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Lamberth leads UA to SEC MBA Case title By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
Alexander City’s Katie Lamberth took the award for best presenter and helped lead the University of Alabama’s Manderson MBA Case team from the Culverhouse College of Commerce to the 2016 SEC MBA Case Competition title.
“It was a big day,” Lamberth said. “Florida was the team to beat and we were able to do it.” It was the University of Alabama’s first conference title in the competition, which is now four years old, and ended the University of Florida’s three-year domination of the competition. Teams of four MBA students
University of Alabama MBA students (from left) Katie Grayson, Matt Collins, Katie Lamberth and Abhinav Bhattacharya celebrate with the SEC MBA Case Champions Trophy.
from each of the 14 SEC universities were presented a business case by Henkel, a multinational company headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, that produces consumer and industrial products in the laundry and home, beauty care and adhesive technologies sectors. See TITLE • Page 2
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Taxpayers coming up on filing deadline
Alexander CIty dispatchers Dana Fuller, front, Karen Vaughn and Desiree Smith, back, man the telecommunications center at the Alexander City Public Safety Building. All of the city’s dispatchers were honored this week as part of National Telecommunicators Week.
By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
If you’re one of those income tax procrastinators, you owe Uncle Sam a thank you. Why? Because you have three extra days – until Monday, April 18 – to file your taxes this year instead of the usual filing deadline of April 15. “Due to a Washington, D.C. holiday (Emancipation Day) falling on the normal filing deadline of April 15, the tax deadline moves to the next business day, which is Monday, April 18,” said Sharita Hutton of H&R Block. What’s more, if you didn’t file a return for 2012 and would have had a refund coming that year, you may have an extra reason to thank Uncle Sam. “What a lot of people don’t know is the April 18 deadline is not just the deadline for 2015 returns, but also to claim 2012 refunds on an original or amended return,” Hutton said. “The IRS estimates more than 1 million taxpayers did not file a 2012 return and may be due a refund. There is more than $950 million available to these filers in federal tax refunds.” Hutton said that about 90 percent of the federal income tax returns filed are expected to be filed by the deadline, leaving 10 percent to be filed by the extended due date, which falls on Oct. 17 See TAXES • Page 2
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County dispatch honored on Telecommunications Week
City dispatchers help residents get aid they need
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
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In an emergency situation, getting the help you need can be the difference between life and death. That’s why public safety dispatchers, or telecommunicators, are so important. In Alexander City last year, they were responsible for handling 51,148 phone See DISPATCH • Page 3
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Above, Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department dispatchers Angela Sarver, left, and Elizabeth Griffith staff the phone in the departments communications center Wednesday.
They are the lifeline of the county, dispatchers of the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department. This week is just for them as the week has been designated National Public Safety Telecommunications Week. “They are the first contact that many have with law See COUNTY • Page 3
Martin Bass Fishing star LakeLakeLevels Parker visits Girls 490.14 Ranch in Camp Hill
Relay Idol auditions set for Friday
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By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Are you the next Idol? The local Relay for Life committee is hoping that they can find the Relay Idol. “We are having auditions to find six acts that will move forward,” Committee member Janet Austin said. “Those six acts will move on to the finals and be the entertainment for the Relay for Life event May 6. We have blocked out a hour and
Famous outdoorsman Hank Parker blindly accepted Nick Rauccio’s invitation to support The Boys and Girls Ranches of Alabama months ago by helping celebrate the ranches’ 50th anniversary. But after a visit to Camp Hill’s Sheriff’s Girls Ranch Wednesday, it became clear. “I am not real sure why I agreed to come,” Parker said. “I am a fisherman and this is very much out of my element, but I look at these girls and became very emotional.” Rauccio talked about how he came to invite Parker. “All of you know that we have been producing golf events and the Taste of See RANCH • Page 7
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Hank Parker, back left, and Nick Rauccio pose for a photograph with some of the girls of the Alabama Sheriff’s Boys and Girl’s Ranch in Camp Hill.
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