April 2, 2014 Section B - The Trussville Tribune

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April 2 - 8, 2014 | The Trussville Tribune
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Car tag renewal begins in Vestavia; Trussville Fire’s medical control
Trussville will observe soon
physician earns certification
by Gary Lloyd
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Vestavia Hills became the
first Jefferson County city
to offer residents the option of buying vehicle tags
at city hall instead of standing in long lines at county
courthouses on Tuesday.
Rep. Paul DeMarco, RHomewood, posted this
message Tuesday morning
on Twitter: “First folks in
line at Vestavia Hills City
Hall getting their car tags
this morning - everything
running smoothly.”
Trussville recently sent
City Clerk Lynn Porter, Administrative Assistant Bob
Christmas and Chris Coleman to Montgomery for
three days of training with
the Alabama Department
of Revenue, to learn about
how the renewal software
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file photo by Gary Lloyd
Trussville City Hall
works.
“We do plan to observe
(Vestavia Hills) at some
point in time, but we figure
they need the first month to
themselves to figure out the
process,” Porter said Tuesday.
Trussville Mayor Gene
Melton has said there is no
set date on when Trussville
may begin offering the service to residents.
The city of Clay has also
expressed interest in selling
car tags. Clay City Manager
Ronnie Dixon has said that
Clay will participate if the
test at Vestavia Hills goes
well. Pinson will likely not
consider the move at this
time.
The new law allows cities
to charge up to $5 more to
cover their costs.
Trussville Fire and Rescue’s medical control physician is now board-certified in emergency medical
services, a sub-specialty of
emergency medicine available to diplomates of the
American Board of Emergency Medicine.
UAB Associate Professor Sarah Nafziger, M.D.,
is among the nation’s first
physicians to earn the certification.
Nafziger has been Trussville Fire and Rescue’s
medical control physician
for about nine years and
also serves on Trussville’s
Public Safety Committee.
The purpose of the certification to improve patient
safety, enhance the qual-
ity of emergency medical
care provided in the prehospital environment and
further integrate it into the
continuum of patient care.
Nafziger is the assistant
state EMS medical director
for the Alabama Department of Public Health and
the director of the UAB
Office of EMS.
For more information
about Trussville Fire and
Rescue, visit www.trussvillefire.com.
Contact Gary Lloyd at
news@trussvilletribune.
com and follow him on
Twitter @GaryALloyd.
photo courtesy of www.uab.edu
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Clay Days Festival set
for Saturday
by Gary Lloyd
Trussville realtor a finalist
for Realtor Magazine top
30 under 30
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
The Clay Days Festival
is scheduled for Saturday,
April 5 in Clay.
The event will be at the
Clay City Park on Old
Springville Road.
Admission to the event
is free.
The festival’s opening
ceremony is at 9 a.m.,
when Megan Markle will
sing the National Anthem. Other performers
will be KRS Worship,
Madeline Steward, Josh
Curtis Band, Skylar Wallace, Shades of Gray and
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photo courtesy of www.claydaysfestival.com
The event’s logo
Anna Maria Streety.
There will also be arts
and crafts vendors from
Clay, Alabama and the
South.
For more information,
visit www.claydaysfesti-
val.com.
A Trussville realtor is a
2014 finalist for Realtor
Magazine’s top 30 under
30 award.
Bo Draughon is the broker at Keller Williams Realty in Trussville.
“With great challenges
come amazing opportunities. Because I learned the
benefit of networking early
on, I have enjoyed the opportunity to work with and
be referred to many people in Birmingham who
submitted photo
Bo Draughon
I would not have known
otherwise,” Draughon said
on the magazine’s website.
“The personal and profes-
sional growth I’ve seen
over the previous five years
will help guide and motivate me to continue that
over the next five years,
where I’ll be looking to expand my sales team to over
200 agents in the Birmingham area.”
People can vote for the
finalists at http://realtormag.realtor.org.
Trussville book sale this weekend
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
The Friends of the
Trussville Library spring
book sale is this weekend
at the John C. Yarbrough
Community Center beside
the Trussville Public Library.
Friends will be selling
all books -- hardback, paperback, fiction and nonfiction -- for 25 cents each,
or five for $1. The sale
is open during the same
hours as the library: Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Saturday from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. and Sunday from 1
p.m. to 5 p.m.
“Clear out your car
trunks or truck beds and
submitted photo
From left are Karen Davis, Jennifer Bain and Mary Lynne Robbins, who sort through
materials for the Friends of the Library book sale.
be ready to load up on
bargains,” said Mary Sue
Landman, Friends vice
president and sale chairman. “We’re clearing out
all our old books to make
room for an entirely fresh
group of donations that
we’ll be selling this fall.”
Another Friends event,
this one for writers, will
take place Sunday, April
13, in the library meeting
room at 2 p.m. It’s a third
installment of “In Our
Own Words,” readings by
local poets, essayists and
fiction writers from their
own works.
“We introduced ‘In Our
Own Words’ last fall, and
we have been pleased at
the diversity and quality
of the writing,” said Mary
Lynne Robbins, Friends
president.
Writers who wish to participate should call 205655-7694.
At this time, participation in “In Our Own
Words” is limited to writers who are high school
students or older. Other
guidelines established for
participants include:
• Readers must pre-register for the program.
• In most cases, writers must read their own
works, although surrogates may be used if approved.
• At least six writers must
register in order for the
program to be held.
• Estimated reading time,
including introductions,
should be less than eight
minutes per participant.
• Material read should be
in good taste.
• Long works, such as
novels or biographies,
must be excerpted to
meet time limits.
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JeffCo Farmers Federation endorses Shelnutt
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
The Jefferson County
branch of the Alabama
Farmers Federation last
week endorsed Republican
Shay Shelnutt for Alabama
Senate District 17.
“I got to meet Shay a few
weeks back and I have really been impressed,” said
ALFA member John Morris. “Shay is a ‘what you
see is what you get’ type of
person. He is not a politi-
cian. He is a pro-jobs, conservative Christian candidate who is as likable and
smart a guy as you could
want to know. We will do
everything we can to help
him win because we need
positive,
conservative
leaders in Montgomery
who will fight for our district.”
Shelnutt, of Trussville, is
a Palmerdale native. Others running for the seat are
Pinson City Councilman
Joe Cochran, Gayle H.
Gear, Brett King, Jim Mur-
photo by Ron Burkett
Shay Shelnutt
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phree, Adam Ritch and Jim
Roberts. The seat is being
vacated by Scott Beason.
“I am honored by this
announcement of support,”
Shelnutt said. “This is all
new to me, but it is such an
awesome feeling to have a
group of people join your
team and tell you they believe in you and want to
help you do better for our
community. As a conservative republican my focus
will be to bring together
this district, which spans
four counties, so we can
focus on new jobs and better income while protecting the values that make
our home special.”
Primaries are June 3.
The Alabama Farmers
Federation, an affiliate of
the American Farm Bureau
Federation, is the state’s
largest farm organization
with more than 365,000
members.
Weld for Birmingham: Motorists under assault
by Scott Buttram
Publisher
Weld for Birmingham
reported last Wednesday
that Birmingham police
are investigating multiple
incidents of vehicles being
struck by objects thrown
from or around interstate
overpasses.
According to Weld, the
incidents took place March
14-15 near the Highland
Avenue overpass on Red
Mountain Expressway.
The Birmingham Police
Department is being espe-
cially watchful of the Highland Avenue overpass over
the Red Mountain Expressway after reports of several
vehicles being hit by objects thrown from the overpass earlier this month, Michaelle Chapman reported.
Forbes ranks Birmingham as the sixth-most dangerous city in America.
“The plan is to try to be
proactive,” Lt. Sean Edwards, the police department’s spokesman told
Chapman. “Patrol officers
are being a little bit more
visible.”
In addition, a department
task force of plainclothes
officers was keeping closer
watch in the area.
Although broadcast reports have said other cars
have been damaged in similar incidents, Edwards told
Weld he is unaware of any
others being reported to police.
“A lot of times citizens
don’t notify police and we
don’t know anything about
it,” he said.
Chapman reported that
no one has been arrested in
the incidents, Edwards said.
“We don’t know if it was
an individual or a group of
individuals” involved, he
said. The culprit could face
charges of criminal mischief and throwing a missile or projectile if caught.
One victim reported hearing what could have been a
gun shot, but police found
no evidence of gunfire.
At least four incidents
have been reported, according to the Weld article. Vehicle damage included multiple broken windows and
dents to the vehicles.
According to CBS 42, the
left rear window of a vehicle headed toward Birmingham on the Red Mountain
Expressway was shattered
as the car passed under the
Highland Avenue overpass
Saturday.
Regina Leonard of Sylacauga told the television
station that she was able to
maintain control of the vehicle when the window exploded, covering a baby in
shattered glass.
Leonard and the other
occupants of the vehicle
reported seeing nothing out
of the ordinary before the
incident.
“Nothing but traffic.
Nothing out of the unusual,
just traffic,” Leonard told
CBS 42.
Though no serious injuries have occurred with the
recent spate of incidents in
Birmingham, similar incidents have resulted in serious injuries and death in
other areas.
Two teens recently pleaded guilty in Tuscaloosa to
causing serious injuries to a
driver in that city. In 1999, a
University of Alabama professor was killed in Florida
when a brick thrown from
an overpass came through
her windshield.
Read Weld’s full story at
www.weldbham.com.
Jordyn organized a book
and toy drive, with a goal
of collecting 2,000 books
and toys.
The book and toy drive
started last week. Donations can be dropped off
at any Books-A-Million in
the Birmingham area.
The drive wraps up Saturday, April 5 from noon
to 4 p.m. at the Books-AMillion on U.S. Highway
11 in Trussville. There will
be door prizes, a coloring
contest, sing-a-longs, sto-
ry time, face painting and
get-well cards made for the
children at St. Jude.
When she was 6, Jordyn
started Faith Like a Child,
Inc., which aims to do “love
projects” and help families
going through hard times
by giving them something
to look forward to. Jordyn’s first “love project”
was raising enough money
to send a young cancer patient and her family to Walt
Disney World.
For more information,
visit www.faithlikeachildinc.com.
Book, toy drive Saturday in Trussville
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
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Opinion
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Jesus drinks from an awful cup
“P
ray that you
will not fall
into temptation, Jesus said to his disciples. Then, he left them
and went to a private
place. There he prayed
Father, if you are willing,
take this cup from me; yet
not my will but yours be
done” (Luke 23:40-43).
He was in great anguish as
he prayed, and he prayed
so earnestly his sweat was
like drops of blood falling
to the ground.
The cup of which he
spoke was not an ordinary
one. It was a cup filled
with the things he knew
he would go through in
crucifixion. It was a cupful of sin. He took upon
himself the sins of the
world. He suffered and
died for the worst of us,
and the best of us. It was
for your and my sins.
It was a cupful of wrath.
Sin pays off in death (Ro-
Robert G. Wilkerson, D. Min.
mans 3:23). On the cross,
Jesus suffered and died,
paying for the sins of us
all. “Christ redeemed us
from the curse of the law
by becoming a curse for
us...” (Galatians 3:13).
It was a cupful of suffering. Jesus was fully
human, and he went
through terrible physical
and spiritual suffering.
The Psalmist foretold of
his suffering, saying, “I
am poured out like water, all my bones are out
of joint, my heart is like
wax, it is melted within
me” (Psalm 22:14). Nails
and thorns tore through
his body, but betrayal,
desertion, and mockery
pierced his heart.
It was a cupful of mercy.
The one thought that sustained him was he knew
that through his suffering
and death millions would
have their sins forgiven,
and enter into a loving relationship with God. He
died for us that we might
live for him. Bless His
holy name.
Dr. Robert Wilkerson
is a minister, writer and
founder of People for the
Christian Way, an organization whose mission is to
encourage all people to
practice Christian principles in business, politics
and every area of life.
Lawmakers pushing common sense welfare reform
A
labama Republicans are working
to pass a package
of bills aimed at reforming many of the state’s
public assistance programs.
The five-bill package
includes measures to:
• Allow for drug testing
of welfare applicants
with a drug conviction within the past five
years
• Restore
community
service, job training or
work requirements for
able-bodied food stamp
recipients without dependents
• Increase penalties for
fraud in taxpayer-funded public assistance
programs
• Require welfare applicants to submit job
applications before receiving benefits
• Prohibit spending of
welfare benefits on liquor, tobacco, casinos
and strip clubs
The bills have already
been approved by the
Senate and are awaiting
action by the Alabama
House of Representatives.
With
out-of-control
federal spending, we have
an obligation at the state
level to make sure we
are taking the necessary
steps to promote fiscal
responsibility and protect
against abuses in the system.
For example, drug testing in instances in which
welfare applicants have
a prior drug conviction
ensures that taxpayerfunded benefits are not
enabling a reckless and
oftentimes life-threatening addiction.
We also believe that
able-bodied food stamp
recipients without dependents should participate in
at least 20 hours of work,
job training or community service a week within
three months of obtaining
benefits. This is a common sense measure to
help move people from
dependency on government to self sufficiency.
Part of this process is
making sure welfare applicants are only utilizing these taxpayer-funded benefits as a last resort. One of the bills we
passed requires welfare
applicants to apply for
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one wins when a welfare
applicant is able to find a
job instead of having to
rely on public assistance.
Unfortunately,
many
government
assistance
programs are seen as
easy targets for fraud and
abuse due to lack of enforcement of guidelines
to guarantee accountabil-
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ity. That is why we passed
a bill to make it a crime
to defraud many state and
federal government-funded assistance programs
like Medicaid, Social Security, food assistance and
public housing. Estimates
have shown that Alabama
is losing millions each
year to health care fraud
and abuse alone.
The final bill in this
package prohibits welfare
recipients from spending
benefit money on alcohol
and tobacco, and at strip
clubs and gambling facilities. According to reports
from other states, millions in taxpayer-funded
benefits have been spent
on these things.
It’s not only a serious
exploitation of a wellintended program, but
it’s a slap in the face to
taxpayers for these public dollars to be used in
a way that is completely
opposite of the program’s
intent. This kind of abuse
shows a complete disregard for those who are
genuinely in need.
Slade Blackwell is serving his first term in the
Alabama State Senate
representing
Jefferson
and Shelby counties in
District 15. For more information about Slade,
visit
www.sladeblackwell.com or follow him
on Facebook or on Twitter @sladeblackwell. To
reach him by phone, call
334-242-7851.
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Calendar
Palmerdale Homesteads
Community Center events
GCW Wrestling is the first Saturday
each month at 7 p.m. at the Palmerdale
Homesteads Community Center. The Mark
Taylor Band performs the third Saturday
each month, clogging and line dancing, 6
p.m. to 10 p.m.
Cahawba Art Association
meetings
and baskets.
Mathews, Bearden book signing
April 6
June Mathews and Sandra Bearden will
sign copies of Trussville’s installment in
Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America
series on Sunday, April 6 from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. at the Trussville Public Library.
Managing and Eliminating Debt
The Cahawba Art Association meets program in Trussville April 8
monthly on the second Monday at 6:30
p.m. at the Trussville Public Library.
Georgiana Davis Masonic Lodge
meetings
Georgiana Davis Masonic Lodge No.
338 in Trussville meetings are at 7:30 p.m.
on the second and fourth Monday each
month. Practice nights are on the first and
third Monday. Family nights are on the
fifth Monday of the month. The lodge is at
190 Beechnut St. in Trussville. For more
information, call Bryan Stover at 205706-5220.
Clay Historical meeting April 3
The April meeting of the Clay Historical
Society will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday,
April 3 in the fellowship hall of the Clay
United Methodist Church.
Rock N Roll Easter at Taylor
Memorial
A Rock N Roll Easter will be April 5
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Taylor Memorial
United Methodist Church at 2501 Sweeny
Hollow Road. The event is for K-5
children and features crafts, games and
more. Registration begins at 12:45 p.m.
April 5.
Saving and Investing program in
Trussville April 3
Dr. Andreas Rauterkus will present a
Saving and Investing program April 3
from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Trussville
Public Library. The free program focuses
on understanding financial markets, and
evaluating different saving and investing
options.
Parent workshop at Palmerdale
UMC April 4
A
free
parent
workshop
on
“Understanding the Teenage Brain”
featuring Mark Oestreicher will be
April 4 at 7 p.m. at Palmerdale United
Methodist Church. The church is located
at 7776 Alabama Highway 75. For more
information, call 285-7594 or visit www.
PalmerdaleUMC.com.
Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt in
Trussville April 5
A free flashlight Easter egg hunt will be
April 5 at the Trussville Youth Football
Field in the Trussville Sports Complex
at 6:30 p.m. The hunt is for children ages
2 through 8. There will be 5,000 candyand toy-filled eggs, face painting, a fire
truck, a fire dog, cotton candy and a space
bounce. Children should bring flashlights
John Kottmeyer will present a Managing
and Eliminating Debt program April 8
from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Trussville
Public Library. The free program focuses
on various types of debt, pros and cons
of each, risks and true cost of debt, and
pitfalls to avoid.
Health fair in Trussville April 8
Trinity Medical Center and the Trussville
YMCA will host a free community health
fair on Tuesday, April 8 at the Trussville
YMCA from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Screenings will include
blood pressure checks, body mass index,
bone density, sun damage and cholesterol/
blood sugar. For more information, call
205-655-2224.
begin at noon and end at approximately
4:30 p.m. The board will take a short break
and move into a work session followed by
a board meeting at 6 p.m. All meetings will
be held in the board room of the Central
Office.
Trussville BNI visitor event April
26
BNI, an international networking
organization specializing in business
referrals among members, is holding a
visitors’ day for its Trussville chapter
April 26 at 7 a.m. at the Trussville Civic
Center. Area Director Jeff Wilson will be
speaking. Anyone interested in attending
the meeting is welcome. Call George
Barnett for reservations at 205-856-1720.
For more information about BNI, visit
www.BNIAlabama.com.
Live Well Walk April 27 in Hoover
A Live Well Walk benefitting Camp
Seale Harris and Sugar Falls Day Camp is
April 27 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hoover
Met. There will be a 1K, 3K and 5K walk.
For more information, email Amanda
Cherry at [email protected]
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Trussville Beautification Board President
Nina Orr at 205-746-8606.
‘Our Town’ at ACTA Theater
April 25-27, May 1-4
ACTA Theater in Trussville will present
the play “Our Town” on April 25-27 and
May 1-4 (no show May 3). The three-act
play by American playwright Thornton
Wilder will show at 7 p.m. on weeknights
and Saturday, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. For
more information or to make reservations,
call 205-655-3902.
‘Ride for Kids in Crisis’ May 24
The first annual “Ride for Kids in Crisis”
will be May 24 beginning at Palmerdale
United Methodist Church. Registration
that day will be from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Bikes leave at 10:15 a.m. Registration is
$25 per bike and $10 per passenger. For
more information or to RSVP, contact
Cindy Wynn at 205-837-5331.
3 summer camp sessions at
Birmingham Children’s Theatre
Boosterthon in Trussville April 11 Trussville Beautification contest
The Trussville City Schools Boosterthon open for nominations until April
fundraiser begins April 1. A Fun Run for 30
The BCT Summer Academy of
Performing Arts is accepting advance
registrations for the 2014 term. Classes
are grouped by age, and any child ages
4K-10th grade is eligible to attend. The
registration deadline is June 2. For more
information,
visit
www.bct123.org/
academysummer.html.
House District 44 political forum
Jazzercise at Trussville Civic
Center
students will be Friday, April 11. For more
information, visit http://www.funrun.com.
A political forum has been scheduled
for April 3 for the three candidates for the
House of Representatives District 44 seat.
The 7 p.m. political forum will be at the
Trussville Civic Center. The candidates
are Johnny Amari, Joe Freeman and
Danny Garrett, all from Trussville.
Cahaba River Boil in Trussville
April 12
Beginning in April, the Trussville
Beautification Board will accept ballots
for its annual Trussville Beautification
contest. Yards will be judged in May, and
the awards will be presented at Trussville
City Fest on May 3. The categories include
best landscape design, best turf, best use
of color, best homeowner maintained,
best professionally maintained and best
business. There will be first place and honor
roll winners. Ballots will be available at
the Trussville Public Library, Trussville
City Hall and the Trussville Area Chamber
of Commerce. For more information, call
Jazzercise is Mondays at 5 p.m.,
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. and
5:30 p.m., and Saturdays at 9 a.m. at
the Trussville Civic Center. For more
information, contact Beth Gilbert at 205966-9893.
Have events you want to share? Email
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The Cahaba River Crawfish & Shrimp
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Admission is free to the event at Trussville
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Tribune editor signs new book on
Trussville history
The Trussville Tribune editor Gary
Lloyd will sign copies of his new book,
“Trussville, Alabama: A Brief History” on
April 16 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Alabama
Booksmith in Homewood. The store is
located at 2626 19th Place South. He will
have a signing April 27 at the Trussville
Civic Center from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and
one May 18 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the
Trussville Public Library. The book was
published through The History Press.
Trussville school board retreat
April 21
The Trussville City Board of Education
will participate in a board retreat on
Monday, April 21. The board retreat will
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Hewitt, Pinson baseball only area teams ranked last week
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
The Hewitt-Trussville
and Pinson Valley baseball teams were the only
area squads ranked in last
week’s Alabama Sports
Writers Association polls.
Hewitt-Trussville was
No. 9 in Class 6A, down
two spots from No. 7 the
week before. Pinson Valley
held at No. 9 in Class 5A
last week.
Clay-Chalkville, which
entered the Class 6A rankings at No. 10 the week before, fell out of the rankings
last week. Clay-Chalkville
was the third team listed
in the “others nominated”
category, essentially meaning the team was No. 13.
file photo by Ron Burkett
Pinson Valley senior Zac Ray delivers a pitch earlier this
season.
The Cougars lost four of
six games last week.
The top eight teams in
Class 6A, in order, were
Sparkman,
Thompson,
Opelika, Huntsville, Pelham, Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa,
Hoover and Buckhorn.
Central-Phenix City is No.
10.
The top eight teams in
Class 5A, in order, are
Spanish Fort, SouthsideGadsden, Cullman, St.
Paul’s, Hartselle, Briarwood Christian, Etowah
and Muscle Shoals. Homewood is No. 10.
softball team fell out of the
top 10 last week, dropping
to the second team listed
in the “others nominated” category in Class 6A.
Hewitt-Trussville had been
No. 10 the previous two
weeks. The top 10 in Class
6A, in order, were Sparkman, Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa,
Baker, Pelham, Spain Park,
Buckhorn, Albertville, Enterprise, Oxford and Theodore.
Hewitt-Trussville senior pitcher Alec Talley pitches against
Clay-Chalkville earlier this season.
The Alabama Sports
Writers Association rankings are released each
Thursday. To see this
week’s rankings, visit
www.trussvilletribune.
com.
Hewitt-Trussville soccer teams ranked this week
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Both the HewittTrussville varsity soccer teams are ranked
in this week’s Alabama
High School Soccer
Coaches Association
rankings.
For the week of
March 31 through April
5, the Hewitt-Trussville
girls are ranked No. 9 in
Class 6A. The top eight
teams, in order, are Oak
Mountain, Huntsville,
Auburn, Vestavia Hills,
Mountain Brook, Grissom, Thompson and
McGill-Toolen. Sparkman is No. 10.
The
Hewitt-Trussville boys are ranked
No. 10 in Class 6A
this week. The top
nine teams, in order,
are Vestavia Hills, Oak
Mountain,
Hoover,
Huntsville, Grissom,
Mountain Brook, Auburn, Davidson and
McGill-Toolen.
Both teams host Gardendale on Tuesday,
April 8. The girls play
at 5:30 p.m. and the
boys play at 7 p.m.
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and Connor Murrell (0)
compete against ClayChalkville earlier this
season.
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Pinson alum Jennings CCMS names new
hoping for consistency football coach
this MLB season
by Gary Lloyd
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Editor
Coaches have been shuffled at Clay-Chalkville
high and middle schools.
Clay-Chalkville Middle School head football
coach Chris Mills is now
the wide receivers coach
at Clay-Chalkville High
School. Mills will remain in his role as athletics director at the middle
school.
“I’m very excited,”
Mills said. “I’m excited
to work with (offensive
coordinator Stuart) Floyd.
He and I have a lot of the
same mentalities and same
ideas. We work really well
together. I’m looking forward to continuing that.”
Bob Adams, the high
school’s athletics director
and wide receivers coach,
will now be the middle
Tampa Bay Rays center fielder and former Pinson Valley standout Desmond Jennings is looking to be more consistent this
Major League Baseball season.
Rays manager Joe Maddon told MLB.
com reporter Bill Chastain last month that
Jennings has hit some of the longest home
runs the team has had. Jennings said he’s
going to concentrate this season on taking
good, consistent swings.
Jennings last season hit .252 with 14
home runs and 54 RBIs. He stole 20
bases and was caught stealing six times.
Jennings missed 12 games in August
2013 with a fractured left middle finger,
and batted just .153 in his first 18 games
back from the injury. In September 2013,
though, Jennings hit a trio of home runs
and drove in 13 runs.
Jennings told MLB.com he has times
where he hits really well and times where
he feels he can’t see the ball.
Jennings told the website that he feels
good heading into this season, and he
hopes to provide a consistent offensive
output for the Rays, who drafted him in
the 10th round of the 2006 MLB Draft.
He was called up from Triple A Durham
in July 2011. The Rays opened the 2014
photo courtesy of Yahoo! Sports
Desmond Jennings
season March 31.
Pinson Valley High School earlier this
year retired Jennings’ No. 3 high school
basketball jersey. Jennings, the school’s
all-time leading scorer in basketball, graduated in 2005.
Contact Gary Lloyd at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter
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Clay-Chalkville DE earns
invite to The Opening
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Clay-Chalkville
rising senior defensive end
Kendall Jones has earned
an invite to The Opening
football camp in Beaverton, Ore., in July.
Jones performed well
enough to earn the invite
Sunday at the Nike Football Training Camp at
Spain Park High School.
Jones holds scholarship
offers from Mississippi
State, Southern Mississippi
and Western Kentucky. He
has attended junior days at
Alabama and Auburn.
Jones last season totaled
18.5 tackles, 3.5 tackles for
loss and 2.5 sacks.
Also competing at Sunday’s event were ClayChalkville rising senior
running back Terrelle West,
rising senior safety Kam
Prewitt and rising junior
wide receiver T.J. Simmons. Hewitt-Trussville
rising junior quarterback
Zac Thomas was listed as
a participant as well.
photo courtesy of Jefferson
County Schools
Chris Mills
school’s offensive coordinator. He remains in his
athletics director role at
the high school.
In Mills’ one season
as the head coach at the
middle school, the eighthgrade team posted a 3-5
record. The seventh-grade
team went 5-3 and lost
to Bumpus in the Metro
championship game. For
the two years prior to last
season, Mills was the offensive coordinator at Pinson Valley High School.
With Mills moving to
the high school staff, Matt
Taylor will take over as the
middle school head coach.
Taylor was the middle
school defensive coordinator last season. Taylor, an eighth grade math
teacher, played at Oak
Mountain High School
when
Clay-Chalkville
head football coach Jerry
Hood was the coach there,
and was a safety at UAB
from 2005 to 2008.
“This is a great opportunity for me,” Taylor said.
“I am eager and excited
about becoming a head
coach of such a successful
football program. When I
became a coach five years
ago I always wanted to be
a head coach and now I
have that opportunity.”
Hood said Taylor was
a great player for him at
Oak Mountain and is now
a great coach.
“He’s just a talented
coach,” Hood said. “He’ll
photo courtesy of Jefferson
County Schools
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do a great job.”
Taylor said Hood has
done well at the high
school level, and that
starts with training student-athletes at the middle
school.
“Coach Hood brought
me and Chris Mills to
Clay-Chalkville to improve the middle school
program,” Taylor said.
“Coach Mills did such a
great job this past year
with the athletes and I
want to continue to improve this middle school
program. I am truly honored to have the opportunity to lead this program
into the future and work
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Hewitt girls
track 12th in
state rankings
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
girls outdoor track team
was ranked No. 12 out of
all classifications in the
state, according to last
week’s rankings.
The girls were ranked as
the No. 9 team in Class 6A.
In all classifications, the
top 11 teams were Hoover,
Auburn, St. Paul’s, Baker,
Opelika, Mountain Brook,
Pelham, Vestavia Hills,
James Clemens, Homewood and Beauregard.
There were 76 total
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Clay-Chalkville third ‘Shot Doc’ teaches hoops
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baseman commits
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Clay-Chalkville senior
third baseman E.J. Watson
last Thursday made his
college commitment.
Watson will play college
baseball at Alabama A&M
University in Huntsville.
“It means everything to
me to be playing at the
next level,” Watson said.
“It’s something I’ve been
working hard to achieve
my whole life.”
Watson said he projects
to be a second baseman at
Alabama A&M. Watson
is a solid defender with
good speed. He can play
any infield position and
in the outfield. He said he
needs to be more consistent at the plate and build
up some strength.
Watson also held schol-
Clay-Chalkville senior third baseman E.J. Watson tags
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season.
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Miles College and Paine
College in Augusta, Ga.
He was also being recruited by Middle Tennessee
State.
tournament, then lost their
second game to Riverdale
(Tenn.) 1-0 in eight innings.
Hewitt-Trussville
defeated Columbia (Tenn.)
9-5 and bested Blackman
(Tenn.) 11-2. The final
game of the round robin
tournament, against Jackson Christian (Tenn.) was
rained out.
The tournament featured
six other Alabama teams
— Colbert County, Grissom, Madison Academy,
Sparkman, Muscle Shoals
and Pelham. The tournament featured 33 Tennessee teams, and one from
Florida and Illinois.
Keith Veney, holding the basketball, teaches kids at last week’s camp.
Hewitt baseball goes
3-1 in Tennessee
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
varsity baseball team
posted a 3-1 record in the
Warrior Spring Classic in
Murfreesboro, Tenn., over
spring break.
The ninth-ranked Huskies beat Tate (Fla.) 7-3
in their first game of the
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photo by Gary Lloyd
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Keith Veney wanted the
smallest kid on the floor to
hit the winning shot.
The boy caught a pass on
the left wing, hoisted the
ball up, but came up short.
On the next possession,
however, that same boy received a pass on the right
wing, flung it skyward, and
it dropped.
“Trust your teammates!”
Veney called out.
Veney, known as the
“Shot Doc,” hosted a youth
basketball camp at the
Trussville Athletic Center
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Veney focuses on all aspects of the game, but places an emphasis on shooting, making five, six shots
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“You have to be consistently good to be great,”
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