an autistic child out of traffic, bodies of water, and other dangerous situations. Chris Hill, a resident of Anniston and a volunteer “ambassador” for Dogs for the Deaf, has a DVD presentation he will give to civic and community organizations or individuals.

Contact him at 835-6918 • The Alabama Shutterbugs, a new club for all skill levels of photographers, meets at 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month in the Noble Building, Suite 100, Anniston. Anyone interested in photography is welcome to join us. Call 236.8488 for more information.

• New classes for the Jacksonville State University Adult Wellness classes are at 8 a.m. in Pete Mathews Colseium. Senior water aerobics and senior floor aerobic classes are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Senior water aerobics and senior therapeutic yoga classes are on Tues-

day and Thursday. Contact Aubrey Crossen at 256-6892580 or jsu9517k@jsu.edu for more information.

• Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 21 meets the second Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m.. at 114 N. Center Ave. downtown Piedmont, to discuss the latest veteran’s issues and benefits. If you are a service-connected disabled vet or you think you may have a military service related condition, the DAV may be able to help you. Help workshops are also available from 8 a.m.-noon on the first and third Wednesday of each month. Veterans are urged to attend for possible compensation and benefits they’re not aware of.

• Anyone with knowledge about German and Italian POWs and their artifacts at Fort McClellan during 1943-46 is asked to contact Klaus Duncan at 782-2991.

• Piedmont Health Care has started an Alzheimer’s support group designed to increase public awareness and enhance individual and family education regarding Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. For more information call social services director Yolanda Pierce 447-8258, ext. 232. Refreshments will be provided.

Police Report Nov. 16 • Harassing communications. A 55-year-old male reported incidents that occurred between July 1 and Nov. 11.

Nov. 18 • Burglary III. A 27-year-old female reported the theft of a Xbox 360 game system and a flat screen TV that were taken during an incident that occurred at her residence between 6:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.

• Burglary III. A 69-year-old male reported $100 damage done to a window at his residence that occurred at 4:04 p.m.

• Theft of property (motor vehicle). A35-year-old male reported a 1992 black Chevrolet pickup valued

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Nov. 19 • Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle (no theft or damage). A 31-year-old male reported an incident that occurred at his residence between 8:40 a.m. and 11 a.m.

• Fraudulent use of credit/debit card. A 50-year-old female reported an incident involving a Wells Fargo Visa account that occurred Nov. 4.

• Domestic violence III, criminal mischief III. A resident of Dailey Street reported an incident that occurred around 8 p.m. and resulted in damage to a telephone line.

Nov. 20 • Damage to property (non-crimi-

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• Theft of property II. A 36-yearold female reported the theft of a Taurus .38 special that occurred on Haslam Street between Nov. 8 and 18.

Nov. 21 • Theft of property II (scam).

A 34-year-old female reported an incident that resulted in $510 being removed from two prepaid cards.

Nov. 23 • Criminal trespass III. A 27-yearold female reported an incident that occurred at 11:10 a.m. at her residence.

Arrests Nov. 19 • Cody Rey Schoonover, 25, contempt.

• Christopher Eric Sanford, 34, failure to appear (three counts).

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already paying about $27,000 per month in bond debt for a stadium construction project and other athletic facility improvements at the high school.

“We can’t keep paying it, I know that,” said Keller. “They ought to be happy to be getting what they’re getting from us.”

Piedmont City Schools began issuing laptop computers to students in grades four through 12 three years ago. To enrich its technology program the schools used a $867,000 Federal Communications Commission grant to use Wetumpka-based Information Transportation Services to provide students with wireless Internet service when they are away from class.

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• Nocola Lee Whitmore, 36, failure to pay (two counts).

Nov. 24 • Christopher Fain McFry, 39, failure to appear (two counts).

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city-owned cables to supply the service and agreed to pay the city $6,500 per month for 10 years to use those cables.

The city in turn provided $6,250 of that to the school system to help cover its portion of the service fees.

Councilman Kenny Kelly did not give an opinion about the program and Councilwoman Mary Bramlett did not attend the meeting. Councilman Terry Kiser said whether or not he supports the program could depend on whether ITS would discontinue the $6,500 monthly payment if the city stops giving the bulk of it to the schools.

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Martha Garner’s idyllic life has seen tragedies Former teacher likes to paint

BY MARGARET ANDERSON NEWS CORRESPONDENT

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artha Yancey Garner’s life was perfect when she was growing up in Altoona in Etowah County. She thought everyone was as happy as she.

“It was a wonderful time,” she said.

“It was like I was in a world of my own. My granddaddy had a little country store. They lived next door to us.

A little country church was up on the hill. Sometimes you don’t know the rest of the world existed. I was very happy.”

Martha was an adult and had been married seven years, when her ideal world was interrupted by the tragic death of her brother Charles in 1970. A tractor he was driving turned over and landed on him.

“That was very hard,” said Martha. “I watched my mom and dad depend on the Lord during that time.”

After graduating from Etowah County High School, Martha attended Snead State, then Auburn. That’s where she caught the attention of a young junior, Jim Garner, from Piedmont.

Blushing, Martha said she hates to admit how they met.

As she was walking, he whistled at her. It wasn’t easy for her to ignore him.

“I thought he was very handsome,” she said. “I kind of cut my eyes around at him.”

Later, they met in a more formal way and began dating.

They’ve been married 50 years and have a daughter, Kelly, a writer and singer who has a studio in Franklin, Tenn. Kelly finished her bachelor’s degree in education at Auburn and attended Belmont University in Nashville.

She taught in the voice department at Belmont five years, then attended Middle Tennessee State to get a master’s degree. She’s currently working on her doctorate of musical arts in jazz, voice and performance at the University of Miami.

Her parents are keeping Kelly’s Saint Bernard, Clarence who, as Martha said, “is part of the family now.”

Martha followed in the footsteps of her mother, who taught over 50 years. She graduated from Auburn in 1963 and then taught at Sardis, her first job, while Jim went to Korea. After teaching at Sardis two years, she taught at Etowah High for a year, then attended Jacksonville State University where she received her master’s in math.

At that time, her mother was head of the math and engineering department at Gadsden State.

“They probably wouldn’t do this today, but they hired me in the math department at Gadsden State,” said Martha.

That was in 1967. She stayed 29 years before she retired, ending a 32 year teaching career.

Martha served on the Piedmont City School Board two times - from 1979-84 and 2005-10. During her first term, Jim was mayor and, together, they initiated plans to build a new high school. During her second term, the stadium was remodeled.

“I loved being on the school board,” she said. “I like serving anyway I can for education and helping the children in any way.”

2 lb. candied cherries 2 lb. candied pineapple 1 lb. dark raisins 1 lb. white raisins 6 c. pecans 1 stick butter 1 ½ c. dark brown sugar 4 eggs 1 c. pineapple juice 3 T. sweet milk 1 t. ground cinnamon 1 t. ground allspice 1 t. ground nutmeg 1 t. ground cloves 3 t. soda 5-6 c. plain flour (plus 1 extra cup to dredge fruit) Cut fruit into small pieces. Break pecan halves.

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Her grandfather, C. A. Kilpatrick, served on the Etowah County School Board for a number of years.

“I guess it just runs in the family,” she said. “Young people keep you young. I love that. I love anything to do with education. I’ve always wanted to be a part in pushing people forward in any way.”

She is currently on the Piedmont Education Trust Board.

Martha retired in 1996, mainly to help take care of her parents, who were living in the old family home.

“I thought I’d be able to take care of them, but undoubtedly, that wasn’t God’s plan,” she said.

The house caught fire and her parents died from smoke inhalation.

“I’d already put in for my retirement,” she said. “This happened in March, and somehow, with the Lord’s help, I taught that summer. I came out at the end of that summer.”

She remembered how her parents had gotten through the tragic accident of her brother and knew she had to emulate their words and actions.

“I remembered how my mother and daddy had depended on the Lord after my brother died,” said Martha. “You never know how you’re going to use what you’ve seen and realize that the only way you can get through it is with the Lord.”

Martha’s other brother, Cecil, is a veterinarian in Oneonta.

Martha is a member of First Baptist Church where she

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3 c. chopped onion 4 eggs, beaten 2 c. water chestnuts, chopped 3 T. sage 3-4 cans chicken broth A little broth from turkey if you have it.

Crumble all the cornbread in a large pan. Add the cream of chicken soup and milk. Then add enough broth from the turkey and the 3-4 cans of chicken broth to make it look like cornbread you are about to cook. (How much broth you use always varies.)

Add all other ingredients. Mix all of it well. Cook at 400-425 degrees until top of dressing is golden brown (usually 45-60 minutes). This recipe fills a large oval foil pan (like you would use to cook the turkey in). Butter the foil pan well and place a flat cookie sheet under the foil pan before you place it in the oven.

CORENE’S PECAN PIE ½ c. sugar 2 T. flour ½ c. butter, melted 2 eggs 1 c. light white Karo syrup 1 c. pecan, chopped into small nieces 1 t. vanilla flavoring Mix all ingredients together. Stir them well. Pour into 2 shallow unbaked pie shells or into1 deep dish unbaked pie shell. Cook for 30-40 minutes in 325 degree oven.

1 c. corn meal (self-rising) ½ c. flour (self-rising) ¾ c. cheese, grated 1/3 c. oil 1 T. sugar (or Splenda) 1 can cream of corn, small 2 eggs 1 onion Red pepper (sprinkle a little on top and stir in) Mix all ingredients together and pour into a cast iron skillet that has been greased well with Crisco and dusted wit corn meal. Cook at 425 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown on top.

SUGAR FREE-FAT FREE BANANA PUDDING 2 lg. sugar free vanilla instant pudding 5 c. skim milk 8 oz. fat free sour cream 9 oz. lite or sugar free Cool Whip 8-10 bananas 3-4 boxes sugar free vanilla wafers (Murray) 2 t. vanilla flavoring 1 t. almond flavoring 2-3 Cool Whips just for topping Mix pudding and milk together until well blended. Add sour cream, Cool Whip and flavorings. Layer wafers, bananas and pudding.

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has taught Sunday school over 40 years. She conducts Bible studies and retreats for women recently led a Bible study at First Baptist Church in Glencoe.

She is a member of the Calhoun County Baptist Association and was a counselor for the Billy Graham Crusade in Nashville in 2000.

“I had to go up every week for six weeks and be trained,” she said. “It was great. It taught me to begin to memorize scripture. I was already memorizing scripture, because that was helping me get through my grieving, but it became more forceful for me. The Lord keeps taking care of you.”

After retiring, Martha took up oil painting and china painting. She’s donated four paintings to her church for the fellowship hall and plans to donate one to the Train Depot Museum.

“That’s something else that helped me,” she said. “You just lose yourself in painting.”

Martha grew up cooking and canning. While her mother worked on her master’s degree at Auburn during the summers, Martha cooked for the rest of her family.

“I learned a good bit on my own,” she said. “But if I didn’t understand something I’d call my grandmother and talk to her. To me, cooking and canning are creative. I guess that’s the reason I love holidays so much. I love to cook and decorate.”

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Jacksonville firemen help Venecia’s Foundation

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ABOVE: Jacksonville firemen recently helped Venecia Butler with her collection of items for comfort bags that she presents to chemo patients. From left are engineer/driver, Chris Kennedy, assistant chief Chris Roberts, Butler, Local 3948 president David Bell, Butler‘s sister Randa Carroll, Lt. Barry Bowen and firefighter Kyle Glover.

Comfort bags will go to cancer patients When they weren’t protecting the public in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Jacksonville firefighters were out selling t-shirts to benefit Venecia’s Foundation. Venecia Butler of Piedmont has gone through cancer four times. The firemen raised $732 to help purchase items to fill comfort bags for those who are going through chemo.

David Bell, president of Jacksonville Professional Firefighters Association Local 3948, said he and his fellow firemen like to help their town.

“We want to become more active in our community and pay it forward,” he said. “It’s an extension of what

we already do. We work in Jacksonville, and many of us live here.”

Bell said it’s their job to protect citizens, but they want to do more.

Firefighters are conducting a canned food drive in conjunction with St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Cans of food can be dropped off at the fire station or at the community center.

Last month firemen worked in the mill village, and they have some ideas for the spring.

Butler said there are still 150 cancer patients who haven’t received comfort bags.

“We’re making an effort to get them to these patients before Christmas,” she said.

Items for the bags can be dropped off in Piedmont at the rescue squad or at the office of Dr. Ben Ingram.

Those in Jacksonville who would like to donate items can call Butler at 452-5145 or mail monetary donations to Venecia’s Foundation, P. O. Box 572, Piedmont 36272.

Items in the bags include crossword puzzles, searcha-word, Sudoku, chapstick, lubricant eye drops, sugar free gum and peppermints, Lubriderm lotion, neck wrap, travel pillow, Dr. Sholl’s hydrating socks and pocket size

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Delta Zeta Sorority helped UDC with military ceremony Participants in the awards presentation event included left to right, Jessica Calhoun, Savahhah Slater, Meagan Cochran, Kelsie Watkins, advisor Penny la Taste, Hillarie Poole, Randee Jeske, Emily Jones and Joanna Clark.

Delta Zeta Sorority recently partnered with the Gen. William H. Forney Chapter 468, United Daughters of the Confederacy as one of its philanthropic community services. The members supported and helped with the awards of military service at the Jacksonville Public Library where seven Military Service awards were presented to veterans.

The members assisted at the sign-in table and the hospitality table.

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Members of Delta Zeta Sorority at the hospitality table.

GARNER: Couple proud to be a part of the Piedmont community From page 1

tion,“ said Garner. “That opened the opportunity to work with the school board and get the new school started, and that’s what we did. We worked with the school superintendent and the city council to make all that happen.”

At that time, Dr. John R. Kirkpatrick was superintendent, and Garner’s wife, Martha, was on the school board.

In the beginning, Garner faced a lot of opposition. Not everyone thought the city needed a new school. He and the school board never let up and soon plans were set into motion to get a new school built on the 200 Bypass. Construction began in the spring of ’81, and the new school opened its doors in the fall of ‘82.

PHS was one of the first schools ever financed by funds from beer tax.

Kindergarten through six grades are now in the old school building.

Garner was company commander of the Army National Guard’s Co. C, 151st Engineer Battalion while he was mayor. That proved to be beneficial for everyone, because he had something else in mind for Piedmont’s children.

He’d nursed a dream for years about a place where youngsters could congregate and play sports. He knew he had one more thing to do before he left office.

Garner was instrumental in building a sports complex off the Old Gadsden Highway, not far from the new high school.

“Serving as mayor and guard commander at the same time enabled me to do a lot of things with the city and national guard,” he said. “The sports complex was my little pet project.”

Brent Morrison, who was city clerk at the time, was hired to handle the finances, and Garner was able to get the state to authorize the national guard to do a lot of the work on the sports complex. The city street department also helped.

“It was a joint effort,” said Garner. “We got a grant, and that was the beginning of it. Later on, they built a scout house and pavilion.”

Garner ran for a second term but was defeated by James Bennett.

Garner was born in 1941 at his home, 216 S. Center Ave. He was delivered by the late Dr. Thomas VanSant. His parents are the late Hoyt and Corene (Davis) Garner. His sister, Jan, lives in Signal Mountain, Tenn., where she is a realtor.

After graduating from Piedmont High in 1959, Garner attended Auburn for a year. Homesick for his family and friends back in Piedmont, he came home and attended Jacksonville State University for a while. He eventually ended up back at Auburn where he received a degree in business, with a specialty in accounting.

It was at Auburn where he met Martha. He remembers the first time he saw her.

“Oh, she was gorgeous,” he said. “I had a mean wolf whistle, but that’s the only time I ever used it. A lot of other things didn’t work out, but that worked right off the bat, so you never know.”

Garner had been in the ROTC and, not long after they married, he was sent to Korea. That was during the Vietnam Conflict. He spent a year there, working at the army ordnance in shipping, receiving and ammunition. After leaving

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Korea, he was sent to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville to finish out his two year obligation.

He spent the next three years as a supervisor at Goodyear in Gadsden. Then, for two years, he was assistant to city clerk Bill Little. He was offered a job with Allied Mills as a traveling salesman in the feed and poultry business. He did that for the next three years.

During the time he was assistant city clerk, he worked on his master’s at JSU. After getting that degree, he thought he’d do something that he’d grown up in. He opened a hardware store, Garner Hardware and Supply, in 1975.

Garner’s father ran a hardware store for 40 years in Piedmont.

“I grew up in it,” he said. “I eventually came back to my growing up. Someone told me one time that if you want to succeed in doing something, you should do something you know about. So having grown up in a hardware store, I thought maybe I should pursue that.”

He kept the store open for 32 years. He retired and sold it to Dustin and Cheryl Reid in 2007.

For a while he was a business instructor at Gadsden State and Faulkner State. This had a special meaning for him

because as a veteran himself, he was able to teach a lot of veterans who attended his night classes.

Garner is proud of a lot of things, including his 50 year marriage to Martha, their daughter Kelly and his affiliation with the First Baptist Church where he has been chairman of the deacons, chairman of the building grounds and now serves on the personnel board.

“We’ve done a lot of construction,” he said. “We’ve built a new fellowship hall and a children’s wing. Martha and I are involved in the Net Casters. We go out every Monday night and minister to people who might not be in church. We like to find people who don’t go now and tell them about Jesus and what it means to be a Christian.”

Garner enjoys gardening and his pine plantations.

He’s more than pleased with the city’s schools and, looking back, can’t help but smile at what he was able to accomplish.

“I think Piedmont has one of the best school systems in Alabama,” he said. “Martha and I are just proud to have been a small part of it over the years. We love Piedmont and we love the people.”

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SIDEWALK: PHS Principal Adam Clemons says about 20 students walk From page 1

part of the project cost the city $50,000.

Still technically closed to the public, the walkway has no barriers to keep anyone from accessing it. Still, Hinton said, the city is trying to take additional measures to make the crosswalk safer before construction crews finish their work. Completion is expected before the new year, officials said.

Currently the crosswalk is marked by two yellow signs and a caution light. Hinton said the city plans to add more signs at a greater distance from the crosswalk.

He said the City Council will also consider implementing one of two recommendations made by police Chief Steven Tidwell. One would have the city add stop signs at nearby cross streets to slow traffic, while the other would have the city add more sidewalk.

Hinton and the chief said they

think stop signs will be the best option.

“The stop signs are going to be the most expedient and most effective and cheapest answer,” Tidwell said at the council meeting.

Construction crews worked to complete the finishing touches on the project this week. Freshly churned soil is exposed along the sidewalk’s edge and a mound of dirt is piled near the crosswalk.

Nearby, pieces of heavy equipment rested by the sidewalk near the crosswalk just before noon Friday.

Originally, city leaders hoped to get enough money to do a more expansive project and make the entire city more walkable. Officials said the city applied for about $900,000 in grants. But, when it was awarded $122,000 in 2009, the city scaled back the project and focus on building a sidewalk between the middle and high schools, he said.

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Back when they were shooting for $900,000 in grant money, city leaders planned to install more signs at the crosswalk and set up an electronic display that would have flashed a driver’s speed on a screen.

Piedmont Elementary School Principal Chris Hanson helped develop the plan during the early phases. He said the sidewalk will be used primarily by high school students who walk from their neighborhoods closer into town.

Piedmont has no school bus service for students living inside city limits.

Piedmont High School Principal Adam Clemons said about 20 students at his school walk to class, but officials say that number could grow now that the sidewalk is being completed. Before it was done, they said, some students had to walk too near the road’s edge and that some walked in the road.

Hinton added that one of the

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Piedmont High School students walk along a new sidewalk that runs parallel to Old Gadsden Highway in Piedmont near the high school.

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Rebuilding year turns into a great one RIP DONOVAN Journal Sports Correspondent

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Piedmont’s Cody Daughtry tries to break away from a Madison Academy defender during last week’s action. Looking on is Denard Spears (1).

ple. I think the world of all of them.

They’re team-oriented, team-first guys, play any opposition you ask them to play, do whatever you ask them to do. I’m really, really proud to be their coach,” Smith said of the group.

Reese transferred to Piedmont and started playing for the Bulldogs as a junior, the same year Cooper came out for football. Sparks transferred following the 2012 season and played one year as the Bulldogs’ quarterback. The remaining seven have been playing since middle school.

“When they were in the middle school program, there weren’t a lot of high expectations for these kids collectively as a group. They really, really worked extremely hard. They bought into everything that we were trying to do from a football standpoint,” Smith noted. “They really, really laid it on the line for our school and for their teammates. I’ve never had a group that’s progressed as much from seventh grade to twelfth grade as that group did.”

Piedmont opened the Madison Academy game by kicking to the Mustangs. An interception in the Piedmont end zone by Tyler Lusk ended that possession. Starting at the Piedmont 20-yard line, the Bulldogs moved 80 yards in seven plays for the game’s first score. Sparks passed to Spears for 42 yards to set up his 10-yard toss to Spears for the touchdown with 2:40 left in the first quarter. Easton Kirk’s kick was tipped but made its way over the crossbar and Piedmont led 7-0.

Two minutes later, Madison Academy

What was supposed to be a rebuilding year at best for the Piedmont football team ended one play short of the AHSAA Class 3A semifinals. Visiting Madison Academy, defending state champion and ranked No. 1 all of this season, edged the Bulldogs 34-33 in overtime last Friday night.

Madison Academy had the ball to start the overtime and scored immediately for a 34-27 advantage. After Piedmont answered on a 7-yard pass from quarterback Ty Sparks to Cody Daughtry, Bulldogs coach Steve Smith called for a 2-point conversion attempt. Sparks’ pass to Darnell Jackson was knocked away from Jackson at the last moment. Piedmont finished 11-2. Madison Academy upped its record to 13-0 and plays at Saks Friday.

“I don’t think you’ll find a group of kids that play harder than ours do. … All the negativity as far as graduation and people feeling like we were going to have a down year, those kids took it to heart. They took it personally and really busted their tails over the offseason to get themselves in a position to where they could make a run at it and prove people wrong,” Smith said.

“In all my years of coaching, I’ve probably had more fun watching this group develop this year than any other time.”

Ten seniors – Caleb Adams, Taylor Cooper, Exavyer Jackson, Ryan Kirk, Dustin Norton, Jaret Prater, Jeffery Pryor, Tre Reese, Ty Sparks and Denard Spears – played their final game for Piedmont.

“As good a players as they’ve turned themselves into, they’re even better peo- ■ See REBUILDING, page 9

Auburn just another big game for Bama JOHN ZENOR Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA — Forgive AJ McCarron and No. 1 Alabama if they aren’t swept up in the rampant hype surrounding the Iron Bowl.

A matchup of two rivals ranked in the top 10 with championship implications as a backdrop televised nationally isn’t such a new experience for the Crimson Tide.

Alabama (11-0, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) visits No. 4 Auburn Saturday in a game that has much of the state in a fever pitch. McCarron isn’t among those blowing it up.

“I’ve played in two national championships in a row,” the Tide quarterback said Monday, “so it’s just another game.”

It’s really not. The winner will play for the SEC championship in Atlanta with, in Alabama’s case, a guaranteed spot in the national title game on the line.

And no top-ranked Tide team has ever faced an opponent ranked this high during the regular season. The closest was last year’s game with No. 5 LSU. Alabama was No. 2 and LSU No. 1 in the so-called “Game of the Century” in 2011 that set up a BCS championship rematch.

Then again, Alabama-Texas A&M was one of the more anticipated games of the season, back on Sept. 14. Alabama escaped Johnny Manziel country with a 49-42 win after a less-than-dominant offensive performance against Virginia Tech.

“Everybody was marking us off, so I don’t really pay attention to the big stage,” McCarron said. “I don’t think anybody else does on our team.”

Then came Alabama-LSU and another Top 10 SEC West showdown. The Tide won going away, 38-17.

No team plays in more “games of the year” than Alabama, and much of the nation keeps waiting for the two-time defending national champions to fall again

like they have once in each of the past two regular seasons. This time it will almost certainly doom Alabama’s championship hopes.

The Tide is a 10.5-point favorite over the Tigers (10-1, 6-1).

“Forget anything else about this, this is the Alabama-Auburn game,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said. “It’s the Iron Bowl.

“That in and of itself makes this a very emotional game. We just try to emphasize with our players that you’ve got to focus on the right stuff so that you can go play your best football. If there was a better way to do it, we would have already tried to do it because we’ve already had some other big games.”

In fact, Alabama is 16-4 against Top 10 teams over the past six seasons and has won 13 of its last 15 against ranked opponents.

McCarron has started two national title game victories over No. 1 teams, LSU (210) and Notre Dame (42-14), and Alabama won both easily. He’s 12-2 against ranked teams and seems to have learned to tune out the hoopla.

“You guys (the media) like to make this game a lot bigger and every other ‘Game of the Century’ a lot bigger than what it is,” McCarron said. “It’s just another Saturday, just another team. Just go out and take care of our business and play the way we’re supposed to play and we’ll be fine.”

Tide safety Landon Collins believes the big-game experience helps.

“You play the big games and you’re facing adversity, again,” Collins said. “Playing in these big games is just overlooking what you have been through and saying, ‘I can do this. I’ve done this before, why can’t I do it again?’ That’s how we’re looking at Associated Press this game when we’re going into it.”

Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron (10) waves to the crowd with mother Auburn, meanwhile, has beaten No. 19 Dee Dee Bonner, left, and Alabama head coach Nick Saban at right, during Texas A&M and Georgia and Mississippi, Alabama Senior Day celebration before an NCAA football game against ■ See BIG GAME, page 9 Chattanooga last Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa.

Gamecocks will host old foe in playoffs Jacksonville State was one of 24 teams selected for the 2013 NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Division I Football Championships and will host Samford Saturday at 7 p.m.

Jacksonville State is making its 14th appearance in NCAA post-season play and the fourth since joining the Ohio Valley Conference in 2003. JSU earned the OVC’s automatic bids in 2003 and 2004, while earning an at-large berth in 2010 to host its first Division I playoff game.

Jax State will be hosting Samford for the 46th time in school history, with the Gamecocks winning the last eight games in the series. The series is the oldest in Jacksonville State football history with the two teams first meeting in 1904.

Jacksonville State holds a slim 22-212 lead in the all-time series, but the Gamecocks lead the series 22-8-1 since the 1948 season and is 13-3 versus the Bulldogs at Burgess-Snow Field since that same season.

The Gamecocks were an at-large selec-

tion after finishing the season with a 9-3 overall record under first-year head coach Bill Clark. The nine wins tied for the most wins in school history for a firstyear head coach, joining Jim Fuller’s 1977 squad who finished the regular-season 9-2.

Jacksonville State, ranked No. 20 in The Sports Network poll released just prior to the NCAA selection show, will be hosting an NCAA playoff game for the 12th time and the second straight.

General admission tickets are $10 each or reserved tickets are $40, which includes access to the Club Level, a pregame meal and refreshments throughout the game. The JSU Athletic Ticket Office will be open with extended hours this week, opening Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m., and MondayWednesday from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., and 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Friday. The ticket office will be closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving. Fans can also purchase online at JSUGamecockSports.com, or call the Athletic Ticket Office at 256-

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The Gamecocks made it to the playoffs by ending the season by defeating Southeast Missouri State 42-34 before a crowd of 12,927 on Senior Day at Burgess-Snow Field.

The Gamecocks quickly put the disappointment of last week’s loss at No. 2 Eastern Illinois behind them by scoring on their first three possessions.

DaMarcus James ran for three touchdowns as Jacksonville State raced to a 28-6 lead at halftime.

James finished with a career-high 206 yards on 35 carries, one of three Gamecock ball carriers with more than 100 yards against the OVC’s second-worst rush defense. Quarterback Eli Jenkins added 124 yards and Troymaine Pope had 102 on only six carries.

“What a great game that kid played.

He was unbelievable,” Clark said about James. “That sucker just keeps fighting and keeps fighting. If there’s a better one out there I want to see him. I love that kid because he comes and works every day

with the right attitude.”

James extended his school record for rushing touchdowns in a season to 23, four more than Oscar Bonds’ previous record of 19 set in 2004, and set a new OVC mark, passing Eastern Kentucky’s Elroy Harris’ record of 21 set in 1988.

Jacksonville State piled up 587 total yards, including 440 on the ground.

The Gamecocks posted 5,244 yards of total offense in the 12 games, eclipsing the school record of 4,882 set in 1991.

The 1991 record was set in 14 games.

Clark’s ninth win in his first season ties him with Jim Fuller (1977) for the most regular season wins by a first-year head coach in JSU history. Fuller went 9-2 in his first season at the Gamecocks’ helm, then won a pair of playoff games to finish 11-3 overall.

Pope finished off a pair of seven-play scoring drives in the second half with TD runs of 21 and 3 yards. The sophomore’s 3-yard scoring run gave Jacksonville ■ See GAMECOCKS, page 9

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REBUILDING: Almost knock off defending state champions From page 8

knotted the score at 7-7 on a 1-yard run by Malik Miller.

A 65-yard run by Kerryon Johnson did the most damage.

After an interception by the Mustangs, Taylor Hayes caused Miller to fumble and recovered himself at the Piedmont 21. Piedmont immediately fumbled back to Madison Academy. Miller capped a 13-yard drive with a 1-yard run to make it 14-7 with 9:29 remaining in the second quarter.

Piedmont turned the ball over on downs then forced a three-and-out to get it back.

Starting at the Piedmont 47, the Bulldogs opened with a 21-yard gain on a pass from Sparks to Daughtry. Four plays later, Darnell Jackson scored on a 16-yard run with 1:10 to go before halftime.

At that point, Smith called for a 2-point conversion play but a halfback pass the Bulldogs hadn’t shown all year was unsuccessful.

Smith said he had full confidence in Kirk, who was 30-for-31 in his most recent extra point attempts, but expected to take a lead into halftime.

“We were going to be getting the ball to start the second half and they haven’t been behind all year. I really felt like at that point in time that we could get it, get the lead and get the ball on them and hopefully put them in a position they hadn’t been

in all year and kind of make them press a little bit. That was why we did it. I wanted to go in at halftime with the lead,” he said.

Just before intermission, Lusk had his second interception of the game but the score remained 14-13 Madison Academy at the break.

A third down pass came up a yard short and Piedmont punted on the initial possession of the second half.

Aided by a 31-yard run by Johnson, Madison Academy moved 76 yards in eight plays and padded its lead to 21-13 at 7:04 of the third quarter.

The Bulldogs answered with a 73-yard drive in 10 plays. On fourth-and-12, Sparks completed an 18-yard touchdown pass to Daughtry on a wheel route with 3:13 left in the third.

On the 2-point conversion, the Mustangs knocked away a pass to protect their 21-19 lead Madison Academy was three-and-out on the ensuing possession. On the final play of the third quarter, Sparks connected with Daughtry for a 38-yard gain to the MA 46.

The first play of the fourth quarter was a slant to Spears that covered 40 yards to the MA 6.

Hayes scored from there but the points were wiped out by a procedure penalty. A pass interference call against the Mustangs put Piedmont back at the 6. From there, Madison Academy stripped

the ball from a Piedmont runner, setting the stage for a 96-yard drive that needed just five plays. Miller had a 51-yard run and three plays later the Mustangs scored on a 34-yard pass from Ashton Coward to Logan Hamlett with 8:53 to play.

Daughtry blocked the extra point attempt, keeping Madison Academy’s margin one score.

Again, Piedmont answered with a 74-yard drive in eight plays. A 27-yard Sparks to Daughtry pass started the march. Sparks completed a 22-yard pass to C.J. Savage that got Piedmont to the Mustangs’ 2. Hayes scored from there then ran for the 2-point conversion that made the score 27-27.

“We did some things that might have been a little bit out of the ordinary but every decision we made was made with the intention of winning the ball game. We didn’t want to just go in there and have a good effort. We didn’t want to go in there and play them close. That was never talked about in the locker room. Our whole goal was to win the game,” Smith said.

Jackson ran 13 times for 82 yards. Dreek Thompson gained 49 yards on seven carries and Sparks netted 21 yards on five rushes. Sparks was 16-for-26 passing for 296 yards. Daughtry caught seven passes for 144 yards.

Spears picked up 101 yards

on four catches. Savage had three receptions for 41 yards and Jackson’s two receptions gained 10 yards.

Thompson led the defense with 12 tackles. Hayes, Exavyer Jackson and Neonta Alexander each made 10 tackles. Daughtry had eight tackles. Lusk and Reese

each had seven tackles. One of Lusk’s was behind the line of scrimmage. Darnell Jackson had a tackle behind the line and five other stops.

Prater and Payton Young each recorded four tackles with one of Young’s for a loss. Cooper and Jacob Clark each made two tackles.

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State its biggest lead, 42-13, with 1:45 remaining in the third quarter.

But the resilient Redhawks (3-9, 2-6) refused to fold in their season finale. SEMO piled up 21 unanswered points in just over seven minutes to start the fourth quarter, closing the deficit to 42-34 with 7:41 to go.

SEMO had one last shot to pull even after Jacksonville State’s Griffin Thomas missed a 44-yard field goal attempt with 2:26 remaining.

Starting at their 29, the Redhawks moved downfield to JSU’s 15 in 12 plays, but backup quarterback Kyle Snyder’s 9-yard pass to Peter Lloyd on fourth down came up a yard short and the Gamecocks ran out the clock to preserve the victory.

“We played really great for a half,” Clark said. “It was still a good night and we’re glad to get out of here (with a win).”

Jacksonville State registered its most first-quarter points since 2009 as James scored on runs of 1 and 15 yards and Jenkins added a 7-yard TD in the game’s first 12 minutes.

James later added his third TD, an 8-yard run, to cap a 74-yard, 10-play JSU drive. Thomas’ extra point made it 28-6 with 3:16 left before intermission.

BIG GAME: Iron Bowl From page 8

both ranked at the time. The Tigers lost to No. 15 LSU, 35-21.

The win over the Bulldogs on a deflected, 73-yard touchdown catch by Ricardo Louis with 25 seconds left launched Auburn into the Top 5 and made this game so significant beyond state lines.

“That’s one of the luckiest things I’ve seen,” Alabama receiver Kevin Norwood said. “That’s the DB’s fault. You are supposed to knock the ball down like any other coach would teach the defense to do.”

A Tide defensive back offered a different take.

“I think it was a fantastic play,” Collins said. “Everybody, every team needs luck on their side and that’s what they had.

I think it was a fantastic win for Auburn.”

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Southeast Quarter of Section house at Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, on August 33, Township 14 South, Range The Piedmont Journal 9 East; said parcel being more 26, 2013, during the legal Calhoun Co., AL hours of sale, all of its right, tiparticularly described as folNovember 27, 2013 lows: Beginning at the de- tle, and interest in and to the following described real estate, NOTICE TO scribed Southeast corner of said Quarter-Quarter; thence situated in Calhoun County, Alabama, to-wit: CREDITORS due West 949.34 feet; thence North 08 degrees 50 minutes Beginning at a point on the STATE OF ALABAMA 00 seconds West, 120.00 feet; North line of the Southeast CALHOUN COUNTY thence North 87 degrees 35 Quarter of the Southeast Quar- PROBATE COURT minutes 00 seconds East ter of Section 10, Township 16 CASE NO. 31812 360.00 feet to a half inch rebar South, Range 7 East, 329.3 IN THE MATTER OF THE on the observed West right of feet West of the Northeast cor- ESTATE OF MERLINE HARway line of Alabama Highway ner of said Quarter; thence RISON, DECEASED 9; thence North 08 degrees 33 South 15 degrees 16 minutes Letters of Administration on the minutes 32 seconds West East a distance of 195.9 feet to estate of MERLINE HARRIalong said right of way line the North line of Williams Cre- SON, deceased, having been 425.85 feet to a half inch rebar; sent Street; thence along a granted to the undersigned on thence North 07 degrees 14 curve to the left a chord dis- November 1, 2013, by the minutes 08 seconds West tance and bearing of South 60 Honorable Alice K. Martin, along said right of way line degrees 42 minutes West 31.0 Judge of Probate of said 202.50 feet to a capped rebar; feet to the end of said curve; County, notice is hereby given thence continue North 07 de- thence South 51 degrees 27 that all persons having claims grees 14 minutes 08 seconds minutes West along the North against said estate, are hereby West along said right of way line of Williams Cresent Street required to present the same line 202.50 feet to a capped re- a distance of 69.0 feet to a within the time allowed by law, bar; thence continue North 07 point; thence North 38 degrees or the same will be barred. degrees 14 minutes 08 sec- 33 minutes West a distance of RICHARD HARRISON, Peronds West along said right of 175.0 feet to a point; thence sonal Representative of the way line 61.77 feet to a capped North 51 degrees 27 minutes Estate of MERLINE HARRIrebar and the true point of be- East a distance of 176.9 feet to SON, Deceased ginning of the hereafter de- the Point of Beginning. Situat- Alice K. Martin Judge of Probate scribed parcel; thence North 07 ed in Calhoun County. degrees 12 minutes 43 sec- THIS PROPERTY WILL BE onds West along said right of SOLD ON AN “AS IS, WHERE Piedmont Journal way line 61.77 feet to a capped IS” BASIS, SUBJECT TO ANY Calhoun Co., AL ENCUM- November 13, 20, 27, 2013 rebar; thence South 89 de- EASEMENTS, grees 31 minutes 19 seconds West and leaving said right of way line 462.41 feet to a capped rebar; thence South 01 degrees 22 minutes 00 seconds East, 64.99 feet to a capped rebar; thence North 89 degrees 04 minutes 37 seconds East, 468.66 feet to the If you’ve got the drive, we’ve got the opportunity. true point of beginning. ConSeasonal Drivers taining 0.68 acres, more or less.

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PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL

NHS members take students to restaurant Thanksgiving meal served

Members of the National Honor Society at Piedmont High School took a group of the school system’s special needs children to Sageberry Restaurant in Centre recently. The students were accompanied by special education teacher and National Honor Society sponsor Meg Crane.

“We are working with our students on the skills that will be imperative for them as they transition from high school (transitional skills),” said Crane. “It was such an

amazing experience.”

The students were able to practice skills learned in previous units such a how to order from a menu, how to calculate food costs, including taxes and tips, how to make change and how to practice good manners.

After the lessons, the students were fed a Thanksgiving meal.

Crane said her students were blessed by the experience.

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Collin Bates is assisted by teacher’s aide Kevin Ward before he begins to eat his Thanksgiving meal.

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Christian Ridley (facing camera) and Christopher Dyson work on their laptops, while Tyron Milton looks over a paper.

It was such an amazing experience.”

Meg Crane

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