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County schools hope to recruit non-resident students president Michael Carter described as “a recruiting game.”

The Tallapoosa County Board of Education voted to approve the new out-ofdistrict policy recommended

by Superintendent Ray Porter

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

Out-of-district residents can now pay a fee to attend Tallapoosa County Schools, an attempt to boost enrollment in what school board vice

Monday, which sets a $500 per semester tuition fee, or $750 per semester for families enrolling more than one child.

Up until now, Tallapoosa County Schools did not allow non-resident students, with exceptions considered on a

case-by-case basis. However, Porter said he wanted to extend that opportunity to any student within commuting distance.

“I think Tallapoosa County has a superior product,” he said last week, after

presenting the idea to the board at a work session. “And I think we should encourage those that are interested in a quality education to come to Tallapoosa County.”

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Lawsuit filed in federal court over Girls Ranch wreck

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

A lawsuit has been filed in federal district court seeking unspecified damages as a result of a June accident that killed 10 including eight associated with the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch.

The Beasley Allen Law Firm of Montgomery filed suit Friday in the United States District Court Middle District of Alabama representing ranch director Candince Gulley and families of five children in the crash. Greg Allen is a partner in the law firm and its lead products liability attorney.

See LAWSUIT • Page A3

Dadeville Police to spend $14k on thermal imagers with ARP funding

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Above: A fire destroyed Lake Martin Cabinetry but a storage building next door is being converted into a temporary shop. Left: Michael Ward runs a saw while helping install flooring in what will be a paint booth at Lake Martin Cabinetry Sunday afternoon.

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

The Dadeville City Council voted to spend $13,768 of its American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding on two thermal imagers for its police department Tuesday, at the request of police chief Jonathan Floyd.

Thermal imagers, infrared cameras that pick up heat, can be used in law enforcement for fugitive searches, surveillance, search and rescue and evidence retrieval, as recently disturbed objects may retain body heat from the person handling them.

The devices purchased for Dadeville Police Department will be handheld, said Floyd, who emphasized their utility as searchand-rescue tools.

A community loves back on Autry family

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

T

he Autry family may not be native to Tallapoosa County but it has embraced the Dadeville community since moving here full time in 2016.

Following a fire last week at their business Lake Martin Cabinetry,

See POLICE • Page A3

the community has loved the family back with support and help to get the business going again.

“They have turned out,” Mike Autry said. “It’s unbelievable.”

The family has been helping with functions all across the area for years, especially for youth sports, the outdoors and the Lake Martin Songwriters Festival being held in the

area next week. The Autry outpouring of love is being repaid.

“We have tried to sponsor just about everything we can,” Vivian Autry said.

“It is being paid back two fold and more. You walk in. They say, ‘What can we do for you?’ It has been nice.

We appreciate it very much.”

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Fuller to resign as executive director of Lake Martin Area United Way

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Lake Martin Area United Way (LMAUW) director Sharon Fuller will resign from her role at the end of the year, the charity announced Tuesday.

Fuller, director since 2010, will continue to serve until Dec. 31 as the LMAUW executive board and selection committee searches for a

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“I love this community and it’s been a true honor to have been chosen 10-and-a-half years ago to lead this wonderful organization,” Fuller said.

“I have so enjoyed working with the businesses, volunteers and recipients.

So please continue to support United Way and give from your heart.”

“LMAUW will miss Sharon’s expertise and instrumental

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impact in our community’s involvement,” board president Nancy Ammons said in a statement.

“She has helped facilitate record campaigns and aided our community in multiple disasters. We can all agree that the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to our area and around the world. Sharon’s efforts were unwavering, and her guidance during this the pandemic was trusted

by LMAUW.” Ammons also highlighted the record-breaking fundraising campaign led by Fuller this past year. In spite of the pandemic, Lake Martin Area United Way raised $573,214.63 for their 2021 campaign ending in May. “Sharon has set the standard for leadership and morality within See FULLER • Page A5

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Police Reports Dadeville Police Department

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Aug. 10

Aug. 5

• Pierre Thomas, 33, of Ashland was arrested on three warrants for failure to appear.

Aug. 9

• A three vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on U.S. Highway 280 resulting in major property and no injuries.

• Clayton Sprague, 23, of Dadeville was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.

• A two vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on North Broadnax Street resulting in moderate property damage and no injuries.

• A report was filed for criminal trespass third that occurred on West Hewsten Street.

• Mark Lee, 33, of Dadeville was arrested for giving false information to law enforcement on Watkins Street.

Aug. 7

• Richard Jackson, 40, of Tallassee was arrested on two warrants for failure to appear.

Aug. 6

• A two vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on U.S. Highway 280 resulting in major property damage. Emergency personnel responded to the scene and transported one person.

Aug. 5

• A report was filed for theft of property third that occurred in the Dadeville area.

• Andrea Smith, 29, of Eclectic was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana second and possession of drug paraphernalia on Young Street.

• Jeffery Jones, 31, of Alexander City was arrested on eight warrants for failure to appear.

Aug. 4

• Lew Handley, 35, of Dadeville was arrested on a warrant for probation revocation.

• Larry Spivey, 45, of Tallassee was arrested on a warrant for probation revocation.

• A subject on Lightsey Road in Jacksons Gap filed a report in reference to theft.

Aug. 4

• A subject on County Road 89 South in Camp Hill filed a report in reference to criminal littering.

• Raphael Towers of Alexander City was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear bail jumping second degree.

• A subject on Lovelady Road. in Dadeville filed a report in reference to theft.

Aug. 3

• A resident of West Lafayette Street in Dadeville filed a report for menacing.

Aug. 2

• A resident of Lakeland Avenue filed a report for theft of property.

• Brian Higgans of Tallassee was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear for child support.

Aug. 1

• Earl Spivey of Goodwater was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear bail jumping first degree.July 31 • A subject on Peckerwood Road in Jacksons Gap filed a report in reference to disorderly conduct.

• A subject on Highway 49 South in Notasulga filed a report in reference to harassment.

Alexander City Police Department Aug. 6

• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.

Aug. 5

• Lori Berry Carlise, 53, of Dadeville was arrested for harassment.

• Joshua James Adair, 38, of Alexander City was arrested for failure to appear.

• Menacing and criminal mischief was reported in Alexander City.

• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.

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• Harassing communications was reported in Alexander City.

• Harassment was reported in Alexander City.

• Assault was reported in Alexander City.

• Burglary and theft was reported in Alexander City.

• Harassment was reported in Alexander City.

• Keeping animals emitting offensive orders prohibited was reported in Alexander City.

• Possession of a controlled substance and illegal possession of prescription drugs was reported in Alexander City.

Aug. 4

• Raphel Xavier Towers, 31, of Alexander City was arrested for unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.

• Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle was reported in Alexander City.

• Cruelty to dog was reported in Alexander City.

• Cruelty to dog and illegal chaining was reported in Alexander City.

• Possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana was reported in Alexander City.

Aug.3

• Shawn Jorin Sewell, 50, of Adamsville was arrested for public lewdness.

• Jacob Thomas Hollingsworth, 25, of Alexander City was arrested for domestic violence.

• Brandon Lee Ruiz, 39, of Alexander City was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

• Alicia Myers Markel, 60, of Eclectic was arrested for lawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Kanazara Denise White, 24, of Alexander City was arrested for failure to appear.

• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.

• Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle was reported in Alexander City.

• Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.

• Forgery was reported in Alexander City.

• Possession of a controlled substance and

possession of drug paraphernalia was reported in Alexander City.

Aug. 2

• Charlene Daniels Ashley, 52, of Alexander City was arrested for harassment and harassing communications.

• Shawn Jorin Sewell, 50, of Adamsville was arrested fore indecent exposure.

• Discharge firearm into an occupied dwelling and reckless endangerment was reported in Alexander City.

• Theft was reported in Alexander City.

• Theft was reported in Alexander City.

• Drug trafficking and possession of a controlled substance was reported in Alexander City.

• Fraudulent use of a credit or debit was reported in Alexander City.

• Burglary and theft was reported in Alexander City.

• Menacing and harassment was reported in Alexander City.

Aug. 1

• Shawn Jorin Sewell, 50, of Adamsville was arrested for criminal trespass.

• Furniss Casey Muckenfuss, 34, of Alexander City was arrested for disorderly conduct.

• Autumn Angel Brand, 25, of Alexander City was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Chaz Rashad Russell, 32, of Alexander City was arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of a pistol by a felon.

• Michael Christopher Fuller, 50. of Alexander City was arrested for disorderly conduct.

• Criminal trespass was reported in Alexander City.

• Disorderly conduct was reported in Alexander City.

• Possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia was reported in Alexander City.

• Unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle and theft was reported in Alexander City.

• Sexual misconduct was reported in Alexander City.

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Lawsuit

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“The defendants, in this case, were negligent and displayed a complete disregard for the lives of fellow travelers around them,” Allen said.

“As a result, 10 people died that day, including eight children who were trapped in a van driven by our client Mrs. Candice L. Gulley. Those children burned to death needlessly. It is hard to imagine a more tragic and gut-wrenching set of circumstances, which demand justice and accountability to the fullest measure.”

Documents for the lawsuit state Gulley was driving the girls ranch van in the left lane of northbound traffic with an 18-wheeler owned and operated by Hansen & Adkins

Auto Transport in the right lane as the vehicles approached slowed and stopped vehicles at the bridge at mile marker 138 of Interstate 65 in Butler County.

The lawsuit alleges “the Hansen truck failed to stop for traffic and struck a 2020 Ford Explorer SUV and then veered into the left lane striking the ranch van occupied by (Gulley and eight children).”

After the initial contact a second 18-wheeler owned by Mamuye Ayane Takelu, who worked for Asmat Investment, struck the ranch van.

“A fire erupted during the collision which ultimately consumed the ranch van, the 18-wheelers and other

vehicles, as well as the children in the ranch van,” the complaint states. “Ms. Gulley was pulled from the ranch van wreckage by bystanders. She then ran around the ranch van to try to help the children escape the burning van.

“Because of the fire and the significant damage caused to the ranch van by the Hansen and Asmat trucks, (Gulley) was unable to extricate any of the children. All the children were killed by the fire.”

The lawsuit claims the drivers of the 18-wheelers operated their vehicles negligently and wantonly by failing to maintain a safe speed, failing to keep a proper lookout, being distracted and not paying proper attention, driving

too fast for the conditions and more faults that led to the crash.

The lawsuit claims Gulley “received personal injuries including but not limited to severe scalp injuries, bruising, burns, pain, severe emotional and mental distress, permanent injuries and disfigurement.

The lawsuit is asking for all allowable damages to be awarded in the case.

“This tragedy should never have happened,” Allen said. “We cannot erase or change the disastrous outcome, but we can work to provide answers that will allow a court to hold the defendants accountable for the lives they have devastated.”

Autry

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Members of the community have helped turn a storage building that was saved from the fire into a makeshift workshop.

“It could have been worse,” Autry said. “The guy was cutting grass and noticed it. He was able to save the trucks, trailers and a boat that were in here.”

Sunday, just five days after the fire, some new equipment had arrived and volunteers were working to convert the storage shed.

Members of the Dadeville High School baseball and fishing team were helping others assemble walls and floor for a paint booth.

“It was just a lean-to,” Autry said. “We were trying to get concrete but just couldn’t get it in time. We said we will just do wood and make it work.

They will wall it in today and it will become a paint booth. It is not ideal or what we are used to but we are going to make it work.”

Everything else was working out too. Just a day or so after the fire, a new power pole and service were established for the storage shed. The Autrys’ shop was 6,700 square feet — the storage shed just 1,900.

“This is small compared to what we had,” Autry said. “It’s an eye sore but it will work.

We just used it for storage before.”

Autry credits Mike’s successful cabinet business in Atlanta before the family moved to Lake Martin as to another reason the business will reopen quickly. She said her husband shopped with Scotty Redmond of Redmond

Machinery in Newnan when he was working in Atlanta. In fact the Autrys have convinced Redmond on Lake Martin.

“Mike has bought equipment for 30 years,” Autry said. “He has recently bought a lot in Manoy Creek. He has decided he has enough business in the area, he will open a shop here.

He sells big equipment. He is successful in Atlanta but keeps getting more here.”

The Autrys purchased a lot of their needed shop equipment from Redmond. Redmond even made equipment from the show room available.

“We have some equipment, just not everything we had over there,” Autry said. “We were happy just to be able to get it.”

Even spending more than $100,000 to get the shop back going, the Autrys will have

Police “What you need to know is that if we have a lost child, if we have a disoriented elderly person, when we’re on the move in wooded areas, it will allow us to pick up body heat, the thermal images,” he said.

“It’s just a life-saving tool that we desperately need.”

All five councilmembers voted in favor of the purchase

continued from Page A1 in a meeting presided over by councilmember Teneeshia GoodmanJohnson. Dadeville mayor Jimmy “Frank” Goodman was absent and in quarantine for COVID-19 exposure, Goodman-Johnson said.

While the thermal imagers will be purchased with federal ARP funding, Dadeville is also drafting its budget for the 2021-

2022 fiscal year with the current spending proposal exceeding projected revenue.

Goodman-Johnson asked councilmembers to review the draft and look for ways to balance the budget.

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to wait for some equipment to come in. In the meantime Lake Martin Cabinetry will outsource doors until a new door machine arrives.

The Autrys were busy and a little concerned about business with the complete loss of equipment Mike acquired over some 30 years.

“We have to get up and running,” Autry said. “Our builders are staying with us. Every builder has said, ‘We will stay with you.’ It is amazing.

“It will be a tough few months. The biggest problem is it is so small in there.”

The Autrys plan to rebuild the larger shop.

“The plan is to rebuild right here,” Autry said. “It will take a little bit of time. We used to have two table saws, but only

have this one here. When we get the bigger shop we will get another.”

The Autrys had signed on months ago to help repaint the stage at the gymnatorium at Dadeville Elementary School this past weekend.

“I thought we didn’t have the time now, but decided to go ahead and do it,” Autry said. “It was worth it. Now all the kids will get to enjoy it and it looks so much nicer. It was one of those things we didn’t have the time for but glad we did.”

And it’s the giving spirit of the Autrys and small community that keeps small communities successful in different ways.

“Some people will downplay a small community but a small community will step up and help you,” Autry said.

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t seems like just yesterday that schools ended a chaotic year on a bright note as Covid-19 cases began to decline.

Suddenly, it’s already time for school to return to session next week.

The Benjamin Russell band is busy rehearsing, filling our office with music each evening. Football teams are putting on the pads and preparing for kickoff.

Teachers are preparing their classrooms and getting everything ready to welcome back students.

Despite the reinstatement of mask mandates at both school systems for now, it feels as if things are back to normal.

It is certainly exciting that students could potentially avoid quarantining this schoolyear if the schools follow mask policies.

Although local schools were mostly in-person last year, the constant quarantine of students and teachers put a strain on education.

The school systems have worked to fill the gap over the summer to catch students back up and we need that to continue into the beginning of this year.

Thank you to all of our teachers and school staff who put so much of their time and energy into ensuring our children get a proper education.

Teachers have been in an incredibly tough situation and they have persevered to make things work as smoothly as possible for our kids.

Remember as schools start back to keep safety in mind, particularly while driving in school zones and behind school buses. Keep school traffic in mind and plan accordingly to avoid those areas unless necessary. Also keep a watch out for students walking to and from school.

We welcome everyone back to school and wish for a successful year.

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Looking at the race for Shelby’s Senate seat

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he field may be set for the race to fill the Seat of our iconic senior U.S. Senator, Richard Shelby. When Senator Shelby announced that he would not seek a seventh six-year term in the United States Senate earlier this year, many of us expected a stampede of candidates to throw their hats in the ring. When a U.S. Senate seat opens for the first time in 36 years, you might expect everybody who had ever won a 4-H speaking contest to enter the fray. However, I guess politics does not have quite the allure that it used to in bygone days.

The election will be held May 24, 2022. I say election rather than Republican Primary because a Democrat cannot win in a statewide race in Alabama. Winning the GOP Primary is tantamount to election in the Heart of Dixie.

The four GOP candidates are Huntsville Congressman Mo Brooks, 67, former Trump Ambassador to Slovenia Lynda Blanchard, 62, former Shelby Chief of Staff and more currently Business Council of Alabama CEO, Katie Britt, 39, and finally Jessica Taylor who is only 37.

Allow me to outline the attributes and foibles of all four. However, their order of description does not indicate my preference or their likelihood of winning.

You may have noticed that beside all four names I have acknowledged their chronological age on Earth.

This is important because seniority is not only important but is paramount in the pursuit of power and the ability to be an effective broker for Alabama along the Potomac. Obviously, the younger you are the more likely that you have the potential to be an effective senator for Alabama because time in Washington equates into seniority,

STEVE FLOWERS Columnist which results in power for our state.

If someone had told Shelby when he entered the Senate 36 years ago in 1986, that the race to be his successor would field four major candidates and three of them would be ladies, he would have been dubious. Speaking of Shelby and his successor, it is no secret that the fine senior gentleman senator from Tuscaloosa would like to see his former Chief of Staff, Katie Boyd Britt, follow him in the U.S. Senate. Those of us who have followed young Katie Boyd Britt since she was a girl growing up in Enterprise, knew she had potential governor or U.S. Senator written all over her from the get-go.

Katie was miss everything in Enterprise.

She was governor of Girls State, went on to the University of Alabama where she was President of the Student Government, went on to graduate from University of Alabama Law School. She went to work for Shelby, then practiced law for a while and then became CEO of the Business Council of Alabama. She is married to Wesley Britt a former Alabama football star from Cullman. They have two children and reside in Montgomery. Katie will be the moderate pro-business, Shelby-like, Republican in the race. She raised a record-breaking $2.4 million in her first month in the race.

Jessica Taylor is a strikingly attractive, aggressive and vivacious firebrand conservative. She ran a respectable third in the race for the open 2nd

congressional seat last year.

She may be hampered by an inability to compete with the other three in campaign funds.

Lynda Blanchard, 62, is from Montgomery. She is indeed a lifetime resident of Montgomery except for three years as Ambassador to Slovenia. She is a quiet, well-spoken, sincere lady who would be a good senator. Undoubtedly, she has been successful in business. She has contributed over $5 million to her campaign.

Congressman Mo Brooks enters the race as the frontrunner. Mo has staked out the conservative right wing of this GOP race, which probably constitutes the majority of primary voters in Alabama. He quite deserves his label as the most conservative.

He would more than likely be one of the most conservative senators in Washington if elected as our next senator. He has been a diligent rightwinger during his entire 40-year career in politics.

His 10 years of being the Congressman for the Tennessee Valley has proven that he is more interested in being on Fox News than bringing home the bacon for Alabama. He will proudly proclaim that he will be a United States Senator and not a Senator for Alabama.

He has been totally ineffective during his time in Congress and would be ineffective for the entire state. In fact, if elected, he would be an albatross.

However, having Trump’s total endorsement, Mo Brooks enters the race as the favorite.

Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist. His weekly column appears in over 60 Alabama newspapers.

He served 16 years in the state legislature. Steve may be reached at: www. steveflowers.us.

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Tallapoosa County working on new budget

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

The fiscal year 2022 budget is under way for the Tallapoosa County Commission.

While no action has been taken by the commission, it learned work has been underway to provide a budget for approval by the beginning of the new fiscal year Oct. 1.

“We sent our requests to department heads and elected officials in June requesting we get them back by the end of July,” county administrator Blake Beck told the commission at its Monday meeting. “We got them

back now and are beginning to look at them.”

Beck gave no numbers to the commission but did give commissioners an idea of what to expect.

“There is nothing earth shattering in there but they are definitely chomping at the bit to get some resources and things going in their respective areas,” Beck said.

“We will be looking at that over the next month.”

The commission approved last month working with the Association of County Commissions of Alabama to make sure it spends federal relief funds from the American Recovery Plan (ARP) appropri-

ately. The commission hasn’t approved any spending but the association wants to get ideas on its Investing in Alabama Counties (IAC).

“They are asking we send back a collated, single document,” Beck said. “They are not necessarily wanting budgets or specific projects but trying to get a general idea as to what the commission feels are the needs of the county and how we could use these funds to address those needs as it relates to the ongoing pandemic.”

Commissioner George Carleton was absent from Monday’s meeting.

In other action the Tallapoosa

County Commission: • Approved minutes of the July 12 meeting • Approved warrants and purchase orders • Approved the fiscal year 2022 county transportation plan • Approved Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave for an employee • Approved a Lounge Retail Liquor Class I license for Martins Sports Bar at the location of the former Col. Tom’s • Approved the reappointment of Tommy Bramblett, Jane Milton and Mary Louise Wyckoff to the Tallapoosa County Department of Human Resources Board

• Approved the sale of a used sheriff’s department patrol vehicle to the Town of New Site for $2,500 • Approved the reappointment of commissioner T.C. Coley to the Association of County Commissions of Alabama legislative committee • Was reminded the courthouse will be closed Monday, Sept. 6 in observance of Labor Day • Approved seeking bids for a new server for the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department The next meeting of the Tallapoosa County Commission is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 13.

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LMAUW, and her position will be extremely hard to fill,” Ammons continued in her statement. “We are grateful she has agreed to stay until Dec. 31, 2021. This will allow guidance and growth

in the executive director role for the new candidate and ensure scheduled events are completed.”

Lake Martin Area United Way is part of the international United Way nonprofit network.

The chapter fundraises for 27 agencies that benefit Tallapoosa and Coosa counties, with a focus on education, income, health and safety net services.

“I am leaving this United Way in the best financial

Recruit The new policy follows a decision made last month by Alexander City Schools to waive its non-resident enrollment fee which was $500 per student last year, down from $2,500 per student in 2017.

While state and federal education funding “follows the student,” outof-district students must be enrolled for one year before that funding kicks in. Also, as non-residents, Tallapoosa County Schools would not benefit from those families’ property taxes and is less likely to benefit from their sales tax.

According to Porter, however, the fee is less about making up those costs and more about ensuring those students have “skin in the game.”

While ultimately supportive

shape ever and for me I am so excited to see where God Leads me,” Fuller said. “I thank God who has allowed me to spread my wings and use my talents for this community.

I also appreciate my husband

Steve and all my family for being the biggest supporters of my passion. Steve has given money and so many hours in helping as well. So, I thank you all from the bottom of my heart!”

continued from Page A1 of the new policy, school board members did raise a few concerns in discussion last week.

Carter said he worries the policy will draw complaint from Tallapoosa County students denied the ability to enroll in a different school within-district — Tallapoosa County Schools has strict attendance zones for Dadeville, Reeltown and Horseshoe Bend schools.

“I’ve been pretty hardline on that, and I’ve always voted that we do it that way,” Carter said. “(But) if you went back and found those zones and put people where they should be, if they hadn’t been grandfathered in or had some sort of permission — I know I’ve been on the board six or eight years and we haven’t granted but one that I’m

aware of, and that was because of a health and safety issue — I know we have out-of-zone children.”

According to Carter and board member Matilda WoodyardHamilton, most of that negative impact has been on Dadeville elementary and high school enrollment.

“It’s still some gray area for me,” Carter said.

Woodyard-Hamilton also wanted to ensure the school district could accommodate the influx.

“I hope we fill them up,” Porter said. “I hope we fill them all up.

I hope we have to build more schools.”

The non-resident enrollment policy was passed by unanimous vote Monday. Board member Martin Johnson was absent.

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astounded that a religious leader would arents are never too old or too lower Himself by being a guest at the house wise to learn from our children! of a sinner. I wonder how Gideon felt when A couple of weeks ago our son his army of 32,000 was decreased in size was explaining something to us and he to only 300 men who defeated the 120,000 choose to use the analogy of a rat trap. men of the Midianite army. Gideon’s men He was pointing out that we should pay won the battle with a small number of men; attention to the little things because they with God, small is enough. What about matter. There had been a problem with the widow who dropped two coins in the rat infestation at one of the automotive JACKIE JA ACKIE something little, but the small facilities and our son was asked if he had WILBOURN offering, things mean a lot in the eyes of God? it under control. Although there were no Columnist Remember a baby born in a manger visible rats, there was residue where the who grew up and walked the face of this rats had been; suggesting there were still Earth for 33 years? He was a preacher, rats in the facility. The manager said, “you have to pay attention to the little things; these rats teacher, and a healer. He performed miracles and fulfilled His mission. He trained the disciples to do could literally destroy the interior of every car as well greater work after His death, burial, resurrection, and as the wiring, it’s the little things that are important.”

The things we consider small and insignificant, God ascension. He and His twelve disciples were a small group. Today, there are Christians all over the world. uses them to accomplish great things. Mentioned in all Things in your life may seem small or insignificant three of the synoptic gospels, Jesus compares the small size of a mustard seed and how it grows branches large to you, but they matter to God. Never dismiss the small things in your life. Small things will develop into a enough for birds to perch. This parable was used to illustrate that small things can grow into big things and harvest of blessings when God is allowed to use them for His glory. Luke 16:10, “Whoever can be trusted big results can come from small beginnings. John 6:9 with very little can also be trusted with much . . .” The describes Jesus taking a little boy’s lunch of two fish and five loaves of bread and multiplying it and feeding little things we have are there to prepare us for bigger things. The key is to trust God while possessing the over 5,000. When we give Jesus the little we have, it little things. God took nothing and created this universe becomes something bigger than what we originally and us. gave Him. Small things mean a lot in the eyes of God. Jackie Wilbourn is a member of Bethel Baptist What about “little, short man” Zacchaeus who climbed up in a sycamore tree to be able to view Jesus? Church, a chaplain with Alabama Baptist Disaster Jesus told him to come down from that tree because he Relief Team and a regular faith columnist for The Record. was going to visit him at his house. The crowds were

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Rogers expects House to flip in mid-terms

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Anniston) is confident Republicans will gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year.

Republicans taking over the House has nothing to do with what legislators have done or not done. It’s just a matter of history according to Rogers.

“In our country, in the first midterm election of a new president, in every election except two, the party of the president lost an average of 28 seats in the House,” Rogers told the Tallapoosa County Republican Party Monday. “Democrats have a four-seat majority now.”

Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump saw it happen while they were in their first two years in the White House.

“You look at Obama’s first two years,” Rogers

said. “He had total control, House, Senate and White House. They ran through a lot of stuff we didn’t like. We got the House back in the first midterm election.

We had the house control for his last 6 years and he didn’t get anything done because we stopped it. He wouldn’t work with us.”

It has been repeated in Rogers’ 19 years in Congress. Trump saw a similar thing happen when Democrats took control of the House two years into his term.

“This will be the fifth time since I have been there the majority has changed,” Rogers said.

“You can see it coming.”

A biennium is another thing members of Congress are used to.

“We live on a twoyear cycle,” Rogers said.

“We elect a president, two years later midterm elections.

“What happens historically is the first year of a two-year cycle is when the action happens. When you are

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Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Anniston) stopped by Alexander City Monday to visit with the Tallapoosa County Republican Party.

a new president, you try to get everything done in the first year.

The second year is election. It is amazing how courage fails in the second year.”

The second year of the biennium finds members of the House moving closer to the middle.

“Whether it’s the Democrats trying to keep the majority or the Republicans trying to get it or vice versa during the election year, they don’t want to take votes of significance,” Rogers said. “When you are looking at D.C., look at the first 6 months of the first year. That is when you see the real meat of what they are trying to get done.”

Rogers said Obama used presidential orders to get the Democrat agenda across and Trump was able to undo most of it.

“What people realized is how much power the president has from a regulatory standpoint,” Rogers said. “He controls all the levers of government and that is oppressive enough. Now with Biden in there, they are starting to exercise their regulatory muscles.

I’m pleased that legislatively he is not able to get much done.

They are still doing stuff when it comes to OSHA, EPA and on and on. It is big government trying to build itself back up.”

The U.S. House of Representatives operates

on simple majority but the cloture rule in the U.S. Senate means 60 Senators must agree to consider a bill except for once a year.

“That is important because when you look at the significant stuff they have gotten done is through reconciliation,” Rogers said. “Under Senate rules, one time a calendar year you are allowed to pass a reconciliation bill. It allows you to alter your budget because the numbers don’t work.”

Rogers said Democrats are trying to use reconciliation to sneak things around the cloture rule in the Senate.

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a COVID relief bill,” Rogers said. “(Democrats) came up with a $1.9 trillion bill. (Democrats) can’t get them to work with us on the cloture thing but (Democrats) want to do it through a reconciliation bill.

(Democrats) tried to put more stuff in there but the Senate parliamentarian said they couldn’t — it’s stuff like voting rights.”

Rogers said he is not opposed to compromising with Democrats and did so with relief bills as the COVID-19 pandemic straggled the country last year.

“We had to do those first three relief bills or there wouldn’t be an economy to bring back,” Rogers said.

“Even the Republicans were fine with that. Now we are getting away from COVID relief and getting into stuff that has nothing to do with it.”

Rogers said many Republicans would like to see an infrastructure bill but a bill without a lot of other stuff tied to it.

“Initially (the Democrat bill) was $2.5 trillion,” Rogers said.

“I’m willing to vote for an infrastructure bill. I will vote for a modest tax increase to pay for it because they don’t pay for themselves.

“But what they did was put about 10% that is infrastructure and the rest was stuff that had nothing to do with infrastructure.”

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Nate Oats to speak at Bama Club kickoff banquet

By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director

Lake Martin Bama Club is hosting a kickoff banquet featuring Alabama basketball head coach Nate Oats Aug. 25 at Willow Point Country Club.

Oats The event will raise funds toward scholarships for prospective Alabama students from Tallapoosa, Coosa and Clay counties.

“What we do is try to raise money for endowments to give scholarships to kids from the Benjamin Russell, Tallapoosa, Coosa, Clay area,” Lake Martin Bama Club vice president Nancy Hodges said. “Mostly Benjamin Russell kids are the ones that get the scholarships, but this year we did have one from Clay County.”

The Lake Martin Bama Club is composed of 315 alumni from the Lake Martin area and operates as a chapter of Alabama’s National Alumni Association.

It gave away three scholarships of roughly $5,000 to the class of 2021, two to Benjamin Russell students and one to a Central of Clay County student, Hodges said. With additional fundraising efforts this year, they hope to provide even more aid.

This banquet will be one of the organization’s biggest fundraising efforts of the year. It features Oats as a guest speaker, a raffle for tickets to an Alabama game and a guest appearance from A.J. Steadham, producer of the documentary “Wishbone Boys” about the evolution of the wishbone offense at Alabama.

Tickets are $50 and include a year-long membership into the Lake Martin Bama Club, food and drink tickets. Sponsorships are available for $250 per seat, and sponsors will receive a front-row table at the banquet with wristbands for unlimited drinks.

Reservations are being accepted from now until Aug. 16.

Payment can be made either via Venmo to username @lmbc18 or mail-in check to PO Box 1, Alexander City, AL 35011.

The kickoff banquet starts at 6 p.m. Aug. 25.

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Wyatt Allen, left, and twin brother Colton recently returned from a trip to the National High School Rodeo where they placed fifth in team roping.

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Cowboys Allen twins succeed on national stage in team roping

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

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re there cowboys in Tallapoosa County?

Twins Wyatt and Colton Allen of Dadeville were competing in team roping in their third National High School Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo in Nebraska last month when they silenced the crowd.

“The team right before was from Nebraska,” the twins’ father Ed Allen said.

“It was home for them.”

The Nebraska team made an amazing run as the header put a rope around a steer’s horns and the heeler tangled the steer’s rear legs.

“They went 5.7 (seconds),” Allen said.

“The crowd was cheering. The place was coming apart.”

Wyatt and Colton were backing their horses Woodrow and Tony in the chute as the rope was pulled in front. The crowd was still electrified after the run as the Allen twins signaled for the release of a steer. The Allen’s made quick work under the sound of 8,000 cheering fans.

“Here these boys from Alabama went 4.24 (seconds),” Allen said. “It kind of put a hush on the crowd, but they did cheer

“I guess we are as close you can get to the modern day cowboy as there is. They live it, breathe it and sleep it.”

— Ed Allen Father of Wyatt and Colton Allen them on. They clocked the fastest ever time that has ever been recorded in the high school rodeo team roping national final. It was impressive.”

The time is super fast. It would have been the fastest time at the national college rodeo in June. It is fast enough to compete against many of the professionals.

“It would win most any rodeo you would go to,” Allen said. “It was awesomely fast. Everything came together.

They had the perfect run. It would be in the top three almost everywhere.”

Wyatt said they have run similar times locally but not at big events.

The Allen twins made a decision early in life to pursue a life on horseback.

“The baseball folks live with a ball and bat in their hands,” Ed said. “(Colton and

Wyatt) are with a horse and saddle. We played baseball for a while.”

But the twins made a choice years ago before their third season playing youth league baseball.

“Colton said, ‘Daddy, we have got something we need to talk to you about.’”

Ed said. “‘What is it?’ ‘You need to pull over. It’s bad.’”

Ed pulled over in a parking lot before getting to the ballfield.

“Colton said, ‘We don’t want to play this baseball no more,’” Ed recalled. “‘We just want to rope.’ Ever since then, we have been full blast into it.”

And Ed is not kidding when he says ‘full blast.’ It was a months-long journey just getting to the national rodeo.

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Dee Griffin brings ‘alpha dawg’ mentality, leadership to Reeltown

By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director

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Reeltown defensive end and offensive tackle Dee Griffin epitomizes the ‘dawg mentality’ according to coach Matt Johnson.

Few football players in Tallapoosa County have a nickname that is both as intimidating and as accurate as Dee Griffin’s.

The player called “Alpha Dawg” by teammates and coaches leaps out on film.

He’s a force at defensive end, powering past would-be blockers and slamming down opposing ball carriers to the tune of 83 tackles, 11 tackles for loss and five sacks in 2020.

At offensive tackle he fires out from a four-point stance, a rare sight in football these days, attacking defensive linemen and linebackers with a violent quickness that often leaves them flying backward.

“Dawg mentality” is one of the top things Reeltown head coach Matt Johnson preaches.

His top dog is called the Alpha.

“He’s just a leader, leads by example,” Johnson said. “Really gritty. Ferocious. High energy. He’s got a motor that won’t stop, and of course, ‘Alpha.’ Alpha male, alpha leader,

alpha dog. Leader-of-the-pack-type mentality.

He fits every one of those descriptions.”

Playing with such aggression wasn’t a new concept for Griffin in 2020.

He recalls being the same way his entire football career to this point.

“Ever since, literally, I can remember,” Griffin said when asked how long he’s had his aggressive playstyle. “Everybody wanted me to come play for them and stuff like that.

I was always physical.

“I just love hitting people.”

Upon arriving at the high school level, Griffin said he picked up on a few key traits held by leaders of Reeltown’s 2019 state runner-up team, namely running back Cameron Faison and wide receiver Eric Shaw.

Shaw he admired especially, as much for his play at outside linebacker as out wide.

“It’s how Eric Shaw played,” Griffin said.

“I liked the dog in him. He played like he had a chip on his shoulder. That’s how I play.”

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Cowboys “We might have been home two, maybe three weekends since the beginning of the year,” Ed said.

“Our weeks seem to run together.

We ain’t been home. We left three weeks ago and went to Stevenville, Texas. That is where my oldest boy is in college. We left Stevenville and went to an international high school rodeo in Shawna, Oklahoma and stayed there four days to compete. We left there and went to Lincoln, Nebraska and stayed there seven days while they competed at the high school national final. We got home Sunday night.”

The trip had the family in a truck and pulling a trailer of horses for 4,500 miles over three weeks. But that is just the start

continued from Page B1 — the family runs its own roping production company with 300 roping steers and 200 head of brood stock. After returning from Nebraska on Sunday, Ed went to work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as the co-op director for Alexander City Schools while the boys tended to the farm.

“Thursday, we left to go to Montgomery to put on a roping that started Friday,” Ed said. “It went Friday Saturday Sunday and we got home Sunday night.”

But it was no relaxing journey from the rodeo to home as the family got to their Dadeville home about 11 p.m. after some work in Montgomery.

“We prepared the steers to head

home,” Ed said. “We hauled all of ours home and a guy that provided some for us, he hauled his home.”

Then it was a 6 a.m. wake up call to move the steers around to distribute them amongst several pastures.

“It’s a business,” Ed said. “We put on ropings in Baker, Florida, two days, then two days in Andalusia in April. We do monthly ropings in Franklin, Georgia.

We do Montgomery with the Southeastern Livestock Exhibition.

We put the team roping on with them the same time the rodeo is going in.

“We provide cattle to a number of different places,” Ed said. “We have one roping in Rainsville,

Fathers Day weekend. We have two ropings, one in July and one in August in Montgomery. We go back to Andalusia in October.

We do a two-day roping in Franklin, Georgia the week before Thanksgiving. We stay gone a lot.”

The twins work beyond the family farm helping work cattle for other livestock owners.

Ed’s oldest son went to Central Alabama Community College and is attending college on a rodeo scholarship in Texas, Colton and Wyatt will attend Southern Union Community College this fall.

Allen said the horse industry contributes $4 billion to Alabama’s economy every year with nearly $1 billion coming from the roping

Griffin Then a sophomore, Griffin was a significant contributor on the 2019 team as well, Johnson noted. The difference now is that he’s the player the Rebels’ younger guys look up to, much like he used to look up to Faison or Shaw.

Griffin said he takes a team-first mentality when it comes to leadership.

side.

“That includes team roping, calf roping and break away roping,” Ed said. “It has been really good for us. We had to work hard at it. It’s not a push a pencil job that you will make a lot of money at because you made the right decision. You can lose a lot of money if you make the wrong decision.”

The father is proud of his boys and the time the family hobby allows him to spend with them.

“It’s constant,” Ed said. “There is never a dull moment here, ever.

We are always working.

“I guess we are as close you can get to the modern day cowboy as there is. They live it, breathe it and sleep it.”

continued from Page B1 He views his teammates as brothers, the team as a family.

Johnson asked him to be more vocal entering 2021, and told him he can’t always be the nice guy. He’s been blunt with his teammates when necessary this summer.

“It’s more of just the mental

toughness part of it, when it’s 100 degrees outside, and you’re tired, and you’re running sprints and you jump offside,” Johnson said. “Sometimes you need a teammate to correct you in a very authoritative manner, and he’s not afraid to do that.”

He added that Griffin’s leadership influence extends beyond the field to the classroom and in the community.

Johnson referred to him as “a picture of our program.”

The evolution of his nickname came alongside his leadership.

“Dee,” already short for Rondarius, became “Dee Dawg,” which became “Alpha Dawg” when he became one of

the team’s foremost voices.

2020 marked the true emergence of both the moniker and the star player.

It doesn’t hurt that he weighed in at a lean, mean 250 pounds.

“Last year, the motor that he had and his physicality out of the gate, he just really embraced that description. And just look at him.”

Griffin’s primary goal for his senior season is getting back to the state title game. College offers would be nice, he added, but his main focus remains with the team.

He and the Rebels get to take the first step on that path against archrival Tallassee Thursday, Aug. 19.

Goodwater man killed in Sunday shooting

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

A Goodwater man is dead and a Talladega man admitted to his part in the shooting.

Coosa County sheriff Michael Howell said his department is investigating the Sunday evening murder of Desmond Jamal Robinson, 29, of Goodwater.

“We received a call from the Goodwater Police Department about helping with a death investigation,” Howell said. “We responded with deputies, investigators and myself.”

Howell said law enforcement worked quickly in the area of the shooting at Jacobs and Park Street.

“We had a couple of witnesses on the scene,” Howell said. “Pretty quickly, we were able to detain a person of interest.”

Howell said law enforcement took Jamarkis Cook, 29, of the Talladega area into custody.

“The victim and the suspect were in an altercation a couple of months ago,” Howell said. “(Cook) admitted to shooting but gave a different reason.”

But Robinson wasn’t the only person being shot at. Howell said Cook was charged with murder in the death of Robinson, with shooting into an occupied vehicle for shots fired at someone else in a vehicle. Cook also faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and reckless endangerment.

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Tallapoosa County BOE approves $1.5M Horseshoe Bend renovation contract

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

Horseshoe Bend School’s long-awaited renovation project is a go as the Tallapoosa County Board of Education accepted a $1,496,000 contract bid Monday, about $250,0000 higher than what they originally

budgeted.

The contract includes a new roof, exterior renovations and a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, including overhead units in the elementary and high school gyms.

Upon receiving bids for the project last week, Superintendent Ray

Porter warned school board members even the lowest quoted price — the one they ended up approving Monday — came out higher than planned.

“If we want to go ahead and do that project, then we may need to put more money into it than we had

anticipated,” Porter said at a work session Tuesday. “Now, that’s several months old when we budgeted that money and the construction market has completely changed in those months.”

According to Porter, the market timing is especially bad for HVAC,

which came out nearly double in price and with a 16-24-week lead time on getting it installed.

“We are not going to get that building built any time in the foreseeable future for what we would’ve gotten it built for 18 months ago,” he said.

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decided against waiting out the market Monday with little discussion.

“Motion carries, and happy to get that done,” board president Carla Talton said.

Horseshoe Bend’s $1.5 million renovation will come out of Tallapoosa County Schools’ capital project funding.

Prayer vigil Friday to support Alex City native grieving son lost in murder-suicide

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

Hometown friends and family of Kayla White will gather for a prayer vigil Friday in support of the Alexander City native who lost her son to a murder-suicide last week.

Tate Buening, 10, was shot and killed by his father Brian Buening, 37, shortly before Brian turned the gun on himself at his Harvest home Friday, three days before his custody hearing. White had filed an emergency motion

for modification of their custody arrangement last month out of fear for her son’s safety, but the hearing was not set for another 30 days.

In that emergency motion, White’s attorney cited the “material change in circumstances” that warrant the halting of Brian’s visitation rights, including his alcohol abuse and death threats directed at White during scheduled visitation times.

The Madison County district court filing cites Brian’s PTSD and depression as a danger

to Tate, stating, “The husband is extremely violent when his PTSD and/or depression are left untreated or he is consuming alcohol during an episode.” The filing also states Brian had a “lengthy history of suicidal ideations” with two near-fatal attempts and had frequently threatened to kill White verbally and through expletive-laden text message.

In a Facebook post Sunday, White describes how she was the one to find her son dead after

requesting a welfare check from the Madison County Sheriff’s Department.

“Everyone failed us. Everyone failed Tate,” White wrote on Facebook, adding she’d be “fighting this (B.S.) court system to create better laws to protect our babies from monsters” and fighting for gun law reform.

“Someone with two suicide attempts and violent history should not be allowed to buy guns,” she wrote.

In a GoFundMe campaign launched in aid of White and her husband Ross, a friend describes Tate as “a bubbly boy that loved life and laughing.”

“He never met a stranger, young or old,” the GoFundMe page

reads. “ He was such a joy to watch him as he entertained by acting goofy or dancing. The loss of this shining light leaves a hole in the hearts of all that knew him.”

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The Dadeville Record

Walls draws on locals’ memory banks in ‘Lost Towns of Central Alabama’

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

History may be set in stone, but local historian Peggy Jackson Walls’ latest book “Lost Towns of Central Alabama” is fresh material.

“Everything an author writes is original, or they need not write it,” said Walls, who grew up in Tallapoosa County. “What is original in ‘Lost Towns’?

All of it, by virtue of my knowledge of this information and growing up and living there. I knew the people to talk to and I always get out and interview. I do as much primary research as I can. I listen.

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for an original overview.”

For Walls, a retired Benjamin Russell High School, Central Alabama Community College and Auburn University English teacher as well as historian published in Alabama Heritage and Alabama Review, “Lost Towns” is her third book relating to central Alabama history. She writes about the communities that are no more, from the fortified town of Mabila razed by Hernando De Soto to the crossroads that sprang up in the Gold Rush to the mill villages, ready-made for workers and their families, that disappeared with the textile industry.

In a chapter titled “Drowned

Towns,” Barbara Cole, interviewed by Walls, recalls growing up in Cherokee Bluffs, the village — complete with stores, churches, a school and a hospital — built by Alabama Power for its workers during the construction of Martin Dam. Everything constructed was temporary, with the understanding it would be torn down and flooded with the damming of the Tallapoosa River.

While Walls cross-references with public records and the work of other historians, locals like Cole are always her first port of call.

“People are a good place to start,” she said. “People

are smart. They do not go out — most of them — into the world and get distracted by other people’s stories. They stay pretty local and they remember well everything in their life.

They remember their neighbors; they remember the stories.”

In her research for “Drowned Towns” and other historical writing, Walls said she’s spent hours with some interview subjects, just by letting them do the talking. Her advice is to listen.

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Participants are counted and then each person is free to walk around the school campus or pray in place for the time he or she chooses. If a church group comes, the can pray together or individually as they plan. The Ministerial Association members realize that God cares about every aspect of life and He can provide for and protect teachers and students. Therefore this appeal is made for people to call upon Him. For additional information, contact Michael Waldrop, Ministerial Association president, at River of Life Church or at 256397-2612.

Aug. 21

A LITTLE LOVE CONCERT: The Wilson Brothers band will return to Alexander City for another blowout concert on Main Street.

Bring a lawn chair and pick up a take-out meal from downtown restaurants. This is going to be a great night. Look for details on the Main Street Alexander City Facebook page.

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Churches and non-profits can submit items to the calendar at editor@thedadevillerecord. com and calendar@alexcityoutlook.com.

Fuller, Lance Dudley, Chip Stanfield, Donald Dykes and Bobby Langley are celebrating their birthdays today.

REVIVAL: The Pentecostals of Dadeville will host a revival at 6 p.m. with evangelist Logan Withworth speaking.

Aug. 24

ALEXANDER CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION BUDGET HEARING: The Alexander City Board of Education will host its first public budget meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 24. The meeting will be at the ACBOE office at 375 Lee Street.

Aug. 27

FELLOWSHIP FRIDAY: The Pentecostals of Dadeville will host Fellowship Friday with games and refreshments at the church from 5 to 8 p.m.

Aug. 29

LET’S DO IT AGAIN CONCERT: Miracle Baptist Church will host the Let’s Do It Again Concert Sunday, Aug. 29 with a variety of artists. The doors will open at 3 p.m. with the program beginning at 4 p.m.Guests include Roy and the Revs, Debra Snipes, Hubert Hale and Spiritual four, The Williams Borthers of Cedar Bluff, Ruth Black and The Harmonettes, The Leonard Brothers of Albany, Georgia, and Harold Holloway and Company of Atlanta. Emcees will be pastor Kenneth Grubbs and Apostle Joel Thomas. Tickets are $15 at the door. The concert is presented by J Platinum Records.

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COMMUNITY CLEANUP: Clean Community Partnership in Dadeville will host first Saturday cleanups every month at 8:30 a.m.

Meet at Dadeville City Hall to sign in and receive trash picking supplies and routes. There will be a trash bag drop-off on site and sanitized pickers. For more information, contact Dianna Porter at 256-750-0075.

CCP THIRD SATURDAYS: Clean Community Partnership will host its Third Saturday cleanups the third Saturday of each month.

Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Our Town Volunteer Fire Department for pickup supplies and area assignments to help clean up the streets within Alexander City. For more information call John Thompson at

rambling, but they’re leading you to something very interesting.”

With so many historical writings and records now digitized and research becoming a one-stop shop with Google, it’s easy for stories to get overlooked. This is where local knowledge — thereby knowing who to interview — comes in handy.

“Most of them will tell you almost anything once you get started,” Walls said. “But this is their one chance to tell their story, you’re doing something important.”

“Lost Towns of Central Alabama” is available online and in most major bookstores.

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DADEVILLE BEAUTIFICATION BOARD: The Dadeville Beautification Board meets the second Thursday of each month beginning at 5:00 PM. Meetings are held at the Tallapoosa Historical Society Museum. New members are always welcome.

FARMERS MARKET: Main Street Alexander City is hosting the Alexander City Farmers’ Market from 7 to 11 a.m. every Saturday June through September. The market in the Broad Street Plaza will have about 20 vendors from Central Alabama with a variety of local produce, home-baked goods, jams and jellies and more. There will also be special events.

THIRD THURSDAY: Main Street Alexander City is hosting Third Thursday in downtown Alexander City every month through Septemeber. Each third Thursday will feature live music and an art walk with local vendors and specials in downtown shops.

SCOUTING OPPORTUNITIES: Cub Scouts, second through fifth grade, and Boy Scouts, 10 to 17 year olds, meet 6 p.m. every Monday at St. James Episcopal Church at 347 South Central Ave. Alexander City. Everyone is welcome to stop by to learn about scouting and its values.

SOUP AND SANDWICH MINISTRY: St. James Episcopal Church will hold Soups To-Go from 5:30 to 6 p.m. every Tuesday. The program is open to everyone and will supply a cup of hot soup and a half-sandwich by curbside pickup or walk-ups.

CHARITY BINGO AT NIFFER’S: At 6 p.m. every Tuesday, Niffer’s Place at the Lake hosts bingo benefitting rotating charities. Cards are $1 each and there are eight total rounds. The first seven round winners receive Niffer’s Bucks and the eighth round is the jackpot round for cash.

AL-ANON MEETING: Al-Anon is a free support group for family and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are Mondays noon to 1 p.m. at United Methodist Church in Dadeville, 140 W. Lafayette St. Meeting room is down the steps on the right side of the church. You will be welcomed.

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