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No matter how often we have been told to not judge a book by its cover, it’s easy to do. Take Bryan Wilson, who appears on the front of our Winter 2021 issue. If he were dressed in a suit and tie, most readers wouldn’t have a hard time believing that he is an accountant. They wouldn’t expect that he is a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Wilson had his own misconceptions when he walked into Gracie United in downtown Jasper for the first time two years ago. Read on to find out what made him realize there was more to it than “Cobra Kai type silliness.” Most of us don’t expect teens to be bakers, but Ivan Wilson has become quite skilled at it. Wilson, a sophomore at Jasper High School, is so good that he has started selling his cakes to make extra cash. Wilson graciously allowed us to spend a few moments in the kitchen with him to highlight the hard work that goes into each delicious cake. In this issue, we also dig into the history of Memorial Park Natatorium. When it opened in 2003, some people saw it as nothing more than an indoor pool. Jasper City Councilwoman Jennifer Smith, who helped fundraise and became the Nat’s first aquatics director, tells us that it was always going to be more than that. However, even Smith did not foresee how many lives would be changed when programs like a Special Olympics swim team highlighted the need for more opportunities for special needs residents of Walker County. For We Are Walker County, where we highlight one local person who represents the best of our community, we spent a few minutes with James Smith, a sanitation worker in Parrish. Smith thought he had retired but then answered a call from the town magistrate and interim clerk that has kept him busy for over a year. Also, don’t forget to check out our From the Vault section, which has been expanded from two pages to four in this issue. Thanks to all of our readers and sponsors who have supported us since we launched this quarterly magazine in 2012. If you have a story you’d like to see in an upcoming issue, reach out to us at walkermagazine@mountaineagle.com, on our Facebook page or at 205-221-2840.
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After rivers and before the interstate, railroads determined the fate of communities. Locals got to experience what it must have been like in the days when trains were at the heart of commerce, travel and the public imagination when a locomotive built in 1910 passed through Jasper in 1983. It was a test run for a weekend trip from Birmingham to Chattanooga sponsored by Southern Railroad. A year earlier, 50 local employees of Burlington Northern Railway joined 12,000 others from the United Transportation Union in a national strike. The disruption in Walker County was minimal, however. Mostly, locals saw men hard at work on the railroad rather than walking off the job, as can be seen in these photos that span the period from 1977 to 1986.
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WORLD CHAMPION Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter brings home Jasper’s first title Text by JEFFERY WINBORNE Fighting Photographs by JAMES PHILLIPS and JEFFERY WINBORNE Studio Photography by SCOTT ERIC DAY PHOTOGRAPHY
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RYAN WILSON BEGAN TRAINING in the art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu two years ago at Gracie United in downtown Jasper. As an accountant, he suspects many of his clients would not recognize him as he grapples on the mat. His desire to learn, improve and compete helped propel him to the top of the sport at his level when, in December 2020, he captured the IBJJF Masters IV Blue Belt World Championship. “I really thought it really wasn’t that big of a deal,” Wilson, 49, said. “But then the outpouring of support that all of a sudden I had. It amazed me, like ‘Wow!’ Then I started to look back on what I had accomplished and that’s when it really hit home. Not many people accomplish this or get the opportunity to do this. I thank the Lord because you can’t do it without Him.” Wilson, who played Division II football for the Catawba College Indians in
Salisbury, NC, has been physically active and competitive for much of his life. He even tried karate in his preteen years but felt the classes were watered down at that age level. “When we would spar, you weren’t really sparring for real,” he said. “Now I realize there’s a place for that. You can’t spar for real all the time or people get hurt, but when I was younger I didn’t think of it like that. As I got older I realized you have to train differently. You don’t want to hurt your training partners, because if you do, they’re not coming back. And you need them in here; they need you to keep getting better.” When Wilson, who works in Jasper as a tax CPA, floated the idea of joining Gracie United in downtown Jasper, his wife, Carrie, was skeptical of her husband training as a fighter. “She was like ‘You’re an accountant, do you think that’s a good idea?’” he said, recalling her initial reaction. “I
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told her, ‘Probably not, but why not?’ It turned out it was a good idea. Wilson has stayed in good physical condition throughout his life but says that he was slowly losing interest in traditional workouts and it was affecting his fitness level. Having grown increasing bored with weightlifting and, to a larger degree, cardio, he wanted a new challenge. “I walked in Gracie United not respecting it,” he said. “They’re dressed up in pajamas, the standard karate outfits type deal. I thought classic Cobra Kai type silliness.” Contrary to his initial impressions, he was quickly shown just how much he had to learn. Rowdy Wade, a trainer at Gracie United, was the first person that Wilson grappled with on that first day. Wilson said it humbled him and truly opened his eyes. “I lift weights and stuff and work out
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Opposite page: Wilson considers every training partner he works with to be a coach. Workouts at Gracie United can begin as early as 5 a.m. and are grueling tests of strength and conditioning as the competitors always strive to learn more.
quite a bit. I’m a strong person and pretty athletic, I feel like anyway,” he said. “I’ve been that way a lot of my life, but I came in here and Wade submitted me left and right, effortlessly. It was so humbling to know that someone could do that to me without even breaking a sweat. That’s what really got me. All of a sudden I realized it was real.” While college football had given Wilson experience training for competition, jiu-jitsu proved to be an entirely different world for him. “With football, you train for small bursts of 30-second max explosions and you get like a 20-second rest. When I got in here two years ago, I exploded and then I was quickly gassed out.” He not only had to change the way he conditioned but also the way he lifted weights. “I couldn’t do big, heavy body building exercises anymore because I was trying to work out in the gym with ground-based exercises and weights and then I would come here and I started to feel tendinitis and things like that. So I had to change the way I was working out a lot.”
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Wilson has competed in nine tournaments, six as a white belt and three as a blue belt, including the world championship tournament in December 2020. Every tournament is treated not only as a competition but also as a learning experience. “Every tournament and every fight you learn something,” Wilson said. “There are things you try in here because you can afford to lose that you don’t try in the tournament, but I caught myself trying some of that stuff in the competition. You think, ‘Oh, that works!’ It just all of a sudden comes together, which is gratifying and makes it all worth it and feel like ‘Oh, I am learning something in here.’”
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Before he ever gets to a tournament, Wilson’s training methods change to get into competition shape. Because tournaments are a series of five minute matches with just a one minute break in between, Wilson has trained against others in the gym back-to-back to condition himself to the rigors of the tournament. The intensity of those training days was so strenuous, some days he could barely walk out of the gym afterwards.
of old guys. But, interestingly those old guys know more than the young guys. They’ve been doing it a lot longer. They’re craftier. They may not be in the same shape or have the same strength. However, they have things that the other guys don’t have. You might be in the best shape you can be in, but if you can’t defend against these attacks or mount a counter attack, you’re going to lose.” Wilson said that when the championship tournament began against his first opponent, Jason McLaughlin, things that normally worked for him weren’t working, causing doubt to creep in. Wilson was awarded two points after a takedown – points he says he was lucky to get.
When you walk in here, you respect the mat, you respect your opponent. It doesn’t matter if you’re the best, you can be beat.
“Actually, I didn’t really get a takedown. I took him down, but I didn’t have full control of him,” Wilson said. “He had me in half-guard when we hit the ground. A true takedown is when you get him on the ground, you’re on top and you establish control. Well, when - B RYA N W I L S O N he had me in what’s called half-guard, he had one of my legs wrapped up. It’s not really the tournament,” he said. “To prevent control, but the referee gave me two injury before the tournament, you have points. I got lucky that the referee to scale back the intensity about one to counted it as takedown.” two weeks before tournament begins.” Wilson went on to win that match by The weeks and days leading up to two points. Brandon Epps, Wilson’s the world’s tournament consisted second opponent, tapped to a rear of mostly cardio and fundamental collar choke. The World Championship training. By the time the tournament came down to a match against arrives, Wilson claims entering the Christopher McDonald. competition somewhat overconfident, saying that “at 49 years old, how many Wilson noted that his adrenaline was guys my age are in the shape that I’m up for that last match, negating the in and that might be able to grapple fatigue from the two prior matches. as well as I do? I’m not saying that I grapple well, but the strength and “My mind was clear and I was starting speed I possess at this age is different. to smell victory,” he said. “Not because I didn’t respect my opponent, but I could “So going down there, again, I thought feel my training and conditioning now it was going to be just another bunch starting to show up. I wasn’t nervous.
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I wasn’t breathing heavy. I was loose. I felt that I could outwork my opponent now and go all out not worrying about conserving energy for the next fight.” The two men worked a game of chess, each trying to read the other and move accordingly. At one point, Wilson caught a glimpse of the scoreboard and realized he was ahead with just one minute left. As time ticked away, McDonald grabbed Wilson’s right leg and tried to lock in an ankle lock, but time expired. Bryan Wilson had won the match, 5-2, and with it, his first World Championship. “So many people should take credit for this, not just me,” Wilson said. “It takes a village. Some of the people that were helping me didn’t even realize they were helping me for this tournament because I didn’t tell them about this tournament.” He is thankful to so many for their support and help to get him to where he is. Among those are his coaches, but most of all, Wilson thanks his wife, who despite her early skepticism, has been patient and supportive. “Going to these tournaments, she has to sacrifice quite a bit,” he said. “It’s a stressful situation. Everybody is nervous and the anxiety is high. She has to deal with a lot of waiting time and sitting around time, which is not very exciting.” Wilson encouraged anyone to try jiu-jitsu, praising the lessons and discipline the sport teaches you from the moment you walk into the gym. “It teaches you a tremendous amount of discipline,” he said. “When you walk in here, you respect the mat, you respect your opponent. It doesn’t matter if you’re the best. You can be beat. There’s always someone in here bigger and better or smaller and better that knows more about what they’re doing.” Wilson said the first year at the gym consisted of making himself go, despite high anxiety. “Every time I’d walk in here, I’d be anxious about it and I’d have to pump myself up because somebody’s going to choke your neck. You’re putting your life into someone else’s hands. You’re trusting that they’re going to respect that tap when they have you in a compromising position, and you don’t know these people. There’s discipline on both sides of it. Discipline from me having to get in here and work hard to achieve something and get better at it. And then discipline from the other higher belts to understand that somebody new is here, maybe not for the same reasons, but they want to learn. But you’ve got to help them along.
Wilson, right, showing off his medal for winning the BJJF Masters IV Blue Belt World Championship with Jason Darty, owner of Gracie United/Team Jucao in Jasper. Photograph submitted
“This whole sport is we build each other up,” he said. “Every time we build each other up. Even my opponents that I fought at worlds, they were good. It just so happened I got lucky a couple of times.” •
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HEN IVAN WILSON puts on his “Schrute Farms” apron, he means business. While most teens are working part-time jobs at restaurants or grocery stores, Wilson’s business is baking, and he has become wellknown for his cake creating capabilities. Wilson, a 16-year-old sophomore at Jasper High School, credits his love for baking to his grandmother, Diane Wilson, whom he calls Mamaw Di. There have been many days over the years that he was in her kitchen assisting with baked treats. “I saw my grandmother baking so much, and I have always enjoyed her cakes and icing,” Wilson said. “All her stuff is homemade, and I love everything she makes. It was always fun helping her, and it was time I got to spend with her. She is who gave me the confidence to try baking on my own.” Four years ago, Wilson started making his own birthday cake, and later branched out to make a birthday cake for his uncle. That put the wheels in motion for his baking hobby to become a bit of an income source for him. “I made enough off cakes that I paid for a good portion of my car, and I paid for a laptop for school,” he said. “I haven’t had to apply for a job anywhere, because it is
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a good source of income for me. I don’t do a lot, but it gives me money to go eat with my friends and put gas in my car.” Most of his cake sales come from word of mouth or people seeing photographs of cakes he has made on his mother’s Facebook page. Ivan is the oldest son of Rod and Tina Wilson. “People love his cakes,” said Tina Boshell Wilson, a chiropractor in Jasper. “I love that he has found something that he loves to do, and he is very talented at it as well. When I post one of his cakes on Facebook, he starts getting more orders immediately.” Wilson has had to tell his mother to stop posting when orders get out of control. “During the holidays, I had to stop taking orders, because we had so many,” he said. “I was even out of school for a little bit, and that didn’t give me enough time to finish them all. I had to get my grandmother to bake one or two.” All Wilson’s cakes are baked from scratch, and his icing is homemade. While he is confident with cakes and all things baked, he admits he is no chef. “I have always liked baking, but I do not enjoy cooking,”
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he said. “One of the main reasons is that I get to decorate it and make it look really good. It is much more difficult to do that with food.”
technology in college and go into a career in cyber security. That’s why he is involved in the robotics program and film crew at Jasper High.
Making the cakes “look good” is a passion for Wilson. He puts a lot of time into decorating each cake and has even done several specialty cakes, such as unicorn and cat themes. One winterthemed cake took him several hours to decorate.
“I am a tech person,” he said. “I joined the football film crew because they said they had a drone. I’ve always been into IT type stuff, so that is what I want to do for a career, but baking is a good side job, and something good to lean back on if I need it.”
“When I first started, I would get nervous about making cakes for other people, but now that I’ve been doing it a while, I don’t really get nervous because so many people have told me how much they love the cakes.”
Wilson does not market his cakes on his own, but he said a simple cake, such as Oreo, red velvet or chocolate is $40, while a specialty cake can range from $55 to $100 depending on the details.
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The original Memorial Park pool, seen here several years before it closed, was built in 1949. It was also significantly larger than the pool that replaced it and had areas deep enough for diving. Ultimately, leaks and concrete that broke away from the bottom forced its closure after the 2002 season.
public forum in May 2002. However, as word of the project spread, at least a few people questioned the decision. “You had people saying things like ‘Why do we need a pool? Why do we need to spend that much money for just a pool?’ But it was so much more than ‘just a pool,’” said Jasper City Councilwoman Jennifer Smith, who was hired as a consultant by the city during the Natatorium’s construction and later became its first aquatics director. As a swim team coach, Smith understood that young swimmers were at a disadvantage having to compete against teams who trained year-round in indoor pools. In order to keep up with their peers and have a hope of earning a scholarship in swimming, many traveled to Birmingham to compete with other teams. A heated indoor pool also meant new opportunities to offer water aerobics and year-round swimming lessons. Smith took her own son, who was born in the fall, to UAB for Water Babies classes to make sure that he would be swimming by
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the time summer arrived. Dr. Jan Westerman touted the benefits of water aerobics in a letter to the editor published in the Daily Mountain Eagle after the Natatorium opened. “Many people do not appreciate that aquatic (water, poolbased) rehabilitation is a powerful tool used to improve muscle strength and ultimately overall function for a wide range of disorders and/or following acute illnesses (mild arthritis, stroke, back pain, occupational therapeutics, obesity, asthma, heart attacks, emphysema and others),” Westerman wrote. “The buoyancy provided by water can alleviate many limitations that will otherwise hinder recovery and improved function.” James Davidson, a neighbor to the Natatorium, wrote his own letter to the editor describing how he had lost 66 pounds by swimming laps five days a week. Davidson also noted how pleased he was that swimming lessons were being offered to every fifth grader in the city.
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“I realize that due to time and interest everyone does not take advantage of all the programs our city provides. I know I don’t use the baseball field, the soccer field, or the gymnasium, but I am glad we have those facilities for the benefit of other people who can enjoy and use them. I personally have greatly benefitted from the use of the new pool,” Davidson wrote. Swimmers with special needs, be they physical or mental, also became familiar faces at the Natatorium. While meeting with locals about potential donations or programs they would like to see offered, Smith learned that Walker County had one of the highest disability rates in the state and that recreational opportunities were limited for individuals with special needs. Unlike Memorial Park Pool, the Natatorium would be fully accessible. Swimmers in wheelchairs could be rolled into the water on a ramp built into the pool and then be transferred over to a floating deck that allowed them to “walk,” building up leg and arm strength. Smith realized the potential for a Special Olympics swim team after attending her first meet in Montgomery. One swimmer in particular, Joan, made a big impression. “They wheeled Joan up to the side of the pool and dropped her in. Her arms and legs just opened up and off she went. We immediately got started on a swim team,” Smith said. The Natatorium opened in June 2003. In November, Jasper’s new Special Olympics swim team (later dubbed The Aquanauts) finished sixth out of 12 teams and brought home a slew of medals from their first state qualifying swim meet. Jasper was quickly granted an opportunity to host a Special Olympics sectional aquatic meet. Within three years of the Natatorium opening, a Leadership Walker County group that included Smith was pushing for a fully accessible playground. For Smith, the idea was born the day that she watched one Aquanauts member who was in a wheelchair have to sit on the sidelines while his teammates played on the old playground that sat next to the Natatorium.
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Memorial Park Natatorium was one of the first recreation opportunities for individuals with special needs. In addition to a swim team, the city now offers an accessible playground and a Dream Team for baseball, flag football and soccer.
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APEX (Accessible Playground Extreme EXperience) opened in 2007, and two years later, the Dream Team was born. At the time, city officials had already committed to funding a handicap-accessible Miracle Field, but the Dream Team allowed kids with special needs to play baseball on the current facilities in the meantime. (The George Lindsey Miracle Field opened in 2012.) The Dream Team proved so popular that it has now expanded into soccer, flag football and dance. Over the years, the Natatorium has also served residents in other ways by hosting afterschool programs and summer camps for local youth, serving as the first office space and art gallery for the Walker County Arts Alliance, being a showplace for business people and professionals looking to move to the area. A 2004 Birmingham News article called the Natatorium a “life-altering force in the community.” As Smith looks through her scrapbooks now, she sees the faces of lifeguards who went on to serve their community in so many ways as adults, special needs swimmers who gained the confidence to live independently after taking part in Special Olympics, seniors who took part in programs at the Natatorium before the opening of the new senior center. “It’s amazing to sit here and think about all the lives that were changed by ‘just a pool’,” she said. •
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WeAreWalkerCounty with
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James Smith is a sanitation driver for the Town of Parrish. While working for Jasper he did a little bit of everything, driving almost any vehicle, including trucks, dumpsters and bush hogs. He still lives in Jasper in the Coke Oven area, along with his wife of 27 years, Eugenia. Between them they have six children, as well as 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He referees high school football at various schools, and noted he was getting ready for baseball. In other spare time, he likes to fish.
“It mainly gives me something to do. I used to work for the City of Jasper; I worked 34 years over there, and I retired. (Parrish Magistrate and Interim Town Clerk Jerry “Jay” Callahan), he asked me. He said, ‘My driver hasn’t showed up. You can come and drive this truck.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll be down there.’ So I drove the truck, and he said, ‘Come back Thursday, just in case the guy doesn’t come.’ I started last year on Jan. 21. And we’ve passed January, so I’ve already had a year and 20 days today. I stay active.” 42 / WALKER MAGAZINE
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