Alabama Press Association 2016 Better Newspaper Contest

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Alabama 2016
Press Better
Association Newspaper Contest
editorial
Surprise Mother-Son Reunion at Bryant High School Graduation
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The Tuscaloosa News, by Michelle Lepianka Carter
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Division A
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Protest during President’s 50th Civil Rights
March Anniversary
by: Duane Rankin
SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2015
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Shelby County Reporter
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President Barack Obama hugs John Lewis before speaking Saturday at the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
‘OUR MARCH
IS NOT YET
FINISHED’
Surprise Mother-Son Reunion at Bryant
High School Graduation (on the cover)
by: Michelle Lepianka Carter
Attitudes both past,
present collide during
Obama’s speech
Josh Moon
[email protected] | @josh_moon
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Tuscaloosa News
This time, the gap
is generational
Estimated crowd
of 40,000 attends
Bloody Sunday’s
50th anniversary
ELMA — The progress achieved by
those who marched
for civil rights in
1965 is undeniable,
as is the inequality
that still exists and
the work that’s left to be done.
That was the message delivered by President Barack Obama, and echoed by the throng of
political leaders and civil rights
activist, in Selma on Saturday to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — the
day Alabama state troopers and
Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies attacked civil rights marchers just after they crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge on their
way to Montgomery.
PHOTO OF THE YEAR
AP FILE
On March 7, 1965, tear gas fumes filled the air as Alabama state
troopers, ordered by Gov. George Wallace, broke up a demonstration
march in Selma on what is known as Bloody Sunday.
INSIDE
Complete coverage of events marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody
Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery March 9-15A
ONLINE
Find more stories, photos and videos from Saturday’s events in Selma and
Montgomery @ montgomeryadvertiser.com/news/selma50
SELMA — The past and present state of America clashed
right in the middle of one of
the most historical moments
the world has ever seen.
While President Barack
Obama gave his speech with
the Edmund Pettus Bridge as
the most symbolic backdrop he
could have, a group from Ferguson, Missouri, resumed their
demonstrations for justice in
their city. With one beating on
a single drum, the demonstrators began chanting, holding up protest signs and could
clearly be heard during Obama’s speech.
They found themselves
surrounded by an older generation watching the purest re-
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on the bridge for voting rights
50 years ago to this day — the
first African-American president of the United States at the
place where history was made
that ultimately led to him landing in the Oval Office.
So those who grew up in a
time when people marched and
nonviolently protested to vote
took a stand of their own. They
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Better Newspaper Contest
DIVISION A
GENERAL EXCELLENCE
1st: Montgomery Advertiser
2nd: The Tuscaloosa News
3rd: TimesDaily
BEST NEWSPAPER
WEBSITE
1st: The Decatur Daily
decaturdaily.com
tuscaloosanews.com
The Anniston Star
Daily
newspapers 22,000 circulation and above
LIFE &
ARTS
Editor: Lisa Davis, [email protected] • Sunday, May 10, 2015 • Page 1E
How to
BEST LIFESTYLE/play
with
FAMILY PAGES trash
1st: The Anniston Star
by: staff
I looked into the trashcan and
my heart sank.
Someone had thrown away
a cardboard tube from a roll of
paper towels.
It’s been years since I’ve
thrown away
a cardboard
tube from a
roll of paper
towels.
I’m pretty adamant
about recycling, although
Lisa
I don’t recycle
Davis
the way most
people do. I
Homeland
recycle the
Insecurity
way kindergarten teachers and VBS craft
leaders do.
I teach a preschool music
class once a week. That wasn’t
just a paper towel tube in the
trash. That was a potential trumpet.
I tried to fish the paper towel
tube out of the trash, but it was
too late.
It’s not like I don’t already
have 63 paper towel tubes in a
box on a shelf in the basement.
To turn a paper towel tube
into a trumpet, simply take a
piece of sturdy construction
paper, wrap it around one end
of the tube into a rough cone
shape, and tape into place. Then
blow.
I could also do this with the
cardboard tubes from toilet
paper rolls, but I am reluctant
to ask a 5-year-old to blow
into something that was once
attached to toilet paper.
Also on my basement
shelves:
• Pink foam egg cartons. Cut
one in half, take the top half and
wrap five rubber bands around
it, and you have a rubber band
guitar. (You can plant tomato
seeds in the half with the egg
cups.)
• Oatmeal cartons; large;
extremely difficult to store efficiently; make dandy drums,
especially if you throw in chopsticks to use as drumsticks. I
make at least 12 oatmeal-carton
drums every year for the preschool class. It’s a good thing we
like oatmeal.
• Plastic Easter eggs. Fill them
with rice or popcorn or dried
beans, and you have shaker eggs.
(Before you give a shaker egg to
a 5-year-old, it’s best to tape or
glue it shut.) (Yes, I learned this
the hard way.)
• Plastic straws. Take five or
six straws, cut them into different
lengths, tape them together in a
row, and you have a pan flute.
• Clear plastic egg cartons,
the tri-fold kind. I haven’t quite
figured out what to do with these
yet, but I think I could fill them
with a little rice, tape them shut
and make rainsticks out of them.
• Tin cans, broken tambourines, broken wood chimes, old
silverware and assorted small
bits of metal and wood that I also
haven’t figured out what to do
with yet.
Let me be clear: I am not
hoarding this stuff. I’m just not
ready to throw it away.
I recently discovered an organization called Bash the Trash
that turns trash into musical
instruments on a much grander
scale. They give performances
and educational workshops all
over the Northeast.
Thanks to Bash the Trash, I
now know how to turn an old
Styrofoam cooler into a cello;
bobby pins into a finger piano;
a length of water hose into a
French horn.
Anybody have an old, leaky
water hose they’d like to get rid
of?
Lisa Davis is Features Editor
of The Anniston Star. Contact
her at 256-235-3555 or ldavis@
annistonstar.com.
3rd: The Decatur Daily
River pollution sparks lawsuit
by: Eric Fleischauer
BEST BUSINESS STORY
OR COLUMN
2nd: Montgomery Advertiser
by: staff
3rd: The Dothan Eagle
by: Peggy Ussery
1st: The Huntsville Times
Polaris will build new manufacturing
operation employing at least 1,700 in
Huntsville area
by: Lucy Berry, Steve Doyle, Lee Roop
BEST SPORTS PAGE
3rd: TimesDaily (Florence)
timesdaily.com
2nd: TimesDaily (Florence)
BEST PRODUCTION
AND PRINTING
BEST LOCAL
ECONOMIC COVERAGE
1st: The Tuscaloosa News
BEST PUBLIC SERVICE
1st: The Birmingham News
The Death and Resurrection of UAB
Football
Unsealing Bentley’s divorce details
3rd: Press-Register (Mobile)
Black Belt DMVs go dark
FOI-FIRST AMENDMENT
AWARD
Lawrence County sheriff refuses to
release shooting records
by: Jonece Dunigan, Franklin Harris,
Deangelo McDaniel
2nd: The Anniston Star
Documenting a decision
by: Tim Lockette
Calhoun president reluctant to release
records
by: Bayne Hughes, Keith Clines
by: Brad Harper
2nd: The Decatur Daily
by: staff
by: staff
BEST LOCAL
EDUCATION COVERAGE
by: Rebecca Burylo, Drew Taylor
3rd: The Anniston Star
BEST LOCAL NEWS
COVERAGE
BEST USE OF
PHOTOGRAPHS /
EDITORIAL CONTENT
BEST EDITORIAL PAGE
OR SECTION
BEST LAYOUT AND
DESIGN
2nd: Press-Register (Mobile)
3rd: The Huntsville Times
2nd: The Huntsville Times
Bridgeport residents hope Google data
center will ‘make people sit up and
notice Jackson County’
by: Lucy Berry
Stephen Gross/ The Anniston Star
Ellen Comfort and her granddaughter Kinleigh with a painting of Capt. Kyle Comfort, who was killed in action five years
ago. Kyle was Ellen's son and Kinleigh's father.
a mother
remembers
It’s been five years since the Mother’s Day weekend when the Army
knocked on Ellen Comfort’s door to deliver awful news
By Donna Barton • Special to The Star
O
The Anniston Star –
Feature Story
n Saturday, May 8, 2010,
Ellen Comfort awoke early
to a beautiful, sunny day.
Normally, she spent her
Saturdays in a leisurely fashion, but
on that day, she was anxious to get
up and get going. “It was Mother’s
Day weekend and it was Brooke’s
first Mother’s Day,” Ellen said. “I had
gotten her a card and I wanted to
drive up to Jacksonville to give it to
her.”
“I caught a glimpse of green through the
side window,” she remembered. “But I didn’t
realize it was more than one person until I
opened the door.”
Ellen found herself face to face with three
men in full military uniform. She noticed that
one of the men wore a cross on his collar: a
chaplain. “My heart stopped,” she said. “Every
military family knows what this means.”
The man in the middle began to speak:
“On behalf of the Secretary of Defense, we
regret to inform you —” but Ellen interrupted
him.
“You don’t have good news for me, do
you?” she asked. The chaplain shook his
head, and the man in the middle began
speaking again.
“On behalf of the Secretary of Defense, we
regret to inform you that Captain Kyle Aaron
Comfort was killed in action —”
As the man spoke, Ellen was frozen in
place, but at the mention of her son’s name,
she turned and ran away from the visitors
at her door. Her heart pounded against her
chest. “It was the most intense pain I’ve ever
felt,” she said.
Her mind raced as she seized upon a
sudden thought — What if they’re wrong?
She jumped at the possibility and turned to
face the men. “Are you absolutely sure it was
Kyle?”
Yes, they assured her. It was Kyle.
With that, Ellen escaped to her bedroom.
Feeling helpless and alone, she shut the door
and burst into tears. “I laid across my bed and
sobbed my heart out,” she said.
She’s not sure how long she stayed hidden
away in her bedroom, but after regaining
some of her composure, she returned to the
men. She thanked them for coming to see
her in person, but they refused to leave until
someone else was with her.
Ellen, who had been widowed for eight
years, asked them to call Father Bryan Lowe,
her priest at Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
while she called her oldest son, Kenneth.
As they waited for the others to arrive, the
chaplain asked Ellen if he could pray with
her. She readily agreed. “I remember how he
prayed that I would find some sort of peace,”
she said. “But I prayed that they had made
some terrible mistake.”
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Brooke is Ellen's daughter-in-law, and was
married to Ellen’s son Kyle, an Army Ranger
working as a fire support officer, who was
stationed in Afghanistan on a second tour of
duty. Ellen was also looking forward to seeing
her granddaughter, Kinleigh Ann, who was
only 6 months old at the time.
Afterward, Ellen met up with her quilting
group for a few hours of sewing and socializing. That afternoon, back at her home in
Choccolocco, her front doorbell rang.
Protest during President’s 50th Civil
Rights March anniversary speech
by: Duane Rankin
Please see COMFORT | Page 6E
Dauphin Island Sailboat Regatta turned
deadly in storms
by: Michael Dumas
3rd: The Huntsville Times
Ultratec explosion kills 2
by: Paul Gattis
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COVERAGE
Pregnant and Prosecuted
by: Amy Yurkanin, Nina Martin
Cats in crates
by: Russ Corey, Robert Palmer, Tom Smith
3rd: Montgomery Advertiser
Selma plant’s questionable conditions
by: Brad Harper
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STORY COVERAGE
Death in the Trades Towers: Where the
elderly poor come to live -- and die
by: Amy Yurkanin
Mothers on opposite sides of murder
case
by: Kelsey Davis
A cruel wind: How the 2015 Dauphin
Island Regatta unfolded
by: Lawrence Specker
BEST EDITORIAL
Roadblocks ahead for same-sex couples?
by: Annette Clifford
Remove Confederate flag emblem from
trooper uniforms
by: Michael James, Robert DeWitt, Jim
Rainey
Leadership? Not in Alabama
by: Robert Palmer
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DIVISION A
Daily newspapers 22,000 circulation and above
BEST LOCAL SPORTS
COLUMN
3rd: Montgomery
Advertiser
State’s reaction to gay
marriage
embarrassing
by: Josh Moon
BEST HUMAN INTEREST
COLUMN
DEFENSE PROPELS
NO. 10 ALABAMA
PAST ARKANSAS
Alabama
Arkansas
27
14
Nearly half of college graduates
with student debt postponed
BEST SPORTS SINGLE
EVENT STORY
What happened to the goalposts
from last year’s Alabama-Ole Miss
game?
by: John Talty
Storms bring three dog night
by: Bernie Delinski
3rd: The Tuscaloosa News
One Basket for the Record Books
by: Joey Chandler
Keep an eye on skin for signs of
melanoma
by: Lydia Seabol Avant
BEST SPORTS
FEATURE STORY
Stop blaming the Confederate flag
by: Leada Gore
SPORTS, 1C
Level playing field
by: Gregg Dewalt, John McWilliams
Bring the Noise
by: Tommy Deas
A firefighter and a little girl
by: Phillip Tutor
BEST NEWS PHOTO
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2015
by: Aaron Suttles
Anniston’s sign, still standing
by: Phillip Tutor
BEST EDITORIAL COLUMN
OR COMMENTARY
A December to remember
by: Gary Cosby Jr.
Henry runs into history to lead Tide to
SEC title
by: Mark Edwards
The Huntsville Times – Sports Photo
BEST HUMOROUS
COLUMN
Top Dollar
Truly scary movies for men
by: Bernie Delinski
2nd: The Anniston Star
Anniston High School culinary arts
by: Stephen Gross
2nd: The Dothan Eagle
Junior shows class after crazy finish
by: Jon Johnson
1st: The Huntsville
Times
High school football
coaching salaries
by: staff
Not Afraid of No Ghost
by: Marty Roney
Here Comes the Bride on a Slide
by: Bob Gathany
Rankin: Coaches need to support ban of
Confederate Flag
by: Duane Rankin
BEST SPORTS
NEWS
IN-DEPTH
COVERAGE
1st: The Dothan Eagle
Car convos with the nugget
by: Jim Cook
BEST FEATURE PHOTO
1st: TimesDaily (Florence)
Finding peace
by: Alex Byington
How football is revitalizing one
small Alabama city
by: John Sharp
3rd: The Birmingham News
How Jim McElwain’s son Jerret, an
Alabama student, changed his life
by: John Talty
further education because of
unpaid loans. A third or more put
Bryant Graduation
by: Michelle Lepianka
Carter
2nd: TimesDaily
(Florence)
‘He is truly an artist’
by: Matt McKean
Vigil for Johntavious Brown
by: Bill Wilson
off buying a house or a car, and
nearly one in five delayed
starting a business. It’s stats
like these that make you ask
yourself, Is it ...
WORTH
THE
PRICE?
STAFF
ILLUSTRATION/
THINKSTOCK
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Student debt
cycle traps
parents, kids
13A
BRAD HARPER
B
50%
of the 60,000 recent college
graduates surveyed “strongly
agree” that their degrees
were worth the cost.
2/3
had to take out
loans to finish
school.
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ecky Hardy says she’s lucky. The numbers say she’s right.
College graduates have flooded into a tight job market
over the past decade carrying heavy school debt along
with them. Only half of those graduates polled now
“strongly agree” that their degrees were worth the cost,
according to a new study by Gallup and Purdue University.
Nearly two-thirds of the 60,000 people surveyed had to take out
loans to finish school. Their median loan was $30,000.
Hardy said her family saved up enough money to pay for most of
her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Auburn University. She still
took out about $5,500 in loans to pay for three summer classes.
“My parents paid for my undergraduate degree, so I’m very fortunate with that and I don’t think I’ll have the money to afford a graduate
degree on my own,” she said.
She’s not alone in skipping graduate school for financial reasons. In
fact, the responses to the Gallup-Purdue survey show that student
BEST SPOT
NEWS PHOTO
Southridge House Fire
by: Robert Sutton
Airborn SUV
by: Bob Gathany
3rd: TimesDaily
(Florence)
Man killed in crash
by: Matt McKean
See COLLEGE, Page 13A
Little savings from DL office moves
Despite pulling examiners,
ALEA anticipates small
impact on budget shortfall
BRIAN LYMAN
[email protected]
@LYMAN_BRIAN ON TWITTER
Pulling driver’s license examiners
from rural Alabama counties could affect less than 10,000 people, in areas
with more than half a million registered
voters.
But the moves by the Alabama Law
Enforcement Agency — which raised
concerns about whether people in the
affected counties would be able to obtain ID needed to vote — will do little to
address ALEA’s $11 million budget
shortfall.
An Advertiser analysis of data from
both the ALEA and the Alabama Secretary of State’s office showed:
» The offices in the 31 counties issued or renewed about 8,900 licenses
and non-driver identification cards in
2014. Class D driver’s licenses made up
5,100 of those transactions; an addition
2,800 were for IDs.
» As a percentage of the 551,911 active or inactive voters in the counties
last year, the totals would represent less
than one-half of one percent of the voting population.
» The percentages were somewhat
higher in the 12 Black Belt counties that
will lose examiners. The offices in those
counties issued 2,702 licenses and IDs,
representing 2.1 percent of the 128,788
voters in those counties.
» Few people have applied for voter
identification cards in the counties, an
alternative suggested by state officials.
Spielberg
builds A
‘Bridge’ to
Cold War era
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DIVISION A
BEST SPORTS PHOTO
AHSAA Wrestling State Finals
by: Stephen Gross
Run in the Mud
by: Bob Gathany
Vindication
by: Matt McKean
BEST PHOTO ESSAY
BEST SPECIAL SECTION
They Marched for Freedom
by: staff
Huntsville luthier Tom Shepard’s
guitar-building magic
by: Matt Wake
Montgomery Bus Boycott 60th
anniversary
by: staff
Oh my Golley
by: Bill Campbell
Football Preview
by: staff
A mother remembers
by: Donna Barton
Nutcracker
by: Gary Cosby Jr.
CREATIVE USE OF
MULTIMEDIA
President’s visit, 50th Anniversary of
Civil Rights March
by: Mickey Welsh, Albert Cesare,
Shannon Heupel
Vanishing Generation videos tell
World War II veterans stories
by: Gary Cosby Jr.
Civil Rights March 50th Anniversary
Reenactment
by: Albert Cesare
BEST HEADLINE
The Butler did it
by: Michael Wetzel
Battle Lines Drawn
by: Patrick Armstrong
Playing the Trump Card: Is he a king, or
a joker?
by: Leah Daniels
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The Decatur Daily
Monday, February 2, 2015
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Super bowl: patriotS 28, SeahawkS 24
The Butler did it
West Alabama
product saves
the day for
New England
By Barry Wilner
Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tom
Brady and the Patriots made
this Super Bowl all about football, not footballs.
Clutch football, spiced by a
sensational fourth-quarter
rally and a goal-line, gamesaving interception.
The record-setting Brady
threw for four touchdowns,
including a 3-yarder to Julian
Edelman with 2:02 remaining
Sunday night, as New England rallied from a 10-point
deficit to beat Seattle 28-24 for
the fourth Super Bowl title in
the Brady-Bill Belichick era.
But the Patriots (15-4) had
to survive a last-ditch drive by
the Seahawks (14-5), who got
to the 1, helped by a spectacular juggling catch by Jermaine
Kearse. Then Rookie Malcolm Butler stepped in front of
Ricardo Lockette to pick off
Russell Wilson’s pass and
complete one of the wildest
Super Bowl finishes.
Brady leaped for joy on the
Patriots sideline after Butler’s
interception.
“It wasn’t the way we drew
it up,” said Brady, who won his
third Super Bowl MVP award.
“It was a lot of mental toughness. Our team has had it all
year. We never doubted each
other, so that’s what it took.”
Brady surpassed Joe Montana’s mark of 11 Super Bowl
touchdown passes with a
4-yarder to Danny Amendola
to bring the Patriots within
three points.
Seattle, seeking to become
Inside
the first repeat NFL champion
■ Seattle’s
since New England a decade
tough deago, was outplayed for the
fense failed
first half, yet tied at 14. The
to hold lead
Seahawks scored the only 10
in fourth
points of the third period, but
quarter, B5.
the NFL -leading defense
■ Super
couldn’t slow the brilliant
Bowl noteBrady when it counted most.
book, B5.
“He’s Tom Brady,” Edelman
said. “He’s the greatest quarterback on the planet.”
It didn’t matter how much
air was in the balls, Brady was
unstoppable when the pressure was strongest. While
pushing aside the controversy
over air pressure in the footballs stemming from the AFC
title game, the Patriots toyed
with Seattle in the final 12
minutes.
Seattle didn’t quit — it never
does — and Kearse’s 33-yard
catch with 1:06 remaining got
it to the 5. Marshawn Lynch
rushed for 4 yards, then backup cornerback Butler, who
was victimized on Kearse’s
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reception, made the biggest New England’s Malcolm Butler, who played at West Alabama during the 2012 and 2013 seasons, picks off a pass at the goal line to help seal the
Please see Butler, B5
Watch Derrick Henry’s family react as he
wins the 2015 Heisman Trophy
by: Justin King
By Howard Fendrich
Associated Press
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Birmingham Magazine
by: staff
Tuscaloosa magazine “Frozen”
by: staff
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“Avery Johnson”
by: staff
2 dead in string of overnight shootings
by: staff
Search after pontoon boat
and barge collide
by: Tom Smith, Allison Carter
Intentional murder trial of
Jeremy Williams
by: Tom Smith
Press-Register –
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es for 328 yards with four touchdown passes, each to a different
receiver, including an 8-for-8 bit
of perfection on the drive that led
to the go-ahead score with about
2 minutes left Sunday night.
That performance, and a victory-clinching interception by
rookie cornerback Malcolm Butler, lifted the New England Patriots to a 28-24 comeback victory
over the defending champion
Seattle Seahawks in a Super
Bowl with a slow start and a
“Whoa!” finish.
This was not Brady at his best
throughout. He threw two interceptions, including one deep in
Seattle territory in the first quarter, and another in the third that
led to points for the Seahawks.
That’s part of why the Patriots
trailed 24-14 in the fourth quarter, before Brady got the comeback going.
Brady broke Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl record of 34
completions set last year.
“It was a lot of mental toughness,” Brady said. “Our team has
had it all year. We never doubted
each other, so that’s what it took.
That was a great football team
we beat. I’m just so happy for our
team.”
Sitting in his family’s seasonticket seats at San Francisco’s
Candlestick Park while growing
up, Brady would wear a No. 16
jersey, just like Montana, and
cheer for his favorite player’s
team.
Brady did a fairly good impression of Joe Cool against Seattle.
He connected with Danny
Amendola for a 4-yard touchdown with about 8 minutes left.
That gave Brady 12 TD passes in
Super Bowls, breaking Montana’s mark. Then, with 2:02 to
go, Brady hit Julian Edelman
from 3 yards for TD toss No. 13
in Super Bowls — and, more
importantly, the lead.
Brady turned to New England’s sideline, pointed, then
raised his right fist.
Only after Butler grabbed
Russell Wilson’s pass from the
1-yard line in the final half-minute could Brady really begin to
celebrate, leaping up and down
on the sideline and embracing
coach Bill Belichick.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — As a
kid, years before he became a
pretty good quarterback in his
own right, Tom Brady idolized
Joe Montana.
Now, at age 37, Brady owns
just as many Super Bowl championships — and just as many
Super Bowl MVP awards — as
the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
A nd no QB in history has
more.
Brady completed 37 of 50 pass-
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Patriots’ Super Bowl victory in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday. The interception ended the Seahawks’ drive with less than a minute to play.
QB completes
record 37 passes
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opponent drawings
by: Dave Helwig
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by: Matt McKean
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Alabama vs. Auburn 2015 Iron Bowl
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Brady earns his 3rd MVP award
by: Justin King
Veteran Patriots
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Focus 2015
by: Anthony Bratina
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Readers share snow photos on Twitter at
#ddsnowday
by: staff
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St. Clair, Talladega counties ‘hot spot’ for
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by: David Atchison, Elsie Hodnett
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Carver-Jeter improvement plan
by: staff
3rd: The Selma Times-Journal
Selma 50: Commemorating the Selma to
Montgomery marches
by: staff
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Unauthorized pay raises
by: Mitch Sneed
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by: staff
2nd: The Daily Home (Talladega)
by: Chris Norwood, Elsie Hodnett
3rd: The Troy Messenger
by: staff
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1st: The Opelika-Auburn News
by: Chris Norwood
3rd: The Outlook (Alexander City)
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2nd: The Clanton Advertiser
by: staff
3rd: The Troy Messenger
by: staff
Shaw tape released
by: Justin Averette, Sarah Robinson
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3rd: The Daily Home (Talladega)
Daily Home obtains school board letters
by: Chris Norwood
2nd: The Troy Messenger
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Wednesday calling on five major
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“Every year, our offices are flooded
with consumer complaints pleading
for a solution to stop intrusive robocalls,” the attorneys stated in a letter
to AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile
and CenturyLink. “Your companies
are now poised to offer your customers the help they need. We urge
you to act without delay.”
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Holy March
by: Justin Averette
2nd: The Outlook (Alexander City)
Mudcat Mania
by: Mitch Sneed
Garrett Bottoms
by: Sara Falligant
BEST NEWS FEATURE
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Davis Boswell
by: Meagan Hurley
2nd: The Enterprise Ledger
Charity: Donation boxes don’t support
local residents
by: Jennifer Calhoun
Talladega native Krissie Davis killed in
Afghanistan
by: Shane Dunaway
BEST EDITORIAL
Opelika police need to provide some
honest answers
by: Bill Kimber
Teacher raise wouldn’t match superintendent’s
by: Bill Kimber
3rd: The Cullman Times
It’s past time to lower the Confederate
Flags
by: David Palmer
Lifestyle
Photos by Bob Crisp
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Putting in the work
by: Stephen Dawkins
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1st: The Fort Payne Times-Journal
I forgot my ticket, and extra cash, but
Robin forgot his manners
by: Heather Buckner
Instant Classic: Opelika holds off Auburn,
wins 90th meeting
by: Will Sammon
2nd: The Daily Sentinel (Scottsboro)
Happy Memorial Day, Mr. President
by: Tina Thurmond
3rd: The Enterprise Ledger
When I should have asked more
questions
by: Kyle Mooty
BEST HUMAN INTEREST
COLUMN
’We’re Champions, Baby’
by: Rob Ketcham
“Let the rain kiss you.”
Rain has been scarce lately, but when it does fall, it leaves its signature. Raindrops gather on leaves, spider webs and
blades of grass, and makes for interesting visuals if you look closely. Nature’s handiwork can be a beautiful display.
The Dream is gone but not the
memories he made
by: Mitch Sneed
1st: The Daily Sentinel (Scottsboro)
Back in the Game
by: Jason Bowen
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Klansman Edmund Pettus: Why his name
should stay on the bridge in Selma
by: Anthony Cook
2nd: Andalusia Star-News
In Bible belt, we’re not willing to care for
‘least of these?’
by: Michele Gerlach
Nostalgic, necessary: Saying goodbye to
Avondale smokestack
by: Anthony Cook
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3rd: The Daily Mountain Eagle (Jasper)
Devils oust Cordova
by: Johnathan Bentley
BEST SPORTS FEATURE
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Selma shined Saturday as much as ever
before
by: Justin Averette
2nd: The Fort Payne Times-Journal
A reminder to be kind
by: Heather Buckner
Concordia shutters football
by: Daniel Evans, Justin Fedich
On the Run
by: Jason Bowen
‘Never guaranteed tomorrow’
by: Rob Ketcham
Walker’s dynamic duo
by: Johnathan Bentley
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1st: The Cullman Times
Parker’s Path
by: Rob Ketcham
Opelika QB Bentley’s best play came
after Friday’s game
by: Will Sammon
Mudcat Mania
by: Mitch Sneed
BEST FEATURE PHOTO
Monks create artful masterpiece in the
sand
by: Cliff Williams
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DIVISION B
Uber and Out
by: staff
iStrain
by: staff
Selma to Montgomery marches 50th
anniversary
by: staff
Horizons 2015
by: staff
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2nd: The Gadsden Times
Celebrate American Spirit
by: Eric T. Wright
Morgan O’Neal
by: Bob Crisp
Tomb of the Risen Dead
by: Tucker Webb
Upended
by: Rob Ketcham
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President Obama with marchers
by: Alaina Denean Deshazo
History Honored
by: staff
Fourth of July at Lake Martin
by: Todd Van Emst
Mud Mania
by: Todd Van Emst
3rd: The Gadsden Times
Gay Marriage Comes to Alabama
by: Eric T. Wright
Let the rain kiss you
by: Bob Crisp
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Taken down
by: Bob Crisp
Splitting Pennies
by: Justin Averette
Scary-looking wreck
by: Bob Crisp
So Much For A Free Education
by: Beth Law
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1st: The Troy Messenger
Up In Flames
by: Thomas Graning
Rising Up
by: Alaina Denean Deshazo
Tiger Tailgater
by: staff
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by: staff
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by: staff
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by: staff
Police release film from Shaw shooting
by: Justin Averette, Sarah Robinson
ONLINE BREAKING
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Unthinkable: Woman, Newborn and
Pastor Shot
by: Blake Deshazo
Avondale smokestack
by: staff
Live updates: Talladega has a new mayor
by: staff
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Back to School
by: staff
Sweet anticipation
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‘We march with Selma!’
by: Catherine Foote
Sobering News
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1st: Shelby County Reporter
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3rd: Citronelle Call News
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(Gilbertown)
Toxey Open Meetings
by: Dee Ann Campbell
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(Gilbertown)
Courthouse Security
(Columbiana)
In your neighborhood: Shelby County
sex offenders
by: staff
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1st: The Alabama Baptist (Birmingham)
Gambling numbers don’t add up
by: Jennifer Davis Rash
2nd: The Monroe Journal (Monroeville)
Landegger hid $8.4 million
by: Josh Dewberry
3rd: Birmingham Business Journal
Who Birmingham is bankrolling: Millions
on the line as Alabama no longer a
primary afterthought
by: Ryan Phillips
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ChoctawLiving 1B
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
Rare surgery gives new future for Braden
By Dee Ann Campbell
Sun-Advocate Publisher
GILBERTOWN – This Thursday, May
21, is graduation day for 12 –year-old
Braden Forrest – the day when he will
join his classmates in a commencement
ceremony at Southern Choctaw Elementary School.
But while the others will be celebrating the completion of sixth grade,
Braden will be celebrating the milestone that he once seemed unlikely to
reach.
And he will be celebrating the
anniversary of the surgical procedure
that made it possible.
On June 3 of last year, Braden underwent a right hemispherectomy – a rare
procedure that removes or disables a
portion of the brain. The extensive surgery is performed only on the most
extreme cases of epilepsy where medications and other surgeries have not
worked.
Braden was one of those cases.
Plagued by constant seizures,
Braden was diagnosed with a severe
form of epilepsy in July of 2004, at not
quite two years old. At one point, he
was having as many as 80 to 90 seizures
per day.
In an effort to control his seizures
and address other medical issues, doctors had prescribed Braden a long list of
medications that he took on a regular
basis. But while the medications were
designed to help him, they were also
hindering his ability to function.
“He was taking 36 pills a day,” his
mother said. “But even on all that medications, last spring we had to pull him
out of school because he was having as
many as 40 seizures per day. The medicines would help him a little, but he
couldn’t be a kid, just a kid.”
Braden also underwent surgeries to
remove tissue from his brain, but
nothing worked.
But in April of last year, doctors
finally offered a solution – a giant step
that seemed more than a little frightening. After much testing, doctors were
finally able to pinpoint the location in
Braden’s brain where the seizures were
originating.
“It was the right side of his brain,
behind where the other surgeries were
done,” Barbara explained.
Doctors told Barbara that the hemispherectomy could stop Braden’s
seizures and potentially change, and
even save, his life, but there would be
complications. Among them, the potential for hydrocephaly and infection, as
well as the likelihood of paralysis.
Braden’s doctors presented two
options – continue with medications
and suffer with debilitating and lifethreatening seizures for the rest of his
life, or have surgery and deal with the
paralysis.
Barbara and her family made the
decision to place Braden’s future in the
hands of the surgeons.
Braden’s family remained vigilant
during and after the surgery, praying
diligently that their little boy would survive the operation and not suffer the
long list of potential complications that
could develop afterward.
“I kept wondering if he would be
able to remember anything,” she said.
“Sometimes I would wonder if he would
remember me at all when he woke up,
and that was hard.”
But when Braden finally woke from
his surgery, he immediately began
talking.
“The first thing he said was ‘cheeseburger’,” his mom laughed. “He loves
cheeseburgers. Then he said, ‘mom’.”
After two days in Intensive Care,
Braden was moved to a rehabilitation
unit at UAB Children’s Hospital, where
he remained for nearly a month.
He was released to come home on
July 9.
“He started outpatient therapy and
had homebound services for the first
two months,” Barbara said. “He was
back at school after that. It will be a year
next month since his surgery, and he is
a different child. He’s done a ‘360’.
Braden has paralysis in his left arm
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Braden is pictured with his mother following his surgery at
UAB in BIrmingham.
Barbara Forrest is pictured with her son Braden, bearing the purple
ribbon that shows support for epilepsy awareness. (Submitted photos)
2nd: Shelby County Reporter
(Columbiana)
by: staff
by: staff
Bradens sister Danielle was by his side throughout the
days following his surgery.
Braden will graduate from 6th grade this week, after having been taught
by teacher Michelle Breland.
and has been fitted with an orthotic
foot. But, his mother says, the good
news far outweighs the bad.
Her son has been seizure-free since
his surgery and is gradually putting
aside his medications. Without the
meds and the seizures, a much more
vocal Braden can now interact with his
family, laugh with his classmates, and,
his mom says, just be a kid.
“I know he will never be able to live
by himself, to take care of himself,” she
says, “but now he plays and talks and he
laughs a lot.”
Barbara said that her son is undergoing physical therapy at Choctaw
Therapy Services in Butler to improve
his walking, which will get better over
time.
“They are helping him walk, climb
stairs, and are working to train the left
side of his brain to work the right side
muscles,” she said. “He’s getting better
every day.”
Intellectually, Braden remains significantly behind others his age, but he
is learning.
“Mentally, he is a four-year –old,”
said Barbara. “But I can see a big difference in him, in every way.”
Barbara said that one of the most
amazing changes in her
son is the development of
a new personality.
“He shows emotion,
gets embarrassed easily –
and he cries,” she said.
“Before, when he would
hurt, he never showed any
tears.”
Barbara has interacted
with other parents who
have disabled children,
drawing strength from
knowing she is not alone.
“I’ve heard their stories, and I don’t feel like Braden is shown doing well and smiling for the camera
I’m fighting this battle by after his surgery.
myself,” she explained.
“There are other people
while looking to the future. Braden’s
out there who know what I’m going mom will be among them.
through.”
But for the Forrest family, the celeAs a single mom, Barbara admits bration will likely mean even more. It
that caring for her son takes its toll, will mean a putting aside of a past filled
physically, emotionally, and financially. with pain and suffering for Braden –
“He has good days and bad days,” and a celebration of the future that may
she says. “But I do the best I can, and never have been possible before.
things are so much better for him now.”
“I have my child back,” Barbara said.
On Thursday, mothers and fathers “Sometimes you have to go through the
will pack the gym at SCES to watch their bad to get to the good. Now we’re getchildren graduate and to celebrate with ting to the good.”
them the achievements of the past
BEST LOCAL
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(Columbiana)
by: staff
(Gilbertown)
by: staff
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Lifestyle Page
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1st: Call News (Citronelle)
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by: staff
3rd: Call News (Citronelle)
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(Phenix City)
by: Denise DuBois and staff
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(Columbiana)
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1st: The Monroe Journal
(Monroeville)
by: staff
2nd: The Blount Countian
(Oneonta)
by: staff
3rd: Call News
(Citronelle)
by: staff
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1st: The Advertiser-Gleam
(Guntersville)
Fire sends anglers into water
by: Anthony Campbell
One-man crime wave
by: Mark R. Kent
3rd: The Choctaw Sun-Advocate
(Gilbertown)
141 Dogs Rescued
BEST IN-DEPTH NEWS
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DNA match says she was Diane
by: staff
(Columbiana)
U.S. 280 health care
by: Molly Davidson
Birmingham’s Coal War
by: Ryan Phillips
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BEST BUSINESS STORY
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Still a steel city?
by: Ryan Phillips
(Columbiana)
Inspiring a legion
by: Neal Wagner
Did Birmingham follow its Blueprint?
by: Brent Godwin, Ty West
(Gilbertown)
DNA match says she was Diane
(Phenix City)
Neighborhood Walmart may be coming
to Ladonia
by: Blenda Copeland
CASE CLOSED: 18 years later for
Chicaksaw man
by: Mark R. Kent
BEST FEATURE STORY
COVERAGE
BEST EDITORIAL
(Gilbertown)
Three Ring Binder
1st: The Alabama Baptist
Alabama WWII Veteran: Lord I’m In Your
Hands
by: Neisha Roberts
(Columbiana)
Time for Bentley to unseal divorce
records
by: staff
He was there
by: Emmett Burnett
(Gilbertown)
Faces of Margraten
(Columbiana)
Terminal patients deserve right to try
by: staff
Hoover’s Magazine
BEST HUMOROUS
COLUMN
It’s spring, and I’m trying to save
my thumbs
by: Emmett Burnett
Hooversmagazine.com
Taste
of Hoover
Sample some of the
city’s best restaurants
Artistic Pallet
Woman handcrafts
decorative wood pieces
Local Brews
October 2015
Enjoy craft beers at
Moss Rock Festival
October 2015
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(Gilbertown)
My Own Christmas Story
by: Ashley Downing
Fast
Track
3rd: The Monroe Journal
(Monroeville)
Toothbrushes: Are they friend or
are they foe
by: Jane Martin
Tricks and Treats
BEST HUMAN
INTEREST COLUMN
Student athlete competes
on international level
Couple goes all out with
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Here are just a few examples of
being a Southern gentleman
by: Daniel Daniels
Why didn’t we listen to Uncle Eddie?
by: Emmett Burnett
(Columbiana)
Remembering why he served
by: Neal Wagner
BEST EDITORIAL
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1st: The Choctaw SunAdvocate (Gilbertown)
Blue Skies After
The Monroe Journal – News Photo
BEST SPORTS FEATURE
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How long before Birmingham doesn’t
want to be Nashville?
by: Ty West
(Columbiana)
Enjoy a fresh start to a new year
by: Chris George
BEST SPORTS NEWS
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Attracting the masses: How the Magic
City can score bigger events
by: staff
Can the BayBears survive?
by: Arthur L. Mack
Chickasaw ousts Cottrell, who lands with
smile at MC
by: staff
BEST SPORTS SINGLE
EVENT STORY
1st: The Monroe Journal (Monroeville)
MA ends season 13-1
by: Mike Qualls
PERFECTION in the Nick of time for
Citronelle!
by: Willie Gray
Wildcats taste victory: Citronelle ends
18-game streak by beating Satsuma
by: Timothy Herring
(Columbiana)
It’s a family thing
by: Baker Ellis
The incredible Mr. Rigdon
by: staff
Redditt overcomes his hearing loss
by: Mike Qualls
BEST LOCAL SPORTS
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(Columbiana)
It’s worth it: Understanding and
internalizing defeat
by: Baker Ellis
2nd: Shelby County Reporter (Columbiana)
Is yelling an effective coaching method?
by: Baker Ellis
If UAB revives football, it needs to go all
the way
by: Ty West
BEST FEATURE PHOTO
1st: The Citizen of East Alabama
(Phenix City)
Local farmer
by: Blenda Copeland
Thank you, veterans
by: Josh Dewberry
3rd: The Blount Countian (Oneonta)
Revitalizin’
by: Nicole Singleton
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BEST NEWS PHOTO
OR ILLUSTRATIONS
Letting it go
by: Josh Dewberry
Still a steel city?
by: Derek Morrow
(Columbiana)
Going for Gold
by: Katie Lanier
LIVE FOR GAMEDAY: Football Preview
Cover 2015
by: Umi Guy
BEST SPOT NEWS
PHOTO
Home damaged by blaze
by: Josh Dewberry
(Columbiana)
Head-on collision
by: Joe Williams
SERVING SOUTH ALABAM
Saddle up
by: Dawn Harrison
Once in a lifetime event
by: Heather Howton
(Columbiana)
Shelby County hit hard by Dec. 25
flooding
by: Jason Ingram
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Relay cover
by: Josh Dewberry
THE ADVERTISER-GLEAM Guntersville, Ala., Mar. 4, 2015
Scenes From Last Week’s ‘Snow Day’
BEST PHOTO ESSAY
1st: The Advertiser-Gleam
(Guntersville)
Snow Day
by: staff
(Columbiana)
Serve’s up
by: Michael Wade
(Columbiana)
Top 40 Under 40
by: staff
(Columbiana)
Hoover’s Magazine
by: staff
(Columbiana)
Visitors Guide Shelby County
by: staff
Unbeaten Theodore stops Davidson
by: Mike Kittrell
(Gilbertown)
I’m UP here
(Columbiana)
Shelby County Football 2015
by: Baker Ellis
BEST NICHE
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This snowy view of Guntersville was made from Wyeth Rock by Lynn Hurley.
Rebecca Whitaker made this photo from Grant Mountain, overlooking the mouth of The old rock school that now houses the Whole Backstage became another scene of
winter beauty Thursday. Michele Brown made the photograph.
Honeycomb Creek, Goat Island and Camp Chalakee.
Keith Dickerson’s friends know him for his zany
sense of humor. He wasn’t content to just make a
snow angel. He made a “Spidey angel.” He said he
bought the costume several years ago and has had a
lot of fun with it over the years.
Gabe & Calen Barnes enjoyed some sledding in the
snow at Grant. They’re the children of Jeremy &
Beth Barnes. Grandmother Lou Anne Barnes submitted the photo.
Pierce Martin (left) and Mack Howard prepare for a sledding run down Loveless
Street. Pierce is the son of Tyler and Chrystal Martin and Mack is the son of Shon
and Savanah Howard.
Snow piled up on this flag in Alder Springs, even creeping
into its fold.
Grady Whitaker snowboards down a hill at Gunter’s Landing. His grandfather
Craig Lecroy took the photo
The Advertiser-Gleam –
Photo Essay
BEST HEADLINE
(Columbiana)
Grab a coal one
by: Graham Brooks
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Photographer Tim Haynes caught the water perfectly still with the snow in the background to get this picture of Spring Creek after the big storm.
BEST SPORTS PHOTO
2nd: The Citizen of East Alabama
(Phenix City)
Masters Waterski and Wakeboard
tournament
by: Denise DuBois
3rd: The Sand Mountain Reporter
(Albertville)
Leave It To The Beavers
by: Malarie Allen
FOOTBALL PREVIEW 2015
by: staff
The sweeping curve on Pleasant Grove Road always becomes treacherous when
snow is on the ground and you can see how a motorist had to abandon his car early
in the storm. Jimmy Stegall took the picture.
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It’s the end of the bank branch as we
know it - and banks feel fine
by: staff
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Harold Pouyadou of Mobile displays a portrait of himself from his Navy service days
as he visits the USS Alabama recently. The 95-year-old experienced the bombing of
Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and was injured on the date of infamy. “There is not a
day goes by that I do not think about that day,” he said.
He was there
Th
Harold Pouyadou saw the Japanese planes swoop
down on Pearl Harbor: ‘The sky was full of them’
BY EMMETT BURNETT
Staff Writer
Harold Henry Pouyadou, a Navy
Seaman from Mobile, was dressing
for church when he heard approaching aircraft. They were not ours. The
date was Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor’s Ford Island. Hawaiian church
services were about to be cancelled.
By nightfall the death toll was
2,403. Injuries numbered 1,178, including to Pouyadou. Eight U.S. battleships were severely damaged, four
sank, while 188 American fighter
planes smoldered in ruin. Pouyadau
remembers it well. He was there.
“There is not a day goes by that
I do not think about that day,” said
the 95-year-old on a late November
visit to Mobile’s Battleship Memorial Park. Gazing out at the USS
Alabama, he adds, “Looking at this
ship, reminds me of the ones I saw
bombed.” And for the next hour he
discussed the Japanese invasion
that defined World War II from an
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separate drug-related incidents between
Nov. 20 and Sunday, police spokesman Cpl.
Gary Cole said. A stolen gun was recovered
during one of the arrests, police said.
A call to police on Sunday ended in the
arrest of a man from Saraland and a woman
from Creola, according to Cole. Justin Dewayne Capps, 25, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and seconddegree possession of marijuana, according
to records at Mobile Metro Jail.
Capps was released on bail almost five
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GENERAL EXCELLENCE
1st: The Southeast Sun (Enterprise)
2nd: The Greenville Advocate
3rd: The Brewton Standard
BEST NEWSPAPER
WEBSITE
1st: The Greenville Advocate
greenvilleadvocate.com
by: staff
2nd: The Brewton Standard
brewtonstandard.com
by: staff
3rd: Opelika Observer
opelikaobserver.com
by: Anna-Claire Terry
BEST PRODUCTION
AND PRINTING
1st: Washington County News
(Chatom)
by: staff
2nd: Hartselle Enquirer
by: staff
by: Chris Love
BEST PUBLIC SERVICE
1st: Auburn Villager
In the zone: A series exploring zoning in
Auburn
by: Brian Woodham
2nd: St. Clair News-Aegis (Pell City)
Railroad crossing tragedy investigation
by: Jeff Thompson, Kristen Dale
3rd: St. Clair News-Aegis (Pell City)
Future of the Animal Shelter of Pell City
in doubt
by: Jeff Thompson
FOI-FIRST AMENDMENT
AWARD
1st: The Onlooker (Foley)
Elberta series investigating local officials
questionable actions
by: Cliff McCollum
2nd: The Southeast Sun (Enterprise)
Take Back Enterprise
by: Cassie Gibbs, Michelle Mann
Non-daily newspapers 4,000 circulation and below
Sports
1B
www.brewtonstandard.com
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
2015 ALL-COUNTY TEAM
OFFENSE
Caleb Winton #12
Stats:
QB, Junior
>>121-191 att
>> 1,867 passing yards
>>15 TDs
Kris Brown
Stats:
HB, Junior
>> 141 carries
>>1,569 yds
>>26 TDs
>>11.12 y/c
Brewton Standard Sports Editor Corey Williams and Atmore Advance Editor Andrew
Garner compiled the 2015 Escambia County All-County Football Team. Area coaches
nominated top performing athletes by providing statistics.
OFFENSIVE MVP
Jamel Grace
Stats:
HB, Senior
>>239 carries
>>1,461 yds
>>20 TDs
Chardian Johnson
Stats:
WR, Senior
>> 49 catches
(TRM record)
>>866 yds
>> 10 TDs
Troy Lewis
Stats:
WR, Senior
>> 19 catches
>>276 yds
>>3 TDs
TE, Senior
>>3 catches
>>53 yds
>>1 TD
Malcolm Hawthorne
Jake Najor
Stats:
OL, Senior
>>Senior
leader and
captain of
TRM o-line
Eddie Murphy
Stats:
OL, Senior
>> 3 year
starter
>>Team leader
and captain
H.T. Fountain
Stats:
OL, Senior
>> 4-year
starter
>> 47 PC
blocks
Cade Vickery
Stats:
OL, Senior
>> 3-year
starter
>> Played
every OL pos.
James Harris
Stats:
OL, Senior
>>2 year
starter
>>Led team in
PC blocks
The Atmore Advance
chose Kris Brown, Escambia Academy junior
running back, as its offensive MVP.
Hawthorne shows talent, drive throughout season
T
he rushing game was a huge yards and 17 touchdowns. He accumupart of the W.S. Neal Eagles’ lated 1,808 all-purpose yards.
offensive plan. During
He had five 100-plus yard
their 8-3 season the Eagles ran the All-County de- rushing games, averaging 7.8
ball 82 percent of the time, and fensive players yards a carry. Hawthorne scored
nearly half of that time the ball highlighted
108 of Neal’s 308 points this
– Page 2B.
was entrusted to Malcolm Hawseason.
thorne.
One of his biggest games in
Hawthorne had 141 carries for 1,227 the stat department came against Satsu-
ma on Oct. 16, in which he carried the
ball 11 times for 204 yards and three
touchdowns.
In an MVP performance in this year’s
Battle of Murder Creek, Hawthorne
had 18 carries for 99 yards and three
touchdowns. For his career he has 427
carries for 3,324 yards and 46 touchdowns.
COACH OF THE YEAR
A
Jamie Riggs
fter losing the first game of the season to Andalusia on Aug.
21, TRM went on an eight-game winning streak.
On Sept. 25 against Escambia County, Riggs achieved his
300th win as a head coach. Miller would make the playoffs, advancing all the way to the quarterfinals before falling to
Hillcrest-Evergreen in the final seconds of the game.
Overall record:
Riggs shocked the community last week when he
10-3
announced his April 1 retirement. Riggs will end his
Region record:
career with 305 wins - currently making him the third
6-0
winningest coach in state high school football history.
Home: 6-2
At T.R. Miller, Riggs is 293-62.
Away: 4-1
Riggs said its been a wonderful ride as a coach.
“I feel really blessed to be able to do what I do and be
what I’m able to be,” Riggs said. “Coaching is a tough business that
can be very stressful, whether you win or lose. To do it this long, I
would never have dreamt that.”
2nd: The Greenville Standard
by: staff
3rd: Washington County News
(Chatom)
by: staff
3rd: The Jacksonville News
by: staff
1st: St. Clair News-Aegis (Pell City)
by: Jeff Thompson
Gallion Church Burning
by: Nicholas Finch
by: staff
2nd: Opelika Observer
High stakes rescue: Opelika men
stranded, rescued by U.S. Coast Guard
by: Rebekah Martin
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1st: The Demopolis Times
3rd: Auburn Villager
by: Allison Blankenship, Brian Woodham
Bryce Booker
Stats:
by: Corey Williams
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1st: The Brewton Standard
by: staff
2nd: Franklin County Times (Russellville)
by: Nicole Pell
STORIES BY
COREY
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3rd: Franklin County Times (Russellville)
Know your neighborhood
by: Nicole Pell
BEST EDITORIAL PAGE
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by: staff
by: Nicole Pell
3rd: The Tuskegee News
by: staff
BEST LOCAL NEWS
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by: Jeff Thompson
by: Nicole Pell
3rd: The Atmore Advance
by: Justin Schuver, Andrew Garner
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by: staff
1st: Washington County
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2nd: Hartselle Enquirer
3rd: The Greenville Standard
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by: Brian Woodham
3rd: The Cleburne News (Heflin)
Heflin Officer finds recovery hard
by: Laura Camper
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1st: The Baldwin Times
Sales Tax Series
by: Cliff McCollum, Crystal Cole
2nd: Sumter County Record-Journal
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Councilman Cook murdered
by: Herman Ward
3rd: The Baldwin Times
Lodging Tax Series
by: John Mullen
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by: staff
I write this article. The
Wildcats will be playing
West Virginia. Hopefully
Kentucky will stay
undefeated.
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2nd: The Baldwin Times
Expanding the roots of agriculture
creates jobs
by: Allison Woodham
‘Transformative’ project in the works
by: Brian Woodham
BEST FEATURE STORY
COVERAGE
1st: Opelika Observer
Haunted Opelika
Winter weather and southern ways
by: Nicole Pell
3rd: The Greenville Advocate
Pettus just a footnote in history
by: Andy Brown
3rd: The Red Bay News
From gas pumps to atms
by: LaVale Mills
BEST SPORTS
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HARTSELLE
2nd: Opelika Observer
Step by Step: Rick Hagans supplies those
in need with shoes, one step at a time
A century of
service
3rd: The Islander (Gulf Shores)
The man behind The Hangout
by: John Mullen
A cornerstone of Hartselle
history
Inside this
edition:
BEST NEWS FEATURE
STORY COVERAGE
Hartselle needle workers make
caps for cancer patients
Travel blog for seniors gives
plug to Hartselle
Standing in the gap
by: Jeff Thompson
2nd: Washington County News
(Chatom)
Judge stands firm against gay marriage
by: staff
Closing the door on an era
by: Brian Woodham
Teacher of gifted is a gift to
education
Vol. 5, Issue 10
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1st: The Moulton Advertiser
Lawrence County Football
Turns 100
by: J.R. Tidwell
2nd: Washington County
News (Chatom)
Board’s action stuns coaches
by: staff
Piedmont Journal –
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Riggs to retire
by: Stephanie Nelson, Corey Williams
BEST SPORTS FEATURE
STORY
BEST SPORTS SINGLE
EVENT STORY
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Perfection!
by: staff
Coach of the Year
by: Nicole Pell
3rd: The Southeast Sun (Enterprise)
History for heroes
by: Casey Strickland
COLUMN
1st: The Moulton Advertiser
Ratliff honors late mother in game
by: J.R. Tidwell
Powell on the prowl
by: Jonathan Bryant
(Chatom)
Sammie Coates ‘gained a lot’ by Senior
Bowl
by: Arthur L. Mack
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A tribute: For my first friend in Pell City,
you will be missed
by: Jeff Thompson
1st: The Baldwin Times
Dismayed by student behavior
by: Gulf Coast Media Editorial Board
There’s help out there
by: Stephanie Nelson
An encounter with the Snake
by: Andy Brown
How do we stop violence?
by: Andy Brown
It’s none of my business
by: Stephanie Nelson
3rd: The Wilcox Progressive Era
(Camden)
Are County trucks for business or pleasure?
by: Glenda Curl
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3rd: The Eufaula Tribune
Never take a Suggarbeeter or Geoduck
lightly
by: Kyle Mooty
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(Chatom)
Jury Duty’s not bad: $27.25 and no
decision required
by: Emmett Burnett
BEST FEATURE PHOTO
A look at murders
by: Jan Murray
2nd: Auburn Villager
Same-sex marriage
by: Don Eddins
When fandom goes too far
by: Corey Williams
1st: The Piedmont Journal
Pool time
by: Anita Kilgore
Mary Kathryn Marshall
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1st: The Southeast Sun
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Missed Opportunities
scores
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Obituaries
The slide
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by: Cecil Folds
Doni W. Boone
Joseph Holman
Facemask
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MAILING LABEL
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by: Andy Brown
Fun on The Sizzler at the fair
by: Andy Brown
BEST SPOT NEWS
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Caught With His Pants Down
by: Jason Boothe
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Era (Camden)
Patrick Diggs, 46 of Monroeville
receives medical attention
by: Ethan Van Sice
Truck driver rescued in boat
by: Cecil Folds
LCHS awarded
Opelika contract
Just going with the flow
by: Andy Brown
By Rebekah Martin
(Chatom)
Associate Editor
‘I Do’? Judge Says I Won’t
The Opelika City Council will continue its longstaff with the Lee County Humane
standing by:
relationship
Society to handle
the city’s animal
think what we
control services.
have here is a
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pure example of how
at Tuesday’s coundemocracy is supcil meeting after
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breakdown of communication
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Pell
years, but we have that all worked out and we feel
good about the meeting,” Motley said. “They
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Area teams compete in
7-on-7 tournament
COMMUNITY
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companies about the Camellia
City and Butler County.
McLendon, who also serves
as the chairman for the
Southeast Alabama Gas District
(SEAGD), attended last week’s
International Paris Air Show,
the world’s largest and longestrunning aerospace trade show.
The trip was paid for by SEAGD,
and while McLendon was on
hand to represent the natural
gas company, he took the opportunity to let many of the more
than 2,200 businesses that took
part in the event know about
Greenville and Butler County.
“We wanted to make sure they
know we’re open for business,”
McLendon said.
With Airbus — one of the
world’s leading aircraft manufactures — set to begin production at its Mobile, Ala., facility
in July, McLendon said this was
the perfect opportunity to begin
cultivating relationships with
companies that could serve as
suppliers for the company.
The Mobile facility, which
will house the company’s first
final assembly line on U.S. soil,
is expected to deliver its first
See AIRBUS | Page 4A
ACTIVE WORKFORCE: Approximately
55,000 direct employees around the world
SUPPLIER NETWORK: Some 2,000
suppliers in 20 countries
INDUSTRIAL SITES: Facilities located in
France, Germany, Spain and the United
Kingdom
FINAL ASSEMBLY LINES: Toulouse,
France; Hamburg, Germany; Tianjin,
China; Mobile, Alabama
HIGH DEMAND: The company’s backlog
of commercial jetliners through 2014
stood at an industry-wide record of 6,386
aircraft, valued at $919.3 billion at list
prices.
CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF: Airbus has
sold over 15,200 aircraft and delivered
8,800-plus jetliners since its creation in
1970. Through 2014, more than 8,100
Airbus aircraft are in service.
BY ANDY BROWN
The Greenville Advocate was selected
as one of the top three small weekly
newspapers in the state.
The Advocate received third place
for General Excellence at the Alabama
Press Association’s Better Newspaper
Contest. General Excellence is the top
award given in the contest.
“We’re glad to be recognized as one
of the top weekly papers in the state,”
said managing editor Andy Brown.
“Our staff works hard to provide the
best possible coverage for our readers
and it’s nice to have that hard work
recognized by our peers.”
Seventy newspapers submitted 2,888
entries in the annual contest. Members
of the Tennessee Press Association
judged the entries.
In addition to General Excellence,
the Advocate also earned second
place for Sweepstakes Award in the
APA’s annual advertising contest. The
Sweepstakes Award is the top award
See ADVOCATE | Page 7A
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By BETH HYATT
The Greenville Advocate
Historic
downtown
Greenville will soon welcome a new business to
town.
recently renovated for the
new arrival and will hold a
soft opening for customers
on July 1.
Johnson Furniture was
established in 1966 and has
been in business in Eclectic
Johnson
Furniture
was established in
1966 and
has been in
business in
By Anna-Claire Terry
ONLINE BREAKING
Staff Reporter
NEWS COVERAGE
Supporters will ride into Lee County from
1st: The
Sun
all Southeast
over the Southeast
for(Enterprise)
the third annual An3rd: The Brewton Standard
gels Ride for Autism event Sept. 19 at Spring
Elba flood
Villa Park, located at 1474 Lee Road 148.
All-county team chosen
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Mann,event
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$5000 a Week for Life
by: Jason Boothe
Recruitment of Airbus suppliers takes off
by: Andy Brown
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Step by step
Rick Hagans supplies
those in need with
shoes, one step at a time
By Anna-Claire Terry
Staff Reporter
Rick Hagans is a traveler. Over the span of
19 years, he has traveled across 35 states.
On foot, that is.
It all started 20 years
ago in Mexico when a
little boy approached
Hagans and asked if he
could trade his toys for
a pair of shoes. “I didn’t
have any shoes to give
him, so I said ‘I’ll come
back, and I will bring
you some shoes,’” he
said. “I came home and
was preaching at a large
church in Birmingham
and said ‘Hey, if I walk
across Alabama, will
you give me a pair of
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by: staff
Camellia Magazine
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Putting on the Ritz
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Opelika Observer –
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2nd: The Franklin Free Press (Russellville)
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3rd: Village Living (Mountain Brook)
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2nd: Cherokee Post (Centre)
by: staff
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3rd: Redstone Rocket
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WEBSITE
3rd: The Madison Record
by: Alan Brown
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themadisonrecord.com
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2nd: The Redstone Rocket
(Huntsville)
theredstonerocket.com
by: staff
3rd: Courier Journal (Florence)
courierjournal.net
by: Russell Roden, Mark
McGregor
Volume 3 | Issue 8 | December 2015
NO STOPPING
CADEN JAMES
Suiting up
6-year-old Lil’ Rebels quarterback
leads team despite Type 1 diagnosis
C
Harold Hagler dons a classic suit during
the holidays. Read about his experience
as the guy in red inside this issue.
By ANA GOOD
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Smylie Kaufman
BEST PRODUCTION
AND PRINTING
(Huntsville)
by: staff
by: Jimmy Ruff
Kaufman earned his first PGA tour win.
Catch up with the Vestavia Hills alum
inside.
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INSIDE
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Food ....................A28
School House......B10
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Caden James Mitchell, center, smiles as his coach encourages the team
during halftime. Caden James was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and
his football team, the Vestavia Lil’ Rebels, held a Blue Out game to raise
awareness and money for research. Photos by Frank Couch.
facebook.com/vestaviavoice
BEST PUBLIC SERVICE
1st: Vestavia Voice
What’s in a name? Vestavia considers
new mascot
by: staff
2nd: The Homewood Star
Tuberculosis Outbreak
by: staff
3rd: Hoover Sun
Hoover Rezoning Coverage
by: staff
FOI-FIRST AMENDMENT
AWARD
1st: The Homewood Star
Bus service cuts
by: Sydney Cromwell, Madoline Markham
Governance Committee Wraps Study
by: Nick Sellers, Gregg Parker
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Vestavia Voice –
Sports Feature Story
Future uncertain for mixed-use
development in Cahaba Heights
By EMILY FEATHERSTON
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aden James Mitchell takes his place
behind the center lineman under the
bright lights at Sicard Hollow Athletic
Complex. No. 24, Caden James is the
team’s quarterback — though he sometimes plays as an outside lineman. As
he waits for his coach, Tate Bowden, to
finish positioning the team on the line
of scrimmage, Caden James takes in the
other team. It’s Hoover, the only team
to have beaten his team this year.
Despite the rivalry, Bowden said he sometimes has to remind
his players to tackle their opponents. For this isn’t just any football team: It’s Vestavia Hills’ only pee wee football team, the
Lil’ Rebels. The players staring back at Caden James might be
his friends, the same boys he might play with on the playground.
“It’s sometimes like herding cats,” said Bowden of coaching a
football team of kindergartners and first-graders.
As head coach, Bowden helps design the plays, but he’s also out
on the field moving his players into place, à la Nick Saban on A-Day.
“Last year, I had one of our best players come up to me in the
middle of the season and ask me, ‘What’s offense?’” Bowden said
with a laugh. “Our goal is to teach these kids the specifics of the
game and mental toughness.”
At 4 feet and 65 pounds, Caden James is a fraction of the size
of his favorite players on the roster of the Alabama Crimson Tide,
A controversial mixed-use development project along Oakview Lane and
Dolly Ridge Road in Cahaba Heights is
facing an uncertain future.
Rezoning requests for the property were scheduled for a vote at the
Oct. 26 City Council meeting, where
community members filled the Council’s new chambers to express their
opinions on having the development
built near Vestavia Hills Elementary
Cahaba Heights. However, BREC
Developments Managing Member
Steven Hydinger proposed a change
to the council that would alter his plan
for a four-story development to a threestory, removing the “conditional use”
request from the ordinance that would
allow the development to proceed.
Hydinger’s request led the council
to postpone voting on Ordinance 2608
until Dec. 14—if the changes were not
significant enough to require the ordinance to make a trip back through the
PAGES
See CAHABA | page A31
Steven Hydinger (standing, right) talks with a community
member during a November City Council meeting. Other
Cahaba Heights residents came to the meeting in opposition
to his mixed-use development proposal. Photo by Emily
Featherston.
1st: Vestavia Voice
by: staff
by: Gregg Parker
2nd: Cherokee Post (Centre)
by: staff
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by: staff
3rd: Hoover Sun
by: staff
3rd: The Franklin Free Press (Russellville)
by: John Pilati
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by: staff
1st: Vestavia Voice
Planning commission recommends
Cahaba Heights apartment proposal
by: Sydney Cromwell
Flag rally stirs strong emotions
by: John Pilati
New feed mill to make widespread
economic impact
by: John Pilati
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Charter School Bill
by: John Pilati
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Three Prices for Your Home
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Ready To Sell Your Home-Really
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Working dogs sniff out dangerous devices
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2nd: The Redstone Rocket (Huntsville)
D-Day veteran recalls momentous day
by: Skip Vaughn
3rd: The Redstone Rocket (Huntsville)
War ends for veteran but memories live
on
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Tolson
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1st: Cherokee Post (Centre)
Road Apples
by: Tim Sanders
Army’s top athletes excel on fields of
friendly strife
Merle West’s Legacy
by: Jerry Knight
Armed and ready: A peek into the world
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AHSAA approves plan for adaptive,
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Something You Knew
by: Scott Wright
2nd: Cherokee
Post (Centre)
Tigers lose
title but not
without a fight
by: Roy Mitchell
3rd: The
Madison
Record
Mustangs take
title
by: Nick Sellers
Scoreboard error costs Phil Campbell at
county tournament
by: Mike Self
Last-second loss will fuel Wildcats’ fire
by: Mike Self
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earns another
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DECEMBER 2015
by: Skip
Vaughn
Veteran rallies support for vets’ peace of
mind
Lifting up our law enforcement
by: Alan Brown
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1st: The Redstone
Rocket (Huntsville)
I wear this for the
other sixteen
by: Katie Davis
Skelley
2nd: The
Redstone Rocket
(Huntsville)
We wore the uniform
for our country
by: Amy Guckeen
Tolson
Spear launch
by: Bryan Bacon
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sustainable solution to a
BAAA-A-D
problem
Goats move into
park, help clear
overgrown land
R
By ANA GOOD
ed Mountain Park has a new group
of residents — back permanently
following a temporary stay. A
herd of 150 Kiko goats now call
the park home, nestled among
RMP’s 1,500 acres.
The goats, part of RMP’s
“Long-Term Herbivore Browse
Program,” offer more than a new
sight to see. They are all working for their keep.
Each day, the goats do what they do best: eat. In
the process, they help clear land previously overrun
by invasive species such as kudzu and Chinese privet.
The goats are so successful at their task, RMP natural
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Red Mountain has a group of new tenants: Kiko goats, which are used to clear the underbrush in
areas of the park. Photos by Frank Couch.
resource specialist Ian Hazelhoff said, that plans are
already in the works to have the goats clear other
overgrown areas of Birmingham as well.
Hazelhoff said this particular species of goats,
See GOATS | page B20
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1st: Vestavia Voice
No Stopping Caden James
by: Ana Good
Like the wind
by: David Knox
Cotton Row 10K runner remembers
brother
Remembering together
by: Bryan Bacon
3rd: Vestavia Voice
Ellie Waldrop
by: Sydney Cromwell
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Leading the charge
by: Ron Burkett
3rd: Hoover Sun
Whispers From the Past
by: Sydney Cromwell
Respect, Honor,
Remember
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The Redstone Rocket –
Special Section
Hand over heart
by: Bryan Bacon
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Congressman makes the play
by: Bryan Bacon
2nd: Vestavia Voice
No Stopping Caden
James
by: Frank Couch
(Huntsville)
Veterans Day 2015
by: staff
2nd: Vestavia Voice
Drowning fast facts
by: staff
3rd: The Redstone Rocket
(Huntsville)
FMWR 2015
by: staff
3rd: The Redstone Rocket
(Huntsville)
Do not stand at my grave and
weep
by: Kelley Lane, Bryan Bacon
Sustainable solution to a BAAA-A-D
problem
by: Ana Good
Career hits crescendo with next movement
by: staff
Beacon or blight
by: Oliver Morrison
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2015
by: staff
(Huntsville)
SMD 2015
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whispers
FROM THE PAST
1st: The Homewood
Star
Homewood
Homecoming
by: Scott Butler
Hoover Sun – Photo Essay
THIS WEEK
Intermittent
Trail Closure
Transmission Line Work
Creates Some Detours
MUSCLE SHOALS - The
Tennessee Valley Authority will
intermittently close a walking
trail on the Muscle Shoals
Reservation this summer while
a new transmission structure is
erected on the site beginning
Monday, April 13.
TVA decided to close public
access to the trail because
the transmission work will
be conducted near the path.
A secondary trail by-passing
the construction site will be
open. Appropriate signs and
barricades will be put in place
to route walkers onto the
detour trail.
The closure and re-routing is
necessary to ensure the safety
of the public.
The public can continue to use
the trail system and is reminded
to not cross any posted
barricade or construction tape.
TVA appreciates the public’s
understanding. The project is
expected to be completed by the
end of the summer. In the event
of bad weather, the work may
be extended or rescheduled.
See INTOLERANCE... on Page 15
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Healthy Kids at the
Y this Saturday
SHOALS– the YMCA
of the Shoals is hosting a
free community event on
Saturday, April
18 to inspire
more kids to keep
their minds and
bodies
active.
YMCA’s Healthy
Kids Day®, the
Y’s
national
initiative
to
improve health
April 18
and well-being
for kids and families, features
games, a bouncy house,
arts and crafts and more to
motivate and teach families
how to develop a healthy
routine at home.
Healthy Kids Day is
celebrated at nearly 1,300 Y’s
Check www.roarlions.com for complete schedules
Saturday, April 18 • 2pm (DH)
Sunday, April 19 • 1pm
SOFTball
Saturday, April 18 • 4pm (DH)
Sunday, April 19 • 2pm
Clinton, MS
See KIDS DAY... on Page 24
Annual Color Me Purple
and Gold Color
Run 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run
For Tickets
call the Ticket Office 256-765-5466
or email Ticket Mgr. Jenn Sharp
at [email protected]
Registration is $25 for the 5K and
$15 for the 1 mile until April 1.
Pre-Registration ends on Wednesday,
April 15 and only pre-registered participants
are guaranteed t-shirts. Register online at
alumni.una.edu/color run or contact
Megan Lovelace at 256.765.4615 or
[email protected]
for more information!
Join the UNA Sportsman’s Club Today • 256-765-4185
A Nice, Caring Walk
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Wife of a wounded warrior
by: Sydney Cromwell
THE ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT
VIGIL FOR VOCAL (Victims
of Crime and Leniency) takes
place on Tuesday April 21
at 7pm at Wilson Park in
Florence. The rain site is First
United Methodist Church on
Seminary Street. National
Crime Victims’ Rights Week is
April 19-25 with the theme,
Engaging Communities –
Empowering Victims. Crime
victims should be given the
information and assistance
they need to make informed
decisions about their own lives
as they recover. All victims
of crime are invited to attend
the vigil and light a candle
in memory of their loved
one to continue the healing
process. The keynote speaker
will be Darlene Hutchinson
Biehl, Victims’ Advocate
from Montgomery. Other
speakers will be from Rape
Response, The Cramer Center,
Healing Place, and Safeplace.
VOCAL will also be honoring
victims with a cross display
at Lauderdale County Court
House during Crime Victims
Rights Week.
SHOALS CELTIC CONCERTS
presents Scottish fiddler John
Taylor with Jil Chambless
and Scooter Muse at Trinity
Episcopal Church’s Mullen
Hall at 410 North Pine Street
in Florence on Tuesday,
April 21 at 7pm. Admission
is $12 in advance and $15
the day of the show. Tickets
are on sale at the Kennedy
Douglass Center for the Arts in
downtown Florence. Seating is
limited to 120.
beginning at Flowers Hall
Clinton, MS
at Mississippi College
across the country. It aims to
get more kids moving and
learning so they can keep
up the habit all
summer
long
– a critical outof-school
time
for kids’ health.
When kids are
out of school they
can face hurdles
that
prevent
from
2-4pm them
reaching their full
potential. These are related
to hunger, water safety,
learning, safe spaces to play,
and health. Each year the Y
helps over nine million youths
nationwide to hop the gap and
Saturday, April 18 • 9am
at Mississippi College
Rally 4 Rachel
by: Frank Couch, Cherie Olivier
Clockwise, from above: A member of the Medicine Tail Singers performs at Whispers from
the Past. A child learns to grind corn. William Wente rolls out clay to make a wedding bottle.
Medicine Tail Singers wait for their turn to dance. Visitors could fish in Aldridge Gardens’
lake at Whispers from the Past. Photos by Sydney Cromwell.
April 15, 2015
In A
Few
Words
baSeball
Shoals
g
Happenin
he conscientious effort to guard
every citizen’s right to First
Amendment religious liberty
overwhelmingly passed the
Indiana legislature. The 1993
federal legislation it mirrors was
introduced by then representative
Chuck Shumer
(D- NY). It
received unanimous support
in the house and near
unanimous in the Senate. It
was signed into law by Bill
Clinton.
An errant court decision
regarding the religious rights
of Native Americans spurred
the bipartisan support for
the federal bill. It was based
on simple religious liberty
protection harmonious
with our constitutionally
guaranteed right to be free
TOM MAGAZZU
from unnecessary government
Editor
interference in the exercise of
our religious beliefs.
Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration
Act (RFRA) granted no new rights to any
person regarding anything. It was essentially
a reaffirmation by the state and was ready for
Governor Mike Pence’s signature. Arkansas
governor Asa Hutchinson had similar
legislation on his desk.
Suddenly, the walls of hell seemed to break
loose. The media was convinced that this was
a heavy-handed assault on gay rights. Those
groups must have thought gun shops were
selling out of shotguns and every midsize city in
the state was erecting a set of gallows downtown.
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Whispers From the Past
by: Sydney Cromwell, Cherie
Olivier
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Hoover Sun
B8 • November 2015
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(Mountain Brook)
Spartan Volleyball
by: Keith McCoy
2nd: The Redstone
Rocket (Huntsville)
Honor walk takes steps
to remember tragedy
by: Bryan Bacon
1st: The Redstone Rocket
(Huntsville)
Memorial Day 2015
by: staff
1st: The Redstone Rocket
(Huntsville)
Hall of Heroes 2015
by: Kelley Lane, Amy Guckeen
Tolson, Bryan Bacon
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by: Jessa Pease
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So mister
editor, if
you do not make
our citizens aware
of this information
and a lottery
Angela Jackson
Muscle Shoals
pusher gets elected,
Biofuels Waste Energy you will be as
To the Editor:
responsible for our
For years US government agencies
state going under
have invested billions of our taxpayer
dollars into a biofuel dead end: turning
corn into ethanol, and genetically
as he is.
engineering crops, trees, algae and
Editor:
On behalf of the Be Nice Foundation
and Northwest Alabama Cancer Center,
I would like to thank everyone who
came out to enjoy our first annual walk
to help benefit the Caring and Sharing
program.
Special thanks go to the Easter Bunny
and kids who made the event a success.
microbes to make them all more easily
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ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL
FUNDRAISER is April 18 at
6pm at Sweetwater Depot in
East Florence. Please join us
for an exciting night of fun
activities including gaming, a
live auction, a silent auction,
raffle, and dinner. Tickets
for Casino Night are $40 per
person. Call St. Joseph School
at 256-766-1923 for ticket
information.
turned into fuel.
Now the Department of Energy is
dumping $36 million and more into
establishing a program to speed field
testing and deployment of engineered
high-energy crops across southern states.
Many of these are potentially invasive,
flammable and otherwise risky. This is in
conjunction with their absurdly named
PETRO (plants engineered to replace oil)
program. Enough is enough!
The amount of land, soil, fertilizers
and water required to grow enough
plant biomass to supplant even a modest
portion of fossil energy are astronomical.
It is time to stop wasting time and
money on a pathway to degrading
the lands, soils, waterways, farms and
forests. Tax dollars should be put to
better uses including support for public
transportation infrastructure, building
efficiency and energy conservation.
Rachel Smolker Ph.D.
Hinesburg, VT
Co-director of Biofuelwatch
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messages to Republican
voters before the sprint to
the Iowa caucuses.
Cruz, a Texas senator
and tea party firebrand,
sees Rubio’s support for a
more forgiving immigration policy as his greatest
vulnerability among conservatives
who
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pathway to citizenship for
immigrants in the country
illegally. Rubio, a Florida
senator, sees Cruz’s shifting rhetoric on immigration as a prime example of
a larger pattern of political
pandering.
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presidential
hopefuls, few issues offer a
clearer contrast in tone, if
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strategies played out in
early voting states on
Thursday as the freshman
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crowded GOP field six
weeks before the first primary votes are cast.
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hard time because he’s not
told the truth about his position in the past on legalization,” Rubio said of
Cruz while campaigning in
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Iowa. “It’s not an attack.
It’s a fact.”
“That is utter nonsense,”
Cruz said of Rubio’s charge
while talking to reporters
in Las Vegas. He declined
to say what he would do
with the estimated 11 million immigrants in the
country illegally, but accused Rubio of joining with
Democrats to support
“amnesty.”
Cruz was referencing
Rubio’s leading role in a bipartisan group of senators
who crafted an immigration reform package in
2013 that aimed to
strengthen border security,
overhaul legal immigra-
tion and allow a pathway
to citizenship for millions
of immigrants in the country illegally. The Senate
approved the bill, but it
was blocked by House Republicans and widely attacked by conservatives.
Once the bill’s leading
salesman, Rubio distanced
himself from his own plan
as the presidential contest
neared, suggesting it was a
mistake to push for comprehensive
legislation.
He’s now calling for a
piecemeal approach that
begins with border security and offers a pathway
to legalization only after
the influx of illegal immi-
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“I think he might be a
little weak there,” said
Muscatine resident Jim
Simmons, 49, who’s still
deciding between Rubio
and Cruz.
Often playing defense on
immigration, the Florida
senator shifted to offense
this week by going after
Cruz’s evolving rhetoric.
Rubio, who previously
emphasized criticism of
Cruz’s national security
positions, said his rival’s
repeated attacks on immigration left him little
choice but to examine the
Texan’s record on the
issue.
“I was attacked by Ted
Cruz on the debate stage
and I responded by saying
I’m puzzled by his attacks
on this,” Rubio said, accusing Cruz of using “crafty
language.” ‘’He’s the one
that for example, supports
doubling the number of
green cards. He’s the one
that supports a 500 percent increase in guest
workers into the United
States, and he’s the one
that supported legalization and legalizing people
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In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show Wednesday,
the GOP presidential candidate
looked relaxed as Kimmel queried
him about campaign issues.
Trump, who has argued for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States, said he’s
gotten calls of thanks from friends
who are Muslim.
“Those may have been crank
calls,” Kimmel replied, smiling.
The ABC host then turned to immigration, using the example of his
on-air sidekick, Guillermo Ro-
driguez, to question Trump’s call for
mass deportation.
Kimmel said Rodriguez came to
the United States illegally from
Mexico but went through the legalization process.
He suggested to Trump that people who are willing to risk everything to get to the United States are
good for the country.
Trump was unfazed, calling Hispanics “unbelievable people” but not
backtracking on his position. He
called for a Mexico-U.S. border wall
with “a big beautiful door” for legal
entry.
Kimmel said it appeared Trump
had made an effort to be nicer to his
fellow candidates in the debate, including lauding Sen. Ted Cruz’s
that are in the country illegally.”
Cruz insisted that’s not
the case during Tuesday’s
debate, declaring, “I have
never supported legalization, and I do not intend to
support legalization.”
Although Cruz has long
opposed an explicit path to
citizenship for people in
the country illegally, he
has supported broadening
legal immigration in some
cases.
And as part of the immigration reform debate in
2013, Cruz introduced legislation that proposed
eventual legal status for
millions.
His bill, an amendment
to Senate immigration legislation, proposed stripping out the option of
citizenship. Instead, he
told the Senate in June
2013, his amendment
would set up a process so
that “those who are here illegally would be eligible
for what is called RPI
(Registered Provisional
Immigrant) status, a legal
status, and, indeed, in time
would be eligible for legal
permanent residency.”
While Cruz has defended that course on multiple occasions in the
Senate and in interviews,
on Thursday he said he
was simply calling his opponents’ bluff.
“By calling their bluff,
we defeated amnesty. We
beat it,” Cruz said.
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adding
central business district received
in
Hartselle
ning
Commission has
a shot in the arm during the new ones,” she added. “We’re she pointed out. “We had a great Hines said she is optimistic
were both changing the
approved
very optimistic about the New turnout, and we’ll be looking for about Hartselle’s business outChristmas holidays.
charged
Central Business District
special ways to accommodate look.
“It was great – our best one Year.”
with
rob- Review Board
Design
“We have new businesses locatduring
New 21,
Year.”
yet,”
said
VOLUME
82, Janan
NO. 3 Downs, owner/ “Sales were up when compared Wthem
bery
in thetwo of 50
EDNESDAY
, Jthe
ANUARY
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to allow
theCENTS
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operator of Zoey’s in Downtown. to last year,” said Kalleigh Pierce, Susan Hines, president of ing in existing buildings downfirst
degree.
members
to be local resi“This was our fourth Christmas owner/operator of Shoefisticated, Hartselle Area Chamber of Com- town as well as in new buildings
They
are
dents.
News
Briefs
and each one has surpassed the another Main Street retailer. “My merce, complimented the mer- in other places,” she pointed out.
currently
in the board is
Currently,
“I
expect
2015
to
be
a
good
year
chants
that
observed
extended
loyal
customers
patronized
me
other. Gift buying was especially
custody
Griffin
made ofat five members
for business growth in Hartselle.”
just like before and we had a lot Thursday shopping hours.
the Morgan
Habitat
who
own
or rentfor
business
CountyinJail,
space
downtown.
If the
Humanity
sets
class
and
their bond
has
not
yet
Joy Haynes
changes
are
approved,
ommended that traffic lights on nals at each intersection.
town Hartselle.
been
set.
Hartselle Enquirer
for
applicants
the number of business
Engineers from Sain Associates Sparkman Street at the intersec- Mayor Don Hall said that while
Just
before
midnight
owners would decrease on
to
Saturday,
dispatch
received
The average price of gas in Ala- have recommended that Spark- tions of Chestnut and Hickory the proposal is radical, he believes
Habitat
of
three
of for
theHumanity
five memabers.
call from
a residence
in
bama has dropped to the lowest man Street be converted to a one- streets be eliminated and con- it could help alleviate a number
Morgan
County
will conBrent
Maze
the
200
block of informaTapscott
it’s been since
May
2009 at $1.99 way headed northbound between verted to either two-way or all- of traffic issues in downtown.
duct
application
City
Planner
Jeremy
“I didn’t like it at first, but the
Hartselle
Enquirer
Road
off Alabama
36board
East.
per gallon,
according
to a AAA Hickory and Chestnut streets and way stops.
tion classes
Tues.,
10,
Griffith
said
theFeb.
make Sycamore and Hickory The plan also calls for the two more I think about it, it’s beginThe
caller
reported
that
Alabama press release.
at 10had
a.m.a and
5:30 time
p.m.
has
difficult
Hartselle
city officials
are hopaThe
lone
masked
maleplace
had
Prices
in Hartselle
dropped
to a streets one ways headed south downtown traffic signals on Main ning to grow on me,” Hall said
classes
will
take
filling
open
positions
on
ing of
that$1.93
converting
sections
of from Chestnut Street to Spark- Street and the railroad crossing in an interview prior to Tuesentered
her home,
pointed
low
at gas stations
such
at the
Habitat
Communithe
board.
signal to be linked together via day’s public involvement meetSparkman,
Sycamore
Hicko- man Street.
aty“We
handgun
her the
and
took
as
Cowboys,
Jet-Pep,and
Murphy’s
Room
1123
Central
stillatat
want
busiradio
frequencies
along
with
In
addition
to
those
major
rySub-zero
streets
to one-way
streets
will
her
prescription
medicaUSA,
Tankersley’s
and
Z-Trac.
Parkway
SW in
wind chills changes, the engineers also rec- installing pedestrian crossing signess
owners
toDecatur
maintain
help
ease traffic
jams have
in downSee Traffic, Page A-12
tion.
Alabama’s
gas prices
now
These of
sessions
are but
for
control
the board,
expected
Wednesday,
Investigators
obtained
fallen
for a record
110 days, as
people
interested
in
applyby
allowing
residents
to
enough
evidence
of Monday,
saving the average
ing two
for the
Habitatonfrom
proThursday
fill
positions
the
the
caller’s
cooperation
household approximately $115
gram.
board,
it will
give us toa
identify
and
arrest
two
suson gas compared
to 2013.
Habitatchance
builds
homes
fora
Clif Knight
better
to
have
pects
thatatnight.
Gas prices
are expected
low-income
families,
and
Hartselle
Enquirer to conquorum
our
meetings,”
tinue to fall as 2015 continues,
then sellssaid.
them to the famiGriffith
even
though
lies
the pickup
cost
ofboard
conAn arctic
coldprices
front per
withgallon
wind
Thefor
revision
to the
Garbage
for
have temperatures
dropped 46 cents
compared
struction.
There is nobyinterchill
expected
to dip
must
be approved
the
Day
to one month
ago and $1.13
est on MLK
Habitat
loans,
and
below
zero Wednesday
nightcomand
Hartselle
City
Council
pared to aisyear
ago.
Habitatit makes
no profit
Thursday
on its
way to the Tenbefore
takes effect.
The
of Sponsors
Hartselle progarEddie Valley.
Preuitt Ford’s general
on
theCity
sales.
nessee
Enquirer Photo: Clif Knight
bage
change
manager
Preuitt
said they
vide schedule
cash andwill
volunteer
“We areJason
going
to experience
Suzanne Blackman, kindergarten teacher at Danville Neel-Elementary School, gets hugs from
Business
licenses
for
Martin
King Jr.
have definitely
seentemperatures
a difference
laborers
to Luther
lower
building
winter’s
coldest
her class after being named Morgan County Elementary Teacher of the Year.
Day
Jan 19.
in business
since
the change in
costs.
so
far thisBrent
week,”
dueMon.,
before
Jan.
31
Mazesaid JessiMonday
through
Wednesgas
prices.
To
qualify
for
a
Habitat
ca Chase,Hartselle
a meteorologist
with
day
will
“The
lower Weather
gasEnquirer
prices
really
loan,
applicants
must:
the
National
Service
in
All garbage
businessroutes
partnerbe
oneincorporations
day
late.County
Thursaffect what“The
vehicles
people
are
•Live
Morgan
Huntsville.
blast
of
cold
air
ships,
and
Revenues
andsaid.
expenses are
for
day’s
route
will
buying,”
Preuitt
•Havegarbage
a doing
housing
need
moving
our
waySchools
will “People
cause
individuals
business
Hartsellemore
City
are temstill
run
on
Thursday.
There
looking
at SUVs,
trucks
and
(due
to
poor
conditions,
peratures
to
drop
into
the
single
in
Hartselle
are
required
Secondary Teacher of the Year.
Clif Knight
on track
for the than
2014-2015
fiscal
will
be no yardawaste
pick
overcrowding,
unsafe
family
vehicles
before
when
digits
Wednesday
and
Thursto
purchase
business
“I was surprised,” she said. “I feel humbled,
Hartselle Enquirer
year, everyone
accordingwanted
to chiefa schools
up
this week.
neighborhood,
etc.)
most
smaller
day.
Windofficer
gustsJonathan
up to 10
mph
privilege
license
for 2015.
too. There are so many more who deserve this as
financial
Craft.
•Havelicense
a source
more
fuel-efficient
car. Our
busiwill
cause
chill
temperaThe
is of
duestable
and
Morgan County Schools literally rolled out the much or more than I do.”
Craft
said wind
the school
system
income
and
meetthan
income
ness
has
some,
but
it’s
tures
to increased
plummet
below
zero.”
payable
not
later
JanStorm
spotter
class
Hopkins found custodian Billy Eason working
red
carpet
to
honor
its
2014-2015
Staff
Memnormally
receives
the
majority
requirements
more ofsaid
a shift
of what
people
are
Chase
there’s
a slight
chance
uary
31. If purchased after
in a classroom at Eva School. “Do you know who
ber
of
the
Year
and
Elementary
and
Secondary
of
its
funding
during
the
months
set
fortheMarch
5 is
•Be
willing
to
volunteer
looking
at.”
of
snow
flurries
between
6
a.m.
that
date,
purchaser
this
is?”
he
asked
the
students.
“He’s
our
Staff
Teachers
of
the
Year
Friday
morning.
ofHartselle
DecemberPolice
and January in the
on construction
and
and
noon
Thursday. Chief Ron
subject
to a $15sites
percent
Enquirer Photo: Clif Knight
A party of seven central office personnel headed Member of the Year.”
school
year.
County
EmeratMorgan
the Habitat
Puckett
the police
forcemuch
was
“It
willsaid
depend
on
how
penalty
plus
1 ReStore,
percent
The students
followed
to of
the2014.
limo where
by
Superintendent
Bill his
Hopkins
Jr. made
Fred
Langston ended
47-year
careerstops
with atGilchrist
Pharmacy
on the Eason
last day
So far
he
doesn’t
anticipate
any
gency
as well monthly.
as Management
participate in
enjoying
the
price
drop.
moisture
is
thebudget
air,” she
interest
the three schools where the honorees work. They they formed a victory line and cheered as he
changes
to inthe
at said.
this
Agency
and
the
National
homeowner
education
“The
cheaper
gas
is
saving
the
“No
significant accumulation is
Payments may be made
arrived in a 14-seat black limousine complete climbed aboard.
time.money
Weather
Huntsclasses
city
in our department for
expected.”
in
personService
at CityinHall
or
with red carpet and brought bouquets of red Hopkins interrupted Suzanne Blackman as she
“The Puckett
revenues
have been
a litville
will hold
a SkyWarn
Anyone
interested
in
sure,”
said.
unlikely
Sheslower
said the
wind“It’s
chill
would
submitted
by
mail
as long
was teaching her kindergarten students at Danroses, gift baskets and helium-filled balloons.
tle
in
than
last
Storm
Class
in
applying
should
call the
there
will
becoming
a budget
review
to
drop
below
zero
late
Wednesas
theySpotter
are
postmarked
ville-Neel
Elementary
School.
Cynthia
Weaver
was
teaching
an
early
childyear
at
this
time,
but
we
still
Morgan
County
5 at
veteran added. “Choosing Hartselle as our home
Habitat
office
atMarch
256-340change
our
gasoline
fund,
but any
Clif Knight
day
and
remain
there
throughout
not
later
than
Jan.
31.
Her
students
applauded
loudly
when
she
was
hood
development
class
at
Brewer
High
School
believe they will be very close
6:30
p.m.
at Brewernotices
High
was one of the best decisions we’ve made in our
9609
to pre-qualify.
The
Hartselle Enquirer
Thursday.
The worst
of the Craft
cold
License
renewal
when Hopkins appeared and announced her as 50 years of marriage.”
to what we’ve
budgeted,”
School.
pre-qualification
deadline
See
County,
Page
A-8
will
move
out
of
the
area
Friday.
were
mailed
to
approxiSee Gas,
A-8
said. “The revenues
arePage
a little
will be
heldalso
in
isThe
Feb.class
3.4,000
They
may
Fred Langston retired as a partner/pharmacist Langston said he has no regrets about his long
Morgan
County
director
mately
addresses
flat
compared
to EMA
last year,
but
the
of in
the
school.
visitcafeteria
the Habitat
website
at
at Gilchrist Pharmacy Dec. 31 after a 47-year career in pharmacy.
Eddie
Hicks
the
first
week
Decemit appears
likerecommended
they’re wherethat
we
The
class is free and should
“The upside is meeting the people and doing
www.morganhabitat.org.
career.
people
stay
inside
if possible.
ber.
expected
them
to be.”
be
approximately
2
hours
what
you
can
to
improve
their
quality
of
life,”
The St. Clair County native found his way to
“So
we have
not ofhad
anyThe far,
Hartselle
Board
Educain length.
Hartselle in 1968 thanks to a classified ad pub- he pointed out. “I worked in drug stores in other
body
come aforward
offering
a
tion passed
budget with
$29.7
SkyWarn is a program of
lished in a pharmaceutical magazine by Hartselle places, and I can truthfully say Hartselle folks
‘warm
for people
millionroom’
in revenue
andexposed
$29.2
theCity
Unitedlooks
States’to
National
fill
are the nicest and friendliest you will find anyHospital.
to
cold,” However,
he stated Tuesday
the annual meeting of the
in the
expenses.
the genWeather Service (NWS).
“The hospital was looking for a pharmacist, and where.”
morning.
“But
that’s
something
Morgan
Cattlemen’s
Enquirer Photo:
Clif Knight
eral fund budget is expected to
Its board
missionopenings
is to collect
withCounty
Gilchrist
PharmaI was working part-time at a hospital in Gadsden Langston was affiliated
that
would
become
necessary
Association
at
Hartselle
High
decline by $300,000, leaving the
Lance
Fowler
speaks
to
the
Hartselle
Youth
Baseball
Board
about
organizational
changes
being
reports
of
localized
severe
cy
as
a
working
partner
for
38
years.
He
and
Bob
and
attending
college
in
Birmingham,”
recalled
should
area with
lose power.”
School.changed
“Sixty million
people
school the
system
about $7.65
The City of Hartselle is
weather.
made this “I
year.
the name
of
Langston.
made an appointment to interview Smith, an original partner,
“One ofinthe
wefund.
are doing
How
do you
think gas prices
have moved up to
to the
middle
million
thethings
general
accepting
applications
for
Forlowmore
information,
Gilchrist
with Orval Sparkman, and he hired me as the the business from Gilchrist-Burks
today
making sanitizer
will go thisthe
holiday
classes
in foreign
countries.
“We is haven’t
adjustedavailthe
positions
onMorgan
theseason?
following
contact
CounPharmacy
Preuitt
became his
parthospital’s first full-time pharmacist.”
able
at the deficit
entrances
andwe
exits
to
Brent
Maze in 1977. Mike
They
want
more
protein
in
$300,000
that
proboards:
ty
EMA office at 256-351“My wife and I were looking for a good place
Hartselle
Enquirer
their
diet
and
they
love
our
jected,” Craft said. “I hope that
Below
$2 (57%) Board, four
Cemetery
4620.
to raise ourClif
twoKnight
boys at the time,” 2014
the U.S.
Army
See Langston,
Page
A-8
as follows:
sions,
while
not set in
stone,
Page A-8
beef.”
we will be ableSee
to Chill,
beat that.”
Not Much Lower
(24%)
expired
positions,
five
• Severed
league’sinaffiliawereClark
made said
with Alabama
majority board
Hartselle Enquirer
Beef the
producers
Morgan
beef is
A school system is required
year
terms;
CBD Design
Below $1.75
(16%)
tion with
Dixie
baseball
approval
in its
order
generate
a
County
andYouth
across
Alabama
making
waytointo
numerous
to keep at least one month of
Review
Board,
Below
$1.50
(3%) one vacant
more
attractive
youth
baseball
Changes implemented by and eliminated
are seeing postseason
some of theallhighforeign
markets,
even
through
expenses in its general fund, and
position,
four
year
term;
model
for kids
nowofparticipatHartselle Youth Baseball star tournaments.
For full obituaries,
see page
A-2
est prices ever, and experts
the “back
door”
China. The
the anticipated balance would
Library
Board,
expired
See our new
onlineone
question
at
with an indeing Alabama
in travel ball.
League’s newly appointed • Replaced
expect Dixie
that success
to conbeef industry has an
keep Hartselle well above three
position, four year term;
league
format
offering Heeconomic
said 450impact
Hartselle
kids
•www.hartselleenquirer.com:
Stanley Eddy
board of directors came under pendent
tinue
into the
future.
of $524.5
months of expenses.
and Parks and Recreation
play
dates
on
Monday,
Tuesplayed
Dixie
ball
in
2014
while
heavy
criticism
from
a
crowd
of
•
Mary
Lou
Atkins
Woody
Clark,
president
of
Amari’
has
the
same
music
as
Joy
Haynes
million
and
creates
10,000
At the end of December, Craft
Board,
one expired
posiShould
Priceville
pass a oneand Friday.
an estimated
100 ‘That’s
chose Amore.’”
to play
about 100 coaches, parents and day, Thursday
•tion,
Martha
Yarbrough
Davis
the Alabama
Cattlemen’s
Dean
Hartselle
Enquirer
jobs. Martin’s
said the school system was near
fiveBruce
year
term.
sales
tax
build
a civic
Saturday
play the
travelTheir
fans at a meeting at Sparkman • Eliminated
Association,
attributes
other 2014,
videosAlabama’s
are “His
•cent
Katherine
M.toInman
Inball.
January
25 percent of expenses and revApplications
are availfor everyone
5vision
is to parodied
get out
of
center?
Civic Center Sunday afternoon. dates increased
prices
an“Our
Name
is Blake”
after
•able
JunioratTaylor
Two
localsbeef
haveexcept
made ato
Youcattle
was
worth
$873
million
enues after one-fourth of the fisthe
City
Clerk’s
with
ideafortournament
balltheand
leave
thatin
League
President
Mark and 6-year-olds,
increase
in demand
from
The
Monkees
“I’m
a largest
Believer”
Tube
presence
forthe
themselves
•office
CharlsieinArrington
Wilsonor on
and ranked
ninth
cal year complete.
City Hall
the fields
for tournadecision
in the
hands of parMizell addressed three changes of opening
eign videos
countries.
and
“City
of Champions”
parowith
parodying
traditionthe U.S.
•the
RoyCity’s
Erskin Mims
Craft said the majority of the
website. Appliball
on that
ents,”
Mizell
said.
approved by the board at meet- ment al
“Realistically,
I expect
those
died
after
“Somewhere
Over
songs
withday.
Alabama
football
Also
at the
Morgan County
school system’s revenues from
cations must be turned into
Mizell
saidbeef
all prices
three todeciings in October and
November
higher
contin- the
Rainbow.”
lyrics.
Enquirer
Photo: Brent Maze
Cattlemen’s
Association’s
property and other taxes come in
For
full
obituaries,
see
page A-2
the City Clerk’s office
by
See Baseball, Page A-8
for the
five years,”
Estesnext
of Falkville
and Mason, a traveling evangelist
duringBryant
December
andwife
January.
Mike
and his
Joyce receive the Innovative Cattleman of the ueDawn
Fri., Jan. 31, at 4 p.m.
Clark said
Saturday
during and former pastor at Trinity
Michael
Mason
of Hartselle
• Michael L. Harvey
Year award from Doyle Whitlow and Rassie Wallace.
See
Cattlemen,
Page
A-11
have collaborated on three Baptist church, is the singer in
• Tim Smith
videos, with the most watched each video. He said he sings
• Bobbie Ann Douglas
video having over 85,000 views often, but had never done any• Richard White
thing like this before. Estes
on YouTube.
• J.V. ‘Pete’ Johnson
Estes, Falkville’s town clerk, wanted him to perform the song
• Carolyn A. Clemons
ment she
for knew
the Relay
Life
Joy Haynes
he wasfor
an avid
said she began
writing the first since
event at fan
J.P. and
Caina Stadium
• Harry Range
Hartselle
talented
song lyrics
afterEnquirer
the Iron Bowl Alabama
May 15, which will include
• Either Mae Kinney
singer.
game in November.
full obituaries,
page A-2
live
music
and
volleyball
and
Hartselle
Relay
for
Life
has
• For
Dorothy
Johnsonsee
Hudgins
“I was riding in the car, and “I called Michael because I
cornhole
tournaments
among
started
their
monthly
meetings
• Junior Taylor
I just started writing some lyr- had heard him sing before, and
other
activities.
for
the
year
in
order
to
prepare
•
Mike Wiggins
ics down,” Estes said. “I have knew he would be great,” Estes
Leaders
are
encouraged
to
for the annual Relay for Life
• James Howard Tolbert
Enquirer Photo: Joy Haynes always playfully associated said. “I’m not a singer, so I stick
bring
canned
food, 2-packs of
event lyrics
in May.
• Doris Maxine Thrasher
writing
the lyrics.”
with my thoughts, to
Michael Mason, left, sings traditional songs with rewritten Alabama foot- song
They
their
first com• Phillip Voyles
theheld
Amari
Copper
song paper towels or 4-packs of toiball lyrics by Dawn Estes in three YouTube videos that have recently and
mitteetomeeting
night let paper to the Jan. 26 team
• Elsie Bennett Hill
came
me. TheMonday
song ‘That’s
See Video,for
Page
A-8
Spirit
at Holy Smoke BBQ, and the captains’ meeting
received attention.
• Bonnie Eaton Dobbins
first team captains’ meeting Points.
• Kenneth Ray Floyd
will follow Mon., Jan. 26 at Additional teams are still
• Melanie Gwen Rogers
invited to join Hartselle Relay
Kids Kastle at 6 p.m.
• Carl ‘Bo’ Campbell
The team captains’ meet- for Life. They are encouraged
• Michelle Marie Crow
ing will offer a dinner for a to attend a team captains’ meet• Betty Self Mahaffey
donation that will benefit the ing or contact Tresa McGhee
• Bobby Dale Ball
Stomping Every Cancer Team, at [email protected].
• Lloyd E. McAbee
who will be providing the Other team captains’ meet• Charles ‘Chuck’ Cathers
ings will be held at Kids Kastle
meal.
• Vernon White
Teams will discuss the “One beginning at 6 p.m. Feb. 23,
World One Hope” theme and March 30 and April 27.
Enquirer Photo: Brent Maze ways to individualize it for
Updates can be found on their
Relay for Life supporters David Halbrooks and his mother Ronna walk each team. Team captains will Facebook page “Relay for Life
also begin planning entertain- of Hartselle, AL.”
during the event last year.
Brent Maze
Hartselle Enquirer
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