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‘THIS IS EMBARRASSING’ Letter reveals Dadeville parks and rec neglect By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter The Dadeville City Council was forced to address the apparent absence of its parks and recreation department Tuesday, after receiving a letter that described the McKelvey Park baseball fields in a state of neglect. The letter, sent by Dadeville
Dixie Youth board member Philip Moore, described rundown fields and facilities and a “urinal [that] hasn’t worked since the start of last baseball season,” councilwoman Teneeshia Goodman-Johnson read aloud at Tuesday’s council meeting. According to Moore, the volunteers have been forced to take matters into their own hands.
County leaders looking at an ag center By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer Children are involved in agriculture all across Tallapoosa County – through clubs and organizations like 4H and FFA. More than 1,400 are participating in 4H programs and others take part in learning more about agriculture through programs of the FFA and showing livestock. The interest in agriculture stretches beyond Tallapoosa County, though. According to the University of Alabama Division of Agriculture Research and Extension, Alabama generated around $4.7 billion in agricultural cash receipts in 2020. See AG CENTER, Page B6
“I do not pretend to know the schedule of the parks department, but I spent an entire week of personal vacation pressure-washing the concrete to try and make the park look decent for visitors and did not see any staff working on the fields,” he wrote. Regarding the broken urinal, “If there isn’t a See PARKS, Page B6
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Dadeville’s Majors all-star team represents Alabama at the Dixie Youth World Series in North Carolina in 2019.
WOMAN EVACUATED BY HELICOPTER AFTER CAR DRIVES INTO HOUSE By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter
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woman was severely injured Tuesday when a man pulling into the driveway of a Dadeville
residence inadvertently stepped on the gas, hitting her and the house. Dadeville police and volunteer fire departments responded to the scene across the street from Medical Park Family Care, on
Old Susanna Road and State Highway 49. The accident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. The patient was taken by ambulance to a helipad where she was taken away by helicopter for medical treatment.
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A woman was severely injured Tuesday when a man pulling into the driveway of a Dadeville residence inadvertently stepped on the gas, hitting her and the house.
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A Family Dollar store in Valdosta, Georgia. Photo courtesy of Michael Rivera,Wikimedia Commons.
Rodent infestation spurs Family Dollar recall, Dadeville store not on list By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter Family Dollar issued a product recall across hundreds of stores in the southeast Friday following a warehouse inspection that turned up “live rodents, dead rodents in various states of decay, rodent feces and urine, evidence of gnawing, nesting and rodent odors throughout the facility, dead birds and bird droppings,” according to statement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). An initial FDA alert Friday warned products purchased Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee since Jan. 1, 2021 could be affected. Family Dollar followed with a voluntary recall affecting 404 stores including 14 Alabama stores; nearby Dadeville, Eclectic and Millbrook locations were not on See RECALL, Page A2
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