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Coley Creek measured more than 600 parts per 100 milliliters of water following heavy rains last week, Lake A swim alert team and information Watch partnered with Lake Martin dispersion procedure should be established Home Owners and Boat Owners at Lake Martin after elevated E. coli Association to alert boaters via a letter counts were discovered last weekend in to membership and social media posts, the upper lake, said Lake Watch Lake Reutebuch said. Notifications also were Martin president Eric Reutebuch. sent to Lake Martin Resource Association When water samples collected above and to public authorities, including
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Lake Martin Area United Way executive director Sharon Fuller speaks at the organization’s annual appreciation dinner at the Girls Ranch.
‘Just love on the girls’ Lake Martin Area United Way takes agency appreciation on the road By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer Every year the Lake Martin Area United Way thanks the agencies it serves. This year United Way executive director Sharon Fuller decided to take the small appreciation dinner on the road to the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, one of the agencies the United Way serves. “I talked to Michael Smith the director of the Alabama Sheriff’s Boys and Girls Ranches, he said, ‘I just want y’all to love See GIRLS, Page 3
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rincesses, clowns, soldiers, superheros, fishermen and cowboys and more once again filled the campground of Wind Creek State Park. The scares are so good, finding a camping spot is almost impossible. In fact next year’s Boo Fest has already filled Alabama State Parks’ reservation system for the park’s nearly 600 campsites. Veteran campers and scare enthusiasts know to plan early to keep a tradition of having fun in costume going. “We have been coming out for the last
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New T-shirt to be featured at next month’s LMRA cleanup By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer Ten years is a long time to keep anything going. For 11 years now, Lake Martin Resource Association’s John Thompson has been partnering with staff at Stephens Elementary School to create memorable artwork for volunteer T shirts. Third grader Lauren Edwards’ image of herself in a boat with a fish and turtle in Lake Martin was selected from dozens of pieces of artwork created with the assistance of art teacher Debra Griffith to be featured on the shirts for the Nov. 5 and 6 annual LMRA cleanup. See CLEANUP, Page 5
Top: Winter Mitchell, 3, of Tallassee grabs some treats at Wind Creek State Park as campers decorated their campsites and donned costumes for the annual Boo Weekend at Wind Creek State Park. Above right: Terry Norwood, right, greets campers before he opens his haunted house.
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OBITUARIES MRS. SARA GARRETT 1934 - 2021 Funeral Service for Mrs. Sara Garrett, 87, of Alexander City, Alabama, will be Friday, October 22, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Langley Funeral Home. Bro. Chad Harrison and Rev. Rod Siggers will officiate. Burial will follow in the New Rocky Mount Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 21, 2021 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Langley Funeral Home. Mrs. Garrett passed away on Monday, October 18, 2021 at Russell Medical Center. She was born on October 7, 1934 to Otto Brady Gray and Stella Easterwood Gray. She was an active member of New Rocky Mount Baptist Church where she served in the WMU as well as several other ministries in the church. She also volunteered her time with the Peckerwood Volunteer Fire Dept. She loved to fish, cook, and play with her grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren. She is survived by her daughters, Christy Harrison of Dadeville, Martha J. Lockett of Jackson's Gap, and Jackie L. Cox (Bryan) of Dadeville; son, Barnes Lockett (Donna), Jr. of Dadeville; grandchildren, Chad Harrison (Kathleen) of Dadeville, Brett Harrison of Pike Road, Matt Harrison (Dianne) of Charlotte, NC, Geni Abernathy (Jason) of Dadeville, Brandy Gutierrez (Zack) of Auburn, Michael Eaton (Heather) of Dadeville, Serrah Alise Powell of Dadeville, Ashlee Powell (Lauren) of Gulf Shores; 27 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by
her parents; husband, Joe Garrett; former husband, Ralph Barnes Lockett, Sr.; sister, Myrtle Traylor and brother, Howell Gray. Memorial messages may be sent to the family at www. langleyfuneralhome.com. Langley Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. EDNA BEATRICE WESSON OAKLEY 1926-2021 Edna Beatrice Wesson Oakley, 95, of Chesapeake, went to be with the Lord, October 15, 2021. Beatrice was born August 27, 1926 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama to the late Fred Madison Wesson and Edna Lou Ennis Wesson. She was predeceased by her husband of 67 years Harry Thomas Oakley. Bea was also predeceased by five brothers; Robert, Chester, Hubert, Edward, Marion and a sister, Margaret. After graduating OAKLEY from Tallapoosa High School in 1944 Bea went to Georgia to work in a cotton mill. She would run the spun cotton onto bobbing. She kept six spools running at the same time. She then worked at Tom’s Foods as a mechanic and lubrication specialist on the conveyor lines. It was while working there that Bea went with several girlfriends to Fort Benning, Georgia so one of the friends could visit her boyfriend at the hospital. After getting off the bus they didn’t know where the hospital was, so they asked the first soldiers they saw. One of those soldiers was her
future husband Harry. They started dating and on June 7, 1947 Harry and Bea were married. Bea worked as an accountant / bookkeeper at several local businesses and retired from Industrial Marine Service, Inc. of Chesapeake. Beatrice enjoyed gardening and flowers and was active in several garden clubs over the years. Bea enjoyed bowling and even raced go carts and won several awards. Bea was a life long member of the Women’s Division Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce Chesapeake, Chesapeake General Hospital Auxiliary, and SSG Jonathan K. Dozier Memorial Auxiliary VFW Post 2894, and Women of the Moose Chapter 966, Portsmouth, VA Lodge 898. Survivors include her children, Patricia Ann Oakley of Englewood, Colorado and Laguna Beach, California and Harry Thomas Oakley, Jr. of Chesapeake, VA. Granddaughters Tiffany Ann Terroux of Arvada, Colorado and Pamela Jo Simpson of Laguna Beach, California. Great granddaughter Lara Claire Lidell of Denver, Colorado and Coral Samantha Simpson of Laguna Beach, California. The funeral service will be held 10:30 am Thursday, October 21, 2021 at Centerville Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. The viewing will be held from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Wednesday, October, 20, 2021 at Oman Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Chesapeake Humane Society 312 N. Battlefield Blvd. Chesapeake, VA. 23320
DADEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT DADEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT OCT. 19 Melvin Ford, 42, of Dadeville was arrested on six warrants for failure to appear. OCT. 18 A two vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on U.S. Highway 280 resulting in moderate property damage and no injuries. OCT. 17 A three vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on U.S. Highway 280 resulting in major property damage and no injuries. A report was filed for leaving the scene of an accident that occurred on Oak Street. A report was filed for cruelty to animals on Freeman Street. OCT. 16 A report was filed for domestic violence second that occurred on Freeman Drive. OCT. 15 A two vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on Spring Street resulting in moderate property damage and no injuries. Scarlett Morgan, 32, of Dadeville was arrested for two counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana second, and promoting prison contraband.
Alexis Simmons, 32, of Alexander City was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana second on Legion Street. Antonyeo Alvies, 31, of Dadeville was arrested on a warrant for assault third and a warrant for menacing. Jacob Phillips, 26, of Camp Hill was arrested on two warrants for failure to appear. Archristopher Graham, 48, of Alexander City was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear. OCT. 13 A two vehicle motor vehicle collision occurred on U.S. Highway 280 resulting in major property damage. Emergency personnel responded to the scene and transported one person. One driver was cited for no driver’s license. TALLAPOOSA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT OCT. 14 Randy Gray of Elk Drive in Alexander City was arrested on five outstanding warrants for failure to appear arraignment, failure to appear driving under the influence, failure to appear speed, failure to appear open container and failure to appear driving while revoked.
James Taylor of West Patton Street in Tallassee was arrested on an outstanding warrant for probation revocation for possession of a controlled substance. Antonio Young of Mohogo Road in Alexander City was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear to appear child support. OCT. 12 A resident of Hayes Mill Road in Camp Hill filed a report for theft of property fourth. Nicholas Shipman of Tyler Road in Tallassee was arrested on an outstanding warrant for probation revocation. Adrian Glenn of Glenwood Road in Alexander City was arrested on outstanding warrants for failure to appear arraignment and grand jury indictment chemical endangerment to a child. OCT. 10 A subject on Overlook Drive in Dadeville filed a report in reference to domestic violence third degree. OCT. 9 A subject on Lovelady Road in Dadeville filed a report in reference to domestic violence third degree. OCT. 8 Samureal Leonard of Childersburg was arrested on an outstanding warrant for promoting prison
contraband second degree. Michael Joiner of Anniston was arrested on outstanding warrants for failure to appear: bail jumping first degree and two counts of failure to appear: bail jumping second degree. Fletcher Ellis of Wetumpka was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear: bail jumping first degree. ALEXANDER CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT OCT. 15 Harassing communications was reported in Alexander City. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. OCT. 14 Violation of a court order and harassment was reported in Alexander City. Harassment was reported in Alexander City. Unlawful breaking and entering and theft was reported in Alexander City. Harassment was reported in Alexander City. OCT. 13 Gary Devarta Norris, 29, of Alexander City was arrested for failure to appear. Criminal mischief was reported in Alexander City.
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Blackberry Breeze performed at the Lake Martin Area United Way Agency Appreciation Dinner at the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch Thursday.
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on the girls.’” Fuller said. “I figured we could do that.” Fuller and the staff at Lake Martin Area United Way got to work. But Fuller asked the girls to help too. “The girls picked the menu — hamburgers, hotdogs and banana pudding,” Fuller said. “Somebody asked how that went together. I said the girls put it together.” Blackberry Breeze was there too with a little concert to which everyone danced. Girls Ranch director Candice Gulley loved having the agency
appreciation dinner at the ranch. “It is a great opportunity for us to all get together,” Gulley said. “Over the summer we really haven’t been together. COVID-19 is still affecting and keeping us separated. This outdoor event lets us connect and have a little fun together. It is a good relationship builder.” The ranch doesn’t just work with the United Way. “A lot of the agencies that are partners with the United Way serve our ranch,” Gulley said. “We work with Rape Counselors of East Alabama, Tri-County Children’s Advocacy Center and the East Alabama Food Bank. They all assist us.”
the watershed, Reutebuch surmised. Continued from A1 Additional samples have not been drawn above Coley Creek since the discovery was was authorized to release a made, but samples collected public health announcement,” below Coley Creek continue Reutebuch explained. to test in the safe range, “We do testing and advise Reutebuch said. public agencies. We send “A couple of days after the them our data and our high hit, we sampled again at recommendations, but we Stow Ferry Road and did not don’t feel like we are in a get E. coli,” he said. position to release public Stow Ferry Road is located announcements.” approximately 600 feet south The contaminated samples of Coley Creek. were collected north of Coley Data compiled in the Creek, Reutebuch said. Environmental Protection Samples collected below the Agency’s Literature Review creek – and below Alexander of Contaminants in Livestock City’s wastewater treatment and Poultry Manure and plant – were well within Implications for Water ADEM’s specified safe range, Quality, published in 2013, under 235 ppm, he explained. indicates the contaminants Test results from the water could survive in the upper samples were available two reaches of the lake for 35 days after the water was to 300 days, depending drawn, he said. on exposure to sunshine, “That was the first time temperatures and other we got high levels of E. coli environmental conditions. in the upper lake. We have Auburn University’s had it in the creeks before but genetic testing of E. coli never in the main stem of the samples taken from Lake reservoir,” Reutebuch said. Martin indicate the bacteria The bacteria likely washed originated from cattle, human into the lake and its tributary and poultry sources, but creeks and streams during a additional testing is needed to heavy rain event associated identify the specific sources, with Hurricane Ida, which Reutebuch explained. If dropped in excess of 3 and when those sources are inches of rain throughout identified, ADEM could take
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Fuller said the agencies don’t get enough credit for all the work they do and this just a small way to show them a little love and appreciation. “The United Way board always thanks the agencies because they do all the hard work,” Fuller said. “Sometimes they don’t get thanked. They do a lot of our work. This is a way to say thank you for the support they give our community and United Way family.” Gulley said it was an opportunity for the residents of the Girls Ranch to see just a few of those who care and love the residents. “It is good for the girls to see their community is a lot bigger than this ranch,” Gulley said.
action in the development of plans to prevent the pollution from entering the lake. In the meantime, Lake Watch is working on action strategies to continue monitoring of the lake’s water and to develop an alert system for lake residents and visitors any time an area of the lake is contaminated with E. coli and unsafe for swimming. More than 20 area residents answered a recent appeal for water monitor volunteers. Reutebuch would like for the swim alert plan to include a dozen testing sites at popular swimming locations around the lake, with results posted or reported regularly through a variety of outlets, including The Outlook, lake stakeholder websites and blogs and on the swimmingguide.com app. “The Coosa River has a very good program that we could look into,” he suggested. “We don’t want to go around sending people into a panic, and we don’t want to shut down farming, but we don’t want to minimize the potential danger,” he said. “This is Alabama’s only Treasured Lake, and we don’t want to tarnish that designation.”
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hanks to modern medicine, breast cancer is not always a death knell. In the “localized” stage— meaning the cancer has not spread outside the breast — women have a 99% survival rate, according to the American Cancer Society. But without early detection, once the cancer spreads to the rest of the body, that rate drops to 28%. Benjamin Russell High School teacher and breast cancer survivor Elizabeth Strickland uses her story as a teaching moment for her students. After delaying her mammogram appointment for a year, her husband threatened to drag her in there himself. Sure enough, they detected breast cancer. As Strickland tells her students and The Outlook, “Early detection is key; I’m a big proponent of that.” One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetimes (and one in 833 men). That’s why October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — not because the illness is so severe, but because it is so common. Devoting an entire month to the disease not only remembers those who have passed, but ensures many more will survive. A pink ribbon is not just an empty gesture if it reminds someone to get her mammogram.
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ur senior senator, Richard Shelby, will be remembered as Alabama’s most prominent senator when he retires next December. Folks, that’s saying a lot because we have had a host of prominent men serve Alabama in the United States Senate, such as giants like Lister Hill, John Sparkman and John Bankhead. However, history will record that none of these above senators brought the federal dollars back home to Alabama that Shelby has procured. Seniority is omnipotent in Washington. It is everything, and Senator Shelby has it. He is in his 35th year in the U.S. Senate. He has already broken Senator Sparkman’s 32-year record of longevity in Alabama history and at the end of his term next year he will have served a record 36 years in the Senate. In addition, Shelby was the U.S. Congressman for the old 7th Congressional district for eight years. Shelby has not only been the most prolific funneler of federal dollars to Alabama in our state’s history, but he could also be considered one of the most profound movers and shakers of federal funds to their state in American history. His only rival was the late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Senator Byrd, who was in his ninth term as a senator when he died at 92, funneled an estimated $10 billion to his constituents during his 51 years in the Senate. The obvious question asked by observers of Washington politics is, “Are some of our most powerful senators too old to function cognitively?” I can attest to you that I know Senator Richard Shelby personally and he is the most cognitively alert and healthy
STEVE FLOWERS Columnistt 87-year-old man I have ever seen. He works out daily and has the memory of an elephant. In fact, his mental and cognitive abilities are similar to someone 30 years his junior. He very well could run and serve another 6-year term. However, he will be 88 at the end of his term. Shelby is one of five octogenarians serving in the Senate. California’s Dianne Feinstein is the oldest sitting senator at 88. She is followed by Iowa’s Charles “Chuck” Grassley who turns 88 next month. Shelby is the third at 87. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont are 81. By the way, Grassley and Leahy are Shelby’s closest allies in the Senate. The question becomes, “How old is too old to be a U.S. senator?” According to the Congressional Research Service, the average age of senators at the beginning of this year is 64-years. At some point voters have to weigh, “Is my senator too old to perform the duties of the office or does the weight and power of their seniority and the benefit of their influence to the state outweigh their energy and cognizance?” Voters tend to go with experience and seniority over youth. Senator Feinstein has been the most widely discussed current senator for decline in health. Liberals believe she was too conciliatory during Supreme Court nominee Amy Comey Barrett’s confirmation hearing. There is a pervasive whispering campaign about
Feinstein’s alleged cognitive decline and the Democratic senior leadership has indeed quietly removed her as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was common knowledge and apparent that Senator Shelby’s predecessor as Chairman of Appropriations, Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, was not very cognitive in his last years in the Senate although he was younger, chronically. The most notable example of possibly staying too long is probably the story of legendary Senator Strom Thurman of South Carolina. In 2003 Strom Thurman retired at the age of 100 after 48 years in the Senate. It was no secret that his staff did everything for him during his last six-yearterm. Our founding fathers created a minimum age for serving in the U.S. House or Senate but did not address a maximum. The owner of Grub’s Pharmacy used by many on Capitol Hill in Washington raised eyebrows in 2017 when he revealed he routinely sent Alzheimer’s medication to Capitol Hill. There are continuing attempts to pass a Constitutional Amendment to limit terms of Congressmen and Senators. Republicans run on the issue of term limits. It was part of their contract with America Agenda in 1994. Alabamians need to consider being for term limits in 2022, because it comes down to the old adage of whose ox is being gourd. We in Alabama are going to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle after Shelby. He is our power in Washington. We need to all jump on the term limit bandwagon beginning next year. See you next week.
A reminder to never give up
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he Atlanta Braves are playing for a shot at the World Series. My wife and I are watching the game, cheering loudly, occasionally shouting expletives and flinging popcorn at the TV screen. But as I watch America’s Team grind against the insufferable odds, locked in a barbarous battle against the LA Dodgers, I’m thinking about other things. Life things. Because say what you will about these spoiled professional athletes, but these guys on the TV don’t give up. They never give up. And that’s what has me thinking. During last night’s game, for example, the Braves were behind, and the commentators were predicting a skull-crushing loss. They experts said the Braves didn’t have a shot in a wintery hell. But they won. This game. Same old story. The pundits all claimed Atlanta could never wallop the chosen team from Los Angeles. But the Braves are fighting. Bear with me, I know this baseball analogy is getting ridiculously boring. What I’m getting at is, these twentysomething multimillionaire athletes refuse to fall down and die. They do not give up. They will not give up. And I wish I were more like that. In my life as a writer, I have been fortunate enough to meet and interview a lot of people who have faced dire scenarios and taken on the devil without flinching. Children with leukemia. Old men who survived numbered wars. Single mothers who raised families on shoestring budgets. And the one quality I notice in all these remarkable people— simple as it may sound—is that they never give up. Not ever.
SEAN DIETRICH H Columnist Take my mother. She is perhaps the strongest person I know. She possesses a strength I will never fully understand. She survived a husband who beat her, tried to kill her, and then survived his subsequent suicide. After that, she went on to survive single-motherhood, thankless jobs, and the rigors of raising an American teenage boy who had an appetite like a hypoglycemic water buffalo. And her trials didn’t stop there. When Mama reached the retirement phase of life, when most people her age start kicking back, buying RVs, touring national parks, and drinking Mai Tais in their muumuus, my mother developed a rare autoimmune disorder. Her disease mystified doctors. Many a trained medical man looked at my frail mother and said, “You are going to die, ma’am.” The disease was punching blueberry-sized holes into her muscles, and it was moving toward her heart. Mama whittled down to ninety-some pounds. Her hair became thin. There was a catheter port implanted in her gaunt neck. At her worst, she looked like a skeleton covered in skin. But somehow she survived. The doctors at Emory University Hospital remarked that, throughout their combined careers, they had never seen a woman so doggedly tough. Mama beat the rap and lived to tell. She never gave in. She never gave up. But here’s the thing:
I do. I give up all the time. Yes. I admit it freely, I am not a fighter. I surrender too easily. In my life, I have gone through some very hard times—just like you. But the big difference between you and me is, whereas you probably keep going, whereas you keep smiling, whereas you keep staying positive, I usually don’t. I have my blackbelt in the art of sucking my thumb. I’ve always been this way. Growing up, I was the kid who got his feelings hurt and ran off crying for Mama. And I did this until I was roughly in my thirties. I am not a strong man. In fact, sometimes I don’t know what I am. Still, on nights like tonight, when watching these young ball players dance across a green field in Atlanta, chasing a fiveounce stitched leather ball, I find myself inspired by the memory of the woman who reared me. And I find myself humbled, too. Above all, I find myself making a silent vow to myself. A promise I will probably break, but one I mean just the same: One of these days I’m going to be a stronger version of me. I swear it. Someday I am going to be less afraid. Someday I will worry less about horrible things—most of which will never happen. One day, I’ll be so strong you won’t even recognize me. And on that day, I hope some other hapless and defeated child, sucking his or her thumb, might look at me and feel courage. Anyway, after the Atlanta Braves win the big game, I hear my phone vibrate on my side table. I pick it up. “Braves win,” texts my mother. Because, you see, that’s what happens when you refuse to give up.
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Campers decorated their campsites and donned costumes for the annual Boo Weekend at Wind Creek State Park.
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8 or 9 years for this,” New Site resident Terry Norwood said. “We have been adding to this haunted house every year. We decorate just for the little ones.” Norwood joins his family and friends to provide what might be the biggest one day attraction at the park, a temporary haunted house. But Norwood doesn’t allow anyone in early. “It needs to be dark,” Norwood said. Until dark Norwood still has fun at the entrance to the B section of the campground. Norwood and others will get in costume standing as statues of clowns, ghosts and more. Children and adults alike will approach, knowing a scare could be on the way. For some Norwood will stand stoically, especially for those taunting him for the scare. Then as they turn to walk away Norwood springs into action. With an air horn blaring, Norwood reaches for a now unsuspecting person. Screams quickly come, soon followed by laughs of Norwood and the scare victim. Shane Wall has joined in the fun. Saturday before the haunted house Wall was dressed as a clown. Standing stoically at times and at others
walking in pace just behind trick or treaters. One teenager thought she couldn’t be scared because of the protection of a truck. Norwood and Wall were soon in the bed of the pickup with the victim screaming and shaking. They back off and Wall shakes the victim's hand. “We have fun with it,” Wall said. “We probably have more fun than those seeking the scares.” Trick or treaters approach Norwood’s campsite for treats before the haunted house opens at dark. “We gave out more than 400 bags of candy last year in a little over an hour,” Wall said. ‘We have about 600 bags this year.” Just over an hour again and the candy was gone. But Norwood and Wall have even more fun with the haunted house that has grown over the years. “The costume I had last year, this one kid about
my son’s age, I stepped out and got punched twice,” Wall said. “I scared him that bad. We have a good time with it.” This year’s costume is special, reminding him of a buddy, Marine Sgt. Stacy Green who died in Afghanistan. The costume was simple, Green’s Marine-issued gas mask and hood. “It’s simple,” Wall said. “My dog got a sneak peak of it Thursday. He is about ready to be on valium.” As dark approaches, a line starts to form. It's a scenario Norwood is familiar with as it has happened at his campsite at previous Boo Weekends and it’s not just the day of the haunted house. “These kids have been coming by since Monday when I started,” Norwood said. “They are talking to me, asking me what’s in it. Telling me they have been looking forward to it every year. They know it
gets better every year. We added two extra rooms this year.” The extra rooms slow movement through the haunted house. “In the past, they would get scared and run straight through,” Norwood said. “Now there is a zig zag. You are in there and have to find your way out.” But Norwood and Wall aren’t out to scare everyone. “We got some who think they aren’t scared,” Norwood said. “We have codes we call in. Others who are truly scared, we back off. We don’t try to scare everybody, just the ones who don’t think they can be.” Boo Weekend just demonstrates what Norwood has come to know at Wind Creek State Park, no one leaves a stranger. “We just enjoy the people here,” Norwood said. “You can walk to anybody you want to and ask for anything and they will help you.” Boo Weekend isn’t the only reason Norwood comes to Wind Creek State Park. “We come out here constantly,” Norwood said. “We spend numerous weekends here. This is our home away from home. This is how we get away from home. Every holiday that comes up, we come out. If it just looks like a pretty weekend, we come out.”
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Stephens Elementary School assistant principal Lekisha Richardson and John Thompson hold a quilt with the first 10 T-shirts created for the annual cleanup.
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“Y’all did a great job,” Thompson told the budding artists Wednesday morning. “When I walked in this room and saw all this great artwork, my eyes just popped open. I thought, ‘what a great bunch of artists we have here.’” Thompson said the selection of a winner was difficult. “Yours is right there with the best we ever had, y’all did a great job,” Thompson said. “It was tough to come up with the winner we used on the T shirt. We could have used
any of them. Unfortunately we only had room for one of them.” Edwards image is the 11th time a Stephens Elementary School student’s artwork has graced a shirt for the cleanup and Thompson had a special presentation for the school. “We have had 10 years of artwork and we are going to present a quilt to the school that has all 10 years of shirts in it,” Thompson said. “Doing this for 10 years is special. The quilt is great. I can look and I remember every one of them.” Griffith said she is trying to present all of the students’ work. “We are going to
try to do an art show,” Thompson said. “We want to show them all off.” Thompson was pleased to see so many of the students putting themselves in scenes free of litter or cleaning up around Lake Martin. “We are happy to know you love Lake Martin and we hope you help us keep it clean,” Thompson said. “We need to make sure the litter is picked up. Everytime you see a piece of litter, pick it up. Call your parents attention to it.” Thompson encouraged the students to take part in the annual cleanup Nov. 5 and 6. “Get your parents and come down to Wind Creek
(State Park),” Thompson said. “We will make pickers available and let you go through the park and pick up to help keep it clean.”
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a few minutes away from the church lady involved in Judson I served. Hal called me one weekend College campus ministry from Florida where he was visiting when I worked there began to family. He said the state mission board commandeer students on Sundays to contacted him requesting disaster drive to Birmingham to a large church relief funds. The Tuscaloosa tornado for worship. When the president of devastated the city in April 2011, the school learned this, he reminded MICHAEL MICH MI CHAE AELL and the board needed extra funds to her of his oft-spoken admonition to BROOKS support ministries. staff and students that we “nurture our Columnist I conveyed the message to community.” Pisgah and observed a bidding war. “There are wonderful churches Someone suggested they give $1000, and here that welcome our students,” he said, “and someone suggested more. Before the discussion our students can help these churches with their concluded, the church agreed to send a check ministries.” for $5000. I drove to Pine Flat Baptist Church He was right, of course. I was honored to serve two of those churches later that morning to conduct worship and said, “Let me tell you what Pisgah did!” I used this in my 15 years in Perry County. We were, good example to encourage our church to give by and large, a county of small-membership generously, too. churches. At the time the 15 churches in my I’ve often suggested that the spotlight is not denomination had only two full-time pastors; the the validation for ministry. As a pastor I’m in the rest of us were bi-vocational. Every weekend professors and police officers and businessmen spotlight every Sunday, but most ministry in our churches is done outside the spotlight. Faithful preached the word of God. One of my friends Christians do what needs to be done without served two churches, and one served three. I public acclaim. never did understand the three church thing. In the same way, the size of the church isn’t He explained it to me once, but I thought how the validation for ministry. Churches large and confused I’d be trying to remember if it were small are called to glorify God and serve others. first or fifth Sunday or the Sunday after a full And we don’t have to travel far to minister in moon! the name of Christ. As Russell Conwell said One of my colleagues, the late Hal Arnold, years ago, “Your diamonds are not in far distant Judson professor of psychology, often asked mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your me to fill in for him at Pisgah Baptist Church since they had early morning worship and were own backyard, if you but dig for them.”
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considered a fraternal order, Alex City’s club also includes women. Rick Nickolson, “exalted ruler” — as they call their elected very Tuesday the leaders — of the Alexander City Alexander City Elks Lodge hosts a get-together Elks, said the chapter has a public relations problem, especially at Bill Nichols State among those who only know it as Veterans Home, about $275 a week for ice cream, popcorn and the clubhouse on the Tallapoosa River, just north of the bridge. bingo. “Unfortunately, for a long time Now that there’s a light at we were classed as ‘nothing but the end of the pandemic tunnel, a bunch of drunks down there,’ they’ve been able to reprise but we’re not,” he said. “I think a one of their other activities — lot of the Elks is misunderstood. a fishing excursion hosted by Charity is our number one goal.” Hardy Farms in Coosa County. Indeed, the group’s motto “I’ve been holding that $750 is “Elks care, elks share,” for two years waiting to spend Nickolson said. it on account of COVID,” said A few dozen Bill Nichols Jerry Burnette, the veterans residents took part in the field trip affairs liaison for the Elks. Friday, some of whom happened The Benevolent Protective to be skilled fisherman. Order of Elks is a social club “I hope to catch five or six,” founded in 1868, with local said Mike Bearden, as he reeled chapters that organize charity in his second fish. and community events. Though
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Bill Nichols State Veterans Home residents spent the day fishing at Hardy Farms in Coosa County in an excursion organized by the Alexander City Elks Lodge. Above: Joe Ridgeway and Rick Nickolson pose for a photo
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WOMEN OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT:”Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott” will be on display at Adelia M. Russell Library in Alex City Oct. 4-30 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday mornings from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Now through Nov. 10
THANKING VETERANS: Letters of thanks or just a friendly note to a Bill Nichol’s Veteran can be dropped off at Mamie’s Place Children’s Library by November 10. Mamie’s Place and the Adelia M. Russell Library honor our Veterans and appreciate their great service. Kids and adults are welcome to stop in and make a card with provided supplies or bring one of their own. This is just a small gesture to these fine men and women we owe so much to. The notes and cards will be delivered to Bill Nichol’s Veterans Home Wednesday afternoon November 10.
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TRUNK OR TREAT: Live music sponsored by area 51 entertainment, candy for kids and food trucks for adults. Come learn about municipal vehicles at this Halloween themed event starting at 5:00 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the Alexander City Municipal Complex. VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE: The Tallapoosa County Board of Registars is holding a voter registration drive at Central Alabama Community College in Alexander City from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26.
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CONTEST AT THE LIBRARY: You are invited to vote for your favorite librarian’s costume and win a prize while supplies last Friday, Oct. 29 at Adelia M. Russell Library and Mamie’s Place.
Oct. 30
MUDDY WATER BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL AND OLD FARM DAY: The Muddy Water Bluegrass Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 30 from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Weogufka Center at 145 Memorial Loop, Weogufka, AL 35183. The event will include music by Renfroe Mountain Medicine Show, Bluegrass Connection, Dave & Gardner, Randall Edwards, Beyond Blessed, Jana Petty and more. There will be a cake aucion, pony rides, wagon rides, syrup making, antique tractors, vendors, food, fried apple pies, and a new “Learn about Farm Life” children’s center. For more information, contact Sue Baxley at 256249-3666. Limited camper space is available. For camping reservations and vendor sign-up, contact Melvin Palmer at 256-249-8885. Admission is $5 per vehicle.
Nov. 6
POTTERY SALE: The St. James Episcopal Church will be having a pottery sale from 9 a.m. to noon at 347 South Central Ave.
Nov. 18
7 BRIDGES BAND: THE ULTIMATE EAGLES EXPERIENCE: Since their first appearance in Alexander City a few years ago, the community has eagerly awaited the return of 7 Bridges Band to the Benjamin Russell High School Auditorium. This group delivers a stunningly accurate tribute to the
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ARTISTS ASOCIATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: AACA is Back! Club dues for a year are $20. We meet on the third Wednesday at the Alexander City Sportsplex Senior Center. Come to a club meeting which is followed by our Open Studio program which AACA sponsors for the public. The upcoming artist workshop is Tuscany, Oils taught by Elaine Western. The cost of $75 includes pallet, canvas, paints, instructions and much more. If interested, call June Dean at 334313-7533. COMMUNITY CLEANUP: Clean Community Partnership in Dadeville will host first Saturday cleanups every month at 8:30 a.m. Meet at Dadeville City Hall to sign in and receive trash picking supplies and routes. There will be a trash bag drop-off on site and sanitized pickers. For more information, contact Dianna Porter at 256-750-0075. ARTISTS GATHERING: The Lake Martin Creativity Group continues to meet at 1 p.m. every Monday at the StillWaters Residential Building for arts and crafts such as rock painting, wine glass painting, canvas painting, painted a door hanger and created greeting cards. The Lake Martin area is welcome as well as those in StillWaters. We only charge $5 per month to help pay for the space to have fun and stimulate our creativity. Come and share what you like to do. For further information please call Suzie Ham at 334-464-2882 or Kay Fincher 256-825-2506.
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Benjamin Russell coach Magan Ford addresses her team during a timeout against Stanhope Elmore Thursday, Oct. 14.
Stanhope Elmore ends Benjamin Russell’s season in frustrating fashion By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director Unfortunately for Benjamin Russell Thursday, the third time turned out to be the charm for Stanhope Elmore. The Wildcats needed a win in the first round of area tournament play to extend their season at the Wetumpka High School gymnasium, and were playing a team in the Mustangs they’d beaten in four sets on two occasions earlier this season. Thursday, it was Stanhope who bested Benjamin Russell in four sets. Match point may remain a topic of contention for some time after a controversial call, but the fact stands that the careers of four seniors came See BRHS, Page 12
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here was an unwieldy silence that fell over Dadeville’s bench during post-match festivities for their area tournament championship at Beulah. The Tigers took second place out of the three-team bracket, beating Reeltown in straight sets, but a tight four-set loss to the at-home Bobcats made for some mixed emotions. Few smiles were shared as the All-Area team was announced and Dadeville accepted a runnerup trophy. The team qualified for next week’s super regional tournament in Montgomery, that much is true. But Beulah, the team that handed the Tigers their only regular season loss, a team they’d beat when the two sides rematched in the regular season, kept them a few points short of an area championship. “We couldn’t come out in the end. I think it was two great ball games though,” Dadeville coach Vicky McDonald said. “That first game was the best I’ve seen them play all year. No free balls, a lot of bump, set, spike. Gave up a little more of that in the second game, but overall I think it was a really good game.”
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Natori Giles (left) and Layla Grace (right) were named first-team All-Area for Dadeville Wednesday.
Two of the three sets Dadeville lost were decided by volleyball’s minimum two-point margin. The most hotly contested was the third set. With the match tied 1-1 going in, Beulah inched out to a 16-13 lead before middle blocker D’aja Caldwell and hitter Enajhe Swink alternated kills as part of a four-point Dadeville rally to give the Tigers a 17-16 lead. From there the teams traded blows back-and-forth, with another Caldwell kill opening
the first two-point edge either way in some time with a 22-20 Dadeville advantage. That fed into two game points for the Tigers at 24-22, but they gave away a point on a service error and ended a long volley with a passing error to even the score. Another seemingly endless volley four points later gave Beulah a 27-25 third-set victory, setting up its 25-21 win in the fourth to take the match. Such air-tight sets were See DADEVILLE, Page 12
Reeltown closes season in area tournament to determine a winner. As mentioned above, Dadeville swept Reeltown in Wednesday’s Reeltown volleyball said goodbye to meeting. Junior setter Cameron Tubbs no less than 11 seniors Wednesday. was named to the All-Area team for her The Rebels lost to Dadeville in efforts in the contest. straight sets in their area tournament Brekia Riley has been an essential at Beulah High School, ending their player for Reeltown and is among the season and the careers of several departing seniors, players who have been with Reeltown “I put her at the left or right front, all since the program’s inception five years the way around, she’s very solid in that ago. spot,” Hilyer said. “This team had a lot of leadership, a Out of the 11 seniors, there’s a subset lot of people that wanted to help take that have been with the Reeltown control, which was good,” Reeltown volleyball program all five years of its coach Kelli Hilyer said. “They were existence. very aggressive. Looking back, I’m Bella Studdard has started at setter glad that some of the juniors wanted the past five seasons, watching the to step up and help out, take control. Rebels’ volleyball program take shape That’ll help for next year.” in the meantime. Dadeville has had Reeltown’s Debryia Hooks, Taylor Ward and number this season and that trend Emma Lowe have all been playing continued in the area tournament. under Hilyer in that same timeframe as Between the regular season and well. tournaments, the Tigers posted a 5-0 “It’s hard to single out one or two of record against the Rebels in 2021, them because they all contributed like although the final two regular season meetings went the maximum five sets See REELTOWN, Page 12 By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director
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Central Coosa senior Brynli Mitchell performed well in her final game for the Cougars’ volleyball team Tuesday.
Central Coosa closes season against Horseshoe Bend By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director It’s been a rebuilding season for Central Coosa volleyball, and Tuesday it came to a close. The one-win Cougars battled but couldn’t stem a strong tide from Horseshoe Bend, losing
3-0 in the first round of the two teams’ area tournament played at Horseshoe Bend High School. Despite the difficult results of his team’s season, Central Coosa coach Chris Elliot said the Cougars stuck with it and worked to better themselves the entire See COOSA, Page 12
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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE PROBATE COURT OF TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA IN RE: The Estate of AARON GRANT DUCK, Deceased. Case Number: 2021-0237 NOTICE TO CREDITORS TAKE NOTICE that Letters Testamentary were granted by the Honorable Talmadge East on the 4th day of October, 2021, to Jessie Lee Duck, as Executor of the Estate of Aaron Grant Duck, who was deceased on the 11th day of August, 2021. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all persons having claims against the said Estate are
g hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law or the same will be barred. DONE this the 4th day of October, 2021. /s/Jessie Lee Duck Jessie Lee Duck Executor of the Estate of Aaron Grant Duck Deceased PREPARED BY: Christopher M. McCrane Attorney at Law 3RVW 2I¿FH %R[ $OH[DQGHU &LW\ $ODEDPD 7HOHSKRQH Dadeville Record: Oct. 14, 21 and 28, 2021 EST/DUCK, A.
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IN THIS CAUSE it is made to appear to the Court by the Petition of Samuel J. McLure, attorney for the Petitioners, that the whereabouts of the father of the above-named child is unknown. Further, it is made to appear that the identity of the father of the above-named child is unknown. It further appears that the Petition alleges the said child to be dependent and in need of the protection of the Petitioners. Therefore, the Petitioners are requesting the parental rights be terminated and permanent custody of the child be vested with the Petitioners. It is therefore ORDERED that publication be made in the Dadeville Record, a newspaper of general circulation published in the city of Dadeville, AL, County of Tallapoosa, in the State of Alabama for four (4) consecutive weeks. The child’s father must answer this Petition for Termination of Parental Rights by and through the Petitioners’ attorney, Samuel J. McLure, P.O. Box 640667, Pike Road, AL 36064, within fourteen (14) days from the last date of publication, or thereafter a judgment by default may be rendered against him in Case No. JU-2021-18.02 of the Juvenile Court of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Done on this the 12th day of October, 2021.
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Dadeville Record: Oct. 14, 21, 28 and Nov. 4, 2021 JU-21-18.02 PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE PROBATE COURT OF TALLAPOOSA COUNTY DADEVILLE, ALABAMA IN RE: THE ESTATE OF CECIL FURMAN HARRIS, DECEASED CASE NO: 2021-0184 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT TO BE PUBLISHED BY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE LETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the estate of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 13th day of October, 2021, by the Honorable Talmadge East of the Probate Court of Tallapoosa County, notice hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the allowed by law or the same will be barred. MARK ANTHONY HARRIS AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF CECIL FURMAN HARRIS DECEASED. LINDA D. BENSON, Attorney for Personal Representative, P.O. Box 780818, Tallassee, AL 36078, (334) 283-5800, (334) 283-6354 (fax) Dadeville Record: Oct. 21, 28 and Nov. 4, 2021 EST/HARRIS, C.
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The Dadeville Record
What’s the ceiling for this Auburn team?
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t never ceases to amaze me how a little time and patience can drastically alter one’s perspective. It was only three weeks ago that Auburn stumbled and bumbled their way to a comeback win over Georgia State and were extremely fortunate to do so. After that performance, a winning record seemed like a long shot, not to mention any kind of significant bowl appearance. Well, a lot can happen in three weeks and usually does in a college football season. The Tigers went on the road to Baton Rouge and won for the first time since 1999, got beat at home by the No. 1 team in the country and soundly defeated No. 17 Arkansas in another road upset. Auburn, now 5-2 overall and 2-1 in the SEC, is in complete control of its own destiny with no final scenario unthinkable. For the record, I don’t believe the Tigers will win out, but they are definitely showing signs
He added 42 yards on the ground and was responsible for three TDs. The players were frustrated against Georgia State. The coaches were frustrated. The fans were frustrated. The mascot was frustrated. It looked like everyone of progress and Bo Nix may just had lost a little faith in Bo Nix have turned a corner. including himself. Then, something Apparently, the benching happened against LSU. Bo started, of Bo Nix in week four had an played well and seemed to restore incredibly positive effect on him a lot of that faith. He looked like and he has played like a different a QB with complete confidence guy ever since. Nix threw for 255 in himself and his teammates yards against LSU and ran for Saturday in Fayetteville. They also another 74 yards accounting for looked like a team who believed two TDs. He threw for 217 yards in their leader. The Razorbacks against Georgia and would have won’t be confused with Georgia by most likely reached the 300 mark anyone, but they are a pretty good without all the dropped passes. team with some pretty good wins The Bulldogs force most QB’s to on the resume this year. It was an struggle and the lopsided score impressive win. was somewhat expected. However, So, how good can this team Bo continued his improvement actually be? I believe a New Year’s against Arkansas and had his best Day bowl is possible, if not likely. game yet. He threw for 292 yards What about a trip to Atlanta? completing 21 of his 26 passes. That seems far-fetched, but not
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impossible. I certainly don’t believe Auburn has played their best game yet this season. Tank Bigsby actually started to look a lot like Tank Bigsby on Saturday, but the running game overall still isn’t nearly as productive as it needs to be. Arkansas ran 89 plays against the AU defense. The Tigers continue to have trouble with a consistent pass rush and receivers continue to run wide-open. While all of that is absolutely true, I really like the Tigers chances against Ole Miss, Miss State and South Carolina. Auburn has played extremely well in College Station and has a reasonable chance to win that game. I’m not counting any of those games as wins quite yet, but it would set up another unbelievably classic Iron Bowl for all the marbles. Those have actually worked out pretty well for the Tigers in the past. Oh well, the mind just tends to wander during the bye week.
Horseshoe Bend falls in five-set area championship round. Super regionals were the Generals’ after they defeated Horseshoe Bend went down Central Coosa in straight sets, two sets to one in its area never coming within five points championship match. It fought of losing a game. back to take set four. Between contests Turner The Generals went down again stressed better coordination to 8-5 in that set. Again they fought her players, who showed some back to make the tally 12-12. inconsistencies against the oneBut down 13-12, two win Cougars. consecutive passing errors “That’s what I’m gonna tell doomed Horseshoe Bend as the girls, the one thing we need runners up in its area with B.B. to focus on is communication,” Comer taking the five-set struggle Turner said between matches. Tuesday. The Generals still “That’s been one of our advanced to the super regional in weaknesses throughout the Montgomery as the second-place season, communicating with each team from their area. other and getting down on each “If we’d have served better other.” and passed better tonight, we Those errors reappeared would have come out on top,” against Comer. Horseshoe Bend coach Julie Horseshoe Bend took the first Turner said. “Our serving, like it’s set of the final round 25-22, but been all year, was not one of our fell behind 9-1 in the second set strong suits. We had more service in part due to a string of attacking errors tonight than we’ve had in and passing errors. It fought quite awhile.” all the way back to even the Horseshoe Bend played host score 14-14, with junior middle to the area tournament as its blocker Charlie Cotney picking top seed and opened the event up two kills and two aces, but the by securing a berth to the next Tigers responded with a six-point By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director
rally to set the score at 20-14, eventually winning the game 25-21. Comer pulled ahead in the third set in part due to some miscommunications on serve receive by the Generals, as the Tigers’ Micaiah Harris recorded three consecutive aces in the late game for a 25-23 Comer win. “It’s kind of how we’ve played all year, just kind of up and down, up and down, we can’t ever finish it,” Turner said. “We haven’t figured it out all year. I was hoping by this time in the postseason we’d have figured it out, how to overcome that, but we haven’t.” Youth perhaps played a factor, as Horseshoe Bend’s team features no seniors and just three juniors after six fourth-years departed following the 2020 campaign. It wasn’t all bad performances for Horseshoe Bend in the maxset standoff, though. Middle blocker Reagan Taylor has rounded into form as the perfect complement to Cotney, leading the team in kills Tuesday
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of shoes to fill for the Rebels in 2022. Tubbs should be among the leaders for next year’s squad, returning as a surefire starter in Reeltown’s two-setter system. they were supposed to,” Hilyer said about Regardless, Hilyer said she’s saying the seniors. goodbye to a group who laid the There will be a magnanimous number groundwork Wednesday. Continued from 9
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in the tournament, shuffling in-and-out of the middle position with Caldwell. “Layla, when she’s hitting, regular Wednesday. Dadeville she’s a force,” McDonald said. and Beulah were tied nine “Overall, she’s just a good times by the time the second player.” set was 15-15, although the She was joined on the AllTigers pulled away from there Area team by senior Natori on the back of two blocks and Giles, a defensive anchor three aces from middle blocker throughout tournament play Layla Grace for their lone and a senior leader on the game win 25-19. squad. Giles recorded three Grace earned All-Area aces in one service rally during honors for her contributions the first set. Continued from 9
Stanhope lead was cut to 17-15, then re-extended to 19-15. An unrelenting volley to a close as the Wildcats ensued. Neither team were eliminated from could force a ball to hit postseason play. the floor no matter how “My first thought powerful their attacks on the game is that an looked. official shouldn’t be Zaria Roberson, the deciding factor in a Benjamin Russell’s best game,” Benjamin Russell hitter statistically both in coach Magan Ford said. the match and throughout She added later that it’s the season, had her shot a position the Wildcats tipped by Stanhope shouldn’t have been in in middle blocker Anna the first place. Wilson. The ball fluttered “We had plenty of straight up in the air. chances to take care of Wilson landed, bounced the ball before that and back up and finally we didn’t.” slammed the ball home The run up to that final to conclude the point play was one of intrigue. and hand the Mustangs a Benjamin Russell 20-15 lead. opened the fourth set, The crowd roared and a must win if it wanted it felt the match was a to comeback and take foregone conclusion. That the match, on the back feeling grew stronger foot and trailed 17-12 after a couple back-andmidway through. That forth exchanges left the
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“It’s sad, but this year we also added a third team,” Hilyer said. “I always tell the seniors, you paved the way for the future. So we are losing 11 or 12, but had to add a third team because they saw how much fun everyone was having. Hopefully we’ll keep moving in the right direction.”
Setter Kaniyah Wilkerson was the final Dadeville player to participate in her final area tournament Wednesday. “I could have given it to all three of my seniors, I wish I could have, because they all are great players,” McDonald said. “It was hard to pick between them.” Caldwell may not have been one of the two selected AllArea players but she shined in the championship match, recording at least 12 kills with
tally at 23-17. For the Wildcats, whose mantra has been “fight” all season, they weren’t going down so easy. “The seniors, they stepped up, they could have easily felt sorry for themselves, given up when we were down by six but that’s just the people that they are,” Ford said. “I know they’re gonna do great things from here on out.” Senior middle blocker Laura Thames recorded an emphatic kill and followed with a block to finish a four-point rally and cut the deficit to 23-21. A Benjamin Russell attacking error yielded a match point for Stanhope, and that’s where the controversy began. As Benjamin Russell sophomore Kennedy
with a few blocks and aces to boot. Hitter Greenleigh Key came out looking nervous and recorded a number of attacking errors the first couple sets, but appeared to regain confidence and closed the match as one of the Generals’ most efficient and deadly hitters. She recorded seven kills in sets three and four, five in the latter set alone. “She’s come along throughout the season,” Turner said. “She was kind of on a roller coaster like most of the girls, up and down, up and down. Tonight I felt like she had one of her better games. She was hitting the ball, at times, good. At times she was having a hard time adjusting to the set not being exactly where she wanted it. But overall I think she played very well.” Horseshoe Bend will take the floor again at the 16-team Class 2A Super Regional in Montgomery. Top four teams advance to the state championship tournament. The competition opens Oct. 20.
a few blocks and some great digs thrown in. “D’aja stands out. And the good thing about D’aja is I get her back next year,” McDonald said. “D’aja stands out. She sure does.” Dadeville returns to action in the 16-team Montgomery super regional tournament next week. A top-four finish in the single-elimination competition would put the Tigers through to the state tournament.
Tate went up to set the ball to a teammate, one of Stanhope’s blockers reached toward the net and stuffed her shot. Blockers aren’t allowed to reach past the net to stop an opposing attack before it’s completed, they have to let the opposing team finish its attack, Ford said, adding that that’s precisely what the Mustangs’ player did. The block was ruled clean by the first official, who immediately whistled the match dead once the point concluded in favor of Stanhope. Ford felt the judge should have at least conferred with other referees before signalling the end of the match. “The official ended the game. Wouldn’t even talk to her partner, she didn’t have a partner I guess, but she wouldn’t
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season. “Historically, the volleyball program has been pretty strong. This year it wasn’t the same,” Elliot said. “We had a rough season. We had a rough go of it. What I am proud of is our girls. They hung in there, they fought. That’s what I told them before this match.” The closest the Cougars came to beating the Generals in an individual game during set two, when they sparked a five-point rally down 19-15 to take a 20-19 advantage. Horseshoe Bend responded with a six-point rally of its own to close out a 25-20 victory in the penultimate set. “I am proud of the way they played today,” Elliot said. “We had a tough loss at Dadeville last week, came in and worked hard at practice, and things were better today. We just couldn’t pull it out.” Raamiah Gaddis and Sterling Heath each picked up backto-back aces in the third set, but that didn’t prevent a 25-16 Horseshoe Bend win to close the match. Elliot said he’s been pleased with the leadership and commitment of his seniors. Even Daja Pearson, who’s missed the past few weeks with a fractured ankle, played an important role in 2021. “We missed her. She was a key contributor to the team,” Elliot said. “Hard worker and a leader off the court. All four of the seniors were good leaders for us, I thought.” Brynli Mitchell could be seen all over the court for Central Coosa this season, with a solid service game and dependable defense and attacking. “She’s a go-getter,” Elliot said. “She’ll give you everything she’s got, every day. Practice or game. Everything she can.” Elliot called middle blocker Tori Davis his “most improved” senior, someone who had to work her way into a starting position over the course of the coach’s three years in the program. Gaddis rounds out the senior class, spending her first season as a setter in 2021 and showing off a strong service game in matches covered by The Outlook. “She came in first year as a full-time setter and did a good job,” Elliot said. “I think she did a really good job. She was very smart on the floor about what to do and when to do things. Kind of a commander out there, kind of a general.” Even with the four fourthyears departing, Elliot is looking forward to the future for Coosa. Several key rotation players will be back in 2022. This season may not have produced the results the Cougars were looking for, but perhaps they set the table for a return to form in the near future. “Hate to end it this way for the seniors but we’ve got a good group of underclassmen coming up, I’m looking forward to that,” Elliot said. “So we’re gonna bounce back. We’ll bounce back. We’re gonna have to rebuild a little bit.”
talk to the official on the opposite side,” Ford said. “He would’ve overturned it. It was a clear miss. So instead of talking about what four seniors did, we’re talking about what an adult didn’t do. That’s never right.” Stanhope got in such a position to win primarily through the play of outside hitter Kelbi Johnson, a high leaper with great striking power who fueled a strong collective effort on the front row for the Mustangs, even if she rotated to the back at times. “She’s really strong and she was having a good night,” Ford said. “We defended her very well in the first set, and we won the first set. Then she kind of took over the last three sets. But she’s smart, she serves the ball
well, she places the ball well and they get the ball to her as often as they can.” Thames and Roberson will graduate for Benjamin Russell this spring, along with star libero JaNiya Martin and right side hitter Emma Tapley. Ford expressed gratitude for the mentality each of her fourth-years brought into the program. “They’re the leaders out there, and that’s why it makes me so mad to see it end the way it did, without them getting a chance to end it, because they do everything right,” Ford said. “To see it taken out of their hands, it’s heartbreaking because they’ve done everything right for four years, they fought, they were fighting at the end.”