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Despite odor, city’s water OK By David Granger Outlook Staff Writer

An unusual amount of algae in the water taken from Lake Martin into Alexander City’s Adams Water Treatment Plant is the likely cause of what some Alexander City residents say is “moldy” smelling or tasting water, but the water remains safe to drink, according to John Meadows, superintendent of the Adams Water Treatment Plant. Meadows said the City is actively working to mitigate the problem. “We had this same problem about two

years ago,” Meadows said. “Sometimes the algae is heavier than it is at others and it’s unpredictable. We treat for algae with copper sulfate, but when the algae got heavy this time, we didn’t have enough in the water. We’re adding more and flushing our lines and, hopefully, the odd taste and smell will pass in a day or so.” Meadows said the City has received numerous calls about the smell and taste of the water. “What (Alex City water officials) are doing is what you do,” said Dennis Harrison, chief of the Drinking Water Branch of the Alabama Department of Environmental

Management’s Water Division. “You add copper sulfate and you flush the lines. “We had not heard from Alexander City or any of its customers, but, after talking to folks there, it appears it’s either green algae or turnover. Either way, you treat it the same.” Turnover, Harris said, is when the strata in a body of water temporarily turn upside down with the colder water, normally at the bottom, coming to the top and the warmest water, normally at the top, sinking to the bottom. He said turnover is usually caused

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Alex City schools pass 2016 budget Budget includes $1.4 million from new county wide sales tax By David Granger

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The Alexander City Board of Education Thursday adopted a $31.2 million budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct.1 that includes an anticipated $1.4 million collected through the 1-cent additional county sales tax. The additional sales tax was adopted with the strong backing of the Tallapoosa County Schools and was adopted by a 3-2 vote of the county commission in May. The tax took effect Sept. 1. The allocation from the state is based on the school’s enrollment two fiscal years previous and requires a 10-mil local match. According to Rhonda Blythe, the chief financial officer for Alexander City Schools, the required local match for its FY 2016 allocation of $16.69 million from the state was $2.28 million. “What they do is they give you the difference between your match and your enrollment-based allocation,” Blythe said. “But you are required to spend the entire amount, including the local match.” Alexander City’s 2016 allocation is based on an enrollment of 3,088 for the 2014 school year. Enrollment – referred to often as the ADM or average daily See BUDGET, Page 3

Tallapoosa County School System employee Jerel Crayton’s charges involving inappropriate acts with a student were bound over to the Grand Jury Thursday morning. Judge Kim Taylor presided over the short hearing and allowed Crayton, who has retained Dadeville attorney Chad Harrison, to remain free on $30,000 bond. Crayton was placed on paid administrative leave July 16 by the Tallapoosa County Board of Education following his July 13 arrest and was required by the Board to turn in his keys, keep off Tallapoosa County Schools property and not contact any staff, students or parents of students within the system. The charges against Crayton stem from an investigation that began in the spring after it was reported See CRAYTON, Page 3

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Above, workers refinish the floor in the chapel at the Sheriﬀ’s Girls Ranch in Tallapoosa County. Below, Ranch Director Jimmy Harmon poses for a photograph in a kitchen in one of the ranch’s homes. Harmon has been around the ranches all his life as his parents were directors also.

Labor of life Girl’s Ranch director brings life of experience to group By David Granger Outlook Staff Writer

Jimmy Harmon was born to be the director of a group home. In fact, Harmon, director of the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Girls Ranch in Camp Hill since April 2014, has been in a group home the great majority of his life. “I’ve been on a ranch since I was 18 months old,” said Harmon. “My parents were house parents, so I lived in a house just like this one. Grew up in a Boys Ranch. My parents started at a Boys Ranch in Dallas County and, after See RANCH, Page 3

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This year’s Lake Martin Living Art and Photography Contest judges will be looking for creative use of materials and subject matter when they choose the cover art for October’s edition of the magazine, but you only have a few more weeks to let those creative juices run wild. Submission for this year’s contest are due Sept. 23. A tradition of many years, the annual Lake Martin Living contest showcases local art and artists. The winner each year is featured on the cover of the October edition. Artists’ works also are featured in a special inside section of the magazine, and all entries are displayed at Alexander City’s Wine Emporium and Gallery 128 from the end of September until Oct. 25. Those visiting the exhibit at Wine Emporium/Gallery 128 are invited to vote for the People’s Choice winner Sept. 29 through Oct. 3.

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Submissions in acrylics, oil, watercolor, pastels, pen and ink, pencil and photography are welcome. All entries must reflect life in East Central Alabama, highlighting lifestyle, landscape and loveliness of the local area. Entrants can submit up to three works of art. Only ready-to-hang works will be accepted. The contest is open to artists of any age, and there is no fee to enter. No prizes or monetary awards will be given. This contest is just for fun! A panel of local artists will judge the entries. To submit an entry, bring artwork to the Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc., office by or before 5 p.m. on Sept. 23. The office is located at 548 Cherokee Road in Alexander City. Be sure each entry is clearly marked Kenneth Boone / The Record with the artist’s name, address and teleDadeville’s Nancy Duchene took both First phone number before submitting it. View the entries and cast your votes Place and People’s Choice honors in last year’s annual Lake Martin Living Art & Photography See CONTEST, Page 3 Contest. Now Playing:

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corn, along with crafts and natural honey and beeswax products from Dennis Creek Farms. Keel said that there will be more vendors than previously at this year’s event, and there will also be a train ride and inflatable bouncing house for kids. “We encourage everyone to attend that can,” Keel said. According to Keel the festival started several years ago as Kellyton Trade Day. She said that several older ladies in the community would gather and present various foods, bake goods and crafts. Naturally though with the progression of time and age, Keel said, that they were unable to continue the tradition.

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Ranch about five years there, my Dad got a promotion to be a director at the King’s Ranch and led that program for about five years. Now, he’s been director at the Baldwin County Boy’s Ranch for about 25 years.” In fact, Harmon says he can trace much of what he has become to his time on a Boys Ranch with his parents. “I’m 33 years old, but I’ve got 30 years experince on a sheriff’s ranch,” said Harmon. “It’s one of the reasons I’m so passionate about it because this is home. I might not have been raised on this location, but this place is home. Throughout my life, I’ve seen the impact that the sheriff’s ranches have had on kids’ lives. “I kind of view myself as the end product of the ranch system. The ranch is what taught me work ethic, it’s what taught me responsibility and taught me to value education. Because I went by the same rules that everybody else went by. It’s been a huge impact on my life.” Harmon hopes to bring some of the lessons he learned as a resident – albeit as the child of a house parent – of a Boys Ranch to bear in his tenure as the director of the Camp Hill facility. Already he’s seen the number of the girls at the ranch grow from eight to 15. He has implemented a college program and is working to turn the facility’s library into the college kids’ living quarters. He’s remodeling the chapel and doing so in a way that it will serve the facility as a multi-purpose building. Still, he spends much of his time correcting the misconceptions people unfamiliar with his ranch and its residents continue to have about the system. “We’re the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Girls Ranch,” Harmon said. “The big misconception with that is a lot of people think we take care of kids that have been in trouble with the law. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, we can’t take kids that have been in trouble with the law. We take care of abused, neglected or abandoned kids or kids from unfortunate circumstances through no fault of their own.” As examples of some of the types of children the Girl’s Ranch takes in, Harmon tells of one girl whose mother got remarried and was raped by

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by school officials that they were made aware of the possibility of inappropriate behavior by Crayton in the spring. The two charges are part of new state laws that deal with inappropriate conduct by school employees. Statute 13A-6-81, which reads a “school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19 years” is a Class B felony. The code gives a graphic legal definition of “deviant sexual intercourse” that is inappropriate for publication in this newspaper. Statute 13A-6-82, school employee having sexual contact with a student under the age of 19 years, says that “sexual contact means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a student, done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party. The term includes soliciting or harassing a student to perform a sex act.” The crime is a Class A misdemeanor. Because the investigation is ongoing and allegations have not been presented to a grand jury, no details have been released as to the student or students involved or where or when the incidents allegedly took place. Crayton has worked at Horseshoe Bend School, Dadeville High School and Councill Middle School in his time with the Tallapoosa County Schools system.

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her stepfather and stepbrother. The girl found a home at the ranch. “Another girl, her only fault in life is that she looked like her mom,” Harmon said. “When she came to Girls Ranch she had been so mistreated simply because she reminded her stepmom of her mom that her knee was all blown out and we had to have it reconstructed.’ That girl found a home at the ranch. Finally, Harmon mentions a pair of sisters from Alexander City. “Mom got a new boyfriend and basically told them they had to find other living arrangements,” Harmon said. “So they went from house to house and finally ran out of resources and the older sister used the only resource she had – her body – to provide for her and her sister.” Harmon said that when the sisters were finally brought to the Girls Ranch, the older sister caught a glance of some canned foods in the home’s pantry and burst into tears. The sisters had found a home at the ranch. The homes, each overseen by married house parents, not only give the girls a roof over their heads, they also give them structure. They wake at 5 a.m., get dressed, then all gather in the kitchen for devotions and breakfast. After breakfast, they make up their beds and all of the girls at the ranch gather at the flagpole for the pledge before they leave for school at Reeltown. In the evenings, there are chores three days a week for each girl and time for dinner and study before retiring for the day. Harmon says that, to be successful, the community needs to be familiar with the ranch and what it does and that it is accountable. That’s the primary reason, he said, that one of the first things he did after he took the position was to call the Lake Martin Area United Way. “With us, we don’t get the percentage of our funding from the United Way that some others do, but we do certainly get some,” Harmon said. “What we get from them that is more important to us than anything is sort of a stamp of approval. Any agency that’s affiliated with the United Way has to be accountable and we want people in our community to know that we are accountable and we take that accountabil-

ity seriously.” Harmon, who has degrees in business and public relations, and his wife, Carrie, and four school-aged children live in a home tucked on the backside of the Ranch’s beautiful white-fenced grounds. He says he enjoys his coffee in the morning from his porch

Budget measurement – is measured by the state annually by averaging the total enrollment each of the 20 school days immediately following Labor Day. According to Blythe, the most recent check of the Alex City schools’ current enrollment showed an ADM of 3,059. A projects list included in the school board’s budget packet indicates that it plans to spend approximately $770,000 of the additional sales tax revenues on several projects, including technology infrastructure and network upgrades, a new dressing building for Alexander City Middle School, a new voice-over Internet-protocol (voice-over IP) phone system, iPad cases and charging stations and system-wide building improvements. Other new projects that will be paid for with capital funds include new eighth-

Contest for the People’s Choice award Sept. 29 through Oct. 3 during normal business hours at Wine Emporium/ Gallery 128 at 128 Calhoun Street, Alexander City, next door to The Shoppes of Queen’s Attic. The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday. Winners will be announced in the October edition of Lake Martin Living magazine, which is available by subscription or free of charge at your favorite local merchants after the 15th of each month. Entries will remain on display until Oct. 24, and artists should retrieve their artwork from Wine Emporium/Gallery 128 the last week of the month. “Entrants really need to pick them up as quickly as possible,” said Henry Foy, owner of Wine Emporium/ Gallery 128. Neither Lake Martin Living nor Wine Emporium/ Gallery 128 are responsible

as the day wakes up and talks about the beauty of watching from the loft of the ranch’s barn as the sun came up over the grounds on a recent morning. It sounds like the kind of morning, the kind of beauty that every child should be able to enjoy.

continued from page 1 grade desks, a renovation of the ACMS fieldhouse, other new school furniture, additional Internet bandwidth, non-instructional software, a maintenance truck and new tile in the media center and classrooms at Jim Pearson Elementary School. The 2016 Alexander City Schools budgets by school are: • Alexander City Middle School: $3.6 million; • Benjamin Russell High School: $7.87 million; • Jim Pearson Elementary School: $5.89 million; • Stephens Elementary School: $3.49 million; and • Radney Elementary School: $3.03 million. In other action, the board approved several personnel moves, including: • Retirement of a bus driver; • Continuation of contracts related to the HIPPY program (1), the Phoenix

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Jimmy Harmon and the Tallapoosa Sheriff’s Girls Ranch are working to see that more young ladies who come from unfortunate circumstances beyond their control will. The Lake Martin Area United Way needs your support to reach its campaign

goal and help the 26 agencies it supports, including the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Girls Ranch. You can send your donation to Lake Martin Area United Way, P.O. Box 876, Alexander City, AL 35011 or give at their office at 17-B Main Street in Alexander City.

Academy alternative school (2) and the After the Bell robotics program (1); • Three volunteer coaches; and • Nine After the Bell workers for Jim Pearson Elementary School (all parttime for a few hours per week alternately);

The board also approved a field trip to Escambia, Florida for the Junior ROTC program. The board meeting originally scheduled for Sept. 15 was rescheduled for Sept. 22 at 5 p.m. at the Board of Education office at 375 Lee St.

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by weather, primarily temperature changes. There are no environmental standards for either green algae or turnover in drinking water, Harrison said. Harrison added that Alexander City has notified all of its wholesale customers (water systems to which it provides water) of the problem. The city takes in its drinking water from Lake Martin just above River North Marina, according to Meadows.

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e’re afraid there isn’t much schoolwork being done at Benjamin Russell High today. With all due respect to our dedicated education professionals, today is homecoming. We know that for the average student, there are far too many distractions to leave much room for algebra or biology. And, at least for today, that’s OK. All of Alexander City will join the Wildcats in celebrating the occasion this afternoon. Other city schools will also be dismissing early so that everyone can enjoy the fun. There are few spectacles quite like a homecoming parade. Students have been working throughout the week to design the perfect float or auto decoration to represent their grade, club or sport. And from the first crash of drums and cymbals to the final horns and sirens of emergency vehicles, the parade promises to be quite the event. The class maids and the young ladies of the homecoming court will cruise by in convertibles, each likely anxious about the big reveal of BRHS’s 2015 Homecoming Queen. The parade will begin in downtown Alexander City at 2:30 p.m., on Calhoun Street, turning left at Carlisle Drug, then moving through downtown to Church Street before concluding at BRHS. Then, at 7 p.m., the Wildcats will take the field hoping to capture a big homecoming win over Eufaula. Whether you are a graduate of Benjamin Russell or not, take this opportunity to take part in the activities that make Alexander City such a special place. Homecoming week is smalltown America at its finest and few towns do it as well as the folks here in Alexander City. Take part in the celebration. Line the parade route and be at the Sportplex for the crowning moment. It’s the stuff that memories are made of. We hope to see you there. Go Wildcats.

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Vice president is Biden his time to run

he field of Democratic presidential candidates is in disarray. How bad is it? It’s so bad that the encouraged and anticipated entry of Joe Biden couldn’t make it any worse. Joe Biden has been a perpetual punchline for the past seven years. He was put into his role as vice president by President Obama apparently to dispel, forever, the notion of white supremacy. But compared to Bernie Sanders and the untrustworthy Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden looks like he belongs on Mount Rushmore. Being Joe Biden is an ongoing indignity. He is known to insist on swimming nude daily and making his Secret Service agents watch. If he leads our military and the free world, I guess he will be the commando in chief. And he is known for always being wrong. Until their drubbing in the last election, Biden maintained that the Democrats would hold the Senate. In his book “Duty,” former defense secretary Robert Gates boldly said, “I think [Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” But Biden touts his foreign affairs bona fides; this is puzzling, given what Gates said and Biden’s implication that al-Qaida had been defeated. This is the same Biden/Obama team, which traded five Taliban leaders for one U.S. deserter, Bowe Bergdahl. Obama tried to include Joe Biden in the deal;

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the terrorists said, “No way!” There was one scary time when both Obama and Biden were out of the country, and we worried about who had our nuclear launch codes. It was comforting to know that, with Biden out of pocket, the nuclear codes were given to North Korea’s envoy, Dennis Rodman. On the bright side, Biden told a South Carolina Democratic fundraising event that, if he ran, he promised to serve only one term as president. Nothing makes you feel more confident and secure about a leader than a promise to get his presidency over as quickly as possible. Uncle Joe has to make his decision to run pretty soon. He’s just waiting to see if Hillary continues to slide in the polls or gets perp-walked. Even if arrested, Hillary may still succeed Obama; with Democrats, even in prison-jumpsuit orange, she’s the new black. However, she is losing to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, and her support is down by 33 percent in Iowa. Obama and Biden control her fate in their decisions on selective prosecution. The Obama Injustice Department must decide if it will prosecute Hillary over her nefarious use of a personal email server and destruction of

evidence. Hillary was happy to see her campaign sign, “Ready for Hillary,” displayed in D.C. Unfortunately, it was placed in front of the federal courthouse. Next for Joe Biden is campaigning in Iowa. He has to be careful. The last time he was in Iowa, he got stuck in a corn maze for days. It was the oddest thing he’d ever done since whatever he did the day before. Obama is encouraging Biden to run in order to extend his own legacy. Obama knows that his work is not complete: The racial divide is not wide enough, only 45 million Americans are on food stamps and only 93 million are out of the labor force. Obamacare, his energy policy, taxes and regulations have not yet put enough American companies out of business or forced them to move overseas. With one survey finding that “liar” is the first word that comes to mind when Hillary Clinton’s name is mentioned, things are shaping up well for a Joe Biden run. Until the past few months, the national joke that was Joe Biden’s unserious nature made it impossible for him to run. But Donald Trump’s success gives Biden encouragement that anything is possible. The race could be Biden versus Trump: “Plugs versus Rugs.” We live in a Kardashian-like world now. We no longer want political leaders who will lead us; we prefer, instead, that they entertain us. Ron Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, author and TV/ radio commentator. Contact him at at Ron@RonaldHart.com.

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ere’s a sobering fact: American entrepreneurship is in decline for the first time since the U.S. government started measuring it. And U.S. Census Bureau data show that the U.S. ranks “12th among developed nations in terms of business startup activity,” according to Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup. Believe it or not, when measured in per-capita terms, socialist countries such as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand and Sweden now have more startups than we do. So does Hungary, formerly part of the Soviet bloc, as well as Italy, which hasn’t had many successes in the economic prosperity column since before the Roman Empire collapsed. But it gets worse. “You never see it mentioned in the media, nor hear from a politician that, for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births,” writes Clifton. According to the most recent numbers, 400,000 new employer businesses — those with one or more employees, which Clifton says are the real engines of economic growth — “are being born annually nationwide, while 470,000 per year are dying.” Whereas in 2008, business startups outpaced shuttered businesses by 100,000. Clifton says that “when small and medium-sized businesses are dying faster than they’re being born, so is free enterprise. And when free enterprise dies, America dies with it.” Declining American freedom

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is contributing to the decline of free enterprise. According to the sixth edition of the Legatum Institute’s Prosperity Index, released last year, America now ranks 21st among the top 25 freest countries in the world. It isn’t rocket science. Freedom, entrepreneurship and economic prosperity go hand in hand, write the Fraser Institute’s Donald J. Boudreaux and Jason Clemens in Forbes: “In a free market, entrepreneurs devise new products, as well as new methods of production and distribution. If consumers find entrepreneur Jones’s new product valuable enough to buy it at a price that covers its cost, Jones reaps profits. If consumers find entrepreneur Smith’s new product to not be worth the price necessary to cover its costs, Smith suffers loses that are his to bear.” The consensual transaction through which consumers and entrepreneurs spend their own money “is by far the best means yet devised for ensuring not only that scarce resources are used as productively as possible, but also that creative human effort is continually called forth to discover ever-newer and better ways to use resources,” they write. But America is inhibiting, rather than encouraging, consumers and entrepreneurs nowadays. It’s no wonder, then, that the eco-

nomic recovery we have experienced since 2009 is the slowest in more than 70 years, says The Wall Street Journal. And that doesn’t bode well for any American. Want a strong military? Want to provide health care for the needy? Want to pay off our rapidly growing bills before they sink us? Then America better remember how to unleash the genius of American entrepreneurs: tax simplification, fewer nutty regulations, lower government spending and debt to free up investment capital. Clifton says that America’s 6 million small businesses provide jobs for more than 100 million Americans — which produces a significant portion of the tax base we need to fund all that the government does. “These small, medium and big businesses have generated the biggest economy in the world,” he writes. This “has allowed the country to afford lavish military and social spending and entitlements. And we’ve been able to afford all of this because, until now, we’ve dominated the world economy.” If we want to enjoy renewed economic prosperity, we need a renewed burst of American entrepreneurship. As goes the American entrepreneur, so goes America. Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist and is nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons Inc. Send comments to Tom at Tom@TomPurcell.com.

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Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church will hold its annual Sacred Harp Singing Sunday, Sept. 20. The church is located just east of Goodwater on County Road 83. Singing begins at 10 a.m. with lunch at 11:30 a.m. and more singing in the afternoon. Bring a covered dish and join us. Listeners and singers welcome. For more information call William Futral at 256--839-6670.

September 11-13 HIGH SCHOOL REUNION: The Benjamin Russell High School Class of 1985 is having their 30 year reunion Sept. 11-13. For more information contact Jackie McKenzie Strong at For Heaven’s Sake Bookstore or Buffy at 256-750-0663.

September 12 DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE LUNCHEON: There will be a Alabama Democratic Education Luncheon Sept. 12 at noon at the Cooper Recreation Center. Guest speaker will be Felix Parker of the ADC in Montgomery. Donation is $7. For more information contact Alisa Norris at 256-329-8674 or 256-496-0189 or Nekeska Primes at 256-269-8482. GOSPEL SINGING: New Pine Grove Baptist Church is hosting a gospel singing Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. with HIghway 22 at its church on Whaley Ferry Road. A love offering will be taken. Come and receive a blesssing. PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Comer Methodist Church, 427 E. Church Street, will be hosting its monthly pancake breakfast on Sept. 12 from 6-10 a.m. Plates will be $6.00, and you may eat in or carry them with you. SINGING: God’s House in Hackneyville is hosting a singing Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. with the Dennis Family of Millbrook. Free refreshments afterwards. COMMUNITY FESTIVAL: The Kellyton Community Festival will be Sept. 12 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the former Kellyton Elementary School that now serves as the Kellyton Town Hall. There will be crafts and other vendors, homemade fried apple pies, boiled peanuts, baked goods, train ride for children and a jumping house for children. Call 256-786-1703 if interested in being a vendor.

September 13 HAGGERTY REUNION: The Haggerty Reunion will be Sunday, Sept. 13 at Woods Presbyterian Church on Horseshoe Bend Road. We will meet and greet at 11 a.m. and serve lunch at noon. Bring your favorite dishes and pictures to share. For more info call Alicia at 256-825-6701. CHURCH HOMECOMING: Bethel Baptist Church on Young’s Ferry Road in Jacksons Gap is hosting homecoming Sept. 13 at 10 a.m. All former members and friends are invited to felowship and worship with our church family. Fellowship Quartet will begin singing at 10 a.m. and at 11 a.m. Rev. Bill Middebrooks will bring the morning message. Everyone is encouraged to bring food or drink and enjoy our fellowship meal together after the morning message. MOVIE: Calvary Heights Baptist Church is having movie night, Sept. 13 at 5 p.m. featuring the movie “Do You Believe.” Everyone is invited to attend. CHURCH HOMECOMING: New Style Baptist Church on Coosa County Rd.. 20 in Equality will be hosting homecoming services Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. USHER’S ANNIVERSARY: Great Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is celebrating Usher’s Anniversary Sept. 13 during the morning worship service at 10:30 a.m. CHURCH HOMECOMING: Equality United Methodist Church will host its 128th homecoming Sept. 13 with a gospel singing at 10 a.m. and worship service at 11 a.m. Following the service their will be an old-fashioned covereddish lunch in the fellowship hall. Dress is casual for the whole day.

September 19-20

HORIZONS UNLIMITED: Dolores Hydock will be presenting “Soliders in Greasepaint: Entertaining with the USO” at the Sept. 14 meeting from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Alexander City Board of Education.

MODEL RAILROAD SHOW: The 25th annual Wiregrass Model Railroad Show and Sale will be Sept. 19 and 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds south of Dothan. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children under age 12. Vendors from throughout the southeast will have more than 100 tables of train - related merchandise for sale. Several large model railroad layouts will be running during the show. For more information call 334-7906284.

September 14-16

September 14-18 CHURCH REVIVAL: House of Prayer will be hosting a revival Sept. 14-18 at 7 p.m. nightly. Evangelist for the week will be Asst. Overseer Mudean Franklin. The pastor is Overseer Emma Hoyle. Everyone is welcome.

Septemeber 15-17 CHURCH REVIVAL: The New Style Baptist Church on Coosa County Rd. 20 in Equality will be hosting revival services Sept. 15-17 at 7 p.m. nightly. Pastor Perry Fletcher from Brandon, MS will be the guest speaker.

September 16-18 CHURCH REVIVAL: The Gap Fellowship Church is hosting fall revival services Sept. 16-18 at 7 p.m. nightly. Guests evangelists are Rev. Robert Williams Wednesday, Rev. Bradley Gibson, Thursday, and Rev. Emerson Ware Friday. Come and be blessed.

September 17 AUTHOR VISIT: Dana Gynther will be at the Dadeville Public Library Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. in the lower level of the library. Gynther is the author of “The Woman in the Photograph: A tale about a young model in 1920s Paris.” Books will be available for purchase and Mrs. Gynther will be autographing her books.

September 18-20 ORCHID SHOW: The Alabama Orchid Society is having their 31st annual Orchid Show and Sale in the auditorium of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Sept. 18 – 20. Free admission. Show times are Friday – Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. for sales only, Saturday –Sept. 19 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. with sales open at 10 a.m., show opens to public at Noon, Sunday – Sept. 20 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. sales and show open at 11 a.m. Contact for more information at 205-447-5285 or www.facebook.com/ alabamaorchidsociety

September 19 TRASH WALK: The next monthly PATH Trash Walk is Saturday, Sept. 19 at 9 a,m. Volunteers are asked to meet at the top part of Strand Park in Alexander City to receive supplies and assignments. YARD SALE: Great Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is hosting a church yard sale, classic cars and raffle Sept. 19 from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. The church is raffling off a 1998 Mercedes ML 320 for $10 donation. Proceeds from this event will go toward the church’s building expansion project. For more information call 256234-5513. PRAYER SUMMIT: Passion Church is hosting a prayer summit Saturday, Sept. 19 form 8 a.m. to noon Join us as we pray for our naiton, the nations of the world, our community and for individual needs.

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September 20 FINE ARTS ACADEMY: The First United Methodist Fine Arts Academy individual voice and instrumental lessons begin the week of Sept. 20. Call 256-234-6322 for more informations BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY: Are you feeling disconnected from God and meaningful, spiritual relationships with others? Sixth Street Baptist Church would like to invite you to “Back to Church Sunday” Sept. 20. Come give church another chance. Bible study for all ages at 8:45 a.m. and morning worship service at 10 a.m. For more information call 256-794-3074. SACRED HARP SINGING: Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church will hold its annual Sacred Harp Singing Sunday, Sept. 20. The church is located just eastof Goodwater on County Road 83. Singing begins at 10 a.m. with lunch at 11:30 a.m. and more singing in the afternoon. Bring a covered dish and join us. Listeners and singers welcome. For more information call William Futral at 256--839-6670. 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: Thurman and Brenda Hamlet will be celebrating 50 years of marriage Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. at 6th Street Baptist Church in Alexander City. Please RSVP to 256-625-0391.

September 21 HORIZONS UNLIMITED: Dr. Mark Conversino of Maxwell AFB will speak at the Sept. 21 meeting from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Alexander City Board of Education.

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September 22 FALL OPEN HOUSE: Volunteer Connections of Central Alabama, Inc. invites everyone to our VCCA Fall Open House on Tuesday, Sept. 22, any time from 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. We are so excited about the programs we offer to the community and we want to share information about them with you. Come by and visit with the VCCA Board of Directors. Please bring a friend or potential volunteer with you to the Open House! Light refreshments will be served. VCCA is located at 5030 Hwy 280, Suite C, Alexander City, AL 35010, (256-234-0347 or vcca.al@ gmail.com) in the Karen Channel State Farm Building.

September 23 HEALTH AND REHAB FAIR: Get in the Game with Adams Health & Rehab Health Fair! Come out to the Alexander City Sportsplex for Adams Health & Rehab Community Health Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 23 from 9 a.m. - Noon. Local vendors will provide community education, health screenings, bone density testing and many more opportunities for screenings. Do not miss this chance to learn helpful health tips as well as great food and entertainment. Please join them and show your team spirit.

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SEASON IN PROGRESS

Random thoughts from week one of college football

h, college football. With week one ROBERT of its return HUDSON always Sports Editor comes a series of ridiculous overreactions. It’s a tradition as old as complaining about college football. Now that the first week of games is in the books, here are a few things that stood out to me.  Speaking of overreactions, more than a few Auburn fans were disappointed with the debut of much-hyped quarterback Jeremy Johnson against Louisville. Listen Tiger fans, I get it. We’ve all been victims of hype at one point or another. But with that said, and as has been said on this page by at least one other columnist, one bad game does not a career make. Johnson is going to be fine. He’s got too many tools at his disposal not to get better, and Louisville was a quality opponent. As you may have heard more than a few announcers say during the first week of games, there are no preseason games in college football, so the first game or two for each team are often littered with mistakes. It’s the reason why weeks like this one – which is littered with a truckload of tuneup games – exist. Which reminds me...  This week’s slate of games actually isn’t THAT awful. Because of those aforementioned tuneup games that adorn week two of the season, I thought this week was going to be a bust and all I had to look forward to was the start of the NFL regular season on Sunday. But as I was putting together football picks for this week I realized week two has the potential to be deceptively good and have some farreaching implications for the postseason. Of course, everyone knows about the OregonMichigan State matchup, but there’s also LSUMississippi State and Oklahoma-Tennessee, where one matchup could greatly affect the SEC West race and both could have playoff implications in the long run.  Yep, Ohio State is still really good. I’m sure there were a lot of people smiling as Ohio State trailed Virginia Tech 17-14 at the half on the road Monday night, but as the second half showed, football is a 60-minute game. As one ESPN announcer said, it seemed like the Buckeyes were trying to be too cute trying to figure out all the possible ways to get the ball in Braxton Miller’s hands (can you blame them?) instead of just giving the ball to arguably the nation’s best running back in Ezekiel Elliott, who only had about four touches in the entirety of the first half (the second of which was an 80-yard touchdown run). But as I said earlier, there are no preseason games in college football, and as these same Buckeyes showed last year, teams get better as the season progresses. If Monday was the starting point for Ohio State, then Block O might be celebrating its second-straight title in Glendale come January 2016. Hudson is sports editor of The Outlook.

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Above left, Central-Coosa’s Ryesha Whetstone (6) tries to block a shot at the net during a match Tuesday against Horseshoe Bend. Above right, Horseshoe Bend’s Taylor Walton (10) and Cheyanna Howard, center, try to block Whetstone at the net during Tuesday’s match. Horseshoe Bend won the match 3-1.

Cougars set for home opener, region contest against Midfield By Robert Hudson Outlook Sports Editor

The Central High School-Coosa County Cougars will return home tonight for their second region contest of the season. The Cougars (0-2, 0-1 Class 3A-Region 3) will have their home opener tonight at 7 p.m. against the Midfield Patriots (2-0). Barry Simmons, head coach of the Cougars, said his team is in for a challenge against an athletic Patriots squad. “Traditionally, we know that Midfield is a pretty good program. There’s a lot of tradition at Midfield,” Simmons said. “They’ve got a lot of athletic bodies on the field. They have a very athletic quarterback, a very athletic receiver, they’re big up front and they’re very formidable. They are a spread team that likes to get the ball out quick, likes to throw the football, but their quarterback also has some wheels – he can run.” Throughout the week, Simmons said coaches have been emphasizing the need to play more physical and start games off faster. “We’re just working on being more physical during the course of the game. We want to play a little bit faster over the course of the game and not make mistakes,” Simmons said. “That first week, we made a few mistakes early that ended up costing us the game. The same thing happened last week where we had some issues, we sat some people out and that got us behind having to play catch up. So, what we’ve got to do better is

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Central-Coosa running back Rod Whetstone (1) is wrapped up during the season opener against Fayetteville.

starting the game quicker and not make those early mistakes. If we can do that, we’ll be OK.” In order to get the win, Simmons said the Cougars will have to contain the Patriots’ playmaker at the quarterback position. “Defensively, we’ve got to do a good job of containing the quarterback and tackle well in space,” Simmons said. “Offensively, we need to be very physical up front, but we also need to be able to get the ball in our playmakers’ hands quick and let them get out in space. And we cannot turn the football over.” And with tonight being the home opener for the Cougars, Simmons said

there will be a lot of excitement in the stadium. “I think the guys are excited, I think the community is excited. I think that we’re going to have a good turnout,” Simmons said. “We can score a region win here, so it’s very important for us to even our record up in the region because our goal is to make the playoffs. This would be a big one for us if we can take it. The guys are super excited to come back home and play. For me personally, I’m looking for a good turnout and I know the community is excited. “They want to see some good football, and if they want to, they can come out Friday night and see it.”

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Oregon at Michigan St.

Michigan St.

Boise St. at BYU

Boise St.

BYU

Boise St.

Kentucky at South Carolina

S. Carolina

Kentucky

S. Carolina

This Week’s Games

Luke Robinson

Doug Patterson

Mitch Sneed

Cliff Williams

Randy Lee

Last Week: 8-2

Last Week: 7-3

BRHS vs. Eufaula

BRHS

Dadeville vs. Childersburg

Dadeville

Midfield

Central-Coosa vs. Midfield H. Bend vs. LaFayette

Michigan St. Michigan St.

Scott Hardy

Michigan St. Michigan St. Michigan St. Michigan St.

Oregon