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Tigers ride first quarter to run to sixth straight win

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Council, BOE debate issues at high school King Street is lined with student parking, which causes congestion that would block a fire truck from accessing Tallassee High School’s campus. This along with the open access to the school from the street was just two of several safety issues addressed by city officials during Tuesday’s meeting.

Officials not seeing eye-to-eye; have safety, financial concerns By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

Tallassee’s City Council and Board of Education are wrangling over the funding and sequence of building new facilities at the high school, with the council questioning the board’s priorities and the board insisting on a financial commitment from the city. At the Nov. 27 council meeting, superintendent Wade Shipman said the

school system must receive a binding pledge from the city council that half of a proposed 1-cent sales tax increase would go toward the project. The binding pledge is required for bonds to be issued for the new structures. But Mayor Johnny Hammock and the council expressed reservations about plans to build a fine-arts building before a main building because they feel safety issues at the existing main building See DEBATE • Page A3

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City’s downtown improvements are in planning stages By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

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Santa Claus shows Web Buce how to hold up 10 fingers during Friday’s annual Christmas tree lighting held at Veterans Park. To read a story on the tree lighting ringing in the holiday season and for more photos, see Page A7 inside.

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Hotel Tallassee now facing fresh problems By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

4-year-old stops, independently recites pledge on bathroom break By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

Patriotism runs deep in Tallassee, even on an elementary level. Each day during the morning announcements, the fourth-grade purple ambassadors recite the Pledge of Allegiance for all the students at Tallassee Elementary School. “The children in our pre-K class have learned See PLEDGE • Page A2

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Tallassee pre-K student Anzlee Eckstein, 4, stopped in the hallway — on her own — to recite the pledge while she was walking to the bathroom.

The Hotel Tallassee has a new dilemma that could affect a popular dog park downtown but a city official said steps are being taken to correct the problem by the owner, who wants to sell the building. The backside of the historic building has a large crack from the top down to two windows below, causing the wall to bow in the direction of a nearby dog park. According to Tallassee See HOTEL • Page A7

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Obituaries Mr. Herbert “Wade” Johnson Mr. Herbert “Wade” Johnson, a resident of Lake Martin, Alabama, passed away Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at the age of 75. Funeral services will be Tuesday, December 04, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. from East Tallassee Church of Christ with Minister Mike McElroy officiating. There will be a private graveside service, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Shirley M. Johnson; daughter, Teresa Deloney (Rick), Montgomery, Alabama; three grandsons, Richard Wade Deloney (Erica), Auburn, Alabama, Garrett Deloney and Trace Deloney, Montgomery, Alabama; one great grandson, Bowen Wade Deloney, Auburn, Alabama and devoted friend who was like a son, Tommy Shoemaker. He is preceded in death by his son, John Wade Johnson and by his parents, John and Breal Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a member of East Tallassee Church of Christ. He loved nature and to hunt and fish. He loved taking young children fishing, hunting and sharing nature with them. He was a graduate of Auburn University and loved the Auburn Tigers. Mr. Johnson was on the Board of Directors for the Central Elmore Water and Sewer Authority for over 12 years. The family will receive friends Tuesday, December 04, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. until service time. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the East Tallassee Church of Christ, Cuban Missions, 501 Central Blvd., Tallassee, AL, 36078. Jeffcoat Funeral Home Directing Tallassee, Alabama

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Charles “Jabo” Bunn, 72, of Alexander City, passed away December 3, 2018. He was born February 6, 1946. Funeral service will be Wednesday, December 5, at 2 p.m., at Linville Memorial Funeral Home with Mr. Bibba Carr officiating. Burial will follow at Bethlehem East Baptist Church Cemetery, Linville Memorial Funeral Home directing. Visitation will be at the funeral home prior to the service, starting at 1 pm. He is survived by his children, Dawn Pilgreen and Deana Ham; brother, Robert Bunn (Gloria) and grandchildren, Ivy Williams, Dean Ham, Collin Lucas, Carter Pilgreen and Alayna Pilgreen. He is preceded in death by brothers, Raymond Bunn and Wayne Bunn. Online condolences at www. linvillememorial.com. Linville Memorial Funeral Home Eclectic, Alabama

Mrs. Betty Nasworthy Mrs. Betty Nasworthy, a resident Tallassee, Alabama, passed away Saturday, December 1, 2018, at the age of 89. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 5, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at Jeffcoat Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Billy Reinhardt officiating, burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Betty is survived by her children, Christy Perkins, Carol Ann Bowman (Ronnie), Debby Haggard (Frank) and Jesse “Butch” Nasworthy (Vicky); eleven grandchildren; nineteen great grandchildren; eleven great great grandchildren; brother, Don Dennis; sisters, Polly Sue Dennis, Marie Dennis and Karen Dennis; special nephew, Danny McClellan and several nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husband of fifty seven years, Mr. Jesse Nasworthy Sr.; brothers, Jack Dennis and Paul Dennis Jr. and her son in law, Robert Perkins. Mrs. Betty was a long time member of Riverside Heights Baptist Church. The family will receive friends Tuesday, December 4, 2018 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Jeffcoat Funeral Home. On line condolences are available at: www.jeffcoatfuneralhome.com

Mr. Joseph “Joby” Gauntt, age 91, a resident of Tallassee, Alabama, passed away at UAB Hospital on Friday, November 30th, 2018 due to complication from a stroke. Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Tallassee, Alabama with Reverend Clint McBroom officiating. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Joby was born on December 28, 1926 in Tallassee, Alabama to Dewitt and Maggie Gauntt. He worked for years as a pharmacist. Most of those years were spent at The Carrville Drug Store; the store he owned and managed for 19 years. He also sold real estate part-time for O’Daniel Realty. When not working, Joby couldn’t resist a few rounds of golf or solving a challenging crossword puzzle. He enjoyed watching Braves Baseball and cheering on his beloved Auburn Tigers. He was also an active member of First United Methodist Church for over 60 years; singing bass in the choir and teaching Sunday School. Joby is survived by two loving children, Mary Gail (Steve) Hogan, Mandan, North Dakota, Burton (Stephanie) Gauntt, Kent Alabama, grandson Alex (fiancée Nicole) Owens, Devils Lake, North Dakota, and sister, Josephine Tucker, Manchester Georgia. He is preceded in death by his parents, his loving wife Hulda Gauntt, and infant grandson, Brandon Jesse Owens. The family will receive friends Wednesday, December 5, 2018 from 4pm until 6pm at Jeffcoat Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Tallassee United Methodist Church, PO Box 780147, Tallassee, Alabama 36078-0147. Online condolences are available at: www. jeffcoatfuneralhome.com.

James “Jimmy” Harrison Thornton James “Jimmy” Harrison Thornton, 58, of Eclectic, passed away November 26, 2018. He was born October 31, 1960. A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 30, 2018, at 2 p.m., at Linville Memorial Funeral Home with Rev. Britt Green officiating. He is survived by his daughter, Amanda Thornton; mother, Linda Thornton Reed; maternal grandmother, Louise Ennis; brother, John Thornton (Rebecca); sister, Amy Dorminey (Mike) and grandchildren, Jay and Luke. He is preceded in death by his father, Joe Thornton; and sister, Frances Ledbetter. Jimmy was a third generation owner and operator of Thornton’s Auto Parts in Eclectic. He enjoyed fishing and buying and selling cars. Online condolences at www.linvillememorial.com.

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Rebecca Ann Hethcox-Ingram Rebecca Ann Hethcox-Ingram was born on February 19, 1937 in Tallassee, Alabama; on November 29, 2018 she went home to be with Jesus. She passed away at her current residence of Brooksville, Florida. Funeral services will be Thursday, December 06, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. from Jeffcoat Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Joe Mack Creamer officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. She is preceded in death by her parents Albert and Clyde Mae Hethcox; sisters, Mary Will HethcoxMcKay and Priscilla Mae HethcoxBryant; brothers, David Hethcox and James “Jim” Hethcox and her husband of 52 years, William David Doyle Ingram who passed away on December 22, 2005. Rebecca is survived by her four children, LaDonna Ingram, David Ingram (wife Dotty), Melissa Wallace (husband Garey) and Tia Maria Piper (husband Danny); six grandchildren, Daniel Ingram (wife Amanda), Britney Bredehoft (husband Andrew), Eddie Coleman, Amy Weigand (husband Andrew), Brian Falgiano (wife Nicole), and Elaina Lihn Wallace; two great-grandchildren, David Richard Ingram and Madelyn Brooke Ingram; beloved sister Nancy HethcoxReynolds and brother John Hethcox (wife Jean). Rebecca started work at North Arundel Hospital in 1968, first as a certified nursing assistant and then as a clerk for the Cardiac Care Unit until her retirement in 1995. Rebecca loved to garden and cook; she loved shopping and playing cards and dominoes; she loved music and musicals; she faithfully documented her travels and her visits with loved ones with videos and endless photographs. More than anything she loved her family; her grandchildren, especially, were the light of her life. Rebecca was kind, generous, hospitable, and fun-loving. She was, and will always be, greatly loved and admired and will be incredibly missed on this side of Heaven. The family will receive friends Thursday, December 06, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. until service time at Jeffcoat Funeral Home. Online condolences are available at: www.jeffcoatfuneralhome.com. Jeffcoat Funeral Home Directing Tallassee, Alabama

Pledge the pledge since the beginning of the year and have even been invited to be pledge pals,” TES pre-K teacher Samantha Stone said. “Pledge pals are a group of students that say the pledge over the speakers.” At TES, the announcements and Pledge of Allegiance signify a special time. It is a time to pause, listen and participate before the daily academic routine begins. Students are typically in their classrooms as the announcements begin but one 4-year-old pre-K

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student who was away from her desk as the pledge started knew exactly what to do. “Anzlee Eckstein was walking to the bathroom during announcements and the pledge came on,” Stone said. “She stopped in the hallway, on her own, and recited the pledge.” A parent visiting the school stopped to capture the heartwarming moment. Eckstein’s dad, Cody, said he is proud of his pint-sized patriot and gives all the credit to Stone, her pre-K teacher.

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alternatives, including on- and offroad pedestrian and bicycle facilities, infrastructure projects for improving non-driver access to public transportation and enhanced mobility. It can also assist with community-improvement activities, and environmental mitigation that includes recreational trails, safe routes to schools, and projects for planning, designing and constructing boulevards and other

The majority of the work will take place in the historic downtown area, Harrison said. “The project area is the square area right across from the police station that is bordered by South Ann Avenue, James Street, Sistrunk and Barnett Boulevard,” he said. According to ALDOT, the TAP grant provides funding for programs and projects defined as transportation

roadways, largely in the right-of-way of former interstate routes or other divided highways. “This is great news for the city of Tallassee,” Restoration 49 owner Haley Daniels said. “Downtown Tallassee has so much potential, and this grant is another step. I believe this will draw more people to shop downtown and draw more businesses into the area. I am excited for the future of downtown

Debate about obligating future administrations to long-term debt, I questioned that because the city has a lot more debt than the school system has or ever will have.” Shipman said a funding pledge is mandatory for the project to proceed. “A lot of tax money could be tied up for this process and it’s important that we are all on the same page,” he said. “For us to finalize this, we need to find out about a commitment of monies pledged to us. It’s very important that we have that to move forward with whatever bond arrangement we are going to have.”

Numerous safety concerns at THS

The proposed 1-cent sales-tax increase would dedicate half the revenue for city infrastructure repairs and the other half for the new school construction. But Hammock said he is concerned about the school’s construction plans and had Higgins and assistant fire chief David Rodgers attend the meeting to explain a long list of safety concerns at the current facility. Higgins explained the security risk associated with the current open campus, which has 31 entry points into existing buildings. “People come and go and there is no real control,” he said. “All these entrances from the exterior just give additional security risk. It increases the opportunity for bad things to happen. It increases the opportunity for abduction. It increases the opportunity for the worst-case scenario, like active shooters and things of that nature. It makes it very difficult on our end, on how we have to deal with those things. It’s a very bad tactical situation.” Rodgers explained a list of fire concerns at the high school, including

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must be corrected first, and about a projected timeline of up to 30 years to fund the project. Police chief Matthew Higgins said the security breaches at the existing buildings are so serious it could make it easier for active shooters and abductors to get access. The safety concerns caused Hammock and the council to question the current construction plans for the new facility, which call for a performing-arts center and new parking area in the first phase, according to Shipman. Councilmember Sarah Hill voiced concerns over safety issues at THS and rescinded a motion to pledge funds after first supporting it. “I want to see something where the fine-arts building and the new main building (are built) at the same time,” she said. “I am in support of the pledge and let’s work with them to see how we can get the whole bid done ASAP and not wait 30 years before it’s done. I think the best way to become a partner is to give them what they are asking for and voice our concerns. “If that’s what it’s going to take to get the ball rolling, give it to them. We have already done it theoretically. I would like to see the main school building before a fine-arts building. That’s like putting the cart before the horse.” Hill later rescinded the motion to go forward with the pledge and, after further discussion, the council said it plans to meet with Shipman and members of the board to work out a solution. The estimated construction cost of $30 million, according to Shipman, is also a problem for at least one councilmember. “We know a new school will be great for Tallassee,” councilmember Bill Godwin said. “When I heard

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the lack of a sprinkler system at the main campus and limited access for fire trucks. Among other issues, he said, are Bunsen burners without shutoff valves on the gas lines, open stairways allowing a fire to rapidly travel from one floor to next, and openings in the attic allowing a fire to spread rapidly. “None of the facility at the main campus has a sprinkler system, no means of a fire-suppressant system,” Rodgers said. “Because of the parking situation, we can’t get fire trucks to the building. We can’t access that avenue. The cafeteria and fine arts had vending machines that blocked the egress.”

Officials split on sequence of building

Shipman said in November it makes sense to build the fine-arts building first logistically “because we’re building a building in a place where we don’t have to tear anything down. Build it, shift and do something in the next area. It also lets us work on some of the parking areas. We can go ahead and begin with those because there will be no one in that area.” Also, Shipman told Hammock the school board could not put a timeline on the construction of a new main building at THS because of funding. Shipman said the bonds could finance a maximum of $19 million of the $30 million projected cost and it could take 30 years to raise the money.

“I would love a new fine-arts building but the safety concerns are more important to me,” Hill said. “I was told it could be 30 years before that main building is complete. Can we put our children at risk and wait 30 years?” Shipman assured Hammock and the council the project would be carried out with total transparency and tried to debunk what he said are misconceptions about what will be built. “There are no plans to build a track or put Astroturf in or other things,” Shipman said. “The purpose of the tax money is moving the school project forward.” Shipman also addressed projects at neighboring schools and how they are funded. “I hear rumors about other monies,” Shipman said. “We have a digital signage project at the middle school. You may ask why are we spending money on that? That money was spent through a grant that we received. The same thing is true with the scoreboards at the baseball-softball fields. That money was raised by (Tallassee BOE secretary) Mrs. (Marilyn) Speake. She privately raised every bit of that. I want to set the record straight in case people are using those things to say the board of education is not spending money appropriately. Our goal is to spend the money in a way that benefits our kids.”

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Remembering that championship season half a decade later

henever the history of state championships for Tallassee High School athletic teams is discussed, the sport in question is usually going to be baseball or perhaps reminiscences about the Tigers’ fabled undefeated football streak back in the 1940s. To what extent Tallasee’s efforts are affected by the ongoing bouncing around between 4A and 5A classifications isn’t necessarily a factor, although the THS coaches probably have to adjust their scouting more than a school that has stayed in one classification for an extended time. The most recent state championship won by a Tallassee team was the 1A-4A wrestling title in 2014. The Tigers had gone into that season with an optimistic attitude, having been boosted in 2013 when junior Josh Epperson (132 pounds) and senior Jesse Rowlen (heavyweight) brought home gold medals from Huntsville. Epperson’s win was his second championship. “I thought we had a chance,” veteran coach John Mask said of the beginning of the 2013-14 season, during a recent visit when I stopped by the older gym for a nostalgic conversation prior to the start of this year’s campaign. During the 2013-14 season, the Tigers pretty much dominated their competitors, losing only three team matches to squads from Florida and Louisiana at a huge tournament in Fort Walton Beach during the Christmas break. Accordingly, it’s fair to say THS was undefeated in intrastate matches. The 2014 state tournament had its share of drama before and during the finals. Going into the championship round, the numbers indicated THS already won the team championship before the ultimate matches began but all six of the Tallassee finalists would earn

WILLIE MOSELEY Columnist gold medals. Epperson was behind on points going into the third period of the 132 championship, but pinned his opponent to win his third gold medal. So far, he’s the only athlete in the history of the THS wrestling program to accomplish such a feat. D.J. Rivers, wrestling at 152, had undergone arthroscopic surgery due to a football injury in the fall of 2013 and was questionable for wrestling that season. He battled back, returning to action a week before sectionals, then won all the marbles in Huntsville. When Mask and I chatted about that memorable season, I asked him for some updates on the state champions, sort of a “whereare-they-now” notion. Turns out they’ve all done well post-high school: Kennon Reese (126): The only THS gold medalist who was a junior defended his title successfully in the 2014-15 season. He attended CACC in Alex City on a scholarship and is now a student at Troy University studying in the medical field. Reese was certified by the Alabama High School Athletic Association as a wrestling referee and officiates at matches in this area. Josh Epperson (132): Earned a wrestling scholarship to Newberry College in South Carolina. Currently coaches wrestling at Pike Road High School. D.J. Rivers (152): Employed at a local manufacturer. B.J. Thomas (160): Got a wrestling scholarship to Marion Military Institute and performed

well at national junior college tournaments. He transferred to Troy, where he’s finishing up studies in physical therapy. Drew Baker (182): Reportedly completing his studies at Troy with the intent of becoming a chiropractor. Devontae McKenzie (195): Joined the Air Force after graduating, was stationed in Germany, and is now in the reserves and studying at Southern Union Community College. Mask also accounted for the two other wrestlers who went to Huntsville — Steven Turner won third place in the 113 class and is now employed by Alabama Power. Robi Rygiel didn’t medal but still scored points for the THS team and is now in the U.S. Navy. The erstwhile state champions still keep in touch with Mask and each other. They still monitor the efforts of the Tallassee wrestling team. As for this season, I attended the Tigers’ first meet on Nov. 27, where they easily prevailed over three other schools. That said, this season’s 5A teams include perennial north Alabama powerhouses such as Arab and Scottsboro. A couple of football injuries have also been setbacks for the wrestling team. However, Mask is upbeat about how the season will transpire. “We’ve definitely got a lot of young guys,” he said, “but we’ve also got seven seniors with experience. Some of the kids went to a Penn State camp last summer.” Every wrestling match (and story) is unique, since it’s a team sport based on individual one-onone performance. This should be an interesting local season.

Willie Moseley is the news editor emeritus for The Tribune. His column appears here each Wednesday.

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Preventive care is like flu shot: It makes sense Dear Editor, Preventing illness is always better than trying to cure it and the flu is no exception. For most Alabamians, a quick trip to the local pharmacy or a doctor and a small copayment are all that are needed to prevent the flu. But have you ever thought about how people without health insurance prevent such illnesses? The cost of that vaccination can be prohibitive, especially when you are living on a limited income. Alabama has thousands of uninsured adults who often must make the hard choice between caring for their family and getting preventative care, such as the flu vaccine. Many of these individuals will not get a flu shot this year, potentially resulting in hospitalizations that could have been avoided. Alabama has an opportunity to solve this problem by increasing access to preventative care by expanding Medicaid.

Having a primary doctor not only saves lives, it saves thousands of dollars in avoiding expensive emergency room visits and hospital admissions. People with health insurance are able to receive much-needed screenings and vaccinations and to have a place to go when they get sick. How does getting a flu shot make that much of a difference? If an individual doesn’t get vaccinated and catches the flu, he may need medication to help reduce the symptoms (the most common prescription costs around $100). He would have to pay for a doctor visit to have the medicine prescribed, and the doctor might recommend additional doses for his family. But how many individuals living below the poverty level can afford several hundred dollars in prescriptions? If he is unable to buy the medicine and his infection worsens, he is likely to spread it to others and he may need hospitalization. The CDC reported 710,000

hospitalizations from the flu during last year’s flu season. In Alabama, health officials estimated about 100 deaths due to flu. Just this year, there was a story about a second-grade teacher in Texas who decided not to fill her prescription for Tamiflu when she saw it would be $116. She refused to pay and died three days later from flu-related complications. Many uninsured also have chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes and, without health insurance, these conditions only get worse. Providing preventive care through Medicaid expansion ensures healthy families, a healthy workforce and a stable healthcare delivery system. It’s time to invest in a healthy Alabama. Like getting a flu shot, it just makes sense. Donald E. Williamson, M.D. President of the Alabama Hospital Association

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STEVE FLOWERS Columnist

A look at election’s winners, losers

ow that the dust has settled on this year’s elections, let’s look back at the big winners and losers. The obvious winner in the Heart of Dixie is the Republican Party. The GOP retained the reins of the state’s highest office and every other statewide constitutional position. Kay Ivey was elected governor overwhelmingly, as was Will Ainsworth as lieutenant governor, John Merrill as secretary of state, John McMillan as state treasurer, Rick Pate as agriculture commissioner, Jim Ziegler as state auditor, and Jeremy Oden and Chip Beeker as PSC members. Our entire judiciary is Republican, as are all members of the Supreme Court and Courts of Criminal and Civil Appeals. There are 29 statewide office holders, all Republican. However, more importantly, the legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. More than two-thirds of both the House and the Senate are Republicans, which is called a super majority. Our Republican legislature can pass anything it wants without a Democratic vote or letting Democrats speak. Our Congressional delegation is made up of six Republicans and one lone Democrat. Folks, that makes us a pretty red state. Several years ago, I had the honor of being a keynote speaker at the Boys State 75th anniversary. I had attended Boys State 45 years earlier as a high school leader and aspiring young politico. I shared with these future political leaders this advice: “If you plan to run for statewide office in Alabama, even if you believe you are a Democrat, you will need to run as a Republican.” This year’s election reaffirmed and confirmed that truth. Winning the GOP primary in Alabama is tantamount to election. Therefore, to pick the biggest individual winner of the year, you have to look back to the GOP primary. Ainsworth, 37, a Sand Mountain legislator/businessman, emerged as the Gold Star award winner of the year in Alabama politics. His victory as lieutenant governor has propelled him onto the state political scene as the most prominent rising star. He was the top vote-getter in the state on Nov 6, and is a cleancut, successful family man who has been vetted by a high-profile statewide race. The second-biggest winner of the year was the loser of the GOP primary for lieutenant governor, Twinkle Cavanaugh. In all my years following Alabama politics, I have never seen a more graceful and gracious second-place finisher. She lost by an eyelash. She genuinely smiled on election night and said she had not gotten the most votes, even though she could have contested such a closely defined outcome. She had entered the race as the favorite, having been elected three times statewide. During October, she held a fundraiser for Ainsworth in her Montgomery home. She will never be seriously challenged in her post as president of the PSC. Speaking of rising stars, the third runner-up is 18-year-old Weston Spivey, who became the youngest elected official in the state by winning a Geneva County Commission seat. He won the GOP primary before he graduated from high school at Ridgecrest Christian School in Dothan. Young Spivey is also a volunteer firefighter with the Slocomb Fire Department. Keep your eye on young Weston Spivey — he may become governor before he is 30. The biggest loser has to be the Democratic Party and our current anomaly, junior Democratic U.S. Senator Doug Jones, who won this seat until 2020 because he was on the other side of the ballot from Roy Moore in the 2017 special election. Every left-wing, ultra-liberal group and individual in the country gave to Jones to beat Moore. Jones has never hidden the fact that he is a liberal, national Democrat. He showed his true colors when he voted against President Trump’s Supreme Court appointee, Brett Kavanaugh. Jones voted against this highly qualified jurist to appease his contributors in San Francisco and his like-minded Democratic buddies, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Diane Feinstein. We essentially have only one U.S. Senator and have ceded our second seat to California. Jones believes in the old adage, “You dance with the one who brung ya.” I hope he is renting in Washington because Alabamians are the ones who vote in 2020. By the way, if you have Richard Shelby as your senior senator, you really don’t need a second senator. Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist and his weekly column appears in more than 60 Alabama newspapers. He served 16 years in the Alabama Legislature. You can reach Flowers at www.steveflowers.us.

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Life up until the 1950s

’m sure a lot of you lived through a period in which home remedies were the only medicines we knew, especially if you came along before the 1950s. A child, for instance, never mentioned that he or she was constipated. This led to a big dose of oil, perhaps castor oil or mineral oil. I’ve taken both and for a young boy they are equally bad. Now I wouldn’t have minded taking Ex-Lax because that was kind of like eating a Hershey candy bar. Let me add all three laxatives worked just fine. A bought medicine was Goody’s or Stanback. Some people said they were just ground-up aspirin but a lot of people swore by them. As a young man working in the mill, I witnessed a lot of people who came to work, walked up to the Coke machine, pulled out a small Coke, opened up a Goody’s and swallowed it down. This is the way they started their eight-hour shift. People used homemade poultices to get rid of a carbuncle, risen, even a cancer, and these poultices had different ingredients and almost all of them had alum, garlic and different wild roots ground up. If anyone cut their foot, stuck a thorn in their heel or had similar wounds, the first thing done was to stick the foot in kerosene. A doctor once said kerosene killed

RONALD BRANTLEY Columnist the area in and around the wound and the healing was when nature stepped in and healed the wound. This is not a home remedy but in this area every home had a jar of Dr. Bennett’s black salve. In those days, it came in a small jar and now it comes in a tube. It had a funny odor and, as the old saying goes, it would draw anything but money out of the bank. I heard of some folks who had a jar of Dr. Bennett’s salve dropped it on the porch and the next morning it had pulled all the nails out of the boards where the ointment hit. You can still buy this ointment, which goes by its medical name everywhere but around here — around here you can still buy it by asking for Dr. Bennett’s salve. You don’t see people who talk warts off anymore but when I was a boy one or two people in the area talked warts off. Nowadays, we go to a dermatologist and he sprays the warts with a gun that freezes the warts. They come off in a few days. Have you ever had indigestion? For years, people took a glass of

water, put in a spoonful of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda, stirred it up and drank the whole thing down. After a good burp, you were supposed to feel better. I don’t believe there has ever been a relief for a toothache if it hits you just right. The best thing is to forget all the home remedies and, no matter how scared you are of a dentist, get it pulled. Oral gel may help if it’s not too bad and I’ve tried everything from ice to garlic but the only true cure is to get the tooth out. Our house always had a jar of Vick’s Salve, some Ben Gay, Epsom salts, paregoric and a bottle of alcohol. I almost forgot iodine. Most of us can remember mama rubbing our chest with a menthol salve of some sort or another. Once the ointment was applied, she would put a cloth on your chest to hold the heat in and pull the covers up around your neck. If you are reading this, chances are very good that you got well in spite of all the remedies I have mentioned.

Ronald Brantley is a regular columnist for The Tribune. His column appears here each Wednesday. He can be reached by email at Rbrantley1@elmore. rr.com

The class and civility of ’41

hen President George H.W. Bush passed away over the weekend, the tributes began immediately, as they should have: he was the last president from the Greatest Generation and the last war-hero president. As a naval airman, he narrowly escaped being beheaded and eaten by Japanese cannibals when he was shot down over the Pacific during World War II and landed on Chi Chi Jima. Bush, one of nine pilots who escaped the wreckage, was the only survivor. He had been a child of privilege, son of a senator from Connecticut. He could have ended up in politics anyway just due to his DNA and his Ivy League collegiate experience at Yale — including playing in the first two College World Series. But Bush yearned for something more: he knew much had been given to him, so he also realized the converse that much would be expected. As in the passing of Sen. John McCain several months ago, the country mourns not only a war hero but a patriot of the highest caliber. President Bush was characterized as a wimp during the 1980s. He was criticized for not having much to say about what he called “the vision thing” and was humiliated by reneging on his pledge to reject new taxes. But history will be so much kinder to George Herbert Walker Bush than the people who lived during his time. He served Texas in the House of Representatives during the 1960s before being appointed the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the early 1970s and serving as the liaison to China. He chaired the Republican National Committee. In the late 1970s, he served a distinguished term as CIA director. Then he ran for president in 1980. The field was crowded and 1980 was a divisive time for both parties. Ronald Reagan had challenged a sitting president, Gerald Ford, in 1976. The same was happening to

MICHAEL BIRD Columnist the Democrats in 1980, as Ted Kennedy challenged Jimmy Carter. George Bush ran honorably but at the conclusion of his campaign he was asked to serve as Reagan’s running mate. Bush served as vice president for all of Reagan’s eight years in office and was mostly untouched by some of the scandals that showed up near the end of those years. After a hardfought campaign in 1988 against Michael Dukakis, Bush was elected president and immediately his own philosophy of leadership began to take hold. He confronted the savings and loan crisis head-on. He took on dictator Manuel Noriega in Panama and won. When Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein began gassing his own people and annexing Kuwait for himself, Bush did something amazing — he formed a coalition of nations that would execute first Operation Desert Shield and then Operation Desert Storm. Bush never wanted to rule Iraq; he just wanted the bad actors to straighten up. His greatest achievement, however, may been spending his entire adult life fighting the shadowy fear of Communism and being chosen by history to preside over its downfall. During Bush’s first year in office, the Berlin Wall fell, and East and West Germany reunified. Communist regimes all over Eastern Europe came apart as a beautiful wave of democracy splashed across the continent. What had seemed like only a dream was becoming reality. By the end of 1991, the Soviet Union would be gone, too. For all of the good, Bush was

disliked within his own Republican Party and faced an uprising from businessman Ross Perot, who ran as an independent in the 1992 primaries. Perot had deep pockets and spoke in common-sense terms about the economy. On the Democratic front, the party was revitalized by Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, who had emerged from humble beginnings to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. It didn’t hurt the younger Clinton for being touted as the first “rock ‘n’ roll” presidential candidate, as he came from the Baby Boom generation and used the music of that era to great effect. Bush was undone by the far-right GOP, led by future House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He also had to deal with an insurgency in the Republican Party led by Pat Buchanan, who had worked in the Nixon administration and still had an ax to grind in Washington. Looking back on it now, it is easy to see that George Bush was playing the long game. He wasn’t worried about political gains — he was concerned about what would make America better. In 1992, he knew he was going to lose the election but gave it as good a fight as he could. The letter he left for President Clinton on Inauguration Day 1993 that circulated around the internet this week is proof that Bush was a man of civility. Historian Jon Meacham called Bush “the embodiment of a postwar era of consensus that, in our time, seems as remote as Agincourt.” Maybe so. But that’s in our time. Let us hope when the students of the future read about the Bush era they do all they can to embody the integrity, class and character that made him one of our greatest presidents.

Michael Bird is choral director and assistant band director for Tallassee City Schools. He is a regular columnist for The Tribune.

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Alabama Power offers life vests at area boat ramps By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

The City of Tallassee is considering a proposal from Alabama Power Company to provide life vests at three area boat ramps at the Thurlow Reservoir. “Alabama Power wants to put up kind of like a kiosk,” Tallassee Mayor Johnny Hammock said. “They want to pay for the life jackets and put them out there, but they are asking that the city come by on Mondays and Fridays, after the weekend and right before the weekend, to evaluate the PFDs (personal flotation devices). They are responsible for replacing them.” The council did not vote on the proposal at its Nov. 27 meeting, as Hammock wants to discuss it more with Alabama Power before bringing the proposal back to the council. Hammock said the life vests would not cost the city anything except time taken by the fire department to check on them. “(There is) No upfront cost to the city on this, except having the fire department go out to check it,” Hammock said. “Right now, we pay for three (firefighters) to be there during the day.” Hammock conceded the program could have a downside, too. “Five years down the road, they could say, ‘Hey, we’re getting rid of this project,’” Hammock said. “That’s one of my concerns. Does it open us to any liability? I think most liability is on the power company. I think they are trying to prevent an accident from occurring. It has pros and cons, just like everything else. Are the rewards greater than the risk?” Councilmember Sarah Hill seemed supportive of the program. “I think so because we tell people they have to have the PFD, it’s a mandate,” she said. “We might as well have a partner of ours provide that piece of

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The City of Tallassee is considering a proposal from Alabama Power Company to provide life vests at three area boat ramps at the Thurlow Reservoir.

equipment for us. There may be a small liability, and five years down the road that could change, but they will have the option of having a lifejacket if they go down there.” Councilmember Jeremy Taunton voiced his aversion to the idea, saying the life jackets could be stolen. “I am for independent responsibility,” Taunton said. “If you’re going to go there, you need to wear your own life jacket. The more I think about this, the more it terrifies me because, for instance, at the boat ramp behind the

football field, it hadn’t been there any time and someone took the concrete pillar and threw it in the water. They have thrown the picnic tables in the water. What do you think they are going to do with these life jackets? They are going to take them to their house and someone will have to come back and replace them. If you check three times a week, they will have to replace them three times a week. If the power company wants to do this, then they need to take full responsibility for it.”” The City of Tallassee passed an ordi-

nance just over a year ago allowing law enforcement to issue a citation to anyone not wearing a PFD in the Tallapoosa River from the dam to one mile downstream from the AES boat ramp on Highway 229. The misdemeanor charge carries a $250 fine, plus court costs, and a possible 180-day jail sentence. Despite signs warning of the swiftly changing currents at both the Thurlow Dam boat ramp and the boat ramp behind AES Industries, two people died near the boat ramp behind AES Industries on Highway 229 in 2017.

Humane Society of Elmore County News

Want to help shelter? By REA CORD HSEC Executive Director

We hope everyone is geared up for the final push toward Christmas as we all find ourselves busy with decorating, shopping, parties and life in general. On Saturday, we will be at PETCO on Eastern Boulevard in Montgomery from 1to 4 p.m. doing pet photos with Santa! Cost is $9.95 and 100 percent of the proceeds benefit our shelter through the Petco Foundation. We hope to see a long line of happy pets and owners! Are you thinking of buying a new bed for your beloved pet? Furhaven Pet Products Tails of Joy Program is a great way for you to find a bed for your pet. They will also send one to our shelter for our shelter pets! Just use our shelter’s coupon code, ELMORE40, and they will send us a washable bed for our shelter pets! What a great way to solve that Christmas present dilemma for your pet and help one of our shelter pets as well! Another way you can support the three area shelters a bit closer to home this holiday season is through the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Humane Society Giving Tree. The tree is located in ASF’s box office lobby, and the tree is decorated with wish list items and employees’ pet photos until Dec. 30. Even if you are not able to donate, please thank them for their generosity of spirit! Don’t forget to check out our 100-percent volunteer-run Tails End Thrift Store, co-located at the shelter, for gifts for yourself and your friends! Our thrift store has clothes, linens, Christmas decorations,

books, collectibles, small appliances, toys and so much more! The store is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and can also receive donations from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. While at our thrift store, please thank our volunteers, who work so hard receiving, sorting and selling all of the donated items on behalf of all the animals. We think pet identification tags are a super present for your pet, or even other folks’ pets, and we can customize tags in our shelter office in about five minutes. We have a variety of tags. Small tags are $7 and large tags are $10. We tend to get an uptick in pet adoptions for Christmas. While surprising your children, parents or spouse with a pet may work out wonderfully, since the giver is also a recipient, we caution against getting a pet as a gift for a non-family friend. A pet is a very personal bond and why we offer adoption gift certificates/gift kits for you to purchase so the recipient can come at a later time to find their new best friend. Our adoption gift certificates are good for a year, so the recipient has plenty of time to visit and find that perfect match. This also allows them to wait until after the hectic holidays if it turns out Christmas isn’t the best timing for a new pet. Remember, a pet is a 10- to 15-year commitment, and bringing a new pet home is like adding a four-footed child. Our staff will help potential adopters make sure they are ready for the commitment a new pet brings, since we want it to be a lifetime of love for people and pets alike, whether at Christmas or any day of the year.

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Tree lighting rings in holiday season By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer Nothing symbolizes the holiday season like a Christmas tree, and residents of Tallassee and surrounding communities gathered at Veterans Park on Friday evening in anticipation of the annual city’s annual tree lighting. The park was filled with festive lights and children waited in line for a chance to sit with Santa and give him their Christmas wish lists. Several city officials were on hand for the evening’s festivities and Councilmember Jeremy Taunton invited the crowd to join as he sang “Happy Birthday” to Mayor Johnny Hammock, Hammock’s wife, Kimberly, and everyone else in attendance who was born in December. Afterward, Hammock and Santa invited all of the children to join them as they counted down to the big moment. The tree was lit just after 6:30 p.m. This is Year 1 for the city’s Christmas tree, which was planted in October along with the Christmas tree at the Tallassee Community Library and at Bell Park. The new trees are Momi Firs which, according to 3 A.M. growers out of Tallassee, is a species native to central and southern Japan, growing at low to moderate altitudes of 150-5,000 feet. The trees grow to 160 feet tall and 6½ feet in diameter. According to Hammock, the slower growth rate of the Momi Fir will allow the city to utilize the new trees much longer than those in the past.

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Top: This is the first year for the city’s Christmas tree, which was planted in October along with the Christmas tree at the Tallassee Community Library and at Bell Park. Above left: Elizabeth Britt, Jeanna Kervin and other members of the Talisi Historical Preservation Society and Friends of Tuckabatchee promoted the upcoming performances of The Magic of Christmas, which will be shown at the Mt. Vernon Theater on Dec. 15 and 16. Above right: Mayor Johnny Hammock wished everyone a merry Christmas on Friday during the annual Christmas tree lighting at Veterans Park.

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building inspector Andy Coker, the wall could pose a danger to people in the area. “I am not an engineer,” Coker said, “but if you look, you can see the damage to the structure. It’s protruding three to four feet. A section of the roof has been ripped off, so that part (of the) building’s stability is not there anymore.”

The bulge is clearly visible from the well-frequented dog park located adjacent to the hotel. “There is a potential for it to be unsafe and it needs to be addressed,” Coker said. According to Coker, the owner of the Hotel Tallassee, Wylie Troupe, is aware of the situation and is complying with city ordinances to bring the building back to

code. The unique history of the Hotel Tallassee, paired with a widely popular buffet, once drew a tremendous number of people to the area. That changed in October 2009, when a fire spread through the downtown area, engulfing the interior of the building. Afterward, Troupe put a tremendous amount

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rothers and sisters, if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to

Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit. Galatians 5:18-25. I have a proposal for you. Think about one vice that you have been dealing your whole life. Day by day, week by week, this vice becomes a part of your life to the point that you are used to it. If this vice could just cause less trouble, or cost less money, perhaps you would never even notice that this is a vice or weakness at all — or even if that vice is a sin. I’m wondering if there is a connection between the work of the flesh and lack of the fruit of the Spirit.

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We cannot hide from God. He knows everything and sees everything. Our strengths and our weaknesses cannot be concealed from Him. Is it somehow possible that good and faithful Christians like you and me don’t follow the Spirit of Living God in everything? Is it somehow possible that despite being saved, redeemed, converted and born again that I still keep

some part of my life far away from God’s vision, God’s blessing and God’s generous love? I think it is possible. It even doesn’t take too much. All that’s needed is just one small seed of doubt, fear or unbelief. Maybe even a small wound on my broken heart can lead to building of a dam against the endlessly flowing rivers of God’s grace. So what is it? What is that you don’t want to give over to God? What is it that you are afraid of letting Him share His vision over it? What is that you keep doing on your own, in your own way? Perhaps there is a vice in your life. It doesn’t have

to be smoking or drinking; it could be gossiping, overeating, staying online or on your phone too much — whatever turns you away from Him. Every time I turn toward myself, my hopelessly foolish self, I lose peace, joy, often kindness, often generosity. Every time I don’t want to accept life in the Spirit, as a beloved child of God, I turn toward work of the flesh. There is no space between. We can overcome our weaknesses if we put down our vices and follow Him. This week, let us strive to live in the Spirit each day and not the flesh.

Church Briefs Episcopal Church of the Epiphany

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church

On Dec. 9 at 10:30 a.m., Father Stephen McWhorter will celebrate the Holy Eucharist to mark the second Sunday of Advent, with coffee hour to follow. There will be no Sunday School that day. At 2 p.m., Epiphany will host a performance of selected choruses from Handel’s Messiah. Those wishing to participate as a singer should report to the church at 1 p.m. for warmup. Jerry Cunningham will be the conductor. Details for singers are posted at http://epiphanytallassee. org/messiah.

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church holds mass at Lake Martin every Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Church in the Pines in Kowaliga. For more information, call the church at (334) 283-2169. “Our Life’s Journey” is an outreach of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Tallassee, Father Mateusz Rudzik and Knights of Columbus Council 15093, Andy Lacey, grand knight. It airs on WACQ-AM 580 and FM 101.1 each Sunday from 8-8:30 a.m. Listen online at www.wacqradio.com or on a smartphone using the TuneIn app.

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Elam Baptist Church

at 5:30 p.m. with special music followed by a word from Brother Joe. The Wednesday night Bible study, including prayer requests and prayer with Pastor Joe Fain, begins at 7 p.m.

Salem Macon Baptist Church

Joe and Kelli Bryant will be speaking at Salem Macon on Dec. 16 at the 10:30 a.m. worship service. Kelli is the daughter of Randy and Carol Howell and the granddaughter of Ann Howell Owsley. Mark your calendar and plan to come. You will receive a blessing.

Liberty Baptist Church

New worship times are 9 a.m. for contemporary and 11 a.m. for traditional, with Sunday School for all ages at 10 a.m. Programs for children and youth on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. All are welcome. We also have a few openings left in our Lighthouse Afterschool program, for children in kindergarten through seventh grade. Afterschool care includes devotions, fun activities, mission projects and help with homework. For more information, contact our church office at 283-2195.

Elam Baptist Church is sharing the gospel with all ages. Small groups begin at 10 a.m. with worship following at 11 a.m. Tanner Williams, youth minister, meets with the “You”th each Sunday morning in small group at 10 a.m. “Children’s Corner” (children’s church) meets during the 11 a.m. worship hour with children leaders. The choir has rehearsal each Sunday at 4:30 p.m. with new music minister Scott Slaughter. We welcome home Scott and Rhonda. Choir members are encouraged to attend practice each week in preparation for Thanksgiving season and Christmas music. Sunday evening worship begins

Everyone is invited to join us in worship at 574 Liberty Road, Tallassee. Interim pastor Lamar Duke will be preaching a message from Luke 15 entitled “Lost and Found.” Sunday School begins at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 10:45 a.m. Dinner will be provided at 5 p.m. Sunday evening and International Mission Study follows at 6 p.m. Wednesday night services begin at 6 p.m. For more information, call (334) 283-6338.

Living Water Worship Center

Revival nights will be held on the last Sunday of each month beginning at 6 p.m. at 45 Main St. in downtown Eclectic.

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East Tallassee United Methodist Church

The “River’s Edge Flea Market” is open every Saturday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. All vendors are welcome: new items, old items, crafts, youth groups, ball teams, baked goods, produce and food. The flea market is sponsored by the East Tallassee United Methodist Church and is located across from city hall. We will offer variously priced booths. To reserve a space call Joan Wood at (334) 312-4913. All proceeds raised by ETUMC will be used for church-sponsored programs.

Calvary Baptist Church of Tallassee

If you are looking for a church to worship and praise the Lord, join us at 293 N. Wesson St. in Tallassee. We offer 10 a.m. Sunday School, 11 a.m. morning worship service and 6 p.m. evening service. Also join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday for our prayer and fellowship service. If you have any questions call (334) 283-2366.

Tallassee Church of Christ

Sunday School begins at 10 a.m., worship service begins at 11 a.m. and the Sunday evening service begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday night services begin at 6 p.m. Visitors welcome at all services. Call us at (334) 283-5437 or drop

Carrville Baptist Church

On Sundays we offer 9:15 a.m. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, 5 p.m. discipleship and 6:15 p.m. evening worship. For more info call the church office at 283-2221, Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or visit our website www. carrvillebaptist.com.

Word of Life Baptist Church

Word of Life is affiliated with Carrville Baptist Church and is located in the old church building at 501 Sims Ave. On Sundays, Sunday School is at 9 a.m. and morning worship at 10 a.m. The Pastor is Ronald L. Williams. If you would like more information, contact Williams at (334) 2831010.

Rock Springs Baptist Church We welcome any and all guests to join us.

First Baptist Church Reeltown

We have worship services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sundays. Between those services, we have Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. with a class ready to welcome you. Sunday night service begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday night services begin at 6:30 p.m with Bible study classes for all ages.

Tallassee Churches BAPTIST Bethlehem East 7561 Upper River Road Calvary Baptist Church 293 N Wesson Street Word of Life 501 Sims Avenue Carrville Baptist Church 2436 Notasulga Road East Tallassee Baptist Church 314 Central Boulevard Elam Baptist Church 4686 Notasulga Road First Baptist Church 1279 Friendship Road Flatrock Missionary Baptist Church 1024 Flat Rock Road Friendship 4345 Friendship Road Liberty Baptist Church 574 Liberty Road Mount Zion Baptist Church

64 Log Circle Providence Primitive Baptist Church 4850 Chana Creek Road Refuge Baptist Church 3098 Red Hill Road River Road 239 Lower Tuskegee Road Riverside Heights Hispanic Mission 495 Little Road Rock Springs 375 Rigsby Road Rock Springs Baptist Church 2810 Rock Springs Drive Tallassee First 1279 Friendship Road Tallaweka Baptist Church 1419 Gilmer Avenue Westside Baptist Church 1825 Gilmer Avenue CATHOLIC St Vincent De Paul Parish

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SIXTH-STRAIGHT VICTORY Tigers ride first-quarter run to big victory By CALEB TURRENTINE Sports Writer

It did not take long to find a winner in Thursday night’s game at Tallassee. The Tallassee boys basketball team jumped out to an 18-0 lead and finished the first quarter with a 28-1 lead over Elmore County. The Tigers continued their dominance, winning every quarter on their way to a 66-30 win over the Panthers. “That was a pretty incredible run,” Tallassee coach Keiven Mixson said. “I’ve been a part of a lot games but that was a pretty good quarter.” The Tigers (6-1) knocked down five 3-pointers in the opening quarter and forced six turnovers, all leading to

points on the other end. Joshua Griffin knocked down two triples and scored eight points in the opening quarter. Jamicah Humphrey made one 3-pointer and assisted on two others. “We were on fire,” Humphrey said. “We all had the hot hand. It felt good and just got another good win.” Humphrey, who continued with the hot hand into the second quarter, finished with 13 points. Sandarius Hughley finished with three 3-pointers, all in the second half. “The more scorers you have, the better it’s going to be,” Mixson said, “but to have them all shoot like that on the same night is pretty rare.” While it was easy to

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Tallassee’s Jamicah Humphrey (4) gets by an Elmore County defender for 2 of his 13 points in the Tigers’ blowout victory.

find the beauty in the Tiger offense, the defense impressed Mixson more. The coach said he may have been a part of a team scoring 28 points in a quarter but limiting the opponents to one is rare.

“They were on fire,” Elmore County coach Rodney Taylor said. “They shot the ball tremendously well and you have to give them credit for that. But once it started getting away

from us a little bit, we started hanging our heads and I was disappointed in that.” Tallassee used fullcourt pressure through most of the game to disrupt Elmore County’s

offense. The Panthers finished with 19 turnovers. “Every time we have pressed, we have been successful,” Mixson said. “The guys love it, it See TIGERS • Page B3

My first football season in Elmore County was one to remember

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Tallassee’s Ciarra Sullen has been the team’s leading scorer this season.

Tallassee grabs second win of season behind strong duo STAFF REPORT TPI Staff

The Tallassee girls basketball team got 80 percent of its scoring from two players as the Tigers defeated Beulah, 40-30 last week. Lindan Oliver led all scorers with 19 points and added five steals and

two rebounds. Ciarra Sullen neared a triple-double, scoring 13 points to go along with nine rebounds and seven steals. The Tigers followed it up with a disappointing performance against Elmore County. Tallassee fell behind early and could not find a way back, falling to the Panthers 42-29. Sullen

led the team with nine points and four rebounds. Tallassee’s boys team defeated Beulah 71-52, outscoring the Bobcats by 19 in the second half. Jamicah Humphrey led the Tigers with 21 points while Kalvin Levett and Tyrek Turner each added 12 points.

Tallassee goes undefeated at duals tourney STAFF REPORT TPI Staff

Tallassee picked up four dominating victories at its own tournament to stay undefeated on the day. Wins for the Tigers included defeats of Beauregard, 51-13; Holtville, 60-12; Prattville Christian, 51-30; and Reeltown, 66-12. All of Tallassee’s victories came with helps of forfeits, but there were several individuals who had strong outings. Cody Gilson and Will

Lackey each had three pins on the day. Gilson flattened his opponents against Beauregard, PCA and Reeltown at 170 pounds, while Lackey had pins against the same teams at 145. Both finished 4-0 with wins by forfeits against Holtville. At 113, Grant Hall went 3-1 on the day, picking up pins against Holtville and Reeltown. Quinton Jeter was 2-1 at 138 with pins against Beauregard and Reeltown. Mason Bell, Drake Bonner and Brandan Emfinger were

also two-pin victors at 152, 160 and 106, respectively.

Elmore County takes third With a big victory over Beauregard in its final match of the day, Elmore County’s wrestling team took third at the Tallassee Duals on Saturday afternoon. In addition to a 66-17 defeat of Beauregard, the Panthers had wins over Dadeville, 72-6; Northview, 63-16; and Stanhope Elmore. Their

only loss came against St. James, 52-24. The day helped the Panthers bounce back from their season-opening loss to Tallassee the day prior. “We just wrestled a lot better today, even against St. James,” Elmore County coach Jared Jones said. “We seemed a lot more relaxed, but we still have a long way to go. We wrestled a whole lot better; we just have to work on being a whole lot more aggressive in the first period. See DUALS • Page B3

games. The t the two teams that start of didn’t make the August, postseason still I accepted finished with a job to be three region thrown into the wins each. busiest time of The six year for high football school sports programs in CALEB in Alabama. I had very limited TURRENTINE the county combined knowledge of the schools in Sports Writer for 44 wins, including four Elmore County in the playoffs. and the football And in between programs I all of it, I got to cover would be covering. some of the best games I After one week on have ever seen on Friday the job, football practice nights. officially began and Things got started every coach talked early in the season about the success which when Edgewood could be possible. It hosted Northside in the all sounded like coach season opener before speak at the time but AHSAA play began. four months later, the The Wildcats won a one2018 season was one point thriller to end their of the most successful 20-game losing streak. seasons as a whole for The next week, high school football in Wetumpka made a Elmore County. statement against a I knew to be on Class 7A playoff team, the lookout for teams Fairhope, in my first like Wetumpka and game at Hohenberg Tallassee, which were Field. Tyquan Rawls and coming off double-digit the rest of the Wetumpka win seasons. However, offense showed they the other four teams were not going to go in our coverage area down without a fight. combined for just nine I sat through 90 wins in 2017. minutes of lightning Before the games delays for my first game began, new challenges at Stanhope Elmore were presented to both before the Mustangs fell of the teams with higher on a last-second field expectations. Tallassee goal by 7A powerhouse was making the jump to Prattville. Two weeks a higher classification later, Wetumpka used a while Wetumpka dealt late field goal to knock with an injury to the off Opelika in a game quarterback who was expected to be the key to which ended up deciding the region title. its success this season. Of course, the game With all of that being of the year probably said, I did not have came during the first many expectations for week of October. the teams in the county in August. And I’m here Stanhope Elmore shocked the region and to admit how wrong I the state with an 80-yard was. fumble return for a In 2018, the five AHSAA schools and one touchdown to knock off then-No. 1 Wetumpka. AISA school combined The rest of the regular for six winning records, four playoff appearances season had plenty of and two state semifinal See TURRENTINE • Page B3

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SWEPT AWAY IN SEASON OPENER Generals run away with win after close first half By LIZI ARBOGAST Sports Editor

Leading by just five points heading into the second half, Horseshoe Bend’s inside game caught fire in the third quarter. Caly Carlisle scored 10 points in the paint, and Ivy Vickers added six more, as the Generals pulled away for a 49-40 win over Reeltown on Monday in girls basketball action. “We were just putting a little more pressure on the ball,” Horseshoe Bend coach Erica Meigs said. “The press helped some and just watching their main guards was big.” Not only was the defensive pressure helpful in allowing the Generals to pull away, but they also did a much better job on the boards. Reeltown was out-rebounding HBS, 15-2, midway through the first quarter. Although the Rebels still managed a 46-40 edge on the boards, the Generals (4-2) made it that much closer. Reeltown, which was playing in its season opener, also struggled with turnovers late, coughing up the ball 15 times in the final two quarters combined. “I think it was more of what we didn’t do well,” Rebel coach Will Solomon said. “They were basically in the same press that they were in the first half, and we made some poor passes and got ourselves into bad situations and they turned into points.” Despite the loss, it could’ve been a lot worse for the Rebels. Horseshoe Bend held them to just one field goal through the first seven minutes of the third quarter and led by as many as 19 points before the Rebels started to claw back in it. Reeltown scored seven points in the final 1:13 of the third and a Mikiya Jones 3-pointer midway through the fourth finally cut its deficit to single digits. “We’ve just got to learn to play smart,” Meigs said. “We can’t make those silly little fouls when we’re ahead and let them score

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Horseshoe Bend’s Colby Cheaney, back, defends Reeltown’s Trey O’Neal on Monday night.

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Defense slows Reeltown in win for Generals

Above: Reeltown’s Taniya Haynes (3) drives to the basket against Horseshoe Bend on Monday. Below: Horseshoe Bend’s Nadia Freeman, center, makes her way to the basket through a crowd of Reeltown defenders on Monday night.

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with the clock stopped.” Solomon said: “When Taniya got that first steal, that made everybody else play a little bit harder and with a little bit more intensity. That’s the kind of leader Taniya can be. With her playing like that, she can really make a difference with the other girls.” Once again, though, Horseshoe Bend responded with a run of its own, capped by a 3-point play from Nadia Freeman, who scored 14 points on the night. That gave the Generals a double-digit lead before the Rebels chipped away at it again. Jones got hot for the Rebels in the final quarter, scoring three 3-pointers in the last eight minutes, to finish with a game-high 18 points. “I’m extremely pleased with the way we battled back — our effort and our intensity,” Solomon said. “We jumped into a couple things that we hadn’t had time to practice,

The defense was on fire for Horeseshoe Bend’s boys basketball team. Not only did the Generals hold Reeltown to fewer than 30 points, they also forced their rivals into 19 turnovers, and it resulted in a 40-28 victory for HBS on Monday night. “It’s one of those things that whenever you can beat Reeltown, you want to beat Reeltown,” Horseshoe Bend coach Chad Kison said. “When the blue comes up here, it’s always a tough game; they’re well-coached. It’s just very nice to beat them. I’m excited.” It didn’t look like it was going to be an easy ride for Horseshoe Bend, as the Rebels reeled off six straight points to start their season-opener. Keke Hughley, who did not play last year due to an injury, looked back in fine form, scoring the game’s first three points. But from there, things got harder and harder for Reeltown, as it scored only 22 points in the final 44 minutes. Horseshoe Bend took a big advantage by holding the Rebels to just one point in the second quarter to take a 24-13 edge into the locker room. “I think we moved well in the zone and we actually boxed out pretty good,” Kison said. “I think we had a lot of tipped balls in there, but we got a lot of hands on balls. I think we put our hands up and didn’t give them easy shots. We stopped them from driving as much as we could, and I think we limited their second-chance shots, especially in the first half.” Reeltown had its chances to keep the score much closer though. It went 2 of 7 from the freethrow line in the first half and just 9-for-20 on the See REBELS • Page B3

and I thought we did a really good job with that. That kind of helped. I hate losing; my girls hate losing, but I think we gave a really good effort and we ran the floor tonight.” The Generals have now reeled off four straight victories after starting the season with a pair of losses, and Meigs thinks

her team is on the right track but still has room for improvement. “We’re getting to where we need to be,” she said. “There’s still a few mental things here and there and putting more pressure on the ball. We’ve gotta move to passes and be able to read the defense and offense a little bit more.”

AHSAA Super 7 move to Auburn, Tuscaloosa was a ‘happy accident’ STAFF REPORT TPI Staff

The Alabama High School Athletic Association’s wildly popular Super 7 football championship left Birmingham’s venerable Legion Field in 2009 for BryantDenny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, a new tradition was born — due to a “happy accident.” And, ironically, the impetus for the move of all six title games at the time to the University of Alabama campus came from a couple of civic-minded men from Auburn. The previous year, Ron Anders Jr. and John Wild, decided to approach AHSAA executive director Steve Savarese about putting in a bid for a state championship event for the Auburn-Opelika area, maybe softball that could be played at some new facilities built by Auburn University. “It was really a happy accident,” said Ron Anders Jr., who is now Auburn’s mayor. “John Wild, president of the Auburn and Opelika Tourism Bureau, and I went to that meeting to ask about maybe getting a state championship for Auburn. Coach Savarese told us he was looking for some opportunities related to football. We were surprised by that. “We came back to town, got with the elected leaders, Mayor Bill Ham from Auburn and Mayor Gary Fuller from Opelika and got the ball rolling. Coach had told us we needed to put in a competitive See SUPER 7 • Page B5

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Tallassee’s bench celebrates after winning a match during the team’s in-school visit to Elmore County.

Tigers take down Panthers in season opener By CALEB TURRENTINE Sports Writer

The Elmore County wrestling team started its season with a big opening weekend. Before going to the Tallassee Duals tournament Saturday, the Panthers lost to visiting Tallassee for an in-school match Friday afternoon. Elmore County students filled the gym as the two teams took to the mats for their first meeting of the season. Panther coach Jared Jones said the energy of the gym was great but it may have had his wrestlers a little on edge.

“Some of our kids probably got a little nervous honestly,” Jones said. “They have a better team though and that’s where we’re trying to get to.” The match started with two Tallassee victories by Cody Gilson and Jacob Ledbetter. Both athletes pinned their opponents but the Panthers leveled the match after two forfeits by the Tigers. The heavyweight match followed and swung the momentum in Tallassee’s favor. Junior Tavarious Griffin stepped in for a shorthanded Tiger team and pinned Matt Brown to

give Tallassee an 18-12 lead. “It’s hard for them to come back when they see an emotional match that could have gone either way like that,” Jones said. Tallassee won nine of the final 10 matches to defeat Elmore County, 58-18. Jacob Taunton recorded the only pin of the match for the Panthers, beating Tallassee’s Preston Tidwell at 126. “I asked a few kids to move up a weight class so we could fill all of the weight classes so that put us at kind of See WRESTLING • Page B3

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Tallassee’s Joshua Griffin (23) and Jaleel Dumas pressure Elmore County’s Keshawn Benson during the Tigers’ 66-30 win on Thursday.

gives them some energy and some bounce. I didn’t know it would be as effective as it is but it comes in handy.” While Tallassee’s hot shooting allowed it to take the lead, it was the play inside which kept it there. Tyrek Turner finished with his sixth double-double of the season, recording 16 points and 16 rebounds. “We’re trying to work on our goals that we set before the game,” Mixson said. “We keep them focused on those goals but there for a minute, I didn’t really have to do much. I just had to let them play.” Elmore County dropped to 2-3 on the season. While Taylor was disappointed in the team’s first-half effort, he said there will be a response. “You look up at the scoreboard and we were trying to come back in one possession but that’s not going to happen,” Taylor said. “We got out of sync with what we were trying to do. Sometimes this happens. Tallassee has a really good basketball team. I can live with it.” Submitted / The Tribune

Hunter Goodman’s photo of his deer taken in Greene County won last year’s Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association Big Buck Photo Contest. The 2018-19 deer season contest is now underway at https://alabamablackbeltadventures.org/ bigbuckcontest.

Big Buck Photo Contest opens to celebrate deer hunting season STAFF REPORT TPI Staff

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Elmore County’s Stone Svencer tries to hold off Tallassee’s Christian McCary in a match on Friday.

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a disadvantage but that’s just part of it,” Jones said. “It’s going to be tough but we have to get better at takedowns. They got the first takedown in almost every match.” Tallassee finished the match with eight pins. Gilson, Ledbetter and Griffin were joined by Brendan Emfinger, Zack Haynes, Quinton Jeter, Will Lackey and Drake Bonner. Grant Hall, Christian McCarry and Mason Bell all won by decision. “Our kids really did well; I was really impressed,” Tallassee coach John Mask said. “Wrestling is unique sport though. You take two

or three matches that go the other way and then they win.” Tallassee rebounded from a 59-15 loss at Auburn on Thursday night. Mask also talked about the emotion behind the match and said there is usually more pressure on the home team in front of its own students. Mask and Jones spent more than a decade together at Tallassee as co-head coaches. They won one state title as a team. Despite the rivalry between the schools, both coaches said they want to see the other succeed. The competition between the

schools created a more emotional environment during Friday’s match. “If we wrestled again in January, it might be more emotional,” Jones said. “But the fact that this was our first match, against them, in front of our students, I don’t know if it could get more emotional. Maybe with higher stakes but as far as more emotional, I don’t think so.” Mask said, “We all want to win but we all still love each other. It was a great day and we were able to do really well. We have to keep working though.”

Rebels night. “We’re not going to be a high-scoring team,” Rebel coach Jonathan Gardner said. “But when we get close to the basket, we need to be making those shots. And we have to make our free throws.” Horseshoe Bend kept its lead right around 10 points for the entire second half, as Reeltown did not get closer than eight points after a bucket from Hughley pulled the score to 32-24 at the end of the third. Chandler Lewis was the defensive standout for the Generals. In addition to having eight points, Lewis also grabbed five steals and seemed to be all over the court. “That’s why I kind of just left him in there,” Kison said. “I thought he was feeling it. He

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Reeltown’s Keke Hughley chases down a loose ball while in pursuit by Horseshoe Bend’s Chandler Lewis on Monday.

was handling it well, no turnovers really. He was stealing the ball, so I just kinda let him go and he played very well. I’m proud of him.” Reeltown made only eight field goals and was led by Trey O’Neal, who had a double-double with

11 points and 14 rebounds. Hughley added nine points. “We just weren’t capitalizing at the goal and making the easy shots,” Gardner said. “We were forcing things, and we beat ourselves up. It was the first game for us, so we

Turrentine highlights remaining. Holtville dominated the fourth quarter against Talladega as the Bulldogs went on the clinch their first playoff appearance since 2010. In the final week of the regular season, rivals Tallassee and Elmore County lined up against each other for their season

have to find our identity and know what we can do and what we cannot do.” The win helped the Generals (3-3) bounce back from a rough loss against Dadeville on Friday. Since their first game at Elmore County, the Generals seem to be gelling better as a team and not relying on just one player. Four players had at least eight points. Colby Cheaney led the way with 10, Nywanski Russell scored nine and Lewis and Kam Evers split 16 evenly. “I thought we passed the ball well,” Kison said. “Not one guy had to go to the rim and take a tough shot. We actually moved the ball, looked for open looks and actually got some pretty good looks too. I think we can finish more layups, but we’re going to keep getting better.”

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finale. It was my first look at two of the best players in the county as Kalvin Levett and DJ Patrick traded blows in their final high school games. Wetumpka’s playoff run will be one not quickly forgotten. Despite falling short of the state championship game, the team’s three postseason

wins were not short of excitement filled with highs and lows. While there is plenty more which has to be left unsaid, I have to express my thanks to the thousands of people surrounding the football programs for welcoming me into the community. But most importantly, I

want to thank the players and the coaches for showing the passion and love for the game and their team. It made my job easier and I am already looking forward to next fall. Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for The Tribune.

There’s no season like deer season, and this year hunters in Alabama have the potential to bring home more than just their wild game. The annual Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association Big Buck Photo Contest is underway with a Wildgame WiFi Action Camera and SD card awaiting the winner. “We are incredibly honored to sponsor such a fun contest again this year,” ALBBAA executive director Pam Swanner said. “We love getting to see people who are encouraged by this contest to get outside and hunt, especially those who may not have hunted in the Black Belt before. We usually get a lot of entries from young people and it’s a wonderful thing to see our great hunting tradition being carried forward by the younger generation.” The Wildgame WiFi Action Camera is valued at $169. The compact camera is designed for recording movies while in motion and will also take 5MP still images. The lens provides a 170-degree angle of view with an auto rotation feature that corrects the image if the camera is mounted upside down or on its side. The camera captures full HD 1080/30p video, is waterproof with a depth rating of 30 feet and is protected by an

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aluminum housing. It has built-in flash to help take photos at night. To enter the contest, upload a single photo of a deer taken in one of the 23 Black Belt counties in the state this season at alabamablackbeltadventures.org/bigbuckcontest. The winner will be determined by the number of votes received on the website at that page. You may vote once per day through the deadline, Feb. 14, 2019. ALBBAA promotes and encourages ethical hunting and fishing practices. These contests were created to further educate the public on the abundance of natural resources found in Alabama’s Black Belt region. The Black Belt includes the following counties: Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Monroe, Montgomery, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Russell, Sumter, Tuscaloosa and Wilcox. The Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association is committed to promoting and enhancing outdoor recreation and tourism opportunities in the Black Belt in a manner that provides economic and ecological benefits to the region and its citizens. For information, go to www.alabamablackbeltadventures.org.

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ECHS had a slew of pins in the third-place match against Beauregard. Cody Bullard (106), Jacob Taunton (126), Skyler Stanley (132), Jason Aguilar (145), Chayanne Sanchez (152), Malachi Kendrick (160) and Ethan Geer (170) all flattened their opponents. Despite the loss to St. James, the Panthers did have a pair of victors on the mat. At 195, Garrett Moseley pinned Bennett Blankenship, and Matt Brown also had a first-period pin over Taylor Penney at heavyweight.

Holtville struggles at Tallassee Duals Due to low roster numbers, Holtville struggled with giving up forfeits Saturday, but the Bulldogs did manage to pull out a 39-30 victory over Reeltown to end the day. Prior to that, they suffered losses to Beauregard, 48-12; Tallassee, 60-12; and Prattville Christian, 39-24. In the win over the Rebels, Holtville had four victories on the mat. At 113, Caleb Sexton picked up a 7-1 decision, and Ethan Headley followed at 126 with a pin against Reeltown’s Christian Baker. Holtville had another pair of back-to-back wins with Colby Nelson and Slade Freeman each flattening their opponents at 145 and 152, respectively. Despite the big losses to Beauregard and Tallassee, Holtville had a pair of wins on the mat in each. Against the Hornets, Freeman had a pin at 152 and Michael Wilkinson flattened James Conway at 160. Versus the Tigers, Headley pinned Preston Tidwell at 126, and Jabarious Jackson earned a win via injury time at138.

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Tallassee volunteers collect over 1,750 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

Thanks to generous support from Tallassee and surrounding areas, over 1,750 children who may not have had a Christmas otherwise will enjoy the holiday this year. In the Tallassee area, 1,777 shoeboxes were filled and collected for Operation Christmas Child during the weeks before Thanksgiving, according to Teresa Wheat, the drop-off center coordinator at Tallassee First Assembly of God. The shoeboxes were filled with school supplies, hygiene items and other gifts for needy children around the world. The shoeboxes collected in Tallassee were added to thousands of others collected by Operation Christmas Child nationwide. This year, 23 churches from the area participated in the program. In addition, several individuals brought gifts to Tallassee First Assembly, the area’s drop-off location. Operation Christmas Child is a project

of Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization headed by Franklin Graham. The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to children in need around the world and share the good news of Jesus Christ. Since 1993, Operation Christmas C hild has collected and delivered more than 135 million gift-filled shoeboxes to children in more than 150 countries and territories. For many of these children, the shoebox is the first gift they have ever received. Tallassee residents can still participate in Operation Christmas Child by packing a gift-filled shoebox online for children suffering from poverty, natural disaster, war, terror, disease and famine. Visitors can browse samaritanspurse. org/occ to select gifts matched to a child’s specific age and gender, then finish by uploading a photo and writing a note of encouragement to be included in the shoebox they build online. They can also follow their box to discover where in the world it will be delivered.

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Volunteers from Tallassee area churches collected 1,777 shoeboxes filled with items for children in need for this year’s Operation Christmas Child. Pictured from left to right: Grayci Hadden, Lanie Clark, Blake Hadden, Sara Hadden, and Lexi Clark.

City of Tallassee to offer online bill payment By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

The City of Tallassee announced online bill payment will soon be available for the city’s utility customers. “We are about to start taking online payments,” Tallassee Mayor Johnny Hammock said. “People will be able to pay their utility bills online with a credit or debit card. This was one of my campaign promises.” According to the mayor, the city hopes to begin online payments by the first of the new year. “We don’t have an exact date,” he said. “We are setting up several things with the credit card company and website.” Online payments are available for gas, water and sewer customers, and soon even more online payment options will be available. “We are starting with the utilities,” said Hammock. “Then other payment options will be phased in over time, such as traffic tickets, court fees and permit payments.” This option will be convenient for customers who are unable to pay their utility bills during regular business hours. “This should save time and offer more convenience to the people of Tallassee,” Hammock said. For more information go to https://www.tallassee-al.gov/city-services/city-of-tallassee-utilities-department.

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Cookies and fresh milk with Santa at Blue Ribbon Dairy on Dec. 22 By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

Christmas isn’t Christmas without the annual photo with Santa Claus. Often, Mom and Dad will load up the car, drive to a local shopping mall and fight the crowds for a photo with Santa but, thanks to Blue Ribbon Dairy, par-

Liberty United Methodist Church presents the Living Nativity Dec. 15 By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

If you are looking for a unique Christmas experience geared toward the true meaning of the season, you may want to visit Liberty United Methodist Church in Notasulga. The church, located at 5607 Tallapoosa Street, will stage its annual “Walk Thru” Living Nativity scene on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 4-6 p.m. This year’s Nativity will include a stable scene, shepherds encampment, a town marketplace and an inn, and visitors will also see the wise men on their journey. “All of the scenes will be made more realistic by the presence of actors and live animals,” Liberty United Methodist Church Rev. Tom Skeen said. Visitors can park at the front of the church and walk the perimeter to take in all the scenes. Hot cocoa and cookies will be served. “This moving presentation is always fun for the children and a great way to show them the true meaning of Christmas,” Skeen said. For information contact LUMC at (334) 257-4355.

ents can skip the long drive to the big city this year. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in Kent at the dairy on Saturday, Dec. 22, from 10 a.m. until noon and they will share their favorite snacks — cookies and milk — with area children. But this isn’t just any milk; it’s fresh from the cow. Blue Ribbon Dairy opened in

November of last year and since then owner and operator Michaela Sanders has expanded well beyond Elmore County. Milk from Blue Ribbon Dairy can be found in grocery stores in Tallassee, Eclectic, Millbrook, Prattville, Deatsville, Holtville, Wetumpka and Montgomery.

Since expanding, the dairy has adjusted its business hours. Beginning Dec. 24, the dairy will be open Thursday and Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The dairy invites guests to visit the cows up close, and at 4:30 p.m. visitors can watch the afternoon milking and feed the calves.

Weather puts a damper on Christmas Parade By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

The weather put a damper on last weekend’s holiday festivities as the Tallassee’s 51st annual Christmas Parade was cancelled due to the threat of severe weather and will not be rescheduled. Members of the Tallassee Chamber of Commerce’s executive board made

the decision to cancel the parade just after 2 p.m. Friday afternoon after consulting with officials at Elmore County Emergency Management. “It’s impossible to reschedule at this time of year,” Tallassee Chamber of Commerce Director Jerry Cunningham said, “due to the many previous commitments and scheduling conflicts.” “I hate that the parade was canceled,”

said Holly Weldon of Tallassee. “We always take the kids and they love to see the floats and they love the candy too.” This year’s event was to feature Barney the dinosaur and Talley the Tallassee High School mascot. Last year, the parade drew 70 participants and more than 2,000 spectators, making it one of Tallassee’s most popular seasonal events.

Holiday Market makeup day planned for Dec. 15 By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer

The threat of severe weather Saturday canceled the second day of the annual Tallassee Holiday Market at Veterans Park but it has been rescheduled for Dec. 15 at the Mt. Vernon Theater. The holiday market had been scheduled to coincide with the annual Christmas parade, which was also canceled Saturday. “We really hate that the parade was canceled but it’s best to put safety first,” said holiday market coordinator Tripp Storm. Holiday shoppers can attend a special one-day makeup holiday market on Dec. 15 at the Mt. Vernon Theater during the Magic of Christmas, a performance hosted by the Friends of Tuckabatchee and the Talisi Historical Preservation Society. “We will have that market set up next to the Mt. Vernon Theater so that people will

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Mary McGarr browsed the annual Holiday Market that was held at Veterans Park Friday afternoon and into the evening.

have another opportunity to do some last-minute holiday shopping,” said Storm. The market is open to artists, crafters, bakers, clubs and

civic organizations, churches, local businesses and merchants. “We also have some really great food vendors that are

always a big hit,” said Storm. Vendor spaces are still available for the makeup event. For more information, contact Storm at 334-324-3492.