Lakeside Magazine March 2011

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LOGAN MARTIN HOMES

6 Traveling the Coosa

Covering life along Logan Martin Lake since 1994

Changing Times at Pine Harbor Before Logan Martin was a lake, Pine Harbor was farmland. Now it grows trees, crape myrtles — and people.

STAFF

By David Atchison

Editor Geni Certain

16 Eyes on the Eagles

About a hundred bald eagles live in Alabama, and Logan Martin is lucky enough to have a nesting pair.

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Advertising Director Pam Adamson

By Lindsey Holland

Distribution Kandi Macy

20 Art by the Water

Splash on the Color The only thing pastel about Ellen Justice’s paintings is the ‘paint.’

Photographs Bob Crisp Brian Schoenhals

By Aziza Jackson

28 Lakeside Living in Style

Art Direction Benita G. Duff

A Wee Bit o’ Eire With a big ol’ helping of Southern hospitality.

By Laura Nation-Atchison

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Graphic Design Sandra Carr Fay Denton Geraldine Osburn

38 They Got Game!

And they turn it into tasty treats at the annual Wild Game Cook-off.

By Elsie Hodnett

42 Sports on the Lake

Writers

DAVID ATCHISON LAURA NATION-ATCHISON Kenny Farmer ELSIE HODNETT LINDSEY HOLLAND AZIZA JACKSON CHRIS NORWOOD

All in the Family Lisa Reaves joins her father and uncle in the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame.

By Kenny Farmer

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From the editor…

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enjoyed my first jacket-free day of the year on a Wednesday in the middle of February, exactly one week after what I hope was the last snowfall of the winter.

It was the same morning that I noticed my first blooming daffodil.

After that, it seemed that color was everywhere a tinge of purple or a splash of yellow against still-brown grass that indicates henbit and dandelions have survived yet another winter. And over it all, a vast dome of blue.

Spring comes quickly in central Alabama. One week daffodils are poking through snow and the next, azalea buds are swelling. Can dogwoods be far behind?

The indisputable sign that spring has arrived on Logan Martin is when the water starts rising. Expect to see this around the middle of March.

The water probably will have begun its ascent toward summer pool when the Logan Martin Lake Protection Association stages its annual cleanup effort, March 26-April 2. During this week, coordinator Bud Kitchen anticipates hundreds of volunteers will remove many tons of trash from the shores and shallow water before the discarded remnants of human habitation have a chance to be re-submerged by the slowly filling lake.

If you can take part, please do. If you can’t be there yourself, be sure to thank your neighbors who do volunteer.

Of course the best way to contribute to keeping the lake clean is by not throwing trash in the lake in the first place.

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Traveling the Coosa

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a continuing series written by David Atchison, Lakeside Magazine writer and Daily Home Pell City news editor, about his experiences as he travels down the Logan Martin stretch of the Alabama River Trail.

Sail boats line the docks at the Pine Harbor Marina.

Changing Times at Pine Harbor Story and photos by DAVID ATCHISON

Before Logan Martin was a lake, Pine Harbor was farmland. Now it grows trees, crape myrtles — and people.

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As I paddled past Goat Island, where my brother and I had camped only a month before, I couldn’t help but think about the bahhhhhhd mistake I made in my last “Traveling the Coosa” story.

No, it had nothing to do with the goats, except maybe this old goat.

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Visitors can see large crosses from the lake where the Chapel in the Pines is located, next to the Pine Harbor Marina.

Anyway, he sort of goaded me about the mistake, and rightfully so. All I can say is Lance is a very understanding judge, and so is Phil Seay, whose father-in-law I identified as “Paw Paw.” Phil’s 10-year-old daughter Margaret calls her grandfather “Papa,” and was the person produced the names of all the resident goats of the island. Oh well, it was just one of those trips, in more ways than one, but it was a really fun trip. Sorry about the errors.

Anyway Goat Island is located in the community people know as Pine Harbor. This is a beautiful community, and one of the older lakeside residential areas in Pell City. This is where I found myself on a sunny weekend day.

As I paddled down the lake, I saw Barnett Lawley’s Pine Harbor home.

Lawley is the former Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources commissioner and lives in the Riviere Estates of Pine Harbor. He and his wife Deanna were some of the first residents of Pine Harbor.

“Yeah, it’s changed,” Lawley said. “When we first moved here, there were only three or four homes.”

The nonresidential developments in Pine Harbor, like the golf course and marina, were owned by many people, and the property changed hands in the past 30-40 years.

In the beginning, there was only a marina, restaurant and lodge, before the golf course was developed. The golf course came later, Lawley said.

At one time, the late Paul “Bear” Bryant was one of the investors in the Pine Harbor Golf Course.

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A flock of Canada Geese passes overhead, likey headed for the Pine Harbor Golf Course.

Lawley said Pine Harbor lots were sold even before the lake was backed up.

The Lawleys say the Pine Harbor community was the combination of about three large farms. Some of that farm property is now under the lake. Cattle and cotton were raised and grown on the land that is now an old established lakeside neighborhood community.

On my last trip, I enjoyed the serenity that Pine Harbor offers. There’s plenty of bird life there, including the flock of Canada geese that flew overhead toward the golf course. The golf course provides a hangout for the big birds.

Throughout Pine Harbor, hundreds of crape myrtles bloom along the streets of the community each spring.

Deanna said that’s all thanks to W.B. Phillips and his wife Ruth. Mr. Phillips, she said, was the first president of the home improvement association for the Pine Harbor community.

She said neighbors would stake where they wanted a crepe myrtle planted, and Marlin Hugghins dug holes for the trees

with his tractor, helping plant the trees, with their watermeloncolored leaves, that are still there today.

Deanna said Mr. Bill and his wife Ruth had the community at heart and sort of pulled everyone together for community projects.

“We did a lot of improvement projects,” she said.

She said there were many community gatherings in the neighborhood, and Pine Harbor attracted a lot of people originally from Birmingham.

The community has many pine trees, but there’s also plenty of hardwood scattered throughout.

It was a beautiful day to paddle the shores of Pine Harbor.

It was a little cool, but pleasant. I wore my dry suit and had a good base layer underneath my outfit. The sun really felt good, warm, as I paddled down the Coosa River. I kicked up egrets, geese and ducks that I got a little too close to as I paddled to Pine Harbor Marina.

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A couple of anglers are silhouetted in their boat during the early morning sun.

his customers are from the Pine Harbor community, but he also sees visitors from Birmingham and Atlanta.

“This has been here since the mid-60s,” Davis said, sitting at a table in his marina.

In September, Davis will celebrate his 25th year of ownership of Pine Harbor Marina, although he’s been in the boating business for about 36 years.

He owned a boat business in Birmingham before moving to the lake and buying the marina.

Davis provides storage, service and sales, and the marina is adjacent to the 168-acre golf course, where “The Bear” once played.

“In the ’60s and ’70s, this was the place,” Davis said. “It’s changed over the years.”

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Davis said he doesn’t have any regrets about picking up and moving to Logan Martin Lake.

“I like Pell City,” he said. “It’s laid back. It’s a good little small town.”

Davis also said he likes the St. Clair County Airport. He’s a pilot.

His wife Cathey is a dentist in Vestavia.

Davis pointed out, you just don’t drive up on Pine Harbor.

You have to know his marina is there.

The marina is also next to the Chapel in the Pines, where lake-goers can attend outdoor church services next to the lake.

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A coot enjoys an early morning swim on the lake near the Pine Harbor community.

Near the end of the day, a flock of coots swims toward the shores of the Pine Harbor community.

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and Logan Martin Lake serves as a backdrop for the chapel. People say the chapel has been there for about 45 years.

So you see, Pine Harbor offers a lot for people to see and do. I know it was a relaxing paddling trip for me.

And on a different note, my good friend Julie Pounders identified the unidentified shore bird we published in the January Lakeside Living.

She said it was a blackcrowned night heron.

“I’ve only seen one,” she said, adding that they are somewhat rare on the lake. “They are nocturnal.”

I think Julie, who I met paddling down the Coosa River through “her” bald eagles, recently gave me a little hint about my birdidentifying abilities.

When I arrived at work one morning, there was a book lying on my desk, “National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America.”

Funny.

Written on the inside of the front cover was, “Happy New Year 2011. To David from your eagle loving friend, Julie Pounders.”

Thanks Julie, and I’m sure I’m going to put that book to good use when I’m back on the lake paddling and taking photographs of the all those beautiful lakeside birds.

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Eyes on the

Eagles About a hundred bald eagles live in Alabama, and Logan Martin is lucky enough to have a nesting pair.

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arlier this year, an estimated 500 to 600 bald eagles were in Alabama. Although that number will soon diminish, approximately 100 eagles stay in the state year round.

“Most of the eagles in Alabama this time of year are migrating and are only here during the winter,” said Keith Hudson, wildlife biologist for the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.

“Most of those birds are going to leave us here in about a month and migrate for a couple of months.”

Hudson said some eagles nesting in Alabama are permanent residents. A couple of those reside on Logan Martin Lake.

Julie Ponders has been watching the eagles from her home on the lake. She said she took her kayak out early last May to observe a nest, and that’s when she noticed there were two baby eaglets.

The eaglets hatch with gray down and soon afterward start growing their flying feathers. When Ponders observed the eaglets, their feathers were starting to turn black so she assumed they were around six weeks old.

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nests or tending nests,” Hudson said. “The laying of the egg and incubation occurs in January, and sometime in late January or February the young are hatched out. There’s a lot of variability from pair to pair. Some start laying in December and others don’t start until February.”

The eggs are incubated for approximately 30-32 days.

Hudson said eagles in Alabama mostly incubate during January.

“Then they will have their flight feathers about three weeks to a month after they’re hatched,” he said.

The nest Ponders has been watching had two babies, which Hudson said is common.

“Most young adult eagles will have one egg per clutch; the older adults have two,” he said. “Most nesting eagles will have two young each year.”

The survival rate is about 75 percent statewide — but it wasn’t always that high. Bald eagles were once on the endangered species list.

In the early 1980s a recovery project to restore Alabama’s nesting eagles was initiated through the state Department of Conservation.

This process was called hacking. Ponders said

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A nesting pair of bald eagles reared a pair of eaglets in an aerie high above Logan Martin last spring. The nest is approximately 4 feet in diameter. Lakeside birdwatcher Julie Pounders saw the adult eagles in the vicinity of the nest again in February.

conservationists would release juvenile eagles in Alabama after they hatched in hopes that the territory would be imprinted on the birds once they started flying.

From 1985 through 1991, 91 juvenile eagles were released from six separate sites across the state. The first confirmed successful nest through the recovery process occurred in 1991. By 2006, when statewide nesting surveys were discontinued, nest numbers had reached 77. Hudson said a couple of years ago bald eagles were removed entirely from the endangered species list.

“I just think it’s fascinating,” Ponders said. “The first time I saw them fly was June 26, 2010,” she said of the eaglets. “They were soaring, but they were soaring around the nest. They still stayed close to the nest. They’re so ugly that they’re cute.”

Ponders said she hopes the juveniles come back to the area and build a nest. Hudson said eagles do return regularly to the same nest year after year.

“However, it is also very common to build a new nest or to have several platforms at one time in their territory,” he said.

“Most of them usually for two or three years will use the same nest.”

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That can lead to a very large nest. Hudson said an eagles’ nest could be about half the size of a Volkswagen Beetle car.

“The surface area is about 4 feet by 4 feet,” he said.

“Another example of the nest would be the size of most people’s kitchen table.”

Bald eagles are generally cautious, as are all birds of prey.

They eat primarily fish and are fairly long-lived. Some birds can live up to 20 years.

Hudson said most people don’t realize that eagles are migratory.

On Feb. 6 of this year, Ponders saw the eagles year fly around before landing on the nest. She then saw one fly to a nearby tree, where it perched on a branch for an hour.

Bald eagles also mate for life or at least for the life of one of the eagles. Hudson said should one die, the other will then pick up another mate. But bald eagles are mates for life while both are alive.

“That’s why I’m so glad they’re our national bird,” Ponders said. “They’re at the top of the food chain in bird kingdom, they mate for life, and they’re free.”

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Artby the Water

Splash on the Color The only thing pastel about Ellen Justice’s paintings is the ‘paint.’

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or Ellen Justice, the question of when she started painting is a tricky one.

“I started dabbling in art when I was about 8 years old, just copying cartoons out of comic books,” Justice said.

Justice remembers tuning into “Learn to Draw” with Jon Gnagy and taking her drawing lessons from his popular television show.

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I got a kit,” Justice said.

“I’ve always just taken workshops and classes on my own and visited museums and looked at art and reading books.”

Painters Ronald Lewis, Rolina Oglesbay and Albert Handell are some of her favorite artists.

Paired with Justice’s art is a 27year career as an auditor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“I retired in 2005 and finally had

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a place to do my art,” Justice said. “I now have a studio in the basement of my house.”

Justice now lives in Trussville but is originally from St. Paul, Minn.

She lived all over the country, including in Jackson, Miss., before retiring in the Birmingham area.

Her husband of 25 years also worked for the Health and Human Services Department and was working in the same building as she when they met.

“We got transferred and married in the same weekend,” Justice chuckled.

“We got married that Saturday and had to report to work on Monday.”

Justice said that at that time, her art was her escape when she was working and helped keep her sane.

Even though she has no formal training as an artist, she enjoys the trial and error that comes with getting the painting just right.

“Sometimes people are very disciplined and plan it out and have an idea, but it’s never as much fun,” Justice said.

“You end up surprised, but you end up throwing away a lot,” she chuckled.

“It’s really nice when you can say ‘ooh, that’s it.’ It’s a fun journey.”

Although Justice does work from photos sometimes, she said she prefers to work with lives models.

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“I enjoy doing people,” Justice said. “I like to see if I can capture what I’m seeing there in front of me.”

She said she also visits the Birmingham Botanical Gardens for inspiration for her floral paintings.

Justice mostly paints people and flowers. Although she does not have a favorite flower, she said she paints a lot of irises.

The soft pastels she uses to bring her paintings to life make the flowers and people she paints more effervescent.

“What I like about the pastels is the vibrancy of colors you get from it,” Justice said. “Pastels themselves are a little like pigments.

“Ever since I was a kid I’ve liked blue, but with the pastel it’s really hard to pick a favorite (color).

“You layer it, you layer it, and it all comes together.

I just love it.”

Justice said that right now she is taking an oil painting class, and although she is enjoying it, pastels will always remain her favorite.

“I picked up the pastel and just loved it,” Justice said.

“Acrylics dry too fast for me, and watercolors are too elusive.”

Justice said that with soft pastels, a certain gum binder is used to make it the purest pigment in any art form and that is what gives it its vibrancy.

She said it’s the same pigments used in certain colors of chalk.

Paired with her love for soft pastels is her love for teaching and learning.

“I have started teaching beginning drawing and beginning painting at ArtScapes, and I’m looking forward to doing something in pastels,” Justice said.

Justice also likes to teach children and hopes to teach at children’s art camp sometime in July.

She will start teaching adult beginner courses in March on Saturday mornings from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

“You have to learn how to see ,and you have to train the eye and the brain to see,” Justice said.

“You don’t just paint a nose; you paint the lines and shadows that you see also.”

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Justice said she tries to teach people how to put what their eyes are seeing down on paper.

“You have to tell them it’s a process,” Justice said.

“You can’t come in and learn it in one day unless you’re a genius. You have to stick with it.

“More people are artists than they realize.”

In addition to teaching and learning through workshops, Justice is also a part of several organizations that are dedicated to different art forms.

Justice is a member of the Alabama Pastel Society and involved in the Cahaba Art Club, the Mountain Brook Art Association and the Birmingham branch of the National League of American Pen Women for women who are artists, musicians and writers.

She was also featured as the Artist of the Month for February at the Leeds Arts Council Gallery in downtown Leeds, and her work will be featured there until March 4.

Justice has had several of her pieces accepted into the Alabama Pastel Society’s shows in the last four years.

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taking a catnap and lying on a pillow. It was honored by the Hoover Art Alliance in the pastel category.

She has also sold quite a few of her paintings over the past few years and has sold paintings at several local art shows and galleries including the Blackwood Gallery in Springville and at the ArtScapes Gallery in Pell City.

“With most artists, you’re baring your soul and your heart when you’re painting these things, so it does get kind of hard,” she said.

But now that her basement is a haven for her own art escape, Justice is finding more time to express herself through her work, all while teaching and still learning.

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here’s lots of Irish in the house John and Gini Kerr call home next to Logan Martin Lake.

After all, they’re both of direct Irish descent.

The front porch gives the first clue of the Irish connection. There’s a St. Patrick’s Day wreath, decorated with tiny green bowler hats and beadwork, a Celtic cross and shamrocks and green ribbon.

Then there’s the sign bearing the message, “Ce’ad mile f’ailte,” a traditional Irish greeting that translates 28

into “A hundred thousand welcomes to you.”

Still, the two-level brick home standing on a slight rise overlooking Logan Martin Lake would not be mistaken for a cottage in the Irish countryside. Here is a place where an Irish welcome is backed up by purely Southern hospitality.

Oversized porch rockers flanked by twin white columns offer a comfortable vantage perfect for gazing at the peaceful lakefront.

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John and Gini Kerr with their dog Rusty on the hearth of their fireplace.

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With a big ol’ helping of Southern hospitality.

Gini Kerr’s coincidentally green thumb is obvious at the entry as well. She’s filled decorative planters with lush pansies and multicolored winter cabbages.

Double wood doors with beveled glass insets open into a foyer set off from the living room with another set of white columns.

Mrs. Kerr has an assortment of interesting family items in the foyer, most going on their third generation and having origin in Ireland.

Her grandmother’s wall hanging bearing the traditional Irish Blessing printed on Irish linen hangs there, along with her mother’s framed copy of The Lord’s Prayer, given to Gini for her high school graduation.

A cache of three glass light fixtures hangs overhead, the glass globes formed into a funnel shape and colored beige and bronze.

The foyer opens into the living room, where a broad brick hearth and roaring fire take away the winter chill. Polished wood floors reflect the dancing flames from the fire, which burns not logs, but pellets, producing warmth for the entire house.

Of a number of things the Kerrs have changed in the home they bought five years ago, adding the pellet stove in the fireplace is one of the best, Kerr said.

“Not everyone likes them, but I love it,” he said. “You wouldn’t believe how warm it stays in here just using it for heat.”

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The Kerrs installed the pellet-burning stove last fall and love the way it heats the house.

This wall hanging of “An Irish Blessing” belonged to Gini Kerr’s grandmother.

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The savings is heating costs is huge, he said, and there’s no mess from using wood or the problem of hauling it inside.

The stove can also be operated using shelled corn, Kerr said.

The living room’s vaulted ceiling and panels of floor-to-ceiling windows give a sense of spaciousness as well as an abundance of natural light.

This is a favorite spot for resident dog, Rusty, a grand in stature chocolate Lab, who like to park himself atop his plump pile of cushions. He doesn’t stray far from his owners’ whereabouts, and Kerr explains that Rusty is a little shy because he had been abused before the Kerrs took him in when neighbors found him wandering the neighborhood, undernourished and afraid.

He’s been a part of the household for about a year now, and Gini Kerr tells how their relationship really operates.

“It’s more we like live with him, he doesn’t live with us,” she said. And that suits the Kerrs just fine.

“We love our dogs, and Rusty is so special,” Mrs. Kerr said.

An area rug in the living room in shades of sage and coral done in a leaf design centers the seating area, where a rich brown leather couch and matching leather chair await visitors. A pair of armchairs nearby is handy for watching television on the large screen mounted on a facing wall.

The living room is where many of the paintings Gini Kerr has collected are displayed, a number of them found while the Kerrs lived in Orange Beach. One in the living room features a beach-inspired scene, with a gathering of women trying to escape a clutter of crabs crawling underfoot; the other, a whimsical pair of chimpanzees. Both are painted in a loose watercolor style using the same tones of light greens, corals and blues.

A tall curio cabinet in one corner holds many of the keepsakes Gini Kerr’s family brought from Ireland, including a piece from the Blarney Stone and china figurines.

Favorite family photographs are arranged on walls and shelves, including one black-and-white

print of Gini Kerr’s grandfather sitting in a wooden slatted fishing boat with her brother, James, after the family moved from Ireland to the United States.

The copper-lined humidifier Mrs. Kerr’s grandfather used to store his tobacco stands by the fireplace. It traveled from Ireland with the family to the United States.

Gini Kerr is first-generation American, and her family settled in Chicago’s south side, known for its high number of Irish families.

That’s where the Kerrs met, although Kerr is a native of St. Clair County and lived in the Prescott area, in a place called Kerr Hollow.

Kerr moved north as a youngster to live with family following his mother’s death.

It was at a Chinese restaurant the Kerrs met, when among a gathering of mutual friends, they were introduced.

Gini Kerr was out for her birthday celebration with friends, and, as it turned out, it was her husband-to-be’s birthday, too. The date was July 10, 1985.

Kerr asked if he could buy her a drink, and the

This photograph shows Gini Kerr’s grandfather fishing with her brother, James.

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The Kerrs’ kitchen has lots of counter space and work areas.

future Mrs. Kerr invited him to the place she worked, Chet’s Melody Lounge, to play darts later on that evening.

“It was love at first sight,” Gini. Kerr said, and the couple married not too long afterward, July 12, 1986. “We’ve been happy together ever since.”

The Kerrs are both retired now, he from Walmart’s truck fleet and she from the Orange Beach School System where she worked in food service.

The Kerrs’ kitchen bears many more Irish keepsakes, and one of Gini Kerr’s favorites is her grandmother’s cookie jar, made in the form of a young Dutch boy with a “generous” physique.

It’s a piece Gini Kerr says she’ll never part with. “I remember reaching and getting cookies from it when I was little,” she said.

Now, she uses it for holding recipes, and it has a prominent place on a kitchen counter.

Countertops are flecked in tones of gray and beige which complements the stainless-steel appliances and creamy light yellow walls.

Deep double sinks are fitted with deep-toned fixtures; the arched faucet makes it easy to tackle cleaning large pieces of cookware.

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another stretch of countertop, which gives additional space for preparing meals.

Cabinetry is oak, and storage includes three deep drawers for holding cookware and other supplies. Kitchen cabinets have space on top for displaying favorite things, among them pieces of Gini Kerr’s grandmother’s milk glass from Ireland.

Wood floors continue in the kitchen and into the dining area, which looks out to the pool and patio with a series of tall windows.

A round table made in a lattice design and topped with colorful bamboo placemats and set for four also displays the oblong wooden bowl Kerr’s stepmother used for kneading bread.

“If you look closely enough, you can see the imprints she made in it working the dough,” Gini Kerr said.

On the side wall in the dining room hangs a large Tuscan landscape-inspired paneled screen, for which Gini Kerr has found a number of uses through the years, including as a headboard for a bed.

Across from the kitchen is a spacious laundry room with built-in racks for hanging clothes and cabinets for storage.

The kitchen and dining rooms open into an adjacent room the Kerrs use as a place for their computer and another sitting area.

A large rattan piece has shelves and desk space for the

The dining area is adjacent to the kitchen and looks out to the pool and patio.

computer, and the walls in the room display more of the Kerr’s collections of art objects from near and far.

One wall holds a carved African mask along with decorative plates from Poland. A print of the huge oak tree that once stood as a landmark in Fair Hope hangs on an opposite wall.

This wing houses the master bedroom and bath.

The bedroom has the same broad, arched windows fitted with white plantation shutters used in other rooms throughout the house.

Beside the bed is a painting that’s special to Gini Kerr. It shows Christ with a flock of sheep and came from her church, Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Pell City.

She said she had always admired the painting while at church, and during a remodeling phase at the church, it disappeared from its usual spot.

She asked about it, and discovered it had been moved, and also that it actually belonged to Julian Gossett of Pell City.

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Left, Gini Kerr’s ‘special place’ is where she enjoys meditation and music. Three of her guitars are displayed on stands. Below left, the Kerrs’ guest bedroom features a four-poster bed. Below, in the renovation of the master bath, a plain horizontal mirror was replaced with two ornate vertical mirrors mounted on a tiled wall.

ever since.

“When I go to bed every night, I say my rosary beside it, and I know I am all right,” she said.

A king-size bed is covered with a gold spread with pattern of embroidered giraffes in shades of coral and beige. At the foot of the bed, another comfy spot for Rusty, his oversized plush bed and a basket beside it filled with toys for his enjoyment.

A Shaker-style dresser and mirror are placed on one wall, and several Oriental prints are arranged on the other walls.

Gini Kerr laughs about her fondness for a variety of different styles of art and furnishings. “You can go from China to Poland to Ireland in this house,” she says.

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Adjoining the bedroom are a walk-in closet and master bath, which the Kerrs remodeled themselves with help from neighbor and tile expert Terry Hutto.

The bath had a deep tub — too deep for Gini Kerr, who’s barely 5 feet tall — with sliding glass doors the Kerrs wanted to change.

The room also had a broad plain mirror mounted over the double marble vanity, and Gini Kerr wanted something with a little more interest.

Their remodeling plan called for tile and a big walk-in shower that had to have a foot rest for propping feet.

The end result is done in soft beige-tone tile against

A keepsake from Gini Kerr’s childhood days in Chicago, tickets to the Riverview amusement park.

Harley-Davidson together, and Gini Kerr said she really wants one of her own.

They take mostly short trips on the Harley, enjoying the landscape not too far from home.

Their fondness for the area brought others in the family to the area, including Gini Kerr’s mother, who has since passed away; their daughter Amanda Agnew and children Ally and Americle; and Kerr’s sister and her husband, Willie and Frank Johnson, who live in Lincoln; along with Kerr’s brother, Tommy, who lives in Cropwell; and Gini Kerr’s brother-in-law and sister, Kenneth and Charlotte Agnew.

The Kerrs say being in Pell City and the lake environment is a lifestyle with which they are completely content.

“Our neighbors are wonderful, we love our church, we have a great place to live,” Mrs. Kerr said.

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pebble-like insets in deep brown along the edge and set along the inside of the shower halfway up the shower wall.

The mirror solution came in the form of two large oval mirrors framed with deep molding decorated in floral scrolling painted on a crimson background. The Kerrs decided to take the large tile used for the floor up along the wall behind the sink as a backdrop to the mirrors.

At the other end of the house are two additional bedrooms. One is Gini Kerr’s special place, where she enjoys meditation and time for her music. Three of her guitars are displayed on stands in the room, and she says she enjoys just about any form of music.

Carpeting is beige, walls are a pale yellow trimmed with white, and a bright green couch with a floral overlay design stands against one wall. A colorful rug using the same shades adds to the room’s cheery atmosphere.

The homes international theme continues here as well, with a pair of tables made from Oriental drums and dark rattan lamps.

This room, too, has the large arched windows found in other rooms in the house.

In the hall that travels between the two guest rooms is a framed keepsake from Gini Kerr’s childhood days in Chicago.

Riverview was an amusement park that offered all kinds of rides and activities for kids and adults.

The entrance to the fun house, Aladdin’s Castle, was a Chicago landmark. The park operated from 1904 until 1967. Surrounding a color photograph of Aladdin’s Castle are actual tickets for the rides, things like the “Boomerang” and the “Water Bug” and the “Crazy Dazy” and the “Whip.”

In the hall is a full bath, painted a deep cocoa with beige tile flooring the Kerrs added. On the wall hangs a favorite piece, done by grandchild Ally Agnew when she was about 5, with the message “please wash your hands” sketched in. Instead of writing the word “hands,” Ally drew a hand as part of the message.

The guest bedroom has a tall four-poster bed covered with a quilt in squares of light blues and pinks.

There are matching side tables and a dresser and mirror.

Floors are covered with light beige carpet, and walls are pale yellow, trimmed in white.

The house has a complete basement underneath, which serves well as a garage and boat-storage area.

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The Deer Sisters, Pam Mills and Debbie Ponder, prepare Barfield’s Bruin Creole Bear.

They Got Game!

By ELSIE HODNETT Photos by BRIAN SCHOENHALS

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And they show how to turn it into a tasty treat at the annual Wild Game Cook-off

or the second straight year, they brought the bear — and took home the bacon.

Deer Sisters team members Pam Mills of Talladega and Debbie Ponder of Munford won Best Overall and first place in the game category with Barfield’s Bruin Creole Bear at the sixth-annual Alabama Army National Guard/Alabama Wildlife Federation Wild Game Cook-off at the Talladega Superspeedway.

“We are so excited to win for the second year in a row,” Ponder said. “When people were coming by tasting the food, I really thought we might place again, perhaps second or third. We didn’t expect to win Best Overall again.”

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tasty variety of fish, fowl and game dishes. The weather was quite cold, but heaters inside the garage and the chili, gumbo and other hot dishes provided by the cook teams warmed up the atmosphere.

Next to the Deer Sisters, Mills’ husband, Coy, Ponder’s husband, Johnny, and Donnie Gallahar competed with their own team, Cletus Classic. Clark Carpenter, the fourth team member, was unable to make it.

“We served a remake of the first dish we entered, Grant’s Goose Gumbo,” Johnny Ponder said. “We named it after Grant Lynch, with the Speedway. Patrick (Barfield of the Talladega Superspeedway) had asked us why we didn’t name anything after him, so that’s how we got Barfield’s Bruin.”

Johnny said another popular dish was Cletus Peas, a recipe he got from his grandmother.

Below, Bobby Smith serves up bison chili at Montana’s booth.

Bottom, Elliott Hass of Pickled to Death checks the readiness of a Smoked Duck Quesadilla. Right, the sixth-annual wild game cookoff attracted hundreds to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Garage at the Talladega Superspeedway.

“My grandmother used to grow a lot of peas, and she would cook them with ham,” he said. “It would end up about half ham and half peas. I took that recipe and substituted turkey instead.”

In addition to the veteran cook-off teams, a few people were trying out their culinary skills in the competition for the first time.

Diane and Bobby Smith, owners of Montana Saloon & Grill in Lincoln, served up cups of Bison Stew, Cowboy Beans and Bison Chili.

Bobby Smith said the Bison Stew was probably the most popular of the three dishes.

“There were more people than I expected,” Diane Smith said. “But it was a lot of fun. I’m glad we did it, and we will do it again.”

Also entering for the first year were Eric Burrage, Jim Armstrong and Tony Roberson, all of Talladega, as Bar III Campfire Cookers.

“We have been coming here to the event for several years,” Burrage said. “Our sons (Alex Armstrong and Landon Burrage) are competing in the youth division as Bar II.” Both teams served Mexican Deer Stew with Mexican Cornbread. Bar II Campfire Cookers won the Youth Division, and Bar III Campfire Cookers won runner-up for Best Presentation.

“It is a good family event, with the wives and kids all helping,” Eric said. “I think we will be back.”

The Sandy Creek Hunting Club and Cross Creek Hunting Club brought a mixture of veteran cooks and first-timers.

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Smith said. “I love it — it’s a lot of fun.”

LaRue said this was about his fifth year to enter. The team made turkey white chili with “all kinds of good stuff in it” and deer poppers, which are jalapenos stuffed with cheese and deer meat.

“I also make a good homemade wine and serve it,” LaRue said.

Cornett said the food is his favorite part of the cookoff.

“This is my first year, but it is mostly what I expected,” he said. “I will come again next year — if I’m invited back.”

Dale Shirley of Pell City competed with Chres Sorensen, Derick Irvin and Ralph Smith on the Sandy Creek Hunting Club team.

“We made cabbage and deer meat for the second year,” Shirley said. “We all belong to a hunt club, and we cook and eat and have a good time with friends. I enjoy cooking for this many people.”

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As for the winning Deer Sisters — they are looking ahead to competing for the State Champion title at AWF headquarters in Millbrook at the end of the season.

“I was looking forward to going to state last year but got hurt and couldn’t,” Mills said. “I’m glad for a second chance to go. Hopefully we will come home with first place from sate with our special sauce.”

Ponder, who represented the Deer Sisters at the state competition last year, said she learned several secrets that should make this year’s competition easier.

“We would like to prepare the same dish again — if we can find more bear,” she said. “We used up all our bear at the cook-off.”

She said if the Deer Sisters can’t get more bear, they may use deer with the Creole sauce.

“The secret’s in the sauce,” Pam said. “We will definitely not let the recipe out until after state finals — and maybe not even then.”

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Reaves at the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony in January.

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rowing up as an athlete in St. Clair County, Lisa Reaves had plenty of opportunities to practice water sports on Logan Martin Lake. But it was her softball, basketball and coaching accomplishments that earned her a spot in the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame.

When Lisa Golden Reaves was inducted into the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame in January, she joined her father, the late Bobby Golden, and uncle, the late Tim Carroll, as Hall of Fame members. Reaves received numerous awards throughout her playing and coaching careers. Her accomplishments include being selected to four all-county teams and two all-area teams, earning two Most Valuable Player awards and being named as a first-team All-American.

Her father was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.

Reaves said it was “very special” to be the first parent-child inductees in the history of the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame. “He was my first hero,” Reaves said. “He and I were very close. I don’t remember him ever missing a ballgame that I played, except for one time when I was in the ninth grade. He was in the hospital and he missed a basketball game.”

She was inducted alongside Jimmy Campbell and Phil Champion, both of whom she played for. She said it was hard not to cry when her former coaches were being inducted.

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Pell City graduate joins her father and uncle in the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame. inducted with people I had great respect and admiration for,” said Reaves.

Reaves found out that she had been nominated for the Hall of Fame when Campbell called her at home and told her.

“I was really surprised because there are always a lot of great athletes and coaches that are nominated, and not all of them get inducted. So I was very honored that I was chosen.”

Reaves said she worked hard to prepare her acceptance speech. “It took me to the night before (the induction) to finish my acceptance speech because I just couldn’t get it right,” she said. “Then I got up there and cried through the whole thing.

Just like a girl.”

She said she just hopes people at the induction could understand what she was saying. Here is an excerpt from her acceptance speech: “Choosing a career for most people is difficult, and I was no different. When I couldn’t decide, God, in His infinite wisdom, called me to teach. Along with teaching came the privilege of coaching. What an honor to be given the opportunity to build relationships with young adults in the classroom, on the ball field and on the court.”

Reaves has been a science teacher at Sylacauga High School for the past nine years. She coached volleyball there until 2007. She had previously coached basketball and softball

Reaves with her son Micah at a 2008 Bevill State baseball game.

at Pell City High School and had been head softball coach at Ragland High School earlier in her career. She gave up coaching when her son graduated from high school and signed a baseball scholarship. “I wanted to be able to go and watch him play,” said Reaves.

Her son played baseball at Bevill State upon graduation from high school. Two years later he transferred to the University of Mississippi, joining the Ole Miss baseball team as a catcher. He now plays for the University of West Alabama.

Reaves said her son hopes to be drafted by a professional team.

“Everyone has big dreams. I hope his comes to fruition,” Reaves said, adding, “It’s amazing to watch your child on a college field.”

She said that when she began to think about getting married, she found the best athlete she knew and married him.

“We figured our child would be athletic.”

Reaves and her husband Todd live in Sylacauga. Todd Reaves is the pastor at Mignon Baptist Church.

“I actually saw him playing when I was 15 and he was 20,” Reaves said of meeting her husband. She said her dad had taken her to play in a softball tournament in Anniston. A men’s tournament was in progress on a nearby field. That’s where she first saw her future spouse. “He hit homerun after homerun after homerun, and he was nice-looking,” she said.

When Reaves was at Pell City High School, the school had no softball team. So, she played baseball for her uncle, Tim Carroll, who is also in the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame. Reaves began playing women’s league softball when she was in the seventh grade. “I played that up until about four or five years ago.” She said she quit playing because she had too many injuries, because she was too old and, mainly, so she could watch her son play baseball.

She said the fact that her father was always there for her influenced her to make sacrifices so that she could be there for her son. “It was his time,” said Reaves.

Reaves with her dad Bobby Golden on her wedding day.

During her time playing women’s league softball, Reaves played on a team called Custom Design Express. “We finished second in the nation,” she recalled. In 1998, her team was defeated by only three runs in the tournament finals. Reaves had one of the top 12 batting averages for the tournament and was one of 12 players to be chosen as a first-team All-American.

Eighty-four teams competed in the tournament that year.

She said her fondest memory of playing basketball came when she was a ninth-grader and playing in the county tournament at Ashville High School. “I got fouled at the buzzer and hit the winning shot with no time left on the clock.” She still remembers her father jumping out of his seat, and yelling “She hit it!”

Reaves’ basketball career came to an end during her senior year, two days before the area tournament, because of a serious knee injury.

She admits she still wonders “What if?” She had a few colleges talking to her up until the time of her injury. “Of course, nobody wants you with a knee injury,” said Reaves.

“When sports are your passion, you always wonder ‘what if?’”

“Well, God gives you grace, and if you find the good in it, you’ll still be successful. Would I have enjoyed playing college ball? Absolutely, but that obviously wasn’t the path he wanted me to take.”

She says her knee still troubles her, but she has also had several other sports-related injuries since then. “I’ve broken both legs. I’ve broken my arm. Injuries are just part of it.”

Reaves ended her Hall of Fame acceptance speech with this: “So you see, I am blessed beyond measure with not just one, but many, many loves in my life. My family, friends, teammates, coaches and former players that loved me enough to come tonight. And when my time on Earth has ended, I hope that it can be said that I fought the good fight, finished the course and kept the faith.”

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RESTAURANT GUIDE

Something For Every Appetite!

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, LLC

75301 Hwy. 77 • Lincoln (In front of McCaig’s)

Hwy. 231 S.,Towne Park Plaza Pell City, AL

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•RIBS •CHICKEN •BEEF •PORK •SALADS •SOUPS •FISH •STEAK FULL SERVICE CATERING AVAILABLE

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SURFSIDE 6 PRIVATE CLUB BUY 1 GET 1 FREE BBQ SANDWICH - $2.79 Pell City Texaco

Must present coupon at time of purchase.

Ex. 4/30/11. One coupon per transaction.

$2.00 OFF BOSTON BUTT Pell City Texaco

Must present coupon at time of purchase.

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at Stemley Bridge

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PELL CITY STEAK HOUSE Pell City’s Landmark Steak House for Over 50 Years •Tender Choice Steaks •Best Rated Hamburgers in Town •Vegetables Served Lunch & Dinner •Seafood Fresh from the Gulf •Southern Fried Chicken (worth the wait) Corner of Hwy. 231 & Comer Ave. 1.3 Miles from I-20

KARAOKE FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY NIGHT

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Lakeside Dining

Fill Up at

The building that was once the Big Bull is now O’Fells Restaurant, home of the renowned (and free) fried green tomatoes.

By CHRIS NORWOOD Photos by BRIAN SCHOENHALS

And, hey, the fried green tomatoes are free.

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ometimes fried green tomatoes really can help put a place on the map, and not just at the famous Whistle Stop Café. Kurt Fell, owner of O’Fells Restaurant on U.S. 231 in Cropwell, says that the Alabama delicacy is key to his burgeoning success as well.

Fell acquired the former home of the Big Bull Steak House, and has been serving meals there for the last six months or so.

“I’ve been running other people’s restaurants for 14 or 15 years now,” he explained. “I had been contemplating opening up a place of my own for the last couple of years, but I was looking for the right location. It had to be the right place, the right time, the right location. This one was just what I was looking for.”

The fresh fried green tomatoes, which are served with ranch dip, come with supper, and quickly became the best-known item on the

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O’Fells Restau rant owner Ki rk Fell has be food business en in the for some 15 years, but ha owner only fo s been an r about six m onths.

Chris Baker is head cook in the kitchen at O’Fells Restaurant in Cropwell.

Pell City Flower & Gift Shop

Offering “Sips & Stems” Join us - call for details 36 Comer Ave., Pell City

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www.pellcityflowers.com

Pell City’s Leading Florist Since 1945

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menu. “Some people can’t believe I’m giving them away,” he said.

He is also proud to say that O’Fells is very much a family business. “I have 10 employees here, including myself. Chris Baker is my head cook, and my parents both work here probably three or four days per week most weeks. My sister and my niece have been working here too. Chris does about 60 percent of the cooking and can do anything. I do a little cooking myself — and also clean the bathrooms from time to time. Just whatever needs to be done.”

O’Fells offers a breakfast buffet on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays, but lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. the rest of the week, and supper is from 2 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Lunch includes a meat, three vegetables and diner’s choice of cornbread or yeast roll for $6.95. Entrees include catfish, hamburger steak, grilled chicken tenders, barbecue pork chops, Greek-style chicken quarters and fried chicken livers. Sides include black-eyed peas, tossed salads, strawberry congealed salad with fresh cream, big limas, pan-fried squash medley, coconut apples, loaded potatoes, macaroni and cheese, creamy Cole slaw and “nanner pudding.” Kids’ options include chicken fingers, grilled cheese or hot dog with one side, and there is also an array of homemade desserts, including a sugar-free apple pie and other pies, cakes and cookies.

Dinner plates come with two sides and range in price from $12.50 for the hand-cut, 12-ounce ribeye steak platter, to $6.50 for the fried chicken breast, four jumbo chicken tenders and leg-quarter lemon pepper roasted chicken. Other entrees include the grilled hamburger steak (with gravy, onions and peppers by request), grilled pork chop and two fried Alabama catfish filets. Three- and four-vegetable plates also are available.

Dinner sandwiches include hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken tender, pork chop, ribeye, BLT, grilled cheese and PB&J. Sandwich plates come with one side and a pickle spear.

Salad choices include side dinner salad, grilled or fried chicken salad, chef ’s salad, rib eye steak salad and large garden salad. Dressings include homemade ranch, bleu cheese, light Italian and Thousand Island.

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discount, and kids eat for free on Thursday nights.

O’Fells is right on Logan Martin Lake, and, Fell says, “we’re working on remodeling the dock, so that you can come in by boat in the spring, if spring ever gets here.”

Fell also caters locally and in the Birmingham area.

He’s catered for everyone from Methodist church groups to pharmaceutical representatives.

For more information, visit www.ofellsrestaraunt.com.

Above: The grilled chicken salad at O’Fells Restaurant in

Cropwell.

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O’Fells Restaurant offers a wide array of deserts, including homemade cookies and pies.

MOBILE HOME SALES

JIM PREUITT Ford - Mercury www.jimpreuittford.com 723 E. Battle St. Talladega, AL (256) 362-6900 800-884-5211.

EASY FINANCING ON A NEW HOME!!! Call (205) 663-3730

Erma’s Boarding Dogs or Cats $8 a day. We live here.Grooming $25-up. 256-2369907.

USED 14x70 SINGLE WIDE IN GREAT CONDITION First $5,000 gets it. Cash and Carry.

Call (205)663-3730

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Doc’s Furniture Good used furniture,antiques & collectibles,corner of Hwy 202 & 300 1st Ave. W. (Anniston) Mon-Sat 9-5, 256-310-8223

GROOMING Donna’s Pet Grooming Quality Service Pick-up & Delivery Service. M-F 8-5 Early Drop Off & Late Pick-Up We live on premises In Business over 25 yrs 256-761-9406.

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ROOFING

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UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS

Anniston- 5112 McClellan Blvd., Nice 1Br/1Ba 2 & 3 Br, 2 Ba, Occasional Vacancies call 256-236-5549.

AVON $10 will start your business. Call Keitha 256-452-3607 or www.youravon .com/ keithakirk Avon Ind Sales Rep.

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Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative A Touchstone Energy Corporation “Providing Reliable Consumer Service” 69220 AL Hwy 77, Talladega 1-800-273-7210 256-362-4180 www.coosavalleyec.com

Modern, conventional complex. 1, 2, & 3 br occasional vacancies. Deposit “only” $200. Call Pineview Landing @ (256) 362-3412.

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Minton Home Center All 2010 Stock Models on Sale Now!! New Doublewides starting at $49,900. Land-Home loans with rates as low as 5.9% Available. -0- Down payment to Land Owners Oxford, AL 256-835-0152 mintonhomecenter@bellsouth.net $1 AND A DEED IS WHAT YOU NEED!!! All Land Owners CALL (205)663-3730 7 HOMES AT AUCTION PRICES-MUST SELL NOW!!! Won’t last long (205) 663-6810

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WATERFRONT PROPERTY Logan Martin Lake - Lincoln, Shelton Shores, 5 minutes to I-20, 95’ waterfront, tax assessment $71,500, sell for $59,500, call 256-236-2173.

Call Today to Place Your Ad in the Lakeside Classified Marketplace 256-362-1000•256-249-4311•205-884-3400

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Logan Martin Homes March 2011

A Real Estate Property Guide for Logan Martin Lake and Surrounding Areas

Photo courtesy of Realty Executives, Pell City

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Spring Cleaning Before the water rises, volunteers will spend a week grooming Logan Martin’s shoreline.

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ach year, hundreds of people come together with one goal in mind — cleaning up the lake they love.

Lakeside residents and nonresidents alike spend a week picking up bottles, cans, tires and just about any other trash they find.

“We collected more than 12 tons of trash and tires from the lake during last year’s cleanup,” said Bud Kitchin, chairman of the annual Logan Martin Lake Protection Association lake cleanup.

This year’s lake cleanup is March 26-April 2. The cleanup is part of the Alabama Power Co. Renew Our Rivers program, which involves thousands of volunteers and takes place on many 50

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Doug Powell with Alabama Power pulls a tire from the bank in the 2010 cleanup.

By Elsie Hodnett

lakes in Alabama and the Southeast. This is the 12th annual Logan Martin Lake cleanup.

“We remove more trash every year from the lake, which is both good and bad,” Kitchin said. “It is great to have the trash gone from the lake, but we hope one day to have less trash to remove because we have reached people through education and they aren’t dumping their trash in the lake anymore.”

Last year Alabama Power partnered with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to offer a Renew Our Rivers patch to Scouts who participated in the cleanup, Kitchen said. Participating in the cleanup also counts as community service hours for the Scouts, he said.

Joshua Parker, left, and Jason Quarles pick up trash along the banks of Logan Martin Lake during last year’s cleanup.

From left, Doug Powell, Mike Clelland and Stephen Parker load trash on the boat.

Volunteers are always needed at the cleanup, Kitchin said.

“If anyone has a pontoon boat and wants to volunteer, we can really use the boats to help reach some trash we couldn’t get to otherwise,” he said.

“And of course we also need plenty of people to help clean up along the shorelines.”

All volunteers are encouraged to sign up on the LMLPA website, www.LMLPA.org, to make it easier to coordinate the cleanup sites and other details, Kitchen said. However, volunteers may participate in the cleanup even if they do not sign up on the website.

Individuals wishing to participate in the cleanup during the entire week should go to a convenient collection site between 8 a.m. and noon March 26. LMLPA representatives will sign up volunteers, and issue bags, T-shirts and latex gloves. Between March 26 and April 2, volunteers should return full Renew Our Rivers bags to the collection site and place them in the specially marked trash bin. Bags must be

returned to the collection site, because lake trash is not allowed in city or county garbage containers. Cleanup volunteers should use only the LMLPA-issued bags.

Those wishing to volunteer only on April 2 should go to a convenient collection site between 8 and 9 a.m. LMLPA representatives will issue the T-shirts, bags and latex gloves.

After working the morning hours, volunteers are invited to a free cleanup celebration picnic 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on April 2 at Lakeside Landing.

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Lake cleanup volunteers offload trash from the boat.

There are five collection sites this year.

Individuals with questions regarding the sites may call: •

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Lakeside Landing — call Don Greer, 205-525-4651 or 205-253-4651.

Clear Creek Marina — call Johnny Beavers, 256-268-0855 or 205-405-1880.

Poor House Branch Marina — call Ron Vaughan, 256-268-9156 or 256-761-5355.

Riverside Marina — call Cliff Early, 205-338-4095 or 205-706-5141.

Woods Surfside Marina — call Mike Riley, 205-531-2372.

For more information or to volunteer, call Bud Kitchin, 256-239-0242.

For more information about the Renew Our Rivers Boy Scout and Girl Scout patch and cleanup locations, visit www.alabamapower.com/lakes/renewourrivers.asp.

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