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COUNCIL

Students’ Internet stays on

City expects to make more than $40,000 a year under new contract LAURA GADDY Consolidated News Service The City Council decided Thursday to maintain a citywide Internet network that is used to provide 24-hour access to public school students here.

The decision came in the form of a 5-2 vote in favor of entering into a new contract with Information Transport Solutions, the Wetumpka-based communications company that built and operates the network. The new agreement specifies the length of the agreement, states how much money the company is to pay

the city for use of utility poles and electricity and reduces the payment the city received under the old contract for the use of its cables. Piedmont Mayor Bill Baker said the city stands to earn more than $40,000 annually under the new contract. “I think it’s a plus for the city,” Baker

JOURNAL FEATURE

Former Air Force sergeant worked at SCT Jerry Harbour manages life with MS

■ See HARBOUR, page 7

■ See COUNCIL, page 10

Spring Garden junior selected for Naval Academy program Matt Mullinax will spend a week in Annapolis this summer

MARGARET ANDERSON Journal News Editor Jerry Harbour was born March 2, 1949, in Piedmont. He attended Bethune High School where he played on the basketball team and was captain his senior year. He was president of the senior class, and he was also valedictorian of the class of 1968. Harbour didn’t know for sure what he wanted to do with his life, but he did know one thing. He would have to abide by his parents’ wishes and get a college a degree like his seven siblings. In March 1968, he went to work at Standard-CoosaThatcher. In September, took a leave of absence and joined the Air Force. After basic training, he knew that he wanted to be an aircraft mechanic or a pilot. That was an exciting period until he learned that he was color blind. The color blindness dashed all of his dreams of being an aircraft mechanic or pilot. “You got a lot of little wires

said. “It’s all about the kids.” The decision follows at least nine months of debate over whether the city should honor an agreement to help pay for the service, which Superintendent Matt Akin has identified as an essential com-

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Jerry Harbour in front of his 1966 Ford Mustang. Harbour has an interest in old cars and enjoys going to see them whenever they are shown to the public.

Matt Mullinax, an 11th grade student at Spring Garden High School, has been chosen to participate in an elite program this summer. Mullinax will spend a week in Annapolis, Md., where he will participate in the U. MULLINAX S. Naval Academy Summer Seminar program. The academy invited a select group of about 2,550 young men and women from across the nation and abroad to attend the program this year. The seminar is a fastpaced leadership experience for rising high school seniors. It’s designed to help educate, motivate and prepare those who are considering applying for admission to the academy. Mullinax said he’s not sure what he’s ■ See MULLINAX, page 7

PHS technology students bring home state awards Placed third overall, two first place winners This year, the Piedmont High School Technology Student Association attended the 35th annual state conference in Tuscaloosa at the University of Alabama. In preparation for the conference, State Secretary Andrew Posey, and Executive Board Member Jamie Miller attended three executive meetings to plan the conference.

Piedmont placed third overall and had two first place winners, Nina Gouger and Andrew Posey. This was also the first year that Piedmont High competed in VEX Robotics competitions. The students would like to thank Farmers and Merchants Bank for sponsoring their trip for the state conference. It would not have been possible without their kind support.

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ABOVE: Nina Gouger and Andrew Posey,1st place winners.

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Bentley gets up close look at Alabama’s poor prisons

In 1967 when Lurleen Wallace became governor, one of her first missions was a trip to Bryce Mental Hospital in her native Tuscaloosa. The conditions she saw at Alabama’s primary mental health facility were beyond deplorable. It was a heart wrenching and Damascus road experience for the demure and soft-spoken lady. However, she roared like a lion with determination to remedy this blight on the state. She implored her husband’s legislature to appropriate significant increases in the Mental Health Budget and she passed bond issues to relieve overcrowding. Our current Governor, Robert Bentley, also a Tuscaloosan, may have had a similar conversion experience a few months ago. Our state prisons are in a crisis situation. The ghastly horror stories that have come out this year surrounding our largest women’s prison facility have reverberated around the nation. We are teetering on the federal courts taking over our prisons. The population is well beyond what the courts view as basic human rights. The revelation at Julia Tutwiler Prison further exacerbated the crisis. Our kindly country doctor governor toured Tutwiler in early March and quietly said, “we are probably going to have to build some new prisons in my second term.” This is probably a foreshadow of what we will see in a second Bentley administration. You may see the Governor move from the right to the middle and moderate somewhat on the need for some new revenue for the beleaguered General Fund. It cost money to build prisons and as well as to simply perform the basic functions of state government.

The General Fund has had no new revenue enhancement Steve measures in 30 years. Flowers There are several benign measures that would be easy to tap. Our cigarette tax is the lowest in the southeast. A state Inside The Statehouse lottery would pass overwhelmingly if the legislature would allow people to vote on it and there must be some creative ways to tax the Indian casinos that are hauling in millions of untaxed profits from low income Alabamians. Several other issues that have remained unresolved in this quadrennium will be the subject of debate during this year’s campaigns and will be at the forefront for the new legislature beginning next year. The 2015 legislature may again look at rewriting Alabama’s lengthy and cumbersome state constitution article by article. Our Alabama Constitution was written in 1901 and is the longest of any state with more than 800 amendments. Every election year candidates espouse one prevalent theme, “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.” We are creating industrial jobs in Alabama. However, we are buying them with tax abatements. This is depleting tax dollars that would go towards education in the state. We may need to do more to help our small business owners who do not

get any tax breaks. We also need to invest heavily in technical job training in the state. Education issues will be at the center of the spectrum of discussion next quadrennium. How do we improve education for students? Has this term’s legislature hurt education by lowering teachers’ salaries over the last four years? Have programs like the Alabama Accountability Act hurt public education in the state? Will charter schools be the next initiative mounted by conservatives? The most talked about issue this year was the Common Core issue. It was tabled and swept under the rug during this year’s legislative session. However, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be front and center when the new legislature convenes in 2015. It has been a hot topic of debate during this year’s legislative contests. Legislators will be asked again to decide whether to support the national Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Gov. Bentley and the current legislative leadership are adamantly opposed to accepting this expansion. They say we cannot afford what we have now, much less more cost. It is doubtful that the Governor or a Republican legislature will change their position on this issue. We will see. Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist. His column appears weekly in 72 Alabama newspapers. Steve served 16 years in the state legislature. He may be reached at www.steveflowers. us.

Couple practices, preaches joys of folk art The Auilers (pronounced “i-lers”) of Cleburne County say they are “good” retirees. They love retirement and have immersed themselves in meaningful activities, namely Appalachian arts. They have made many new friends as they have spread the word about how enjoyable it is to create art like people of long ago did. His name is Skip, and he carves wood and gourds. Her name is Jane, and she sews, crochets, knits and weaves baskets. Their love for the arts is a natural for her, a new love for him. Jane is a Cleburne County native who grew up around relatives who quilted and practiced the types of crafts and folk art popular among their kin and friends. Skip is a San Diego, Calif., native whose transition to plying his favorite crafts led him to a new world. Around 1976, Jane moved away from home to live in San Diego, Calif. She worked at San Diego Welder Supply in San Diego. Decades later, Skip met Jane at the welding supply where he had returned to work after retiring from a pipefitting job. Then, after marrying her in 1993 and retiring for a second time, they moved to Alabama. “We looked around at many places to move,” said Skip, “Washington, Oregon, and Colorado.” Jane’s relatives told the couple about a house on a lake in Heflin that had become available near her uncle. The Auilers liked the price, the beauty of the

spot, and the idea of getting involved with fun things to do. “I told him that if Sherry we move here, I will Kughn have cement around my feet,” she said. Now the couple lives in a house with many curio cabinets Sherry-Go-Round and shelves filled with their crafts and other collectibles they have acquired in their travels. Also, he hunts, fishes, and shoots pool. She is a master gardener and has a yard full of plants on rock terraces. Almost five years ago, the Auilders tried their first craft together, carving gourds. She showed off one of the first gourds they made. It is in the shape of a hanging basket near their fireplace. The two visited art festivals in both Calhoun and Cleburne Counties and met others who decorated and carved gourds. She painted a few. He began carving and, two years later, tried his hand at also carving figurines from wood. In addition to enjoying the crafts she grew up learning, Jane attended a basket weaving class a couple of years ago and loved the social interaction. After becoming a member of the Dixie Weavers Basketry Guild, she suggested moving the growing class to the

meeting center at Cane Creek Community Gardens at McClellan where it meets today. The Auilers hope they can motivate others to join them in the joy they have found in perpetuating the folk arts. On Sat., May 31 at 9 a.m. at the Cane Creek Community Gardens at McClellan, the guild will host an open weave. That means potential members will leave with a completed basket. Even if they decide they do not like the process, members will complete the basket for them. The cost is about $35 for the kit and needs to be ordered a few days in advance. Also, others who want to attend the regular meetings for free should contact her at 256-253-3138. Another open weave will be at the Anniston Museum of Natural History in August and those interested should call the museum at 256-237-6766. Skip encourages those who might be interested in wood carving to come to Parker Memorial Baptist Church every Thursday from 8-11 a.m. or to Grace Baptist Church in Oxford on Thursday evenings from 6-8:30 p.m. There is no charge, but Skip warns that visitors might carve something by the class’s end. Readers might meet the Auilers at any of the local festivals. They often set up a booth to promote their crafts. “We hope people will join us,” said Jane. “These crafts are becoming lost arts. We want to keep them alive.” Email to Sherry at sherrykug@hotmail.com

Established candidates are having to battle upstarts

Southern states are beginning to attract national attention in topsy-turvy primaries and elections. Who’s running against whom and why? In Arkansas incumbent Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR), son of longtime Senator David Pryor (D-AR), is battling for his seat against freshman Representative Tom Cotton (R-AR) who has a good shot at moving Arkansas into the GOP column. Nothing really unusual here with Republicans and Democrats crossing swords in a Southern state that’s turning redder the longer progressives in Washington move the nation toward a more centralized socialist state a la Europe. Pryor can’t get his poll numbers above 50-percent, and Cotton is a popular and smart candidate. Mississippi holds the most interesting GOP primary June 3 between long-term incumbent Senator Thad Cochran and state Senator Chris McDaniel. Surprisingly, Democrats may make the difference in this primary because they are supporting Cochran and will likely crossover to vote for him in the GOP primary. GOP establish-

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Obituaries DANIELS

Piedmont - Martha W. Daniels, 90, passed away May 10, 2014 in Northport, Alabama. Mrs. Daniels was born June 27, 1923 in Hart County, Georgia. After graduation from high school in Athens, Tennessee she attended and graduated from Draughons Business College in Atlanta. While living in Atlanta she met and married her husband, George L. Daniels and was employed at Little Fawn Pottery Company. She and her family moved to Piedmont in 1963 to assume ownership of the Fair Store, which was founded in 1911, from her father. She and her husband operated the store until it closed in 1994. Mrs. Daniels was a member of the Lozahatchee Order of the Eastern Star, a member of the Red Hat Society, and was a member of the Sunshine Club. She enjoyed playing cards, traveling, reading, watching sports and looking out the window of her home at the beautiful garden planted by her son Paul. She was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, George L. Daniels, a son, Paul Daniels, and her parents, Isadore and Sally Wisebram. Mrs. Daniels is survived by a daughter, Robyn Daniels, of Tuscaloosa; a son, Ralph Dan-

iels (Tenagne), of Atlanta, Georgia; a brother, Herschel Wisebram (Ruth), of Cartersville, Georgia, and special friends, Jeanette Griffith, of Piedmont and Juanita Rice, of Tuscaloosa. The family will receive friends at the Solid Rock Cafe, 105 Center Avenue North, Piedmont, Alabama 36272 today from 1 - 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers the family suggest memorial contributions to the Piedmont Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 333, Piedmont, AL 36272 or Hospice of West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.thompsonfuneralhomepiedmont.com

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Thomasville, Ga. - Funeral service for Grace Juanita McCurdy, 86, will be today at 12 p.m. at Whiddon-Shiver Funeral Home Chapel in Thomasville, Georgia. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. before the service. Mrs. McCurdy went home to be with the Lord May 8, 2014 at her residence. Mrs. McCurdy was preceded in death by her husband, First Sergeant Maurice VanSant McCurdy; her parents, Joseph T. and Lulu

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Phelps Livingston; a daughter, Sherry Ann McCurdy; nine brothers and two sisters. She is survived by her daughters, Brenda McCurdy Dotson (Dean), of Thomasville and Kay McCurdy Chance (Lamar), of Atlanta; son, Maurice VanSant McCurdy Jr. (Kristy), of Ellenwood, Ga.; grandchildren, Robby Dotson (Hope), Randy Dotson (Donna), Reggie Dotson (Mandy), Amy Renfroe, Beth Chance King (Patrick) and Trey McCurdy; 7 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Dotson was born in Piedmont on June 24, 1927. She married in May of 1946. She was a homemaker for 67 years, was active in the Red Cross and a very faithful member of Morrow First Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial may be made to Alzheimer’s Research. Donate by phone: 1.800.272.3900 or mail a check to: Alzheimer’s Association P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011 or Hospice of Southwest Georgia, 114A Mimosa Drive, Thomasville, Georgia 31792. Sign the register book on-line at www.whiddonshiverfuneralhome.com. Whiddon-Shiver Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

May 1 • Found property. A Spyder Victor paintball gun valued at $50 was turned over to the police department after being found on the Old Piedmont-Gadsden Highway at 5:30 p.m. April 30. May 2 • Voluntary surrender of firearm. Officers took possession of a Lorcin model L25 semi-auto .25 caliber gun valued at $100. May 5 • Domestic violence III. A 22-yearold female reported an incident that occurred at her residence at 4 p.m. May 5. • Domestic violence III. A 45-yearold female reported an incident that occurred at her residence at 4 p.m. May 5. • Burglary III, criminal mischief III. A resident of Old Ladiga Road reported the theft of a red Cadet riding lawnmower valued at $1,000, a red weed eater valued at $100 and damage done to a door lock and wooden door that occurred between May 1 and 5. • Dogs at large. A resident of Haslam Street reported dogs running loose which violates city codes. • Harassment. A 42-year-old male reported an incident that occurred on Caton Street at noon. • Domestic violence III. Two residents of West Alabama Street reported an incident that occurred around 1:30 p.m. • Fraudulent use of credit/debit card. A 54-year-old male reported an incident that occurred between May 3 and 6 involving his Direct Express debit card. May 7 • Domestic violence III. A 25-yearold female reported an incident that occurred on Thatcher Street at 9 p.m. May 6. May 8 • Assault III. A 19-year-old male reported an incident that occurred on

Gadsden Street between 11 a.m. and noon. • Criminal mischief III. A 35-year-old female reported damage done to a white 1998 Mercury Mountaineer that occurred while the vehicle was located on Hughes Street between May 6 and 7. • Theft of property I. An 84-year-old male reported the theft of a MGM motor, a stainless steel refrigerator, five car batteries, three air conditioner units, a marine battery, and a lawn mower battery that occurred between March 1 and May 8 on Highway 278 West. • Criminal trespass III. A 51-year-old male reported an incident that occurred between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the Old Piedmont Gadsden Highway. May 9 • Theft of property III. Officers investigated the theft of three packs of boneless rib-eye steaks and a pack of New York strip steaks that occurred on Highway 278 By-Pass at 2:07 p.m. • Theft of property (motor vehicle). A resident of VanSant Street reported the theft of a silver 2000 Chrysler Town & Country van valued at $800 that occurred between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. May 5. May 10 • Damage to property (non-criminal). Officers took a report about damage done to a cable box and siding that occurred at the Restoration Station on Southern Avenue. • Theft of property II, fraudulent use of credit/debit card. A resident of Haslam Street reported the theft of a GM credit card that occurred between April 23 and May 10. May 11 • Criminal trespass III. A resident of West Alabama Street reported and incident that occurred between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Arrests May 1 • William Michael Nix, 21, failure to appear. • William Tyler Smith, 23, failure to appear. May 2

• Dawn Michele Doolin, instrument II. 40, fraudulent use of credit/ debit card (four counts). May 6 • Kevin Joseph McMurMay 4 ray, 32, contempt. • Kenneth Lee Todd, • Amber Nicole Kleist, 58, possession of a forged 26, failure to appear.

• Spencer Lerone Dud27, failure to pay (two ley, domestic violence III. counts). • Devonna Tiarra Taylor, • Tyler Keith Rhinehart, 19, domestic violence III. 21, failure to pay (three counts). May 7 • Stewart Clay Couch, May 9

• Brenda Joyce Bishop, 43, theft of property III. May 10 • Donald Norman Campbell, 67, failure to appear.

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Debra Floyd styles hair in new location Styles by Debra moves to Ladiga Street

MARGARET ANDERSON Journal News Editor ebra Gilmer Floyd is doing what she’s wanted to since she was a child. She’s a cosmetologist and has had her own styling salon for the past two years. Styles by Debra’s new location is 105 E. Ladiga St.,

Suite B. After graduating from Piedmont High School in 1979, she enrolled at Gadsden State Community College with the intention of becoming a cosmetologist. She married, had children and ended up dropping out of school. She worked for a while on the assembly line at Honda in Lincoln. Thirty years later, she felt the time was right for her to go back to school and get the degree she’d always wanted. She went back to Gadsden State and the next time she left, she left with a diploma saying she was a certified cosmetologist. Her first job was with the Regis Corp., at the mall in Rainbow City where she managed Master Cuts for about six months. She transferred to Master Cuts in Oxford and managed that salon for about 10 months. Then, she decided it was time to open her own shop, and that’s just what she did. Her first shop was on Centre Avenue. She moved to her current location two weeks ago. Debra always knew she wanted to be a cosmetologist. When she was younger, she kept her late grandmother Nola McCain’s hair styled. Debra said she’ll always remember the small blue and yellow rods she used in her grandmother’s hair when giving her perms. “I appreciate each and every one of my customers,” said Debra. “I love my new location. The Lord has blessed me. I just love doing hair. I love seeing how it turns out when I color it or style it, and I like seeing how pleased my customers are.” Debra was born, grew up and continues to live in the Vigo community. Her parents are Kenneth and Sally (McCain) Gilmer. Her brother, Kenny Gilmer, lives in Iron City. Her sister, Penny Steed, lives in Vigo. Debra’s husband, Tim, works at Honda. They have three children. Crystal Singleton lives in Suwanee,

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Debra Floyd styles customer Gaynell Tierce’s hair. Ga., and Jonathan Houck and Brad Floyd live in Piedmont. Debra has a grandson, Traeh Singleton, who will be 7 in July. Debra keeps her shop open six days a week. One of the few reasons she closes is to go visit Traeh in Suwanee. “I always put a sign on my door when I’m not going to be there,” she said. “I like to spend the day with Traeh sometimes. He’s my pride and joy. And I take my parents back and forth to the doctor. Other than that, I’m open six days a week.” Monday through Friday, she’s open from 8 a.m.5 p.m. On Saturdays, she’s open from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Topping ½ c. butter, melted ¼ t. white sugar Cinnamon to taste Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 pan. Press one can of dough out. Top with ingredients. Layer other can of dough on top of mixture. Spread melted butter, cinnamon, and sugar on top. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool. Then cut into squares. BAKED CHICKEN WITH RITZ CRACKERS

CREAM CHEESE SQUARES 2 (8 oz.) Philadelphia cream cheese 2 (8 oz.) crescent rolls 1 c. white sugar

1 pack Ritz crackers 1 c. butter Chicken tenders

One of Debra’s favorite summertime activities is swimming in her pool. She also helps her parents in their vegetable garden. “I love canning,” she said. We make the garden so we can put things in the freezer and can them. We put a lot up. Mother and I make vegetable stock and we put up a lot of tomatoes.” Debra said her father and grandmother taught her to cook at a young age. She grew up with responsibilities, one of which was babysitting her sister, Penny, who is 12 years younger. (Contact Margaret at pollya922gmail.com)

Crumble Ritz crackers in bowl. Put butter in boiler just long enough to melt it. Then salt and pepper your chicken. Roll chicken in melted butter, then roll it in the Ritz crackers. Make sure that the chicken has the crackers all over it. Put into a pan. Set oven to 350 degrees and cook for one hour or until done. COOKIES 1 box yellow cake mix ½ c. oil 2 eggs ½ c. sugar Add anything else you want (chocolate chips or nuts). Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix everything together and place balls of cookies on sheet. Cook for about 10-15 minutes.

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womanless beauty pageant. The event was a fundraiser for the school. On the front row, from left, are Oscar Owens, Bennis Terry, Hollis Gilley and Clyde Pike. On the back row are J. B. Alred Jr., J. V. Williams and J. M. Baker. (Editor’s note: The Piedmont Journal has begun publishing older photographs on a regular basis. Those having older photographs who would like them published can send them to jalred@jaxnews.com or akilgore@jaxnews.com. Identify the people in the photo and, if possible, include some information about it.)

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// Submitted photos On Sunday, Aug. 10, 1947, the annual Piedmont all day sing was held at the Coosa YMCA. The program commenced at 10 a.m. and lasted until 4 p.m. In attendance were some 3,000 people representing not only Piedmont but also adjoining counties. Many well known Southern quartets appeared on the program. Among them were the Harmoneers of Knoxville, Tenn., whose photo appears here. Ladies of the Congregational Methodist Church prepared a luncheon at the YMCA for singers and visitors. BOTTOM RIGHT: Joint chairmen of the successful venture were Dixon Hulsey and A. A. Freeman (right).

(Editor’s note: The Piedmont Journal has begun publishing older photographs on a regular basis. Those having older photographs who would like them published can send them to jalred@jaxnews. com or akilgore@jaxnews.com. Identify the people in the photo and, if possible, include some information about it.)

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Military Service: For Billy S. Lindsey Jan. 1949 from Private First Class to Major with 7 years in Grade for Retirement. May 1972 with 21 years’ service. Assignments: 1-1949 Alabama National Guard Co. A 131st Tank BN. Armory Piedmont, AL 6-1949 2 weeks Summer Camp , Ft. Benning Columbus, G 7-1949 2 weeks Summer Camp, Ft. McClellan Anniston, AL 9-1950 Co. A 131st. Tank Bn, Piedmont, activated for federal service, Ft. Knox KY 9-1950 Cpl. Lindsey assigned to Co. A as a Company Armor to maintain-Issue large caliber weapons to troops for training at Ft. Knox. 5-1951 Promoted to Sgt. And assigned as Company a Supply Sqt. To maintain complete records on thousands of items-tools, small arms, supplies, jeeps, trucks, clothing, kitchen equipment, and supplies, bedding for troops, large caliber weapons and anything needed to support the company training mission-issue and requisition and accountability for the Company Commander and be ready at all time for IG Inspections. 1-1952 Sgt. Lindsey was selected to establish a supply operation at a new location at Ft. Knox, Ky.

6-1952 Sgt. Lindsey completed his Federal Activation Call-up and was released from active duty at Ft. Knox to return to Piedmont, AL. 9-1952 Capt. George P. Hendrix was assigned the duty of establishing a new unit in Piedmont, AL by The Alabama National Guard Headquarters in Montgomery, AL and the new unit was the 146 Engr. Company, Light Equipment, Capt. Hendrix invited Sgt. Lindsey to join the unit and suggested he apply for a direct commission as a 2nd Lt. at the Alabama State National Guard Headquarters in Montgomery. After introductions-interviews, a testing process and follow-up interviews, a direct commission was approved effective in Sept. 52, and 2nd. Lt. Lindsey was assigned as the Company Supply Officer and served under Capt. Hendrix and later under Capt. Thomas E. Doyal CE-ANC. In August 1954, LT. Lindsey was invited to join Major Hendrix, BN Staff at the Armory in Anniston. In May 1956, 1st LT. Lindsey was given the opportunity to attend the officer’s Military Engineering School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia with a cadre of Graduates from the Army’s Academy at West point in New York and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. They were tough competitors; he graduated September 1956. In 1957, Lt. Lindsey was promoted to Captain and assigned as the Battalion S-2 Staff Officer. In January, 1958, CPT Lindsey was transferred to Headquarters: 166th Transportation Battalion (ACFT Maintenance and Supply) Alabama Army

National Guard at the Birmingham Airport. CPT Lindsey was assigned as the Headquarters’ Company Commandant and as the Staff-Administrator. Units assigned to the 166th Transportation BN were the 107th Helicopter Company and the 252 ND Maintenance Company to serve the 107th to keep the choppers flying. In January 1963, CPT. Lindsey was assigned to serve as the Headquarters Company Commandant for the 152nd Engineer Group (Combat) Alabama Army National Guard, 240 Greymont Avenue, West, Birmingham, and Al. In June 1964, CPT Lindsey requested a transfer to the 87th MAC at 2119 North First Avenue, Birmingham, AL to have a better Opportunity for advancement and more educational advantages. Veteran’s Day, 1965, CPT Lindsey received a promotion to Major and was honored by Major General Hanson who pinned on the Gold Major Leaf just prior to the start of the Veterans Day parade in Birmingham. Major Lindsey served as the S-2 on the Engineering Section Staff of 87th MAC until retirement in April 1972. Major Lindsey was retained on the Active Retired List of the USAR until 1992. Extra- Curricular Military Billy is a life member of the Military Officers Association of America; also a member of the National Association for Uniformed Services.

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doing to do after graduating from Spring Garden next year, but attending this seminar will help him make that decision. “This class will help me decide if I want to go to a military college,” he said. “I’m looking forward to it very much.” His week at the academy will be spent studying oceanography, meteorology, information technology, naval architecture, mechanical engineering, mathematics, and history, as well as doing a lot of physical training. Students will also participate in seamanship and navigation classes and will take a cruise aboard a Navy Yard Patrol Craft to apply what they will learn in class. Mullinax said he filled out the necessary paper for the academy, wrote an essay and was hoping to get picked. When he received word that he had been chosen, he said he was surprised, but happy. Mullinax is the son of David and Sonda Mullinax. His sister, Tara, attends Berry College in Rome. He is a member of New Harmony Baptist Church in Cedartown where he is active in youth programs. Mullinax said he likes to hunt and fish. (Contact Margaret at pollya922@gmail.com)

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close to the same color you have to work on,” said Harbour. “I could do the mechanical work, but I couldn’t tell the difference in the colors.” After taking basic training at Lackland AFB in Texas, he was transferred to Kincheloe AFB in Michigan. From there, he went to Clark AFB in the Philippines, where he was assigned to a temporary duty squadron. That job carried him to Thailand, Okinawa, Guam, Hawaii, Cambodia, Laos, Japan and Korea. He few into Vietnam twice, but didn’t see action. He traveled almost all over Southeast Asia. After leaving the Philippines, he was stationed at Hill AFB in Ogden, Utah. Before Harbour left the Air Force, he had worked his way up to sergeant and worked on heavy equipment. Though Harbour was fortunate enough to not see battle, he didn’t leave the Air Force unscathed. In a basketball game with airmen from Okinawa, his back was injured. “Someone went up under me, and I flipped on my back,” said Harbour. “I’ve had back trouble since then.” His next injury came when his hand was almost severed when it was caught on a forklift between two pieces of metal. Harbour left the Air Force in 1972, but the military kept him on a leave of absence because he wasn’t able to work due to his injuries. He applied for a job at Goodyear in Gadsden but was turned down because of his back. He went back to work at SCT and attended classes at Gadsden State. “It was hard for me to do my job because of my hand and back,” he said. “I couldn’t do any lifting. So I swapped jobs with the sweeper. I was going to have to quit SCT, so the management put me in management training where I wouldn’t have to do any lifting.” In 1975 he was named a supervisor and in 1990 he became department manager over the #2 spinning room and the new coarse yarn unit. He had five supervisors and 160 employees working for him. “I was responsible for a lot of things,” said Harbour. “Things that happened on the third shift were my fault. Things that happened on the first and second shifts were my fault.” He stayed at SCT until his department closed in 1994. By then his back had taken a turn for the worse, and he learned in 1998 that he had multiple sclerosis. “I put in for some jobs, but I couldn’t find anything,” he said. “I had two back surgeries in two years. I was able to get my social security disability because of my back.”

The back surgeries left him unable to balance himself, and he had numbness in his hand, symptoms that go along with multiple sclerosis. “I had a doctor tell me that stress causes MS to flare up,” said Harbour. “He said the back surgeries I had probably caused stress in me.” Harbour said he’s doing fairly well today. He goes to Cullman once a month for infusions to help his multiple sclerosis. Harbour’s parents are the late Ed “Abe” and Katherine (Spears) Harbour. Abe worked at SCT and owned a barber shop. Katherine cleaned houses and later worked at Piedmont Executive. Harbour has an associate degree in political science and history from Gadsden and a bachelor’s in political science and history from Jacksonville State University. He earned the degrees while working at a full time job and helping his wife, the former Aggie Diamond, rear their two sons. Aggie, a retired teacher, taught two years at Roanoke Elementary School and was hired to teach the first kindergarten class in Piedmont, where she remained for 29 years, until her retirement. The Harbors’ son, Desmond, lives in Montgomery with his wife, Tiffany. He is a counselor at Mount Meigs Juvenile Facility and works part-time for UPS. He has two children, a daughter, Keonna Prater, and a son, Desmond DeShun Harbour. Harbor’s younger son, Derrick Allen, is an electrician for the city. Harbour’s siblings are William Harbour and Mary Almon of Atlanta, Elizabeth McClane of Nashville, Charles Harbour of Memphis, Rushie Earl Harbour and Ronnie Harbour of Toledo, Ohio, and Florine Harbour of Auburn Hills, Mich. Harbour is a member of Thankful Baptist Church. One of his favorite things is playing Checkers and Dominos with his longtime friend, George Ammons. Harbour is assistant to the commander, Rick Freeman, of the Disabled American Veterans Association Chapter 21. He served on the City Council from 200004. He’s served on the commercial development board and utility board and is currently serving on the personnel board. “If I’m serving on something, I want to do my best,” he said. Harbour doesn’t know where he’d be today had he been able to be a aircraft mechanic or pilot. But, one thing he’s sure of is that he’s content. “I’m a happy person,” he said. “I’ve always been a happy person. I’ve had a full life. I love my family, and I love my grandchildren.”

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Piedmont’s state title hopes dashed RIP DONOVAN Journal Sports Correspondent

Doug Borden

Outfielder Payton Young slams a home run against Madison Academy during playoff action last weekend.

Dogs lose heartbreakers RIP DONOVAN Sports Correspondent

Piedmont softball coach Rachel Smith may have gotten caught up in a tide of rising expectations in her first year as head coach. Not the expectations of others, mind you, but her own. Sweeping Saks and Weaver and finishing second to White Plains, Class 3A’s No. 1 team, during regular-season play and in the 3A, Area 8 tournament would have been perfectly acceptable accomplishments when practice started. Then Smith decided that while making it to the South Central regional tournament in Troy was good, advancing to the state tournament in Montgomery would be even better. So, when a pair of one-run losses eliminated the Bulldogs at the regional level, Smith and her players were disappointed. The good news is that all but one member of this year’s squad can return for the 2015 season. Outfielder Mallory Roberts was Piedmont’s lone senior. Smith said that opponents viewed Roberts as a difficult out – a player who could hit fast balls, changeups and curves. She struck out just seven times over the season on her way to a .346 batting average. “She was just known as being a tough out to get,” Smith said. “She was also a great leader. It will be tough to replace her leadership.” Whatever life lessons Roberts gleaned from softball this season she’ll apply to her volleyball career at Faulkner University in the fall. For everyone else, next year will continue at Piedmont and Smith hopes she’ll see an increased level of maturity. “I guess the most important thing would be for them to know that they are able to compete at that level, that their hard work that they put in allowed us to compete at that level. … We need to be able to put people away when we have the opportunities, regardless of the level of competition. I think one of the mistakes that young teams make is that they play to the level of competition instead of their peak level,” Smith said. “That’s something we have to work on, being able to play our game regardless of the level of competition.” The Bulldogs opened region-

al action Friday against Trinity Presbyterian of Montgomery and fell 2-1. The Wildcats got a run in the bottom of the first inning. Piedmont knotted the score a 1-1 with a run in the fifth. Rachel Baggett reached on a fielder’s choice then consecutive twoout singles by Torre Roberts and Madison Pike moved Baggett into scoring position and got her home. Trinity scored the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning. Piedmont got six singles but no walks against Trinity pitching. “We swung at pitches early in counts that were probably not the ideal pitches to swing at. We didn’t allow any of our counts to go deep. You attribute that to anxiety and wanting to hit the ball so badly that we were going to swing at the first or second pitch,” Smith said. “We handicapped ourselves in that game because of that. … Later in the game, we became patient but we were not the home team and they scratched out a run there at the end.” Torre Roberts had two hits. Pike, Kayleigh Williams, Kendall Pressley and Hannah Hulsizer each had one single. Williams pitched the entire game and allowed just one earned run while recording three strikeouts. In the elimination bracket, Piedmont defeated Montevallo 7-3 in a game that ended around midnight. The Bulldogs never trailed. They scored three runs in the top of the third inning, two in the fifth and two more in the sixth. Montevallo got one in the bottom of the third and two in the seventh. Williams went the distance on a four-hitter with four walks and four strikeouts. Montevallo did not have an earned run. Williams helped herself at the plate with a double and a triple, Piedmont’s lone extra-base hits, in four at-bats. Mallory Roberts and Torre Roberts each had a pair of singles. Baggett, Pike, Pressley and Hayden Tyree each had one hit. Williams and Torre Roberts each scored twice. Williams had two RBIs. Pressley, Mallory Roberts and Tyree drove in one run apiece. “I think the girls were just determined to get some runs that night,” Smith said.

“We played a pretty good defensive game against them.” Saturday afternoon, Susan Moore eliminated Piedmont 7-6. Piedmont took an early lead, fell behind and recaptured the lead before losing with two down in the seventh inning. Batting as the visitors for the third time, Piedmont opened the scoring in the top of the first when Williams’ sacrifice fly to center brought Torre Roberts home. With Pressley batting, Pike stole second base then came around when Pressley reached on an error. Susan Moore scored four runs off Pressley in the bottom of the fourth, two earned and two unearned, for a 4-2 lead. The Bulldogs battled back with three runs in the fifth. With one away, Kaitlyn Ridley and Torre Roberts each beat out bunt singles. Ridley was out trying to reach third but Pike tripled to center to score Roberts. On a 1-2 count, Williams singled to left and Pike’s run made it 4-4. After Pressley singled to put runners on first and second, Mallory Roberts doubled and Williams scored to make it 5-4. Piedmont added an insurance run in the top of the seventh. Torre Roberts beat out an infield single to open the inning. She promptly stole second, moved to third on a ground ball out and scored when Williams singled. Pressley got the first out of the fifth inning before Williams came on in relief. In the seventh, Susan Moore had runners on first and second with two away when the No. 3 hitter doubled home one run and the cleanup hitter singled to drive in two runs and end the game. Williams, Torre Roberts and Mallory Roberts each had two hits. Williams finished with three RBIs. Pike and Mallory Roberts added one RBI apiece. Torre Roberts scored three times and Pike came home twice.

Time is the great healer and the sting of Saturday’s 7-5 loss to Madison Academy in the deciding third game of the semifinal series of the Class 3A baseball playoffs had begun to fade for Piedmont head coach James Blanchard late Tuesday morning. “I’ve had a lot of coaches from around the state call me and say, ‘Hold your head up. What y’all lost the last few years, as young as you are, we never thought you’d be that far.’ It kind of makes you feel a lot better when you hear that,” Blanchard said. Still, it remains clear that Blanchard’s expectations of playing for a state championship were genuine and that his players held the same expectations. “I knew we were going to be young and I knew we were going to have a lot of kids out there starting that were young. Most of them have played with me for a while so them being young really didn’t matter because they’re used to playing against good competition and older people,” Blanchard noted. “I had it in the back of my mind we could make a run at it. I had told them early in the year that we could and we did. We just came up a little short. … This little bunch right here, every time they go out, regardless of what it is, they think they’re going to win.” The Bulldogs (30-8) lose three seniors to graduation, all starters. Second baseman Caleb Adams and catcher Matt Strott were starters as juniors while Jaret Prater won the starting job in right field this year. “Matt-Matt, it kind of feels like he’s been with me for about seven years,” Blanchard said. “He’s been there and played for so long. We’re really going to miss him. It’s hard to replace a second baseman like Caleb Adams. He and Matt Strott, it’s hard to replace them as far as what they’ve meant to this team. Jaret, that kid worked so hard to be a starter and did everything you asked him to do and then some. For him to come in and have the year he had was phenomenal. They’re not a big class, there are just three of them, but it’s a good class.” Blanchard said he has come to expect to lose great players every year and to be prepared to replace them with players who could become equally great. The Piedmont-Madison Academy series began in Piedmont with a doubleheader Thursday but Saturday’s contest was played in Gadsden. Rain Friday delayed Game 3 for a day and more rain Saturday morning sent the game to the nearest playable field available, Batting as the home team, Madison Academy got a run in the second inning for a 1-0 lead. The Bulldogs struck for four unearned runs in the top of the third inning. With two down, Strott reached on a two-base throwing error. Payton Young walked and Easton Kirk’s single tied the game at 1-1 as courtesy runner Derrick Baer scored. Young moved to third base and Kirk to second as the throw went toward home. Pitcher Bayley Blanchard helped himself with a two-run single. After Taylor Hayes singled, courtesy runner Deven Hincy stole third and scored on a Madison Academy error and Piedmont led 4-1. The Mustangs added a run in the third. Piedmont answered in the top of the fourth with a one-out infield singled by Adams and twoout singles from Young to advance Adams to second and Kirk to send him home. Trailing 5-2, Madison Academy scored once in the fourth inning then took a 7-5 lead with four runs in the fifth. A walk and five singles, none struck particularly hard but none catchable either, did the damage. The most telling statistic for Piedmont was 11 runners left on base, at least one in every inning. The Bulldogs left the bases loaded in the sixth and stranded two runners on base in both the third and fourth innings. Blanchard pitched the first five innings and absorbed the loss. Tyler Lusk got three consecutive outs in the sixth. Kirk and Hayes each had two singles. Kirk and Blanchard drove in two runs apiece. In Thursday’s doubleheader, Madison Academy scored five unearned runs in the second inning and went on the win the opener 7-4. Hayes threw a four-hit shutout in the second game and Piedmont kept its hopes alive with a 4-0 win. Young singled to drive in Adams and Blanchard doubled Young home in the bottom of the first in the opener to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead. Trailing 5-2 after three innings, Lusk walked to start the fourth, moved to second on Prater’s hit, took third when Adams hit into a fielder’s choice and scored on Strott’s sacrifice fly. Madison Academy scored two insurance runs in the top of the seventh, runs that negated Young’s leadoff home run to left field in the bottom of the inning. Peyton Whitten went the distance for Piedmont and was the hard-luck loser. He recorded seven strikeouts. Young and Blanchard each had two hits and Young had two RBIs. The Bulldogs batted as the visitors in the nightcap and scored two runs in the top of the first inning, helping Hayes overcome his initial jitters. Madison Academy hitters constantly asked the plate umpire for time and stepped out of the batter’s box as Hayes began his windup in an effort to distract him and disrupt his rhythm without success. Adams walked and scored the initial run on a single by Kirk. With the bases full of Bulldogs, Whitten walked and Kirk came home. In the third, Hayes led off with a base hit. A sacrifice by Whitten and a wild pitch moved him to third and Prater’s single got him home. In the fourth, Kirk reached when he struck out on a wild pitch then scored on Whitten’s RBI single. Prater and Hayes each had a pair of singles for Piedmont’s only two-hit games. Hayes struck out three, two in the seventh inning.

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Community Capsule • The grand opening for the Survivalist Martial Arts facility will be Saturday May 17th at 1 p.m. The facility nis located at 626 Highway 278 Bypass East. There will be a tour of the facility and a brief demonstration. There will be free food, a moon bounce for the kids, and possibly a traveling petting zoo that is currently in Gadsden. At Survivalist Martial Arts they offer instruction in TaeKwonDo, Survivalist Self-Defense, sport prep training courses, and fitness classes for children and adults of all ages. • Here are upcoming events at Goshen United Methodist Church, 625 Alabama Highway 9 South, Piedmont. Phone 256-447-6039. Spring Fling - May 31, 2014 starting at 1 p.m. at the Piedmont Veteran’s Park located at 800 Memorial Drive, Piedmont. Spring Fling will include good, games, activitites for all ages including prizes. BRIDGE WEEK - Bridge Week will be held June 9th - June 13th at the Piedmont Veteran’s Park located at 800 Memorial Drive, Piedmont. There will be great activities throughout the week and a big celebration on Friday night. All events are free and open to the public and other churches in and around the Piedmont City and Community. If anyone needs transportation for any event please call 256-312-3881 to arrange your ride to and from any event. Questions may be referred to Christa Neyman at 256-557-0118, Rhonda Dehaven at 256-312-3881, or Rev. Joe Dewitte at 256-604-9679. • The American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will be having a yard sale on May 15, 16 and 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donations for the yard sale can be brought to the American Legion in Piedmont, 1133 U.S. 278W on May 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14. The Auxiliary holds monthly meetings on the third Tuesday at 6 p.m. •Nances Creek Community Center will have Trade Day and Farmers Market starting at 7 a.m. the first Saturday of each month through October. There is no set-up fee. • The White Plains Alumni Association is having a membership drive. Those eligible are graduates of White Plains, attendees who may not have graduated, and persons who may not have attended White Plains but desires to support the schools and students. The White Plains Alumni Association awarded four $1,000 college scholarships to deserving White Plains seniors last year. Donations pay for these annual scholarships. For more information call Alvin Robertson at 256-236-8780, Bill Ward at 256-236-3629, Brenda Morgan at 256-435-3725 or Norman Parker at 256-447-7563. • The Calhoun County Community Band meets every Tuesday night at 6:30 at the Jacksonville High School band room. • PROFILE BAPTIST CHURCH is having their HOMECOMING May 18

beginning at 10:30 am until? The guest singers will be THE FAMILY CIRCLE SINGERS from the Weaver, Jacksonville area. Lunch will be served. Pastor James Owens and the members of Profile Baptist Church would like to invite everyone. The church is located on the corner of B and G streets in the Mill Village in Jacksonville, across from the Jacksonville Community Center. • Bradford Health Services has free family support meetings from 5-6 Monday nights at 1701 B Pelham Rd., S., Suite D (Brookstone Building next to RMC Jacksonville). The meeting is for anyone experiencing behavioral problems with a loved one, has a family member of any age with drug or alcohol problems, needs help coping with a loved one’s drug or alcohol problems or needs help making decision on how to help a family member of any age. A counselor will facilitate the meetings. • Venecia Benefield Butler’s book, “I Have to Get Some Things Off My Chest,” can be purchased for $15 (including tax) by mailing a check to P. O. Box 572, Piedmont 36262, or take money or check to Butler’s sister, Randa Carroll, at the office of Benjamin Ingram at 207 Rome, Ave., Piedmont. Proceeds will go to the V Foundation, founded by Butler, to purchase gift bags for patients going through chemo treatments. The bags will include items such as comedy DVDs, chap stick, gift cards, gas cards, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, search-a-word, lubricant eye drops, gum and peppermints, soft toothbrushes, queasy drops, lotion, neck wrap or hydrating socks. • 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 Sample liquids before you buy. the Deaf, has a DVD presentation he will giveour to civic and community organizations or individuals. Contact him at 835-6918 • 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 Tuesday and Thursday. Contact Aubrey Crossen at 256-689-2580 or jsu9517k@jsu.edu for more information. • 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.

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White Plains girls will play in state tournament TROY — After each of White Plains High’ two wins in the Class 3A South Central Regional on Friday, Wildcats head coach Rachel Ford’s son, 3-year-old Cooper, ran onto the field to celebrate with the team. Following its championship-clinching victory over Glencoe 6-0 on Saturday afternoon, Cooper ran into his mom’s arms again, and was in the middle of the postgame huddle of the Wildcats. After the team took pictures with their regional championship plaque, several players -- including shortstop Sophia Taylor, Carley and Shelby Wood -picked up and played with him like they were all his older sisters. The moment showed how close this team is to its coach, teammates and a valuable fan such as Cooper. “This championship means even more because of how close this team is,” said Taylor. “With it being my senior year, this really means a lot to me. “This team really loves each other, so there isn’t any drama. We are all one big family.” Next for White Plains (38-5) is the Class 3A state tournament at Lagoon Park in Montgomery. The Wildcats will play their opener Thursday at 9 a.m. Ford and Wildcats rode the arms of Anna Snider and Amber Greenwood during the tournament. They combined to allow only one run through 21 innings, and four dating back to the Class 3A, Area 8 tournament. “I think our pitchers are some of the best around,” Ford said. “However, if it wasn’t for our defense, we wouldn’t be in this situation.” Greenwood, playing second base against Glencoe, made an athletic catch while running to her right, keeping the Yellow Jackets off the board in the inning and Anna Snider’s shutout intact. “(Amber Greenwood) made a game-saving performance play,” Ford said. “With a line drive over her head, she caught it. “Our pitches may be shutting them down, but the defense is getting behind them, too.” The game was a standoff, with White Plains leading 1-0 until the fifth inning.

That’s when the Wildcats erupted for five runs off five hits and two Glencoe errors. With two on, Carley Wood sent a double to left field to score Morgan Cobb and Snider to start the scoring. “When (Carley Wood) hit that rope, it set the tempo of the inning,” Ford said. “After she did that, it gave our hitters confidence to go up there and attack the ball, because they knew they

could do it too.” Cobb finished with two hits and two runs scored. Snider added two doubles, one RBI and one run scored. Greenwood had two hits and one run scored. Shelby Wood hit one single and scored a run. In addition to her double, Carley Wood hit a single and scored a run. “Winning this tournament gives us confidence we can

compete with anyone,” Cobb said. This will be the fourth straight year White Plains will play in the state tournament, and Ford feels this team could be special. “I think things will be different, because our team has a different attitude,” she said. “In big games, we don’t seem to get as tense and stay loose, which really helps our play.”

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component of the school system’s technology plan. Without the network the school system would have had to find another way to provide the service, school officials said. Under the terms of the old contract Piedmont was to receive $6,500 a month for use of its cables, more than $3,000 monthly for the use of city electricity and $4,225 a year for the use of city poles over the course of 10 years. Baker said the new contract is the same as the old agreement, except for the life of the agreement was shortened to three years and the monthly amount the city will receive for use of its cables was reduced to $250. Even though city is receiving less for the use of its cables, Baker said the city will not lose out on the deal. That’s because the city had agreed to pay the schools $6,250 of the $6,500 payment in 2011, so the city only expected to earn $250 a month from the deal. But, the city discontinued the $6,250 payment about one year after it made the agreement, and has never reinstated it. As a result of the city decision, the schools had less money to pay Information Transport Solutions for the citywide Internet access, Akin has said. Five council members supported the decision to continue working with the company, but council members Frank IT’S TIME TO STOCK Cobb and Brenda Spears opposed the decision, citing YOUR POND! ethical and financial concerns. Delivery will be: Cobb said, and the mayor confirmed, that the company has not honored the terms of its current agreement with the Wednesday, May 28 city since November, when it stopped making the $6,500 Piedmont: 11:30 - 12:15 monthly payment for use of the city’s cable. No company @ Calhoun Farmers representatives attended the after-hours meeting and a Co-Op company representative reached late Thursday by phone said he was unable to comment before examining company records to determine whether city officials were right about the payment. 1-800-643-8439 “How can you go into a contract with someone who www.fishwagon.com doesn’t honor the contract they are already in?” Cobb said. City officials only realized the problem in May because the city employee who records the payment didn’t report the missed payment to the Mayor or the city clerk, officials said. “If I had known that, I would have asked the council,” Baker said. “In the future, we’ll catch that.” Click it or ticket, Alabama. Spears questioned the school board’s spending practices and pointed out that the city already provides thousands of dollars in support to the system each month. In 2010 the city agreed to go into to For any information on a debt to help pay for new athletic facilities at Pied1979 Ford C6 Automatic mont schools and city will remain in debt for those Transmission and a 8.8 Ford Axel. expenses until 2040, Spears The transmission was last seen noted. in my yard on Vigo Rd, Piedmont. “I think the school system is in better financial shape Please contact Amy at than the city,” Spears said. 256-310-1264. No Questions or NO Baker did not disagree with Spears’ statements Charges if it is returned to the owner in about the finances, but it's original state. We will pursue this countered her comments by pointing out how much matter until it is returned. the city could earn under the contract. “I think we have a pretty good three-year contract,” he said. In other business the council voted to offer a contract to Diva’s Diner to operate the concession stand at the new city pool. May 22, 2014 8 AM - 12 NOON The Diner plans to open a Within the Piedmont City Limits restaurant in the city next week, and offered to also The city will be hosting a city wide clean operate the concession stand. up day. We ask that you not leave any The Diner, which offered electronics or televisions out for pick to provide the city with 35 up. All household garbage should be percent of the proceeds, competed for the job placed in the blue trash cans. against Brain Freeze Concessions, which offered to Thanks you for your assistance with give the city 40 percent of cleaning up our City. the proceeds.

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Steven Ray Bolden, Plaintiff V. Natasha Nicole Bolden, Defendant Civil Action Number: DR-2014-900108 NOTICE TO THE PIEDMONT JOURNAL Natasha Nicole Bolden whose whereabouts are unknown, must answer Plaintiff’s Complaint for Divorce and other relief by June 17, 2014, or, thereafter, a Judgment by default may be rendered against him in Case Number DR-2014-9001008, in the Circuit Court of Calhoun County, Alabama. Done this 15th day of April, 2014. Eli Henderson Clerk of the Circuit Court M. Douglas Ghee Attorney for Plaintiff Post Office Box 848 Anniston, Alabama 36202 The Piedmont Journal Calhoun Co., AL April 23, 30, May 7, 14, 2014

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Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Joshua D. Moses, and his wife Kellee Moses and Amanda Moses Fink a/k/a Amanda Moses, a married woman, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender, on the 25th day of May, 2006, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County, Alabama, in Mortgage Book 4369 Page 862; said mortgage having subsequently been transferred and assigned to Nationstar Mortgage LLC, by instrument recorded in Book 4699, Page 162, in the aforesaid Probate Office; the undersigned Nationstar Mortgage LLC, as Mortgagee/Transferee, under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the main entrance of the Courthouse at Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, on June 16, 2014, during the legal hours of sale, all of its right, title, and interest in and to the following described real estate, situated in Calhoun County, Alabama, to-wit: Lot 8, Block 7, of the Map of Betta-Life Subdivision, as recorded in Plat Book L, at Page 4, in the Probate Office of Calhoun County, Alabama; situated, lying and being in Calhoun County, Alabama. THIS PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD ON AN “AS IS, WHERE IS” BASIS, SUBJECT TO ANY EASEMENTS, ENCUMBRANCES, AND EXCEPTIONS REFLECTED IN THE MORTGAGE AND THOSE CONTAINED IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE OF PROBATE OF THE COUNTY WHERE THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY IS SITUATED. THIS PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT WARRANTY OR RECOURSE, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED AS TO TITLE, USE AND/OR ENJOYMENT AND WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION OF ALL PARTIES ENTITLED THERETO. This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by said mortgage, as well as the expenses of foreclosure. The Mortgagee/Transferee reserves the right to bid for and purchase the real estate and to

credit its purchase price against the expenses of sale and the indebtedness secured by the real estate. This sale is subject to postponement or cancellation. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Mortgagee/Transferee Andy Saag SIROTE & PERMUTT, P.C. P. O. Box 55727 Birmingham, AL 35255-5727 Attorney for Mortgagee/Transferee www.sirote.com/foreclosures 293269 The Piedmont Journal Calhoun Co., AL April 30, May 7 & 14, 2014

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Marta H. Robertson, an unmarried woman, to Cheaha Bank, on the 28th day of March, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County, Alabama, in Book 4425 Page 696; said mortgage having subsequently been transferred and assigned to Nationstar Mortgage LLC; the undersigned Nationstar Mortgage LLC, as Mortgagee/Transferee, under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the main entrance of the Courthouse at Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, on June 16, 2014, during the legal hours of sale, all of its right, title, and interest in and to the following described real estate, situated in Calhoun County, Alabama, to-wit: Lot 3, Block “D”, Highland Manor, First Addition, as recorded in Plat Book M at Page 41 in the Probate Office of Calhoun County, Alabama. Situated, lying and being in Calhoun County, Alabama. THIS PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD ON AN “AS IS, WHERE IS” BASIS, SUBJECT TO ANY EASEMENTS, ENCUMBRANCES, AND EXCEPTIONS REFLECTED IN THE MORTGAGE AND THOSE CONTAINED IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE OF PROBATE OF THE COUNTY WHERE THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY IS SITUATED. THIS PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD WITHOUT WARRANTY OR RECOURSE, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED AS TO TITLE, USE AND/OR ENJOYMENT AND WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION OF ALL PARTIES ENTITLED THERETO. This sale is made for the purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by said mortgage, as well as the expenses of foreclosure. The Mortgagee/Transferee reserves the right to bid for and purchase the real estate and to credit its purchase price against the expenses of sale and the indebtedness secured by the real estate. This sale is subject to postponement or cancellation. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Mortgagee/Transferee Andy Saag SIROTE & PERMUTT, P.C. P. O. Box 55727 Birmingham, AL 35255-5727 Attorney for Mortgagee/Transferee www.sirote.com/foreclosures 322282 The Piedmont Journal Calhoun Co., AL April 30, May 7 & 14, 2014

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STATE OF ALABAMA CALHOUN COUNTY PROBATE COURT CASE NO. 2014-0179 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCES S. RAY, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of FRANCES S. RAY, deceased, having been granted to NORRIS F. RAY, the undersigned on April 18, 2014, by the Honorable Alice K. Martin, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate, are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or the same will be barred. NORRIS F. RAY, Personal Representative of the Last Will and Testament of FRANCES S. RAY, Deceased. Alice K. Martin Judge of Probate The Piedmont Journal Calhoun Co., AL May 7, 14, 21, 2014

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STATE OF ALABAMA CALHOUN COUNTY PROBATE COURT CASE NO. 2014-0026 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HARVEY E. DICKERSON SR., DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of HARVEY E. DICKERSON SR., deceased, having been granted to JEFFREY DIKCERSON, PAMELA MCLEOD, AND MARCIA GANNAWAY, the undersigned on April 21, 2014, by the Honorable Alice K. Martin, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate, are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or the same will be barred. JEFFREY DICKERSON, PAMELA MCLEOD, AND MARCIA GANNAWAY, CoPersonal Representatives of the Last Will and Testament of HARVEY E. DICKERSON SR., Deceased. Alice K. Martin Judge of Probate The Piedmont Journal Calhoun Co., AL May 7, 14, 21, 2014

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STATE OF ALABAMA CALHOUN COUNTY PROBATE COURT CASE NO. 2014-0183 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGIE F. HARMON, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of MARGIE F. HARMON, deceased, having been granted to BETTY J. MCCARLEY, the undersigned on April 22, 2014, by the Honorable Alice K. Martin, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate, are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or the same will be barred. BETTY J. MCCARLEY, Personal Representative of the Last Will and Testament of MARGIE F. HARMON, Deceased. Alice K. Martin Judge of Probate The Piedmont Journal Calhoun Co., AL May 7, 14, & 21, 2014

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