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AFTER THE STORM

Residents survey property damage, NWS crews on their way Survey crews from the National Weather Service were dispatched to the Wetumpka area and surveyed Elmore Lacey Funderburk, a resident of County Tuesday and more crews will be Neman Road in Elmore County, was dispatched Wednesday. home with her mother when the tornadoSix tornadoes likely touched down warned storm approached their home.

Tuesday, one of those likely caused the “I saw it coming and knew we didn’t damage on Neman Road. have time to go nowhere,” said Funder“We were wanting to get out. I went burk outside the damaged home. “I saw through 2011, just not this close. The it. I told her ‘we got to go, we got to go.’ only thing it did in 2011 was take off We got to the hall and she went down and shingles.”

I went down on top of her. I was trying to Trees were ripped from the ground in get to the closet but didn’t get there.” areas between Eclectic and Kent, some

damage was reported in Wetumpka as well. A mangled trampoline could be seen on the side of the road in Kent following the storm.

The tornado-warned storm continued over into Tallapoosa County but dissipated just before crossing U.S. Highway 280 just south of Camp Hill. No significant damage has been reported in Tallapoosa County.

No injuries have been reported as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

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STAFF REPORT TPI Staff

Wake surfers beware, bill could prohibit activity

By BESTY ILER violators also could lose Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. vessel operating privileges for the remainder of the A wake surfing distance year. Permitted events would bill now under consideration be exempt from the law. in the Alabama legislature For the first year after the could be signed into law bill’s enactment, first-time before long. Senate Bill 281 violators would receive a passed the State Senate on written warning; second-time March 9 and its third and violators would be guilty of final reading in the State a Class B misdemeanor and House is pending. fined a minimum of $150.

Sponsored by Sen. Garlan A number of similar Gudger (R-Dist. 4) and Sen. proximity bills, but with J.T. Waggoner (R-Dist.16), wider scope, presented in the bill would prohibit wake previous legislative sessions surfing, or operating a boat in have failed to pass, but this a manner that creates a wake bill has seemingly sailed intended to be surfed, on through both houses of the bodies of water that are less Alabama State Legislature than 400 feet wide or within with little opposition. It is 200 feet of any shoreline, the most specific and limited dock, pier, boathouse or other rendition that has been structure on any body of presented in that it is targeted water in the state, including at only wake surfers and Lake Martin. operators of boats creating Violators would be guilty wakes intended to be surfed. of a Class B misdemeanor Previous bills addressed the and fined $150 or more on size of the wakes from all the first offense. A second vessels and their proximity violation in the same calendar to shorelines and other year would carry a Class A recreational water activities. misdemeanor and a minimum See BILL, Page A2 fine of $250. Second time

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A home on Neman Road sustained damage in Tuesday’s storms. Family and friends helped cleanup and tarp the roof.

SOUTHERN HERITAGE Camp Hill fights to uplift Black communist legacy buried by racism and Red Scare

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

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n December 1932, a Camp Hill landlord wrote to The Dadeville Record seeking to spread the word about the "joke" of a letter he had received earlier that week, printed as follows: We the tenants and share croppers, living on your plantation, discussed among ourselves the miserable slave conditions and inhuman treatments that are being imposed upon us by you and the county administration.

Whereas, we and our families toiled most faithfully on your plantation in order to live this winter without suffering from hunger, cold and the need of clothes and shelter, which are the needs of every single person living on your plantation.

Whereas, we know full well, as well as yourself, that your method of demanding us to pay off back debts, knowing that it is impossible, is a direct and unjust action on your part to deprive us and our families of a living this winter, and this you do by contracting with the sheriffs and other county officials to attach our stock, crops, then force us to move out of the house to freeze.

Whereas, we tenants and croppers, demand the cancellation of back debts and further demand no evictions.

Resolved, we bitterly oppose any measure taken by you to take our crop, stock or farm implements, and to further terrorize us into frightful submission to worse terrific slave conditions by sending sheriffs to our homes, be it further Resolved, that we will discuss our further condi-

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A pulverized copy of the July 23, 1931 Dadeville Spot-Cash, archived at the Tallapoosa County Courthouse, reports on the events in Camp Hill leading up to the dumping of Ralph Gray's body on the steps of the same courthouse.

tions and decide on a plan of action to see that our demands are carried out.

Share Croppers Union, Local Number 1, Tallapoosa County “The author of this letter, regardless of how See HERITAGE, Page A7

Teenager dies following accident at Wind Creek State Park

BY CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer A 15 year old Calera boy died following an accident at Wind Creek State Park Friday night.

Information is limited at this time, but according to the Shelby County Coroner’s office, Johnson Noble died from injuries sustained while riding an electric scooter. Alexander City fire chief Reese McAlister said the Alexander City Fire Department assisted in a call of a 15 year old with injuries at the park who was flown to UAB. “We are beyond devastated,” Johnson’s stepmother Amee Noble said on her Facebook page.

“We lost an angel [Friday] night. Our son Johnson See ACCIDENT, Page A2

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New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on County Road 89, southwest of Camp Hill, lies on the site of a violent standoff in 1931 when authorities, backed by an armed posse, raided a meeting of the Share Croppers Union.

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POLICE REPORTS DADEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT APRIL 4 A report was filed for dissemination of obscene material that occurred in the Dadeville area. A report was filed for harassing communications that occurred in the Dadeville area.  A report was filed for theft of property first that occurred on East Lafayette Street. A report was filed for harassment that occurred on East South Street. James Wellborn, 38, of Alexander City was arrested for driving under the influence on U.S. Highway 49 North.

APRIL 3 Manko Thomas, 21, of Alexander City was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.

APRIL 2 Carla Bradley, 40, of Jacksons Gap was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.

APRIL 1 Jathen Russell, 33, of Goodwater was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana second and possession of drug paraphernalia on U.S. Highway 280. A report was filed for leaving the scene of an accident. Kaci Kemp, 27, of Jacksons Gap was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.

MARCH 31 TeNaija Williams, 18, of Jacksons Gap was arrested on a warrant for disorderly conduct. James Payne, 47, of Dadeville was arrested on three warrants for failure to appear. A report was filed for possession of a forged instrument that occurred on East South Street.

arrested for an outstanding warrant for failure to appear.

MARCH 25 David Wyckoff of Carver Street in Alexander City was arrested for an outstanding warrant for failure to appear child support.

MARCH 24 Romoan Hooks of Gene Street in Tallassee was arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear.

ALEXANDER CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT MARCH 31 Patrick Shane Businelle, 46, of Goodwater was arrested for possession of marijuana. Jihoon Wi, 42, of Auburn was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Possession of marijuana was reported in Alexander City. Driving under the influence of alcohol was reported in Alexander City. Identity theft was reported in Alexander City. Theft was reported in Alexander City. Utility diversion was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 30 Kristin Gail Thompson, 41, of Ashland was arrested for two counts of possession of a controlled substance, illegal possession of prescription drugs and public intoxication. Anthony Dontrell Smoot, 33, of Alexander City was arrested for domestic violence, public intoxication and interference with a domestic violence emergency call. Theft was reported in Alexander City. Two counts of possession of a controlled substance was reported in Alexander City. Leaving the scene of an accident was reported in Alexander City.

TALLAPOOSA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Burglary was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 29 Animal running at large and dog presumed Randi Miller of Pinehurst Drive in Opelika was arrested for outstanding warrant for proba- to be vicious was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 29 tion violation. Anthony Dontrell Smoot, 33, of Alexander Jennie Wall of Elkahatchee Road in AlexCity was arrested for domestic violence and ander City was arrested for an outstanding three counts of reckless endangerment. warrant for probation violation. Sidney Laroyce Hill, 50, of Alexander City MARCH 28 A resident of Highway 49 South filed a theft was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of a pistol by a report. violent felon. A resident of Mullican Road filed a theft Discharging a firearm into an occupied report. dwelling was reported in Alexander City. Bontanna Cleveland of Alexander City was

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Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Possession of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm by a violent felon was reported in Alexander City. Possession of a forged instrument was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 28 Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. A cat bite was reported in Alexander City. Theft was reported in Alexander City. Possession of a forged instrument was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 27 Matthew James Vanhook, 38, of Opelika was arrested for bail jumping. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 26 Joshua Jay Mitchell, 38, of Roanoke was arrested for two counts of bail jumping. Brandyn Makris Goggans, 25, of Alexander City was arrested for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and bail jumping. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Illegal possession of a credit or debit card was reported in Alexander City. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia was reported in Alexander City.

MARCH 25 Gerry Videl Smith, 47, of Montgomery was arrested for failure to appear. Assault was reported in Alexander City. Harassing communications was reported in Alexander City. Criminal trespass was reported in Alexander City. Domestic violence was reported in Alexander City. Theft was reported in Alexander City.

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had a horrible accident and did not make it.”

Noble characterized her son as “the best boy. So patient. So respectful.”

“Love to make children smile and so mannerly.” Noble said. “[He] excelled in football and track. Everyone that met him loved him.”

Johnson loved the outdoors. Numerous photographs can be found on his family’s social media accounts of him fishing and enjoying nature.

Campers held a prayer vigil Saturday afternoon at the park in Johnson’s memory.

Noble was pleased to see “camping friends” organize the vigil.

“What an awesome camping family we have been blessed with,” Noble said. “We love you all and appreciate what you have done to recognize our boy.”

Noble is confident where her son is.

“He is with our Lord,” she said. “He’s catching the biggest fish. Killing the biggest deer.”

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Calera High School auditorium.

A GoFundme page was set up to help with funeral expenses. As of 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday $3,315 of a $3,500 goal had been raised. The family has requested that any donations would be made to Calera High School’s football team or track and field team, or to Shelby County Foster Parents Association in lieu of flowers.

Big wake activities from a variety of vessels, including fishing boats, have long been controversial on Lake Martin. The erosion effects of large wakes is well documented, as are property damage reports and safety concerns. At the same time, proponents of wake sports are legally entitled to recreate on the lake as much as anyone else. And while the arguments continue, so does the erosion, the damage and possible compromised safety of swimmers in the path of the large, strong wakes created.

The bill could be expected to be viewed as a step in the right direction by advocates for water quality and property owners, but this bill seems to be no more popular with some agencies than the previously rejected full proximity measures.

“It just doesn’t address the problem we have on Lake Martin, where we have wakes being created by other boats,” explained Lake Martin Resource Association president John Thompson. “When fishermen in these sloughs get ready to go from one spot to another, they gear up, take off and kick up a big wake. The same goes for personal watercraft getting into small sloughs and going round and round to create big wakes. And it doesn’t address the problem of rude boaters that come in too fast and too close, endangering property and people in the water. It just doesn’t go far enough.”

Local lake homeowner and business owner Jamie Burnett agreed with Thompson but has a different perspective.

“I am all for a proximity law, but I don’t think going after just one sport is the right way to address it,” Burnett said. “And I don’t think criminalizing one sport will change the erosion. I think, instead, it endangers surfers, and there has to be a better answer.”

Burnett’s fear is that wake surfers will be forced into the center lane of boat traffic, where downed surfers will be less visible to fast-moving boat traffic and vulnerable to injury.

“I also think that when wake surfers move into the center, more boat traffic will move out closer to the shoreline. We will still have the wake action close to the shorelines,” she said. “If we’re going to regulate, we should regulate all of the sports together. I think there are more questions to answer before we start to legislate it and criminalize people who are not criminals.”

Calls to the bill’s sponsors were not returned before presstime for this publication.

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Tallapoosee Historical Society board members meet in Dadeville Sunday to discuss a soft reopening.

Dadeville historical museum gears up for soft reopening

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter The Tallapoosee Historical Society board of directors is gearing up for a “soft opening” more than two years after the

museum shut its doors at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tallapoosee Historical Museum in downtown Dadeville remains free to the public, kept going by donations and volunteers, featuring two rooms of local arti-

Delphic Club donates money to Pfitzners STAFF REPORT TPI Staff The Delphic Club, a civic and social organization, donated $250 to Pennington Park owners Kurt and Leigh Pfitzner. Kurt, and his wife Leigh, purchased the property in 2018 and created a music and art venue for the Dadeville area.

The Delphic Club, which began in 1950, was started with the objectives to “study topics of general interest to members, carry out projects of civicsocial improvements and promote good fellowship among the members.”

Each year, as a project, Delphic Club makes a donation to a group or organization that benefits the community as a whole.

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Presentation of $250 check to Kurt Pfitzner at Pennington Park by Delphic Club members on Feb. 8, 2022.

Standing left to right: Sharon Dollar, Kay Dickey, Leigh and Kurt Pfitzner and Janet Gittings.

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facts, photos and memorabilia.

Board members met at the museum Sunday to address necessary maintenance and improvements before welcoming back the public. Board president Danny Hayes proposed signposting the different sections

(e.g. “Russell Mills”) with laminated signs to enable a more self-guided experience.

“The whole world is going self-serve,” he said.

The Tallapoosee Historical Museum tentatively opens its doors Saturday, April 23.

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Prepare for Child Abuse Prevention Month

By BETH CHAPMAN

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pril is Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Children’s charities will cover the doors of local businesses with symbolic blue ribbons, schools will have poster contests, and charities will take advantage of a heightened awareness and additional fundraising dollars.

But what will you do?

On average, child abuse is reported every 10 seconds in this country, totaling over 3 million reports a year. Those are just the “reported” cases.

Each day in America, (the greatest country on earth and a “Christian nation”), at least three children die because of abuse and neglect in their own homes. Child abuse, not cancer or automobile accidents, is the leading cause of death for children ages four and under.

Only 15 percent of the expenditures of state and federal funds given to children’s programs are directed toward prevention. The other 85 percent goes toward problems, which have arisen because they weren’t prevented in the first place. Talk about getting the cart before the horse.

Daycare employees working with children during their most developmental stages are paid little. Educators who teach them are paid little, and even in the medical profession, pediatricians (not that some of these children have ever seen one) are paid less than any other type of physician.

Foster children in this state receive up to $19.05 for care a day, while our prisoners receive $42.54 a day. The average cost to board a dog in our state is around $40 a day. A travesty indeed!

There is a tremendous cost to us as a society and as individuals to do nothing. Child abuse and neglect are seen as social problems, but they are also economic problems. They increase costs in our education system, negatively affect our future workforce, increase juvenile crime, promote predispositions to drug and alcohol addictions, contribute to our overcrowded prison system, decrease our work ethic and produce a decline in our nation’s moral values. Child abuse and neglect impact the entire future of the next generation.

So, what can we do to help?

If you can give money, or time, or both, do it.

But please, don’t refuse to do the “something” you can do!

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Fob James story, 1978 governor’s race T

he crowded field for governor striving to oust incumbent Governor Kay Ivey, includes Tim James.

He has run before. In fact, this is his third try for the brass ring. His last race was in 2010 when he barely missed the runoff by a few votes. He was edged out by Robert Bentley, who went on to win.

Tim James’ primary calling card has always been that he is the son of former Governor Fob James. The elder James was an ultra-successful businessman, who was first elected governor in 1978 as a Democrat and then elected to a second term as governor as a Republican in 1994.

Governor Fob James first election as Governor in 1978 is one for the record books.

The 1978 Governor’s Race is one of the classics in Alabama political lore. That governor’s race, which began with three heavyweights – former Governor Albert Brewer, Attorney General Bill Baxley, and Lt. Governor Jere Beasley – was expected to be titanic. The Republicans were relegated to insignificance on the gubernatorial stage.

Therefore, the winner of the Democratic Primary would be governor.

Meanwhile, over in east Alabama, a little known former Auburn halfback named Fob James strolled into the governor’s race.

Fob’s entry evoked very little interest, only curiosity as to why he would want to enter the fray against three wellknown major players. Fob was exposed as a card-carrying Republican but even a political novice like Fob knew he could not win as a Republican, so he qualified to run as a Democrat along with the three B’s.

Fob had become very wealthy by starting a

STEVE FLOWERS Columnist successful manufacturing company in Opelika. When he signed up to run for governor the press wrote him off as a rich gadfly who simply chose politics rather than golf as his pastime. Little did they know that the fact he was rich and had a lot of time on his hands could spell trouble for the average political opponent, who had to worry about fundraising and feeding their family while running a fulltime campaign.

Fob realized he was no political professional like the three B’s who had spent their entire political adulthood in public office, so Fob sought out professional advice. He had the money to think big and wanted to know who the best political consultant in the South was. It was an easy answer: Deloss Walker was political public relations genius who lived in Memphis.

His track record for electing governors of southern states was 5-0. Walker was the most renowned and expensive political guru in the country in 1977.

Fob quietly sought out Walker, who at first refused to take Fob’s race. Walker’s first impression was that even he could not mold Fob into a winner against three well-financed, experienced thoroughbreds.

Nobody was aware Fob had garnered the genius Walker and had already been to political school when he signed up to run for governor in the spring of 1978. Brewer, Baxley, and Beasley ignored

Fob. Baxley even praised him saying, “Fob would be a good governor. Too bad he’s not a serious candidate.” Those words would come back to haunt Baxley.

Fob traveled the state in a yellow school bus and let the three B’s tear each other up.

Baxley, Beasley and Brewer spent all their time and money attacking each other with negative ads, all the while Fob ran positive ads.

Folks were of the opinion that the three B’s had all probably shot their mothers in a bar fight but they liked old Fob James, even if they thought his name was “Bob” James.

It was too late for the three B’s when they saw a poll about a week before the election showing Fob ahead of all three of them. Baxley refused to believe it and kept hammering at Beasley and Brewer, ignoring Fob. When the votes were counted, Fob was in first place, Baxley second, Brewer was third, and Beasley finished fifth behind State Senator Sid McDonald.

Fob easily beat Baxley in the runoff. After all, what could Baxley say? He had run all over the state for three months saying Fob would make a good governor. Fob James had pulled off one of the most amazing upset victories in the history of Alabama politics. The Fob James story of the 1978 Governor’s Race is truly one for the record books.

See you next week.

Steve flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist.

His weekly column appears in over 60 Alabama newspapers.

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

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s I write this, President Joseph Biden is signing into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. It recalls the struggle many in this country had to cut down on extrajudicial killings. As my college students and I found, calling attention to these illegal acts did make a difference in how many lynchings occurred in America, showing why recent reconciliation efforts still matter.

After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan launched their reign of terror against AfricanAmericans, Republicans and those who opposed such intimidation. Such killings continued decades later. In 1909, the National Association of Colored People sought to call attention the problem displaying the flag that read “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” outside its headquarters, hoping someone might object, or even notice.

Did it make a difference?

In my Senior Seminar class, I got my students to collect the data, to go over our research methods lessons, and see if there was a significant change once people became aware of the problem. So these students (Thomas Bird, Kristina Calixto, Andrew Cunningham, Chase Davis, Madison Demkowski, DeQueze Fryer, Olivia Hanners, Nia Johnson, Shedrick Lindsey, Taren McGhee, Mason McLaughlin, Erik Moran, and Brennan Oates) looked at 20 years before the creation of the NAACP, as well as two

disappeared. My town of LaGrange experienced one in JOHN 1940. Emmett Till was killed TURES in 1955. The Equal Justice Initiative has a haunting Columnist memorial to many of these tragedies, along with a Legacy Museum, both in Montgomery, decades after the foundation of Alabama. Any lynching is one the NAACP, just to see. lynching too many.

Sure enough, in 1889, there Our city organized a were at least 170 lynchings. lynching apology to Austin And it wasn’t just blacks who Callaway, who was killed in were targeted. Nearly 80 1940 back in 2017. Other whites were lynched as well counties and towns are slowly that year. That wasn’t even starting to do the same. And the highest year where a mob a Georgia state senator, could be the judge, jury and Carl Gilliard introduced a executioner, as several years measure to go a little further, topped that number. In the and finally investigate these 20 years before the NAACP, crimes, as well as racial lynchings averaged 125.7 per attacks, including one that year. targeted African-American After the NAACP was politicians, where one of created, and the public became our college’s graduates was aware, the number of such recently elected to the city executions declined. For council. the two decades after the You may be wondering foundation of the NAACP, why it all matters. With there were only 50.85 per an increase in hate attacks, year. And yes, the decline was and targets, those elements statistically significant. of America that we thought But that wasn’t the whole might have disappeared are story. Even with “Birth of threatening a comeback. And the Nation” and rebirth of it’s important that we know the Klan during that time, what happened, and can take the lynchings fell in number, a stand so we don’t go back to as the conscience of more those bad days. And yes, our Americans changed, as evidence shows that knowing we learned how bad these about the problem did make a tragedies were. Lynchings difference. declined significantly not only for blacks in the USA, but John A. Tures is a whites as well. Such killings professor of political science also declined in overall at LaGrange College in numbers. By 1928, there were LaGrange, Georgia. He only 11 lynchings in America. can be reached at jtures@ That didn’t mean that such lagrange.edu. His Twitter cruel attacks had completely account is JohnTures2.

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A telescope is an instrument that allows people to see objects from far away. The first telescopes were made as far back as the 1600’s. Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who made his own telescope around 1610. He was the first to discover the moons of Jupiter. He was not the inventor of the telescope, but he is one of the earliest known researchers of the solar system. Today, there are many different types of telescopes, and they range in size from ones that can fit in the palm of your hand to massive buildings called observatories. SOFIA is NASA’s aircraft telescope with is housed on an airplane. When you use a telescope from Earth, the atmosphere can change the imKIDZ it can distort the image, due to the gases that surround the Earth. Space age that you are DR viewing; telescopes are used by scientists to observe extremely distant objects more clearly. There are many famous space telescopes that scientists having been using for year. Perhaps the most well-known space telescope is the Hubble Space telescope that was launched in 1990, after almost 30 years of planning and development. The Hubble uses mainly visible (to the human eye) and ultraviolet light to record images and many discoveries have been made during its tenure. Other telescopes measure different things such as infrared light, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, and microwaves to records many different things about objects in the universe. The most recent space telescope is the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. It was launched in December 2021. While the Hubble was around the size of a bus, the James Webb Space Telescope is approximately the size of a tennis court and is 100 times more powerful. It will mainly record infrared light. Scientists and amateur astronomers are very excited about what discoveries will be made with it in the years to come!

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property to build an interstate. But I’ve thought about how I’d like to meet Pete again. I viewed enough “Walker Texas Ranger” that I think I could perform a spinning back kick!

But isn’t a Christian supposed to “turn the other cheek”? Yes, Jesus’s words are clear. His point is about how we treat those who do evil to us. Rather than responding in kind, we do good, say good and pray. We return good for evil rather than perpetuating evil, we bless them with healing words and we pray for them. This is the high standard he gave.

But on the other hand, we’ve learned in recent years about boundaries. We cannot let evil people continue to hurt others in person or in social media. Abusers have to be stopped, and those who disrupt the lives of their families though addictions must be forced to face sobering reality.

The Apostle Paul was about to be beaten when he told the Roman soldiers they couldn’t do this since he had citizenship in the empire (Acts 22: 25). He very appropriately enforced boundaries to protect himself in that instance.

It’s never appropriate for bullies to take advantage of the defenseless. People of good will must stand with the weak, protect them and declare to the bullies that this conduct won’t be tolerated.

Reflections is a weekly devotional feature written by Michael J. Brooks, pastor of the Siluria Baptist Church, Alabaster, Alabama. The church’s website is siluriabaptist.com.

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By MICHAEL J. BROOKS It was the slap heard ‘round the world when actor Will Smith assaulted comedian Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards. The move was so unexpected that many thought it part of the comedy routine. But it soon became apparent the act was more spontaneous, especially after Smith returned to his seat spewing profanities. At the time of this writing the Academy is looking into disciplinary action against Smith.

The incident reminded me the first time I can remember being threatened with assault.

His name was Pete--the neighborhood bully.

He accosted me one day when my sister and I walked home from grammar school. He called me names and said the next time he found me on the streets he was going to beat me up. Pete was older and in a higher grade than me. What I took to be his sister was with him acquiescing to his bullying. I was afraid.

This incident brought a serious talk with my older brother.

He told me you can’t let people push you around like this. I remember he quoted Franklin Roosevelt who said the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. I think this may’ve been the seminal moment of my later love for presidential history!

I don’t remember seeing Pete again. We moved to another community shortly thereafter when the state of Alabama bought neighborhood

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ignorant, would blush in shame if he would only stop and think — but with the outside influence they have no shame,” wrote J.D. East of Camp Hill.

Earlier that week, there had been a deadly shootout in Reeltown between Black sharecroppers and law enforcement, joined by a posse of vigilantes. Another deadly shootout had taken place in Camp Hill one year prior, when authorities raided a meeting of the Share Croppers Union, resulting in the death of Ralph Gray at the hands of a lynch mob. In “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression,” historian Robin D.G. Kelley describes the role Sheriff Kyle Young and Camp Hill police chief J. M. “Mat” Wilson played in the mob’s incitement.

“Although police chief Wilson could not legally act out his wish to ‘kill every member of the Reds there and throw them into the creek,’ the Camp Hill police department stood idle as enraged white citizens waged genocidal attacks on the black community that left dozens wounded or dead and forced entire families to seek refuge in the woods.”

In 1930, Communist Party USA turned its focus to the Black Belt, dispatching Black and white organizers to rural Alabama to help sharecroppers and tenant farmers organize.

They began in the cottongrowing region of southeastern Tallapoosa County, where the Appalachian foothills to the north meets the Black Belt to the south.

“To the local people, the word communism probably didn’t mean much, if anything to them,” College of Charleston historian Dale Rosengarten said. “They just needed to not have their land foreclosed.

This was a group of people who were standing up for them, that’s what they knew.”

The history is well-documented, both in “Hammer and Hoe,” written in 1990, and Dale’s husband Theodore Rosengarten’s 1974 book “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” the oral history of Black tenant farmer Ned Cobb, a.k.a. Shaw, who defended his neighbor’s land in the Reeltown stand-off.

Outside of academia, however, today, the violent standoffs in Reeltown (population 794) and Camp Hill (population 1,006) are little known.

“It’s kind of swept under some — over somewhere.

Cause sure don’t want to teach it to our kids in school,” Camp Hill attorney Charles Gillenwaters said Monday. “Because that would be bad. Some say.

Our legislators.”

Camp Hill, 87-percent African-American as of 2020, has always been majorityBlack, but at the time of the Share Croppers Union, it was the white power structure that set the local narrative, with headlines like “Police Chief Declares Killing was Justified.”

The July 1931 incident began at a meeting of the underground Share Croppers Union, held at an abandoned house being used as a church.

Union members were wary as the previous meeting place had been violently raided the night before, so when the sheriff showed up again, he was met by Gray, standing sentry.

Whether Gray or Young shot first during the standoff is disputed. But where Young was rushed to Russell Hospital in Alexander City, Gray was carried home by his fellow union members, only to have his cabin burned down and his wife’s skull fractured by vigilantes.

Whether Gray was shot on-site or died en route to the county jail is also disputed.

But by all accounts, by the time he arrived in Dadeville

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Former mayor Frank Holley speaks at a community meeting hosted by the town at Camp Hill Park last summer. Current mayor Messiah-Williams Cole (left) looks on.

in the custody of law enforcement, he was already dead.

His body was dumped at the steps of the courthouse, Kelley wrote, “as an example for other black sharecroppers.”

Of the two major offenses, shooting the sheriff was closely seconded, in the eyes of The Dadeville Spot-Cash (renamed The Dadeville Record in 1932), by the distribution of “communistic literature” seized from the meeting place. Authorities described the documents to the newspaper as of “an incendiary nature, calculated to bring about serious trouble between the races, particularly between white landlords and negro tenants.”

“They were a communist organization,” Camp Hill mayor Messiah Williams-Cole said. “A lot of people don’t realize that, but at the time period telling a Black man ‘you get equal share’ makes communism sound very, very appealing.”

ris made it as far as Slaughter Avenue before collapsing.

Holley requested the road be rededicated in her honor.

“She was shot down like a dog by a white man, right here in Camp Hill,” he told the mayor and town council.

“Never anything done about it.

Never went to jail, never got a day (of) punishment.”

He also asked the town to rename Wilson Street, contending it was named for the police chief responsible for inciting the lynch mob that murdered Gray. Camp Hill has no documentation of who the street was named for, though a 1928 map confirms the street had not yet existed during Wilson’s tenure.

Williams-Cole, elected in 2020 while still an Auburn University undergraduate, has made an effort to rally Camp Hill pride with Facebook livestreams, in which he provides updates and fields questions, and promotes community events like the Black history program hosted in ‘TALLAPOOSA TERROR’ February. Efforts to memorialIn 2019, “All God’s Danize the lynching victims were gers” author Ted Rosengarten renewed earlier this year. was visiting Tallapoosa Coun“Please try to think of the ty with a different interview effects it has on our youth to subject, the folk artist Lonnie know the journey of what we Holley, who was trying to have evolved from,” Williamstrace his roots. The effort led Cole told the town in a Facehim to Camp Hill, to a man of book post. the same last name — former But the recognition of mayor Frank Holley.

Ralph Gray and Mary Lizzie When they arrived, Frank Norris has so far been foiled was at the breakfast table, at every turn, by conservative immersed in a stack of papers. legislation, disgruntled resiThe papers just so happened dents and apathy. to be his wife Dale’s 1969 For one, there’s the Alaundergraduate essay, “The bama Memorial Preservation Share Croppers Union.”

Act. The law was passed in “My knowledge of the 2017, amid the city of BirShare Croppers Union came mingham’s attempt to tear through Dale’s research, and down its Confederate Soldiers Dale is without a doubt the and Sailors Monument, but expert on the Share Croppers applies to the removal or Union,” said Ted, now Zucker/ rededication of any public Goldberg chair of Holocaust landmark over 40 years old, studies at College of Charles- named after a person, group ton. “And he was sitting there or movement. Violation is reading ‘The Share Croppers punishable by $25,000 fine.

Union.’ It’s just a bizarre Whether Wilson Street was coincidence. I started saying named for J.M. Wilson, something; he said ‘Oh don’t according to Gillenwaters, the tell me about it, I’ve read this point is moot. book four or five times.’”

For Camp Hill, that leaves It was in that spirit that only one option — Old 280 Frank Holley approached the Road. The street was renamed newly elected mayor and city in 2005 to distinguish it from council last year with a list of the new four-lane bypass, U.S. ideas for the new administra- Highway 280, built alongside tion, including formal recogni- it. tion of two lynching victims “It’s really one of the only from Camp Hill — Gray, and streets in that 20-year window Mary Lizzie Norris, murdered that we can get away with, in a separate incident, unrewithout applying for a waiver lated to the union, in 1947. or without having to get a Norris (referred to in fine,” Williams-Cole said in newspapers by a number of a town Q&A last month. He names, including Mary Lee proposed a new name, “The Irvin, Mary Matthews and Gray-Norris Memorial HighMary Noyes), a 22-year-old way.” But the plan was shot mother, was shot at random down by its residents, who in the Black section of a seg- said they were still dealing regated cafe by white resident with the ID changes and misAlbert Huey. A Southern placed packages as a result of Negro Youth Congress report the last name change. titled “Tallapoosa Terror” says Meanwhile, the town finds the murder took place amid a itself under new representation town-wide rampage against that, at least for Gillenwaters, the Black community as law has so far proven unpopular. enforcement looked on. NorWhereas last year, Tallapoosa

County was fragmented, split between District 81, along with the conservative Coosa and Chilton counties, and District 82, along with the liberal Lee and Macon counties, new district lines unite the county under District 81.

For Camp Hill, that means swapping Rep. Pebblin Warren (D-Tuskegee) for Rep. Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville). Oliver, up for reelection in November, currently runs unopposed after sponsoring a bill banning the instruction of “divisive concepts,” passed by the house in March. The partisan bill, concerning how race and gender are taught at K-12 schools and universities, is one of dozens aimed at concepts like critical race theory or the journalist Nikole Hannah Jones’ United States history, “The 1619 Project.” According to Oliver, the bill is expected to reach the senate floor on Thursday.

The town’s new representative came up during the discussion of the Gray-Norris Memorial Highway, and the lynching victims behind it, at a town council meeting last month.

“Considering he has a bill making sure we can’t talk about our history — And I mean our history —” Gillenwaters said at the March meeting, “The teacher isn’t even going to be able to mention this. If she does, then they’re going to fire her. That’s sad.”

Opponents have repeatedly condemned the “divisive concepts” bill as an attempt to stifle Black history instruction, if not through an explicit ban, then by encouraging teachers and professors to self-censor.

Facing Oliver in the house chamber last month, “You can’t smile in my face and pat me on the back and support these types of efforts that’s erasing history, and that marginalize a certain group of people,” house minority leader Rep. Anthony Daniels said.

When asked to comment, Oliver denied Gillenwaters’ hypothetical, and said the bill would “absolutely not” prohibit mention of Ralph Gray.

“This bill doesn’t prevent any teaching of history,” he told The Outlook. As for what it will prevent, “there are not many, just a few that want to proselytize kids on the left,” he said.

But in a twist of irony, Oliver is not only familiar Share Croppers Union but has met its most famous member.

demns outsiders who describe the Reeltown conflict as interracial, contending “Had white men conspired, as did the negroes at Hayes Mill to resist the law, the result would have been the same.”

Black Sharecroppers Union members, meanwhile, were to be pitied for being “woefully misled by outside influences,” The Record wrote.

When The Record wasn’t insisting on good race relations, it was firing shots at the dailies for their “exaggerated and hurtful publicity” in the wake of Camp Hill and Reeltown. The Birmingham News’s coverage was “a woeful distortion of the facts”; The Montgomery Advertiser was unfair to Sheriff Young: “If these reporters had not made themselves quite so obnoxious and had not worried the sheriff almost to death at a time when he had all on him any able and sane man could stand, they would have found him quite different in his attitude towards them.”

Though The Record didn’t report it, Oliver’s late father, John Oliver, was still in grade school in July 1931 when he heard gunshots down the street. As told by his son, it was there John saw Ralph Gray’s corpse, dumped on the steps, where people were taking turns shooting at the body. Though some accounts describe it as the Tallapoosa County Courthouse, according to Oliver, it was the entrance to the county jail, near what is now the health department.

“He walked up the street and actually witnessed what was going on,” Oliver said.

“And it changed him. He became very compassionate about race and relations and spent the rest of his life doing everything he could to help Black people be educated and integrated.”

Flash-forward to 1968, and Dale (at the time, Rosen) and then-boyfriend Ted were visiting Alabama, two “long-hard college students from Massachusetts, driving around at the height of the civil rights agitation,” she recalled, in order to gather research for her Share Croppers Union thesis. It was in the courthouse that she met John Oliver, who took an interest in her work.

Two years later, Ted returned to write “All God’s Dangers” and stayed with the Olivers. Ed, the lone Republican in a family of Democrats, ‘NO RACE TROUBLES EXIST was in high school at the time.

IN TALLAPOOSA’ “My dad owned a railroad Ninety years ago, editori- car out in Jackson’s Gap that alists in Oliver’s hometown had been fixed up into this newspaper went to great little house. And sometimes lengths to clarify it wasn’t the he actually stayed in our sharecroppers’ race they took house,” Oliver said. “I knew issue with, but the communist him very, very well. He came organizers said to be indoctri- to visit me at the University nating them. of Alabama.”

A Dadeville Record colHe also met Cobb, with umn titled “No Race Troubles whom Ted recorded tens of Exist in Tallapoosa” conhours of interview tape.

‘RADICALS ANNOY GOVERNOR MILLER WITH RED DEMANDS’ Dale described Cobb as “immediately welcoming” during the Rosengartens’ first visit, and fully aware of his role as an activist.

“He was of the mind that there had been a series of attempts to liberate Black folks,” she said.

The first attempt came in Cobb’s father’s generation, in the wake of the Civil War, then in the 1930s with the Communist Party USA’s theory of “self-determination in the Black Belt.” Cobb was in his eighties by the time he witnessed the third attempt at liberation in the 1960s.

“He was aware of the Civil Rights Movement happening, so he thought we were a part of that movement. That’s how he understood us,” Dale continued. “And when Ted came back two years later and recorded his whole life history, he told Ted, ‘Now, you make sure you take this report to headquarters.’ He was very self-conscious about giving his testimony and making sure that his report got back to the right people. But he connected it all; he connected all these efforts toward liberation and to me, that’s the story.”

Three union members lost their lives in the Reeltown shootout. John McMullen died immediately; Cliff James and Milo Bentley, both wounded by bullets, were found dead in their jail cells about a week later due to lack of medical attention.

Cobb was also injured, but survived to serve his full 12-year sentence, refusing parole in exchange for vacating Tallapoosa County. He died in 1973, just before “All God’s Dangers” was published.

In the aftermath of the shootout, Gov. Benjamin M. Miller received “a deluge of incendiary telegrams,” the newspapers reported, from communist organizations nationwide demanding that all suspects be liberated and that law enforcement be tried.

Sheriff Young never faced punishment. In 1935, Cliff Corprew became sheriff, demoting Young to deputy.

He stayed in law enforcement up until the day he died in another gun battle in 1952, in response to “an alleged drunk brawl at a farmhouse in Jackson’s Gap,” The Outlook reported at the time. The assailants were a white father and son. A memorial outside the Tallapoosa County Courthouse commemorates “peace officer” Young along with five other officers killed in the line of duty between 1952 and 1992.

As for the other memorials, the street renaming has been scrapped. But another plan to place historical markers for the Share Croppers Union, at the site of the standoff, and for Mary Lizzie Norris, at the site of her murder, is still in the works, WilliamsCole said Monday. The standoff took place at what is now New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, formerly Rome Church, on County Road 89 southwest of Camp Hill proper. At the time, the rural community was called “Mary,” with its own society section in Camp Hill’s weekly newspaper, The Tallapoosa News. Up a dirt road lies the old Rome Church cemetery, slowly being overtaken by pine forest.

Williams-Cole told The Outlook to expect an announcement on Juneteenth.

At a meeting last month, he alluded to collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative.

“Any of this would be terrific. They’re heroes, no question about it,” Dale said.

Referring to Cobb, “All of his actions were motivated by a desire to help his people. He didn’t go to that shoot-out to protect his own land; he went to protect his neighbor’s land and livestock. He was a freedom fighter.”

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SUZANNE SCHOLZ HOLDS CONCERT SIRI HEDREEN THE RECORD

Country singer Suzanne Scholz is accompanied by Dennis Hines and Charles Forbus Thursday at Zazu's Verandah's Music on the Square, a weekly concert series across the street from the Tallapoosa County Courthouse in Dadeville. Mitch Emmons is scheduled to perform this Thursday, April 7 from 6:308:30 p.m., with beer, wine and tacos available for purchase.

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Russell Medical is hoping a job fair will bring in its “They get to see where they would work and get to next round of employees. many of the people they would be working for and The hospital hopes to hire employees for its enviaround.” ronmental services and food services departments at a Foy said the hospital is looking to fill full-time, job fair Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. part-time and as needed positions with new rates of “We will have applications, open interviews and pay. The full-time positions offer benefits. tours of the work environment,” Russell Medical The job fair at Russell Medical is from 2 to 4 p.m. director of marketing Susan Foy said. “We will also Wednesday, April 6 and Thursday, April 7. Applicants have light refreshments.” should enter the front lobby of the hospital and proFoy said Russell Medical is trying something a little ceed to the cafeteria and follow COVID-19 protocols different recruiting jobseekers with this job fair hostfor hospitals which include properly wearing a mask.

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A late Saturday boat accident under the KowaRebecca J. Darnell, 54, of Deatsville, a passenger on liga bridge injured a Deatsville woman and saw the board the Nautique was injured and transported to a arrest of an Equality man. local area hospital for medical treatment.”

The Alabama Law Agency (ALEA) issued a stateShipp bonded out of the Elmore County Jail early ment that a two-vessel crash occurred about 11:20 Sunday morning. p.m. Saturday. A 22-foot Nautique driven by Steven Deputies with the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s J. Shipp, 44, of Equality, struck the rear of a 21-foot Department, Elmore County Sheriff’s Office as Chapparal driven by Enrique J. Gimenez, 45, of well as emergency personnel with the Alexander Mountain Brook, while traveling beneath the bridge City Fire Department along with Troopers from the on Highway 63, on Lake Martin, in Elmore County. ALEA’s Marine Patrol Division responded to the “The 22-foot Nautique had four individuals on scene. Nothing further is available as ALEA Troopboard and the 21-foot Chapparal had a total of five ers with the Marine Patrol Division continue to individuals on the vessel at the time of the crash,” investigate.

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By WILLIAM MARLOW Multimedia Reporter A new arcade is coming to Alexander City this summer, bringing back a dedicated venue for classic video games.

The business, named Respawn Arcade, Pinball and E-Sports, is likely to debut in June or possibly July, according to the owners, and will feature traditional arcades, skee ball, air hockey, shuffleboard and modern video consoles.

Jessica and James Duncan, who launched the business last year, have called Alexander City home for nine years.

They both currently work in the emergency services industry.

Jessica is a paramedic and EMS instructor at Southern Union State Community College in Opelika, and James has served as a paramedic firefighter with the Alexander City Fire Department for the last 17 years.

However, the couple are also lifelong video game enthusiasts, having a passion for the hobby since they were children.

“We both grew up playing video games, and one of my favorite memories growing up was going into Aladdin’s Castle in the Montgomery mall. Back when I was a kid, I would get five bucks from my mom and go play video games in the arcade,” Jessica said.

As a part of that hobby, the two collect vintage and retro video games, which Jessica said fueled the initial idea for the arcade.

“We collect all genres of games, old and new, just everything, and

James found on Facebook several years ago a Mortal Kombat arcade machine and he was like ‘I have to play this thing’,” Jessica said.

Since that time, the couple have collected dozens of video game arcade machines, repairing and housing them in their basement.

“I’ve always kept all my video games since I was a kid. I have a handme-down Atari and all throughout the years I’ve kept them. Ever since then we’ve just been collecting, and if we find them broken or cheap, we get them, sometimes driving three hours away,” James said.

Among the more recognizable arcade machines in the Duncans’ collection are Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Killer Instinct and Pac Man. However, James plans to house video games from all eras in his upcoming arcade, not just the 80s, 90s or 2000s, but some of the first gaming consoles created, including the Atari, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

In addition, the Duncans specifically expressed excitement about bringing their favorite hobby to Alexander City, hoping to revitalize an entertainment venue that has been absent in the city since James was a child.

“Other than the bowling alley when I was a kid. There’s been nothing else here [in Alexander City]. I used to play them in Walmart,” James recalled. “That was where I’d see all the new stuff. Our parents would go shopping, and we would beg for quarters because we couldn’t play that kind of caliber game

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According to the Duncans, that sentiment seems to be felt by many in Alexander City, adding that community support has been overwhelming and that the prospect is attracting both older and younger generations alike.

“Anybody that we talked to about it wants to know more, and it seems like an equal split between people in their 30s and 40s who grew up with these games and ones who have kids and want to do birthday parties or bring them on Saturdays to play,” Jessica noted. “But every single person that we’ve talked to has been excited about it.”

The Ducans are curSUBMITTED | THE RECORD rently in the process of Respawn Arcade, Pinball and E-Sports is coming to Alexander City this summer and will feature traditional arcades, renovating a building skee ball, air hockey, shuffleboard and modern video consoles. along Calhoun Street in downtown Alexander City where they hope to eventually house the arcade. Among other amenities, the couple is planning to incorporate a snack bar, karaoke machine and birthday area into the building’s layout.

There are also plans to at some point to host esports tournaments at the arcade, during which professional players, individually or as a team, will compete in multiplayer video games. James said he is particularly interested in organizing tournaments around such gaming franchises as Call of Duty, Madden NFL and Capcom fighting games.

“We’re making a lot of progress and we’ve been working towards this specific goal for about a year now and are ready to put the wheels in motion,” Jessica said.

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ALL- SPORTS SCHEDULE APRIL 7 THROUGH TUESDAY, APRIL 12

BASEBALL

4 Beulah at Dadeville - Thursday, 4 p.m.

4Comer at Central Coosa - Thursday, 4 p.m.

4Horseshoe Bend at Randolph County - Thursday, 4 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Wetumpka Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Wetumpka Thursday, 6 p.m.

4 Beulah at Dadeville - Thursday, 6 p.m.

4Comer at Central Coosa - Thursday, 6 p.m.

4Central Coosa at Horseshoe Bend - Friday, 1 p.m.

4Reeltown at Valley - Saturday, noon 4 Beauregard at Horseshoe Bend Monday, 4:30 p.m.

4Beulah at Reeltown - Tuesday, 4 p.m.

4Central Coosa at Vincent - Tuesday, 4 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Stanhope Elmore Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.

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Area baseball and softball roundup March 28 through April 3 baseball team grabbed a key area series win.

With the spring sports Here’s a quick teamseason in full swing after by-team rundown of last spring break’s conclusion, week’s action: there’s plenty of action to recap from last week in BENJAMIN RUSSELL local baseball and softball Benjamin Russell’s circles. baseball team went an Horseshoe Bend soft- even 2-2 last week to keep ball tore off a six-game their record six games winning streak, Dadeville above .500 on the year. softball picked up three An 11-6 loss at Rockwins including a slob- bridge March 30 snapped berknocker of a rivalry a string of eight wins in victory while Reeltown’s nine games for the WildBy TPI STAFF

SOCCER

4Benjamin Russell at Jefferson Davis (boys) - Thursday, 5:30 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Montevallo (boys) - Friday, 5:30 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Wetumpka (girls) Tuesday, 5 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Wetumpka (boys) - Tuesday, 7 p.m.

cats, and despite a stellar six-inning start on the mound from Jaxon Hay, the Wildcats fell in extra innings to Hickman that same day.

March 31 served as the inverse, with Charlie Morgan tossing his own six-inning, one-run gem to hand Benjamin Russell a 3-2 win over Westminster Christian and a strong 7-3 win against North Jackson. Senior outfielder Sam Scales received a bump to

the No. 2 spot in the Wildcats’ lineup and delivered with two hits.

The biggest challenges are ahead, however. Area play starts this week for the Wildcats, and though their 14-8 record is nothing to sneeze at, the other two teams in their grouping are 17-4 Wetumpka and 14-9 Stanhope Elmore, who split an earlier series against each other.

On the softball side, Benjamin Russell went

1-2-1, the lone victory a 12-1 blowout defeat of Oak Grove. Ryann Ruffin and Chloe Davis each collected multiple hits while Ruffin, Leah Leonard and Naskia Russell each batted in multiple runs.

CENTRAL COOSA While Central Coosa went just 1-2 last week on the softball diamond, that one win came in area play See ROUNDUP, Page B2

HORSESHOE BEND RUN-RULES REELTOWN, EXTENDS WINNING STREAK

By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director

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ABOVE: Horseshoe Bend first baseman Brooke Milner opens up to swing at a pitch.

BELOW: Horseshoe Bend pitcher Lily Moss fires a strike toward home plate Monday.

SOFTBALL

4Beulah at Horseshoe Bend - Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

4Trinity Presbyterian at Reeltown Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

4Central Coosa at Verbena - Thursday, 5 p.m.

4 Dadeville at Opelika - Thursday, 6 p.m.

4 Dadeville at Russell County - Friday, 5:30 p.m.

4Horseshoe Bend at Randolph County - Tuesday, 4 p.m.

4Benjamin Russell at Stanhope Elmore Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.

4Dadeville at Russell County - Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.

4 Reeltown at Wadley - Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.

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Horseshoe Bend softball’s winning streak is now at seven games.

The Generals picked up their seventh win in as many days Monday, run-ruling Reeltown at home in the minimum 4.5 innings by a 15-3 margin.

“Early on, we were making a lot of mistakes and we weren’t capitalizing on the good things that were happening,” Horseshoe Bend coach Hagen Whiteard said. “We weren’t taking advantage of having runners on base and that kind of stuff. We’ve reached a point where we’re doing those things.”

Horseshoe Bend eighth grader Lily Moss started in the circle and tossed five innings of three-run ball, though all three were scored in the first inning.

Moss didn’t walk a batter in her outing, a growing trend that’s proven beneficial to the Generals.

Against Isabella Saturday she threw 56 pitches with 50 of them being strikes, according to Whiteard.

“With Lily being an eighth grader, she is throwing extremely well,” Whiteard said. “She is getting stronger, she’s getting more consistent as well.

She hits spots, and that’s huge.”

The Generals’ defense played a clean game behind her as well, which made an impact considering Horseshoe Bend scored four of its runs directly from Reeltown errors.

Sophomore shortstop Reagan Taylor made a leaping catch to record the second out in the top of the fifth with runners on first and second. The team as a whole posted an impressive defensive third frame, with junior center fielder Nadia Brooks tracking down a deep fly ball and Moss making a nice play on a comeback grounder.

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‘He made us notice him:’ Maness uses work ethic to earn premier spot

By ANDY ANDERS Regional Sports Director Daylen Maness led off his high school career by getting cut from Benjamin Russell’s baseball team.

Now, he’s the leadoff hitter in the Wildcats’ batting order.

Playing his first and final season at the varsity level, Maness’ highend work ethic has propelled him to a center field spot with Benjamin Russell’s club, and in the process carved out a special place in the heart of long-time head coach Richy Brooks. “[Stories like Daylen’s] are my favorite ones to tell,” Brooks

said. “The ones where things just kind of fall into place for them, those aren’t quite as fun to tell the story. Because you don’t get everything on your timeframe.

Sometimes you have to work for it and appreciate it more. And I think Daylen probably appreciates playing more because he really had to earn it. He truly had to earn his spot.”

Maness missed making either junior varsity or varsity as a freshman.

While he admitted that experience “hurt” him as someone who’d played baseball all his life, it didn’t stop him from accepting a posi-

tion as a team manager.

“It was fun, I liked being there with everybody, seeing how the team worked together,” Maness said. “Seeing how the coach liked to do things so I could get a better understanding of it.”

That allowed Maness to get some practice time in, and he entered his sophomore year tryout fairly stress free about landing a roster spot. He was “relieved” to finally make the team.

Then his development received a blow when that season was cut off early due to COVID-19.

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Benjamin Russell senior center fielder Daylen Maness is honored at the See MANESS, Page B2 team’s senior day March 24.

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against Comer in a 12-7 victory. Alissa Cosby shined brightest in a lineup full of active bats, going 3-for-4 with three RBIs. A 12-6 loss to Dadeville and 14-0 downing by Horseshoe Bend sandwiched the win.

In baseball the Cougars dropped backto-back area games against Fayetteville, both by 20-1 tallies.

DADEVILLE Don’t look now, but Dadeville’s softball team is starting to pick up steam.

The Tigers went 3-0 in last week’s action including an 11-1 clobbering of Russell County.

Undoubtedly the highlight of the week was the team’s matchup with Reeltown, though. The two area rivals battled to a 13-12 result that Dadeville came out on the winning end of. The Tigers trailed 12-9 in the bottom of the seventh and final inning of that game and amassed a four-run frame to win it, ending on a walk-off single from Jamaya Bandy.

Dadeville baseball fell to Reeltown in both area series games the teams played by scores of 7-0 and 14-3, though the Tigers did beat the Rebels in the following tiebreaker game 5-2. Senior catcher Lane Smith hit a home run in the second loss while a four-hit, three RBI day from Buster Coker pushed Dadeville to its lone victory.

The Tigers took on Handley and lost 15-7 to close out their week.

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to be a full-on varsity contributor by their junior seasons. But even with all the hours Brooks saw him spend on the field and in the weightroom before the pandemic hit, Maness still didn’t have the reps he needed to crack a particularly deep Benjamin Russell outfield in 2021.

He’d spend one more season on JV. “We didn’t want him sitting on the bench for varsity, so he played JV,” Brooks said. “He needed experience, in other words. He missed playing in the ninth grade, the 10th grade year was cut short, so he didn’t really get a lot of experience playing. He had half a season [entering his junior year].”

Senior year finally brought about Maness’ varsity opportunity. He spent this past offseason fine-tuning to ensure he made the most of it.

“Just putting in the work,” Maness said. “I just keep working at it.”

Still, the coaching staff’s expectations were below what reality became.

Maness has started nearly every game in center field and batted first in the Wildcats’ lineup in 2022. Brooks said he “would have said no” if you’d have told him that during the summer or fall.

“He made us notice him. And that was commendable for him. It says

HORSESHOE BEND Make it six wins in-a-row for the oncelowly 2022 Horseshoe Bend softball team.

The Generals have gone from 2-8-1 to an even 8-8-1 this year, and all six wins in that streak came last week.

It started when Horseshoe Bend beat Reeltown 9-4 on the road March 29, which bled into an area win at Ranburne two days later and a 14-0 beating of Central Coosa Friday.

Saturday is when the fireworks really started, though.

The Generals rattled off three consecutive wins in tournament play including two against key area rivals.

Last week started slow for Horseshoe Bend baseball, which fell 8-5 at Beauregard March 28, but it certainly closed fast.

Dominating Beulah with back-to-back 12-run victories at home and on the road, respectively, the Generals boosted their record to 9-7 on the season.

REELTOWN It’s always nice to get a leg up in area competition, and that’s precisely what Reeltown baseball accomplished last week.

By beating Dadeville 2-0 in the two sides’ area series — even if the Tigers took the ensuing tiebreaker game 5-2 — the Rebels are one win away from securing a playoff berth. They’ll have a chance to do so next week against Beulah in their final area series.

Reeltown softball went 0-6 last week, though its loss to Dadeville March 31 ANDY ANDERS | THE RECORD came by a single run in a 13-12 slugfest.

Reeltown baseball picked up an area series win Thursday, beating Dadeville 14-3 to sweep the Tigers 2-0.

something about his character,” Brooks said.

Going through those trying times helped the outfielder develop as a leader and person. It’s a mentality Brooks would love to see trickle down to some of the younger players on his team’s roster.

“A lot of kids these days, they can’t fight through being told no,” Brooks said. “They can’t fight through adversity. If they don’t get something immediately — we live in a microwave society where everybody wants it now, and if they don’t get it, they just stop and they quit. And Daylen didn’t.”

Maness will play out the last month or so of his high school baseball career at Benjamin Russell before striking out to make a collegiate baseball tenure for himself, most likely at CACC, he said.

The Wildcats’ program isn’t unaccustomed to producing surprise prospects. Pitcher Blake Allen was cut twice from the team before getting drafted by the Texas Rangers a few years down the road in 2001.

Regardless of whether his career pans out at the next level, though, Maness’ story is an incredible tale of perseverance and the rewards of hard work.

“It’s meant a lot, being able to play ball with the guys that I’ve grown up with,” Maness said.

“Then getting into this time of the season where it really counts. Just being able to be there with them, playing.”

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Horseshoe Bend shortstop Reagan Taylor (15) and second baseman Jacey Johnson (4) celebrate after making a defensive play against Reeltown Monday.

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“We’ve done away with a lot of the errors,” Whiteard said. “We were just talking about that. In four games, we’ve had four errors, whereas, one of the girls joked, at the beginning of the season we had four errors in one inning. That definitely has made a big difference.”

Reeltown junior Daja Pearson had the loudest hit of the day for the Rebels, gapping a ball into left-center field for a two-run double in the opening frame.

After Reeltown jumped out to its initial 3-0 lead, the Generals responded with an eight-run opening frame of their own, including RBI singles from Brooks, Taylor, catcher Kennedy Templeton and eighth grader Addie Caldwell.

Caldwell bats last in Horseshoe Bend’s order. Her knock plated two runners.

Senior first baseman Brooke Milner added three RBIs off a pair of singles in the third and fourth innings, while an RBI double from Moss is what set up the run-rule in the bottom of the fourth.

“I do like the aggressiveness,” Whiteard said. “Like I said,

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with the confidence [they have], they’re coming out and they’re stepping to the plate and they know that they’re capable to do it. And so now that they’re feeling that confidence in themselves, it makes a big difference.”

Now with a winning record for the first time this season, Horseshoe Bend is slated for an area double-header at home against LaFayette Tuesday.

“It’s all starting to click,” Whiteard said. “Everything that we have been talking about from the get-go that they had the potential to do, they’re doing it now.

It’s fun to watch.”

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EGGSTRAVAGANZA Alexander City families flocked to Laurel Heights Saturday for The City of Outreach Church’s Easter Eggstravaganza, featuring an egg hunt and vendor prizes.

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LEFT: Cali Annmarie Harvey holds up one of the prize-winning metallic eggs.

ABOVE: Chase Bykes (left) enters the Easter egg hunt with a running start.

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PATSY CLINE CONCERT - Dadeville Performing Arts Center hosts Ms. Tina Marie Hosey as she performs and gives honor to the memory of Ms. Patsy Cline. Show time will be 7 p.m. Tickets are limited but can be purchased online while they last. Visit https:// dadeville.performingartscenter.us/ for more

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ART IN THE PARK - Everything’s Art! and Pennington Park will host Dadeville’s 3rd annual Everything’s Art in the Park (AITP) on May 14, 2022, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Pennington Park located at 121 N. Spring St. in downtown Dadeville. AITP will feature juried original oil, watercolor, and acrylic art, and crafts created by local and regional artists. AITP has become known for quality and original hand-made creations to include crafts, jewelry and artwork. The event will also host local food vendors and a free family-friendly live concert from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Mark your calendars and bring your lawn chairs and coolers. Friendly, leashed pets welcome. Vendor applications can be obtained from Everything’s Art by sending an email to everythingsartguild14@gmail.com or calling 770-328-2094.

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FARM DAY - Farm Day at Meadows Farm will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free to enter but donations are appreciated. Proceeds to benefit the Meadows Family Scholarships for Tallapoosa County Schools. There will be amazing food, fun games and activities, farm animals, arts and crafts, nature walks and much more.

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MEMORIAL DAY - Pennington Park will observe Memorial Day 2022, beginning May 24 through May 31. Pennington Park will display over 2,000 American flags in honor of those former military members who have passed. Additionally, memorial markers will

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FARMERS MARKETPLACE - Pennington Park’s 2022 Farmers Marketplace dates are now on the calendar. The Markets are scheduled from 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in Dadeville’s Pennington Park, 121 N. Spring Street. The Marketplace is a producers-only market that provides high quality home-grown produce/homemade goods to the. Live music, when available, is scheduled on the pavilion during each market afternoon. Vendors interested in participating should email klpfitzner@ gmail.com or call 334-233-9851 to request an application. Booth spaces are free. Return the application and attach a copy of your Growers Permit and/or Cottage Food License as applicable. Once received, you will be sent a copy of the Market’s rules/instructions and your participation confirmed.

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