SEVERAL OPTIONS FOR CELEBRATING VETERANS DAY Holtville High School basketball coach arrested

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

By Cliff Williams Staff Writer

Friday will be filled with Veterans Day options in Wetumpka.

regardless of what else is going on.

will start at 11 a.m.

A virtual teacher at Elmore County School’s Edge program has been arrested and charged with school employee distributing obscene material to a student.

Gardner Perdue is involved with several programs and opportunities for the community to observe the annual holiday first celebrated in Alabama.

Perdue said organizers celebrate the holiday on Nov. 11

Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said Emmanuel Andre Wilson II, 32, of Montgomery turned himself into authorities Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s on a Friday night,” Perdue said. “There are other things going on but we always try to do it on the actual Veterans Day. We celebrate it on that day even though it falls on a Friday, that’s when we do it.”

Perdue said Veterans Day in Wetumpka starts and finishes at

Wilson was the head basketball coach at Holtville High School and was placed on administrative leave Jan. 13 according to Elmore County Schools superintendent Rich