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SPORTS, PAGE B1 TALLASSEE FACES HOLT HOLTVILLE VILLE

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ALABAMA’S BIGGEST WEEKLY HIGH SCHOOL

Pelham 20, Ben Russell 14 ... Page 2 Tallassee 34, Talladega 0 ... Page 5 Trinity 28, Dadeville 0 ... Page 6 Wetumpka 21, Chilton County 7 ...

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Central Clay 36, Holtville 0 ... Page 10 Reeltown 48, Beulah 7 ... Page 12 Chambers 49, Edgewood 7 ... Page 14 LaFayette 42, HBS 21 ... Page 16

FOOTBALL EDITION

Thorsby 54, Central Coosa 0 ... Page 18 Statewide scoreboard ... Page 19

Pride of Tallassee shines at competition

The Tigers get first shutout in years at Talladega

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Wetumpka’s Davin Lee makes a sack against Chilton County.

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Council removes Hammock as utilities superintendent

By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter

Tallassee mayor Johnny Hammock has been removed from his post as utilities superintendent.

The Tallassee City Council approved the motion unanimously

on Tuesday after nearly an hour spent in executive session with the mayor.

The action comes following a special called meeting of the council last Thursday in which the council met without Hammock in executive session for more than

an hour and then with Hammock for another 30 minutes before reconvening the meeting. The council adjourned without taking any action at that time.

The first clue in Tuesday’s regular council meeting wasn’t until the mayor’s report, when

Hammock said “I’m finishing up my last five years here at city hall at the end of the month. I’ve really enjoyed it.”

Hammock then gave a laundry list of everything accomplished in that time period, including $5 million in grants, an Alabama

Community of Excellence recognition, the replacement of streets, the restructuring of the police department, upgraded lights, the refurbishment of the library and new police cameras.

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Road construction creating traffic issues

A FRESH LOOK

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer Construction on Highway 14 is nearing the end – and so is the traffic madness.

For weeks the resurfacing of Highway 14 in Tallassee has caused issues as contractors led traffic around equipment and crews. When the timing of school traffic and employees trying to get to work times just right, long delays can be experienced no matter what direction a driver is headed across the Fitzpatrick Bridge.

Tallasse police chief Matthew Higgins did get contractors to make one adjustment.

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Contractors removed the cell tower equipment for AT&T last week preparing for the cleaning and repainting of the water tower in downtown Tallassee. Before cutting the large coax feeding the wireless equipment, contractors installed a temporary cell site nearby.

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THS students get career experience

Comic shop opens during pandemic

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer Anybody into comics knows Steve Rogers is a veteran from WWII and Captain America in comic books. But Steve Rogers, a veteran of Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq, has been operating Dreamcatcher Comics and Collectables as a storefront for almost four months in downtown Tallassee.

Rogers loves his comics, keeping up with all the villains, superheroes and more, but opening a comic bookstore wasn’t on his radar. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

“If you would have asked me about opening a comic store two years ago I would have laughed at you,” Rogers said. “Everyone rediscovSee COMIC, Page A3

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Students at Tallassee High School are getting a chance to figure out what to do with life after graduation.

Health science and career tech teacher Claire Scroggins is opening the door to career paths in the medical field, some many students might not think of.

“This is our first year teaching this,” Scroggins said. “We are introducing students to as much of the medical field as we can. We have (radiology)

Customers look over the most recent comics to be delivered to Dreamcatcher Comics and Collectables in Tallassee.

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Obituaries LINDA GAILE TAUNTON PERRY Mrs. Linda Gail Taunton “Nana” Perry, age 75, of Franklin, AL, was escorted by angels through the gates of Heaven on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. Mrs. Perry was born on September 18, 1946, in Tallassee, AL. to the late Doston and Lottie Taunton. Mrs Perry loved her flowers, cooking, and spending time with her children and grandchildren. Her family was most important to her and she loved and cared for them with all of her heart and soul. Mrs. “P” also owned and operated Green Fork Grocery in Tuskegee, AL where she loved all the children on Howard Road.

Those left to cherish her memory are her husband, James R. Perry, Jr. of Franklin, AL and her children Wendy G. Perry of Phenix City, AL, Beverly Jo (Jody) Bodiford of Franklin, AL, James R. Perry, III of Franklin, AL, and Michael D. (Kerri) Perry of Farmerville, LA; her grandchildren, Tori (Caleb) Blackburn of Prattville, AL, Heidi Perry of Tallassee, AL, and Adam Perry of

Tallassee, AL; her great grandchild Waylon Blackburn of Prattville, AL and her brother Dr. David (Myra) Taunton of Ft. Worth/ Dallas, TX. She was preceded in death by her brothers Lonnie, Curley, and James Taunton; and sisters Jackie Curry, Patricia Taunton, and Anita Pitchford.

Friends may visit with family on Saturday, October 9, 2021, from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to the funeral services at Pleasant Springs Baptist Church in Franklin with Pastor Jim Voss and Pastor Ronald Sumner officiating. Interment will follow in the Tuskegee Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Robert T. Perry, T. Dudley Perry, Jr., Jeremy Taunton, Chris Taunton, Phillip Taunton, Clay Segrest, and Charlie Turner. Honorary pallbearers will be Thomas Taunton, LeDon Taunton, John Pitchford, Mitch Woodall, Caleb Blackburn, and Bobby Segrest.

Flowers will be accepted but donations in Mrs. Perry’s name may be made to the Tuskegee Cemetery Association, PO Box 830036, Tuskegee, AL 36083.

LONNIE ROY PARKER Mr. Lonnie Roy Parker, a resident of Tallassee, Alabama, passed away Thursday, October 7, 2021, at the age of 88. He was born March 22, 1933, in Tallassee, Alabama to Dawson and Mary Lee Parker.

Mr. Parker is survived by his children, Brad Parker (Shawn), Denise White (Rocky); brother, Thurman Parker (Mary); sister, Lucy Funderburk; four grandchildren, Alyssa White, Alex White, McKenzie Parker and Jack Parker.

Mr. Parker is preceded in death by his wife, Mary Parker; parents, Dawson and Mary Lee Parker; siblings, Robert F. Parker, Viola Osborne, Jack Parker, Donald Parker, Mildred Parker and Wayne Parker.

Mr. Parker was a lifelong resident of the Friendship community. He was a merchant, farmer and a car dealer. His passion was gardening. Mr. Parker was a former member of Friendship Baptist Church and currently a member of First Baptist Church of Tallassee and a deacon at both

Police Reports AUGUST 23 OCT. 11

• A suspicious person and criminal mischief was reported on Jacob Court.

• A black male was arrested on Jordan Avenue.

OCT. 10

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on 1st Avenue.

• An animal complaint was reported on Thompson Avenue.

• A noise complaint was reported on Central Boulevard.

OCT. 9

• A noise complaint was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• A motor vehicle accident with no injuries was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• A disturbance was reported on Macedonia Road.

churches. He held many other rolls in the church for several years. The family would like to thank the caregivers and the community for their love and support over the last year.

Visitation will be Saturday, October 9, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. until service time at 11:00 a.m. from First Baptist Church of Tallassee with Rev. Derek Gentle officiating. Burial will follow in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery.

Jeffcoat Funeral home will be in charge of all local arrangements.

Jeffcoat Funeral Home Directing Tallassee, Alabama JOANNE BURTON HORNSBY Mrs. Joanne Burton Hornsby, a resident of Tallassee, Alabama, passed away Friday, October 8, 2021, at the age of 86. She was born December 12, 1934, in Tallapoosa County to Herman and Florence Burton.

Mrs. Hornsby is survived by her Daughter, Sharon Hornsby Brantley (David Brantley); two grandchildren, David Brant-

• A noise complaint was reported on East Roosevelt Street.

• A domestic dispute was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• Trespassing was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• Breaking and entering a vehicle was reported on Monroe Street.

• A vehicle accident was reported on Highway 229.

• A domestic dispute was reported on Ashurst Avenue.

OCT. 8

• An animal complaint was reported on Jack Street.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• Debris was reported in the roadway on Upper River Road.

• A traffic accident with no injuries was reported on Barnett Boulevard.

• An animal complaint was reported on Rifle Range Road.

• An animal complaint was reported on Ashurst Avenue.

• Another agency was assisted on Jordan Avenue.

• Harassment was reported on 3rd Avenue.

OCT. 7

• A juvenile complaint was reported on Ashurst

ley III (Ashley Kiefer Brantley), Richard Brantley II (Katie Long Brantley); five great grandchildren, Evie, Lucy, Lottie, Eli and Mark.

Mrs. Hornsby is preceded in death by her husband, Billy R. Hornsby; son, Gregory R. Hornsby; parents, Herman and Florence Burton; sister, Shirley Jinks and brother, Billy W. Burton.

Visitation will be Monday, October 11, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. and a Memorial Service will be at 11:00 a.m. from Carrville Baptist Church with Pastor Ben Nobles officiating. Jeffcoat Funeral home will be in charge of all local arrangements.

Jeffcoat Funeral Home Directing Tallassee, Alabama JAMES WATTS Mr. James Watts, 74, of Clay County Alabama passed away on Saturday, October 9, 2021 at UAB Hospital, Birmingham.

AL. Final arrangements pending. Final Arrangements Entrusted to Armour’s Memorial Funeral Home.

Avenue.

• Another agency was assisted on Azalea Street.

• A complaint of harassment was made on Powers Avenue.

• A domestic incident was reported on Whatley Drive.

• An animal complaint was reported on Sylvan Lane.

• Assault was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• Trespassing was reported on Ashurst Bar Road.

was reported on Camelia Drive.

• Trespassing was reported on Riverside Avenue.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• A disorderly person was reported on Lower Tuskegee Road.

• Harassment was reported on North Ann Avenue.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• Gunfire was reported on Baker Hollow Road.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Kent Road.

• A traffic accident with no injuries was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• A domestic complaint was made on Macedonia Road.

• Theft was reported on Main Street.

• A traffic accident with no injuries was reported on Highway 229.

• A suspicious vehicle

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• A civil disturbance was reported on Magnolia Street.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Juniper Street.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

• A traffic accident with no injury was reported on Friendship Road.

• Theft was reported on Benson Avenue.

• Gunfire was reported on Powers Avenue.

• A juvenile complaint was reported on Washington Street.

• A traffic accident with injury was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

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OCT. 5

• A white male was arrested on 3rd Street.

• Gunfire was reported on 1st Avenue.

• A suspicious vehicle was reported on Gilmer Avenue.

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ered their childhood during the pandemic. We all went to our computers looking for things to do. Collectors in general started looking, ‘I wonder how Beanie Babies are doing?’ People started buying back their childhood.

“I was also watching. I bought a tape for $5 and yesterday it was $3 and tomorrow it was $10.

I started buying a few things I wouldn’t ordinarily buy.”

Rogers saw an opportunity and took a risk opening a store during a pandemic selling of all things comic books in downtown Tallassee.

“I started looking into more and said this is a viable option,” Rogers said. “If you have been in quarantine and something opens in your backyard, you are going to go.”

Rogers opened Dreamcatcher Comics and Collectables for the June sidewalk prematurely as his store wasn’t quite ready.

“We were going to be the only business not open,” Rogers said.

“We had vendors on either side of us. We opened up not expecting many folks in a place that looked nothing like it does now. There were very few new comics. I was nervous. I have spent time in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, I was more nervous here on opening day than there.”

The customers have arrived and Rogers hasn’t taken a day off since.

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Steve Rogers, owner of Dreamcatcher Comics and Collectables, helps a customer in his Tallassee store.

“It went well,” Rogers said.

“A lot of good stuff was said on social media and it has continued every single day.”

Some of Rogers’ customers had traveled to Montgomery and other cities to buy comics. Some customers are getting back into comics after leaving for a few years because there was nowhere local to buy them. It is those customers that keep Rogers motivated to stay a viable business.

“When we opened up some customers started collecting again and we helped them get stuff they missed,” Rogers said. “If we closed, that affects him, they would have to go back to Montgomery.”

The comic books are not the cheaply print newsprint issues of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Now comics have new story lines, some tied to movies and television shows.

Most have the stories inside but

publishers have figured out variant covers trigger more sales.

“We do have a lot more variants than when we first opened,” Rogers said. “Someone might not buy Spiderman but there may be an artist they follow and will want that cover. By offering more covers, people may want more.”

The weekly shipment of comics has created a feeding frenzy only superheroes, villains and comics can quell. Rogers chums the water on social media previewing on Tuesdays soon to be stocked comic books.

“For some of these guys, it’s the night before Christmas,” Rogers said. “I used to put out photos of comics the day they are available but have started doing it the night before. We get phone calls, emails and texts wanting this one or that, I’ll ask ‘is that all?’ A few minutes later comes the text wanting something else.”

October 13, 2021 • Page A3 Rogers figured out there was a need to expand his offerings in the first four months. Quickly Rogers assembled an anime/manga room.

“I got tired of watching money walking out the door,” Rogers said. “Nowhere in Alabama is there an Anime/manga store.

Most stuff is at book stores. Traditionally about one shelf and that is it. Comic stores traditionally don’t carry a lot of it.”

Those customers were buying online. Those customers now come to Rogers’ shop for more than just a book or movie.

“We had Demon Slayer chopsticks,” Rogers said. “They sold by the end of the day. We have anime/manga facemasks, backpacks, tshirts, as long as it is connected to their favorite anime/ manga, they buy it. That is why we got involved. They had nowhere to go. We had room here. If it works, great. It has worked into our favor.”

Rogers has expanded to include tabletop games such as Magic and Dungeons and Dragons (D&D).

“These guys have to drive to Montgomery,” Rogers said.

“Some are married and their wives are are not letting five or six or their buddies come over to 3 or 4 in the morning to play.”

Now Rogers has tables set up in the back for games on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

With space starting to be at a premium in Dreamcatcher Comics and Collectables, Rogers has a plan for expansion but not necessarily with comics or anime/ manga. There is a vacant space

next door but Rogers isn’t ready to take it on just yet.

“We are going to keep going here until we are bursting at the seams,” Rogers said. “As much as I would like to do it right now, as much as they would like us to do it right now, I can’t rely on 9 to 10 people to open it up, plus you open up another can of worms.”

Customers have already started to congregate at Rogers’ shop.

One customer referred to the comics as his drug and enjoying meeting others into comics and more. And Rogers is fine with the customers learning more about each other.

“There have been times when customers finish paying and go to the table and discuss stuff,” Rogers said. “The running joke is this is Tallassee’s bar. I’m waiting for the first phone call from a wife asking if her husband is here — hold on, it has already happened.”

It’s still a new business and Rogers understands it has to make a profit to stay open but he isn’t trying to gouge either. It’s more about the new friends he’s made and even hosted a birthday party for in his first months.

“We are still kind of hand to mouth, it’s a brand new business,” Rogers said. “Closing, you let a lot of people down. Unlike Walmart and some other stores, you do build a rapport with your customer. If this were to close tomorrow, I wouldn’t like the fact we failed in business but I would be more hurt because I have customers I feel I would have let down.”

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techs, RNs and vet techs come by already and talk with them about what they do.”

Most recently the Tallassee Volunteer Fire Department paid a visit to Scroggins’ class.

“It was great,” Scroggins said. “The students got hear from firefighters about something they might not consider to be in the medical field.”

Capt. Mike Allard was one of the firefighters working with Scroggins and the students.

“We got to explain how some firefighters have careers as EMTs and paramedics,” Allard said. “We were also able to get in

some lessons on fire safety and prevention too.”

The firefighters were able to explain what they do and give students information on how firefighters use medicine in their calls, but the students got to have a little hands-on experience with the fire trucks. Some students were able to get to put on turnout gear and get on a hose to get a glimpse into a firefighters job.

The class is designed to introduce students to a lot of the career paths in medicine but Scroggins said students can come out ready to work.

“We have a program if they keep up the get certified to be a patient care technician,” Scroggins said. “With that certificate they can go straight to work in many medical facilities.”

“Traffic was backing up on the bridge,” Higgins said. “If we had an emergency on the other side of the bridge it would be difficult to get first responders to one side of the (Tallapoosa) River or the other.”

Contractors moved the stop point for eastbound traffic on Highway 14 to Outer Drive Thursday. The move made sure there were never any stopped vehicles on the bridge.

Higgins said traffic only became a problem a couple times a day, once in the morning and in the afternoon especially when work was being done near the bridge. Thursday traffic backed up in downtown filling up Ann Street and others along with two lanes downtown.

The project is being done by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) and funded by the State of Alabama. ALDOT spokesperson Linda Crockett said overnight work was never considered for the Highway 14 project in Tallassee as it is sometimes done in metropolitan areas to help avoid issues with traffic congestion.

But Crockett said the traffic issues may not be around much longer.

“The project is scheduled to be finished by the end of the month,” Crockett said. “In talking with the engineers, parts of the project causing many of the traffic issues should be completed in the next week or so.”

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Traffic has become an issue twice a day in Tallassee as a resurfacing project occurs on Highway 14. The Tallassee Police Department did ask for any traffic stops to occur in such a way to leave the bridge open to allow emergency vehicles to cross.

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It’s time to leave the nest T

here are times in our lives when we need a change. That is where I am at right now.

Sometimes, being a small-town reporter can be more difficult than being a national news reporter. Here’s why. In a small town, like Tallassee, everyone knows each other, and if you don’t know someone you probably know of them. That’s just small-town life.

When there is division in a small town, people are expected to take a side. That’s not who I am. As a reporter, I cannot take a side. The art of remaining unbiased is essential to great reporting and sometimes that is done best with a set of fresh eyes.

With all this said, you will see a new reporter in town. For a while anyway.

I am heading over to Wetumpka to

CARMEN RODGERS Bureau Chief help out at The Herald for the time being. I am looking forward to this move.

I started my first “real” job in journalism right here at the Tallassee Tribune. Since 2016, this newspaper has been my baby. I dedicated myself to it, tended to it, and watched it grow and flourish.

I was born in Tallassee way back when the hospital had a labor and delivery ward, and though I did not spend all of my childhood in Tallassee, I could not have picked a better

place than here to work. It was like coming home.

Tallassee always will be home.

This is not goodbye. This is only until you see me again, which will be often and probably sooner than later.

It feels as though I am leaving the nest, and maybe I am. But it was the Tallassee community that gave me the courage to take such a step.

When I started working here, this community welcomed me back with open arms. You all taught me so much. I learned things about my own family that I didn’t know. I have gained so much thanks to this community and for that, I will be forever grateful.

What does the future hold? I am not certain, but I do know one thing: only time will tell.

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The history behind trick or treat

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alloween is known as an evil day of ghosts, goblins, and serial killers. But, from this pagan festival came a holy day – and its story is among one of the most interesting developments in history.

The term Halloween is a contraction of the words that spelled out “All Hallows Eve,” the night before All Hallows Day (or All Saints Day in modern vernacular). In the year 835, Pope Gregory III moved the Catholic Church’s holy days of All Saints Day to November 1 and All Souls Day to November 2, respectively.

“Hallow” is not a word to fear, incidentally: as defined by Merriam-Webster, it means “to make holy or set apart for holy use”.

This explains its use in the Lord’s Prayer: “hallowed be Thy name.”

Europeans have traditionally believed that this is a special time of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is at its most powerful.

The darkness that seems to envelop the universe on this scary evening, especially in horror movies, certainly has a legend unlike any other holy day on the calendar.

The Celtic people of England, Ireland, and Scotland celebrated Samhain at this time of year. Samhain was a harvest festival in which the ancient pagans set bonfires to burn the bones of their slaughtered livestock and any damaged crops. As immigrants moved to the United States in the 1800s, they brought these traditions with them.

MICHAEL BIRD Columnist During Samhain, the pagans ritually wore costumes and masks to keep evil spirits away. When the Romans took over Celtic territory, they incorporated the festival Feralia, symbolized by Pomona, the goddess of fruit. The bobbing-for-apples tradition began here, and to these people the word Halloween literally meant “to eat kids”.

Dennison Manufacturing Company (now Avery Dennison) was a major manufacturer of Halloween cards and supplies in the early decades of the twentieth century.

They even distributed a Halloween merchandise catalog! (Interestingly, Dennison was located in Framingham, Massachusetts from 1897 until recently, when Avery Dennison closed operations there.)

The post-World War II era saw the rise in popularity of Halloween trick-or-treating as the quintessential autumn event. Particularly during the 1950s, Halloween costumes and the sale of Halloween candy became profitable enterprises for American companies.

Jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows, pumpkins, witches, spiders, mummies, vampires, tombstones, and other characters of fall have been

a part of the All Hallows tradition through the centuries.

Dressing up in costume isn’t only for children. Among adults, the most popular costumes continue to be witch, pirate, vampire, cat, and clown, along with pop culture icons of the day.

The jack-o’-lantern is traced back to Stingy Jack, a greedy, gambling, hard drinking old Irish farmer who tricked the devil into climbing a tree, and trapped Ol’ Scratch by carving a Cross into the tree trunk.

In revenge, the devil placed a curse on Jack which dooms him to forever wander the earth at night. (More realistically, a jack-of-the-lantern was an Irish name for a carved turnip or pumpkin with a candle inside, placed on doorsteps and in window sills to light the night.)

Today, Halloween ranks only behind Christmas as the second most popular holiday for decorating in the United States. It also ranks high for profitability along with Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Christmas.

The next time you’re watching Michael Myers from Halloween, Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street or Jason from Friday the 13th, consider that once upon a time, Halloween was a day to remember the faithful departed while celebrating hunters and gatherers.

We will probably never view Halloween in such a way again; but as we do, let us recall how it all began.

Trick or treat!

Michael Bird is a music teacher for Tallassee City Schools.

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Prison issue tackled, new prisons on the way

T

he problem of overcrowded prisons is a dilemma that has been facing Alabama for close to a decade. It was not something that Kay Ivey created. She simply inherited the situation and the chickens have some home to roost during her tenure.

To her credit, she did not hide from the issue.

She has tackled it head on and with gusto and resolve. She and the legislature were and are under the gun because the U.S. Justice Department is breathing down their necks to resolve the inequities and unconstitutional conditions in our prisons.

When you get into a scenario where the Justice Department adamantly demands some concrete resolutions, you have to act. Otherwise, they will take over the state’s prison system, mandate the resolutions, and hand you the bill. Just ask California. The Justice Department is not only building new prisons at the Golden State’s expense, but also releasing a good many of their prisoners. The bottom line is if the Justice Department will mandate and take over the California Prison System, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will do the same to Alabama.

We have been down this path before. Years ago in the 1960s during all the segregation and civil rights wars raging in the Heart of Dixie, the federal courts took over Alabama’s prison system. Governor George Wallace and Justice Frank Johnson were law school classmates and friends. Johnson was married to his lovely wife, Ruth Jenkins while in law school. Ruth was an excellent cook, and they would have George over for dinner. Their friendship ended when they clashed over civil rights and integration. Johnson handed down most of the rulings that integrated schools and other institutions throughout the state, while Wallace lambasted Johnson daily as a scalawaging, carpet bagging, integrating liberal.

Wallace won the demagogic battle and rode it to being governor for eternity. However, Johnson and the federal courts won the war.

Judge Johnson took over the state prisons and the bill was so costly that it took the State of Alabama 25 years to dig out of the financial hole.

Kay Ivey is old enough to remember this disastrous solution for Alabama. That is probably why she took the bull by the horns and declared boldly in her State of the State address over two years ago that this is an Alabama problem and we need to find an Alabama solution.

Governor Kay Ivey and probably more importantly the state legislature has worked to resolve this imminent and pressing problem.

This current Special Session called by Governor Ivey to address the need for new prisons will more than likely resolve the issue for at least the next 25 to 30 years.

The legislative leadership and governor have worked prudently and harmoniously to implement a solution to this prison overcrowding issue. This joint success follows months of negotiations between Ivey and legislative leaders in determining the scope and scale of the project. The two General Fund Budget Chairmen, Representative Steve Clouse and Senator Greg Albritton deserve a lot of credit and accolades for orchestrating the pieces of the puzzle. Ivey and legislators knew that the gravity of the situation required the governor calling a Special Session.

The solution will be to build two new men’s prisons with at least 4,000 beds, one in Elmore County and one in Escambia County, in addition to a new 1,000-bed women’s correctional facility in Elmore County. The new Elmore men’s facility will provide enhanced medical and mental health, substance abuse and educational programming as suggested by the Justice Department.

The two new men’s prisons will cost an estimated $1.2 billion and the women’s prison and renovations of existing prisons will cost between $600 to $700 million. The prisons will be paid for by a $785 million bond issue.

The salvation for the plan was the state receiving $400 million from the federal American Recovery Plan ACT (“ARPA”), which was like manna from heaven.

The heroes for their area and constituents were Senator Greg Albritton of Escambia and Senator Clyde Chambliss of Elmore, who won the new prisons for their people. These prisons are an economic bonanza for Elmore and Escambia. Chambliss got two.

Hopefully, this will resolve this issue for at least a few decades. We will see.

See you next week.

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The road back home

t’s morning in Alabama. I’m driving. There is green everywhere.

Live oaks that are old enough to predate the Stone Age. Tin sheds. Peanut fields with perfect rows that run for miles in straight lines.

American flags are hanging from most mailboxes, horse trailers, workshops, treehouses, and semi-truck garages.

There are plenty of curves ahead, winding through the viridian landscape. They will take you past Faith Chapel Church, Providence Primitive Baptist Church, New Chapel Baptist, First Assembly of God, United Methodist Church. And a heap of other three-room meeting houses with wellkept cemeteries.

There’s the Perry Antique Store— which used to be a gas station one hundred years ago. It sits on approximately thirteen million acres of flat earth.

Old men sit on its porch, chewing the fat. Watching traffic.

There are ancient mobile homes with brand new Fords parked out front.

There are brand new mobile homes with ancient Fords. I pass red-dirt-road offshoots that lead to God-KnowsWhere. Horses in front yards. Cattle in backyards.

Weathered brick chimneys, standing in empty fields.

Telephone poles with fading signs that read: “I buy junk cars.”

I pass small towns, small communities. Brantley. Pine Level. Elba. Kinston is about as big as a minute, but they have a nice baseball field. Baseball is serious business in Kinston.

SEAN DIETRICH Columnist “Now entering Geneva County.”

I pass bumpy creek bridges—I have to slow down to drive across. There’s a crumbling red house—probably older than the late great Kathryn Tucker Windham.

Bass boats sit by the highway with for-sale signs. Farm-implement graveyards stretch clear to China.I am getting close to home. The county in Northwest Florida that sits sandwiched between the Alabama line and the Choctawhatchee Bay. There is a man, burning trash in his front lawn. There are man made bass and bream ponds. Dead corn fields.

Overgrown yards with rusty swing sets and children’s playhouses, with wood rot.

Rusty mailboxes with flags up. Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church. Lowery Church of Christ. Grain silos. Chicken farms. Cattle farms. Tree farms. Dirt farms.

The yellow line in the center of the highway turns solid. Then dotted again. Then solid.

Duke’s Meat House. I’ll bet old Duke can hickory-smoke the sin out of a shoulder.

Earlytown, Alabama, has seen a lot in its day. So has the abandoned Volkswagen in a hayfield. Round bales of

hay. Tall longleaf pines. Tin roofs galore. Corroded fifth-wheels with DIRECTV satellite dishes on top. The Geneva State Forest.

Farmhouses with grandkids sitting on front swings, shirtless. A lonesome cow, standing by a mile marker. Sardis Cemetery, small as it can be.

Hacoda, Alabama. Ponds. Live oaks.

Camp Victory. An old, white millhouse with busted windows and mold growing on the siding.

A homemade sign in someone’s garden which reads: “Roll Tide.”

Entering Covington County. There’s a kudzu problem here in Covington.

And a sunshine problem. There is a young family walking on the shoulder of the road, pushing a stroller. They wave. So do I. Because that’s just how we do.

And I still haven’t passed a single vehicle on this entire highway.

I’ve seen a lot of country in my time.

I’ve seen the mountains of Colorado, the desolate plains of Texas, the ghost towns of Missouri. I shook hands with editor of the Emporia Gazette at a dog park, I bought a cowboy hat in Amarillo, and lost it in Las Cruces. .

But coming back to the part of the world that reared me is special. The place where the word “chair” has four syllables. The place where my memories are. Where my family is.

Thank you, Heaven, for all you give me. For kindness, white flour, bloodhounds, and people who are brave enough to treat others how they themselves want to be treated. Thank you for Lower Alabama.

Why to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

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ne of the key battlegrounds in Congress that you might not have heard about is the latest attempt to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). But I think after you’re done reading this, you’ll want to do your part and contact your member of Congress, to get this done. And yes, it really is up to you.

Back when I was a Senate Intern in 1994, Congress passed VAWA. It didn’t get a lot of attention, but maybe it should have. That’s because it was one of the most important, and effective, pieces of legislation passed by Congress in recent years. The statistics tell the tale.

Most of you might know that crime declined dramatically after the early 1990s. And it wasn’t just the crime bill that played a role. After VAWA was passed, “the rate of intimate partner violence declined by 67% between the 1990s and the year 2010. Between 1993 to 2007, the rate of intimate partner homicides of females decreased 35%” according to the White House.

Many of you probably understand that our law enforcement community would really like to do more, but an intimidated spouse isn’t always in a position to help. That’s where VAWA helps our police help the most vulnerable. You can read the text and see how it addresses violence, but

JOHN A. TURES Columnist protects young victims, provides safe homes, gives law enforcement more tools so they can do the jobs they want to do, and even holds the thankfully few rogue cops accountable, the ones who give the vast majority of men and women in blue a bad name.

I’m sure you know that fighting crime isn’t cheap. But if money is an issue, you should know that VAWA more than pays for itself. Within the first six years of being implemented, VAWA saved $12.6 billion nationwide, according to CCADV. Most states have also followed VAWA’s lead, and adopted compatible policies.

Remember how hard stalking was to charge, much less prosecute? Now every state has an anti-stalking policy.

It isn’t just that America is doing better than it was before VAWA became the law. The U.S. is actually exceeding international statistics.

While more than one in three women globally have been subjected to intimate partner violence or non-part-

ner sexual violence (according to the WHO), that number is far less in America, typically less than one in five women.

But one attack would be one too many. The current version of VAWA seeks to close many of the loopholes that prevented those responsible for these terrible acts from being held accountability; some are long overdue.

Unfortunately, Congress failed to renew VAWA in 2018.

In March of 2021, VAWA was renewed in the House by a 244-172 vote. Yet it took nearly seven months for the Senate to even look at it; the bill was only discussed in the Judiciary Committee on October 5, 2021.

This isn’t just a matter for politicians to debate and discuss and decide upon. It’s also your right, as well as your duty and obligation, to make your voice heard. Please contact your member of the Senate (and the House, if you haven’t already) and tell them how you feel about H.R.1620. If you don’t, you are still taking a stand, by personally keeping VAWA from being renewed.

John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia. He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu. His Twitter account is JohnTures2.

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Support our Humane Societies at the Alabama National Fair

By REA CORD HSEC Executive Director You have one more opportunity to have fun at the Alabama National Fair and support the three area Animal Shelters on Friday, Oct. 15 where you can get halfprice admission for only $5 (regular admission is $10) if you bring a donation of dry or canned pet food, pet toys, blankets or towels with you. These donations will be shared by the three area shelters – Humane Society of Elmore County, Prattville-Autauga Humane Society and Montgomery Humane Society. Please thank the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery members and Alabama National Fair for thinking of the area Animal Shelters like this and for their hard work

making the Alabama National Fair such success As a non-profit organization there are two groups of people critical to our success – donors and volunteers. We are truly blessed with a huge support base and are humbled by the support we receive on a daily basis in terms of financial support; donations of food, cleaning supplies, pet supplies, bedding to the Shelter and all the donations to our Thrift Store. And while donations are absolutely critical, we also do our part and work very hard as a Society at our own fund-raising through multiple venues, the most important being our Tail’s End Thrift Store.

Our store is actually a quite large and very labor-intensive operation that is run 100% by Volunteers. Besides being

open for shopping three days a week (Thu, Fri & Sat 9-3) there is plenty of work to be done on other days sorting, pricing and moving donations so this means there are Volunteer opportunities throughout the week. As with any organization Volunteers come and go, so we are always on the lookout for more to help spread the workload. If you can carve out a few hours perhaps one day/week to come help on a weekly basis we would love for you to stop by. The Thrift Store is a great place to help and the Volunteers there are truly a tight-knit Volunteer Family! If you are interested but want more info, just email the shelter at hselco@bellsouth. net or send a Facebook message to the Shelter (Humane Society of Elmore County),

or the Thrift Store has its own Facebook page: Tail’s End Thrift Store for the Humane Society of Elmore County.

Volunteering in our Thrift Store is helping our animals as all of the proceeds from sales there come straight to our shelter to help our funding and our work caring for 300+ animals every day.

And you can always come over for a break from the Thrift Store to visit our pets and see how your efforts are making a positive difference.

For everyone who donates and shops at our Thrift Store, please also thank our Volunteers for their endless hard work on behalf of all the pets we want to help now and long into the future.

Our Humane Society’s Annual Meeting is coming up on Tue, 19 October, 6 pm,

Wetumpka Civic Center, 410 S. Main St, Wetumpka, AL 36092. We will be reviewing our accomplishments in the past year, voting for our Executive Board members, and looking ahead to 2022. Hope to see you there!

For our supporters who work for the Alabama State Government and want to donate financially, no better way than through the 2021 Alabama State Combined Campaign (SCC) and our Agency Code is 106803. The SCC is critical to Alabama non-profits and helps make donating to deserving charities easy either one time or via monthly payroll deduction. We want to thank all who so generously donate to help not only our shelter, but non-profit agencies everywhere.

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Average gas prices up 10.9 cents a gallon in only 7 days STAFF REPORT TPI STAFF Alabama gas prices have risen 10.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.98/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,348 stations in Alabama. Gas prices in Alabama are 14.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.09/g higher than a year ago.

According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Alabama is priced at $2.42/g today while the most expensive is $3.49/g, a difference of $1.07/g. The lowest price in the state today is $2.42/g while the highest is $3.49/g, a difference of $1.07/g.

The national average price of gasoline has risen 5.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.25/g today. The national average is up 7.5 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands $1.08/g higher than a year ago.

Neighboring areas and their current gas prices: Birmingham- $2.95/g, up 11.4 cents per gallon from last week’s $2.83/g.

Montgomery- $3.07/g, up 14.9 cents per gallon from last week’s $2.92/g.

Huntsville- $2.95/g, up 9.6 cents per

gallon from last week’s $2.85/g.

“Last week saw oil prices advance to their highest in seven years, with a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil surpassing the critical $80 per barrel level. The nation’s gas prices were also pushed to their highest since 2014, all on OPEC’s decision not to raise production more than it already agreed to in July,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “The OPEC decision caused an immediate reaction in oil prices, and amidst what is turning into a global energy crunch, motorists are now spending over $400 million more on gasoline every single day than they were just a year ago. The problems continue to relate to a surge in demand as the global economy recovers, combined with deep cuts to production from early in the pandemic. If Americans can’t slow their appetite for fuels, we’ve got no place for prices to go but up.”

Historical gasoline prices in Alabama and the national average going back ten years: October 11, 2020: $1.89/g (U.S. Average: $2.16/g) October 11, 2019: $2.29/g (U.S. Average: $2.64/g)

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Give the Lord your undivided attention ”With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!” - Psalm 119:10

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re you suspicious that you may not have someone’s full attention when they’re texting with two or three other people while allegedly talking to you? Do you really think that a family sitting in a restaurant is really having dinner together, when Dad, Mom, Junior and Sis are all on their phones before and during the meal? Our culture may have accepted these common occurrences so that it’s not considered as rude as it once was. But isn’t such a “talk” and “family time” less than it should be?

Wise husbands and wives know that it’s important to turn off the television or computer, put down the tablet or the phone and give each other their undivided attention when it’s

MIKE MCELROY Columnist time to talk. Parents who text or talk to other people while they’re supposed to be interacting with their own children are not showing the kids that they matter more than anything else to them in that moment. The kids know it, too. Young people may interact with their peers this way, but many older folks (such as parents and grandparents) consider it a mark of disrespect to not look at them and talk to them without interruption or distraction.

How about your time with God? Isn’t this principle most true in this highest of all relationships? Most of us aren’t as good at

multitasking as we think we are. Even if you can do two or three mundane things at once, I don’t think it’s possible to seek God with your whole heart when your mind is distracted by several other things.

Here’s a good verse to add to your prayer before your daily devotional reading: “With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!” (Psalm 119:10 ESV). When it’s hard to carve out time for being alone with God and when interruptions would break into that sacred space, we need to pledge our intention to seek the Lord with our whole heart. We need to eliminate distractions and find a time and place where we can focus on him. Since we are limited in our ability to do this, we should also ask for his help: “Unite my heart to fear your name” (Psalm 86:12). Reverence for God demands paying attention to him.

Then look at the second part of the verse:

“Let me not wander from your commandments.” That’s good for praying for focus in Bible reading, but it’s good for the rest of a Christian’s life, too. Are you facing a big decision? Ask God to keep you focused on his will for your life. Is temptation strong?

Call on his grace to fortify and enable you to stand against it. What’s your plan for the day?

Wouldn’t it go better and wouldn’t you walk closer to the Lord every day if your mind and heart were closely tuned to his commands?

God wants our whole-hearted love (Matthew 22:37) and whole-hearted trust (Proverbs 3:5). It’s not reasonable to think that the one in whom “we live and move and have our very being” (Acts 17:25) would be satisfied with divided affection, partial commitment or some scrap of our attention. We need to think about this as we worship him and as we live each day that he gives us. God is worthy of your undivided attention.

Church Briefs Bethlehem East Baptist Church Bethlehem East Baptist Church will have all Sunday school classes beginning at 9:45 a.m. Sunday morning followed by regular service at 11 a.m. in the sanctuary. We will continue with Facebook Live Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and Worship Service at 11 a.m.

Carrville Baptist Church Regular hours of service are Sundays- 9 a.m. Sunday School and 10 a.m. Morning

Worship.

Wednesday nights at 6:30 p.m. the church offers Children’s Gospel Project, Youth Bible Study and Adult Prayer Meeting. Regular office hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

East Tallassee United Methodist Church ETUMC’s Rivers Edge Flea Market will close on Sept. 25.

The church will start a new project called Rivers Edge Food Pantry. ETUMC will provide can food, water, dry beans and rice, blankets, and

jackets. If you want to donate or help with the cause, call Joan Wood at 334-312-4913.

Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Please join us for Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. when the Rev. Lee Lowery will celebrate the Holy Eucharist. We are asking everyone please to wear a mask. The service will be live streamed on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ EpiphanyTallassee/ For more information, visit the church website at http://epiphanytal-

a.m. (contemporary) or 11 a.m. (traditional). Sunday First Presbyterian Church School for all ages is offered First Presbyterian Church, lo- Sunday mornings at 10 a.m., cated at 514 Central Blvd. will and a nursery is available host a Veteran’s Day Celebra- for infants. CHILDREN & YOUTH: meet Sunday tion on Nov. 11 from 11 a.m. evenings from 5-6:30 p.m. until 2 p.m. for all veterans and Wednesday evenings and first responders and their from 6-7:15 p.m.; supper is family members. included both days! For more information about our church First United or the programs we offer, visit Methodist Church our website: fumctallassee.

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Tallassee Churches BAPTIST Bethlehem East 7561 Upper River Road Calvary Baptist Church 293 N Wesson Street Word of Life 501 Sims Avenue Carrville Baptist Church 2436 Notasulga Road East Tallassee Baptist Church 314 Central Boulevard Elam Baptist Church 4686 Notasulga Road First Baptist Church 1279 Friendship Road

Flatrock Missionary Baptist Church 1024 Flat Rock Road Friendship 4345 Friendship Road Liberty Baptist Church 574 Liberty Road Mount Zion Baptist Church 64 Log Circle Providence Primitive Baptist Church 4850 Chana Creek Road Refuge Baptist Church 3098 Red Hill Road River Road

239 Lower Tuskegee Road Riverside Heights Hispanic Mission 495 Little Road Rock Springs 375 Rigsby Road Rock Springs Baptist Church 2810 Rock Springs Drive Tallassee First 1279 Friendship Road Tallaweka Baptist Church 1419 Gilmer Avenue Westside Baptist Church 1825 Gilmer Avenue

CATHOLIC St Vincent De Paul Parish 620 Gilmer Avenue CHRISTIAN/OTHER Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ 1072 Muskogee Trail East Tallassee Church of Christ 501 Central Boulevard Light of Jesus Outreach Ministries 140 Gin Street Macedonia Christian Church

2685 Macedonia Road Mount Olive Congregational Christian Church NACCC 492 Kent Road Oak Heights Church of Christ 74 Manning Circle Tallassee Church of Christ 209 Gilmer Avenue Wind Rain & Fire Ministries International 1201 Gilmer Avenue Vessel Church 84632 Tallassee Highway, Eclectic, AL 36024 God’s Church, Campfire Min-

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9301 U.S. Hwy 231, Wetumpka 567-9143 ASSEMBLY OF GOD Agape Tabernacle Assembly of God 1076 Kowaliga Rd., Eclectic 541-2006 Bethel Worship Center 11117 U.S. Hwy 231., Wetumpka 567-5754 Crossroads Assembly of God 2534 AL Hwy 14., Millbrook 285-5545 First Assembly of God

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COUNCIL Continued from A1

“How many bank robbers did we catch off the cameras?” Hammock asked the police chief, who responded “two.”

The mayor also brought up the new Tallassee High School project, one of his campaign promises.

“It’s been a wild ride and I’ve really enjoyed the last five years, and that’s all I have for mayor’s reports,” Hammock concluded.

Councilmembers did not comment on the mayor’s speech in the council’s report.

Hammock is finishing the first year of his second term as mayor, having won reelection last year.

In August, Hammock, a member of the Elmore County Republican Party executive committee, announced he was running for Public Service Commission Place 1. The Republican primary will be held in May 2022.

This is a developing story. For continued coverage, go online to www.tallasseetribune.com.

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The Pride of Tallassee marching band competes at the Lake Martin Invitational last week.

The Pride of Tallassee shines at competition STAFF REPORT TPI Staff The Pride of Tallassee marching band attended two competitions recently.

At the Camellia Marching Band Festival held at Marbury High School on Saturday, Sept. 25, the THS band scored Superior ratings for drum major, color guard, majorette, percussion, and band.

One week later on October 2, the band scored Superior ratings

for drum major, color guard, majorette, and band at the Lake Martin Invitational Band Competition held in Alexander City.

The band’s field show this year is about dreams, featuring music from “The Greatest Showman” and songs by Aerosmith, the Eurythmics, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift.

Tallassee’s band is under the direction of Dr. Robby Glasscock and Mrs. Melanie Skeen. Drum major is Bradyn Slaughter. Head

majorette is Sarah Jane Patterson. Color Guard captains are Georgia Anne Butler and Emma Humphries. The band captain is Cole Ingram, and chaplain is Danielle Bird. Featured soloists this year are Danielle Bird, Lacey Carter, and Kinsley Glasscock.

Majorettes are instructed by Vicki Baker. Auxiliaries coordinator is Jennifer Crain. The percussion instructor is Jordan Wallace, and the music was arranged by Mike Hammonds.

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Tournament to determine playoff berth Stanhope, Benjamin Russell volleyball among competitors

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CLASH TALLASSEE, HOLTVILLE FOOTBALL

IN HUGE REGION SHOWDOWN

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hen the Tallassee and Holtville football teams meet on the gridiron this Friday night, playoff seeding implications are imminent.

Holtville hosts Tallassee this Friday at 7 p.m. in a Class 5A, Region 4 matchup. Both teams are sitting at 3-1 in region play and both have already clinched a playoff berth.

The two teams are in a threeway tie for second place in the division. Both of them, along

with Sylacauga, are 3-1 in region play while Central-Clay County has already won the region championship with a 5-0 region record.

The winner of Holtville and Tallassee will have a chance to host a home playoff game, while the loser will likely hit the road in the first round in a few weeks.

“Last year, this was the point of the season when COVID hit and we were forced to forfeit against Talladega and Holtville,” Tallassee coach Mike Battles said.

“That forced us out of the playoffs. Now we are in the playoffs

As volleyball teams across the state prepare for area volleyball tournaments this week, Stanhope Elmore and head coach Flavia Freeney are fighting for a playoff spot.

Stanhope enters the Class 6A, Area 5 tournament, hosted at Wetumpka, as the No. 3 seed. The Lady Mustangs will face No. 2 seed Benjamin Russell at 4:30 p.m. with a playoff berth on the line.

The winner of the game will punch their ticket to the playoffs and face No. 1 seed Wetumpka at 6 p.m., while the loser is eliminated from the tournament and their season is over.

“We played a heck of a game against Ben Russell a few weeks ago, and I really feel that every match we’ve played this year we’ve gotten better,” Freeney said. “It’s been amazing. We had a late start, but these girls have gotten so much better. I really feel like we have a good shot at winning.”

Stanhope went 0-4 in area play this year, but the Lady Panthers were not an easy win for opponents Wetumpka and Ben Russell.

In the two matches between Ben Russell and Stanhope, Ben Russell went 2-0. But neither match was a sweep, and Ben Russell ended up winning both of them 3-1. Freeney said both times they’ve played, she’s seen her team start playing the way Ben Russell wanted to play, and that put them in a hole early.

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and every game we win from here on out gets us a better seeding. It’s a big game.”

Holtville is coming off its first region loss of the season to Clay-Central, but the Bulldogs have a 5-2 record on the year.

Holtville won its first game of the season via forfeit, and after losing to West Blocton in a non-region game, reeled off four wins in a row.

The Bulldogs have been solid in all three phases of the game this year, but their defense has See CLASH, Page B2 JAKE ARTHUR | THE TRIBUNE

Stanhope Elmore’s Kelbi Johnson gets ready to serve the ball earlier this season.The Lady Mustangs face Benjamin Russell in the area tournament this Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at Wetumpka.

Short-handed Wetumpka volleyball spoils Stanhope’s Senior Night

By DALTON MIDDLETON Sports Editor

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Khloe Harris had a team-high 15 kills and 3 service aces in a 3-0 win over Stanhope on Thursday.

The Wetumpka volleyball team was without its starting senior libero last Thursday, but that didn’t stop the Lady Indians from playing spoiler to Stanhope Elmore’s Senior Night.

Wetumpka beat Stanhope, 3-0 (26-24, 25-19, 25-19) in each of the team’s last regular season game. The next game for each team will come on Thursday in the area tournament at Wetumpka.

Senior Erin Douglass, one of Wetumpka’s best players and starting libero, was not in attendance for the win due to personal reasons. In her place, head coach DeAnna Smith started eighth grader Ashlynn Turner, and the Lady Indians rallied around the youngster.

“We were able to pull that one out,” Smith said. “The fact that we had to throw in an eighth grader at starting libero for the first time ever and in an area game on their senior night with lots of emotions, I’m proud of the way we stepped up and played. It shows we are able to fight. Even with

adversity, they aren’t going to quit on each other and that’s important.”

It was a total team effort for Wetumpka.

The Lady Indians were led by outside hitter Khloe Harris, like usual, but the rest of the team stepped up when needed time after time. Harris finished the three-set match with a team-high 15 kills and 3 service aces.

Alongside her, junior Julie Boshell had six kills and five aces, senior Leah Richardson had five kills and one ace, sophomore Star Angier had four kills, and junior Madison Milton had six kills and two aces.

“I was proud of it. We can’t be a one-trick pony so the fact that the setters were able to set the ball around and it seemed like every single hitter stepped up. I was really, really pleased with it. Khloe is a baller.

She’s a gamer and has good vision.

She has a love for the game and won’t ever go out without a fight.”

While Wetumpka won the match, 3-0, Stanhope did not go down without a fight.

The two teams went back and forth for much of the first set. Wetumpka

led 20-15 and 24-21, but Stanhope battled back with two blocks to tie it at 24. After a Richardson kill, Stanhope hit the ball into the net and Wetumpka took a 1-0 lead.

The Lady Indians controlled momentum from that point on. Wetumpka led by more than five points much of the second set, and got to set point with a 24-14 lead. Stanhope, however, fought back once again with five consecutive points, but could not get it any closer than 24-19 before Wetumpka took a 2-0 lead.

“They fought really hard tonight,” Stanhope coach Flavia Freeney said.

“Our girls are tremendous. They are really the most amazing group of ladies and they have that resiliency.

They support each other so much and I’ve always been amazed at this group of girls. They pick each other up and support each other.”

Much like the second set, Wetumpka controlled the third set as well.

The Lady Indians held a 14-12 lead midway through, but went on a 7-0 run to stretch their lead out to 21-12.

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stepped up week after week. Holtville allows only 20.9 points per game this year and allowed only 16 ppg during their fourgame win streak before last week.

The Bulldogs are led by linebacker Mikey Forney, who has 81 tackles already this year. That is

www.TallasseeTribune.com good for 7th best in the state of Alabama. On the defensive line is Cooper Mann, who has 7 sacks and 30 tackles this year.

Battles has been impressed with Holtville’s defense on film and said the Bulldogs don’t miss assignments very much and can cause mismatches with how physical they play.

“They play really hard and they are always where they’re supposed to be,”

Battles said. “We are going to have to go out and actually block them, cause they’re not going to get out of our way. They’re very physical and we know what we’re getting into. They’re a blue-collar team and they’re always going to be where they need to be. You aren’t faking or fooling them on defense.”

To match Holtville’s defense, Tallassee’s sports an extremely dangerous and dynamic offense. Led by the speedy Jalyn Daniels at running back, the Tigers are averaging 33 ppg and are two or three plays away from being undefeated at this point of the year.

Tallassee (4-2) has two losses by a combined six points; one came on a Hail Mary pass as time expired. Tallassee’s offense, which can line up in multiple formations including a wildcat with Daniels at quarterback instead of Tyler Ellis, has scored over 33 points in five of their six games.

In region play so far, the Tigers are averaging 38

Jalyn Daniels races for the end zone against Elmore County earlier this season.

ppg.

“Their offense runs through Jalyn, either in their single-wing wildcat stuff they do or even running their jets and their normal run game,” Holtville coach Jason Franklin said. “Jalyn is a really, really good ballplayer and a tough kid. You have to account for him to stop, but the Ellis kid has done a really good job throwing the ball and running the offense, and he’s mobile.

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Since the last game against Ben Russell on Sept. 28, Freeney’s team has improved and she hopes to prove that on Thursday afternoon.

“I think we just have to be settled,” Freeney said. “We have to settle down and play our game. It seems like when we go against heavy hitters like Wetumpka or Ben Russell, we start playing their game and having to catch up. We just have to play our game.”

The winner goes on to face No. 1 seed Wetumpka in the championship, and the Lady Indians are in an interesting position right now.

Because of the area only being a three-team area, Wetumpka has already clinched a playoff spot by earning the No. 1 seed in the tournament.

The Lady Indians are 22-15 this year and have swept through the area.

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Up 22-14 just a few points later, Stanhope fought back with five straight points, four of which came on Saiban Chappell service aces.

After cutting it to 22-19, Wetumpka scored three straight to claim the 3-0 win.

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They have plenty of kids you have to prepare for.”

As good as Daniels and the Tallassee offense has been, the Tallassee defense has played just as well. The Tigers have allowed only 17 combined points in their last three games, and they shut out an opponent last week for the first time since 2018.

Battles said his team is communicating more and no longer giving up the big plays they were ear-

They beat Stanhope 3-0 in both matches this year and beat Ben Russell 3-0 and 3-1 in their two area matchups. They played a third time, in the Elmore County Block Party Tournament, where Wetumpka won 2-1.

Wetumpka, however, may be without one of its best players this week.

Starting senior libero Erin Douglass missed last week’s game against Stanhope Elmore due to personal reasons, and her timetable for return is currently unknown.

Douglass is an All-County player from a year ago, and if she is out again, eighth grader Ashlynn Turner will step in like she did last week and play the libero position.

“We will see how practice goes this week and we are going to see what we can do about our lineup,” Wetumpka coach DeAnna Smith said.

In Class 5A, Area 6, the Elmore County Lady Panthers are looking to win their 12th consecutive area tournament. The Lady Panthers (16-7,

The loss was probably the last home game for eight Stanhope seniors. Before the game, Campbell, Kennedy Rudolph, Rylie Grimes, Kelbi Johnson, MacKenzie Foshee, Anna Wilson, Marissa Stephens and Jerrica Word were honored in a very emotional Senior Night festivities.

This was Freeney’s first year coaching volleyball for Stanhope, but she’s been

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ly in the year, and that’s exactly what Franklin has seen on film so far.

“They’ve been playing well and they’re getting pressure from their down three,” Franklin said. “Their linebackers are playing well and they don’t give up big plays.

They keep everything in front and give you a few different looks, so you have to prepare from anything from a 3-man front to a 6-man front.”

5-1) have hosted the area tournament 12 consecutive years, and they earned the No. 1 seed again this season.

Elmore County will play No. 4 Holtville, who went winless in area play, in the first round of the tournament on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Following that game, No. 2 seed Jemison and No. 3 Marbury will play in the semifinals. The two teams that advance out of the semifinals will play in the championship and advance to the playoffs.

Elmore County beat Holtville twice already this season, both times in a 3-0 sweep. The Lady Panthers only lost one area game all year, a 3-2 loss to Jemison. The two teams split on the year.

In Class 5A, Area 5, Tallassee will try to punch their ticket to the playoffs. The area tournament is held at Brewbaker Tech, and the No. 3 seed Lady Tigers will face No. 2 seed Pike Road at 3 p.m. for a chance to advance in the bracket.

around this group of seniors for the last few years and came to tears trying to describe what this class meant to her.

“This is just such an amazing group of ladies,” Freeney said while tearing up.

“They have my heart.”

The two teams will hit the volleyball court again on Thursday for the area tournament held at Wetumpka high school.

No. 3 seed Stanhope and No. 2 seed Benjamin Russell will play at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday in the first round. The winner of that game will not only go on to face Wetumpka in the area championship, but will also punch its ticket to the playoffs.

Due to being the No. 1 seed in only a three-team area, Wetumpka has already clinched a playoff berth.

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The Red Hill Preservation Association is inviting former alumni and descendants to a reunion Oct. 17.

Red Hill School reunion set for Oct. 17

By CARMEN RODGERS Bureau Chief The Red Hill Historical Preservation Association is looking forward to sponsoring a reunion at the old Red Hill School, Sunday, Oct. 17, from 1-4 p.m.

“We invite any former alumni of the old school, community members, anyone interested in the old Red Hill School to come and join in the fun and delicious food catered by Debra Roberson,” Castleberry said.

According to Castleberry, relatives of those who attended the Red Hill School are already planning to attend the reunion.

“We are expecting descendants of the Kennedy and Griffith families from Texas, Arizona and South Carolina to be there,” she said.

The Red Hill Schoolhouse has a deep history in the area. Over the years hundreds of students graduated from the

K-12 school.

Alabama Power employees created a village that became the Red Hill community during the construction of Martin Dam; the first Red Hill School opened in 1913. It was a wooden structure that served the community until 1927 when a new brick schoolhouse was constructed. It served the community until 1966.

Today efforts are ongoing to restore the building.

Fundraisers like last month’s Spaghetti Dinner help fund restorations to the historic school building. The Spaghetti Dinner raised nearly $2000. Organizers served more than 160 plates.

“We are grateful for the many businesses and individuals who helped,” Castleberry said. “This will be a big help to the RHHPA with maintenance of the old school.”

For more information about upcoming reunion, visit http://www.redhillcommunityclub.com/

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