tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61058645775402124542024-03-18T05:05:48.018-05:00ShoalandaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5775125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-11821397952206658192024-03-17T23:00:00.074-05:002024-03-18T05:05:13.931-05:00Two Groups Failed - Will Third Save Gov. Patton Home?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqpGdr-K3XfPAZ2CslsODw2xpp0cy-GKW-nPXLsaieltQaHH7cQaq_qEeAmVmTpnNsQ9crRMnRwvL3Gx7OaNh5F1Nfa2fpMEWaQjW914ccSiENFT7yQ0DLzdJEyO9BU3c42s5dkhI8Shp-qeH4652DZ8ipWzUbzRbh1ymr5ZLe8-mJ3pTZF_3dsJoS7vv/s275/images%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqpGdr-K3XfPAZ2CslsODw2xpp0cy-GKW-nPXLsaieltQaHH7cQaq_qEeAmVmTpnNsQ9crRMnRwvL3Gx7OaNh5F1Nfa2fpMEWaQjW914ccSiENFT7yQ0DLzdJEyO9BU3c42s5dkhI8Shp-qeH4652DZ8ipWzUbzRbh1ymr5ZLe8-mJ3pTZF_3dsJoS7vv/w320-h213/images%20(1).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Two groups have already failed to save the Gov. Patton Home. First, William McDonald and the Florence Historical Board failed. They instigated the group that formed a 15 person committee which failed miserably in its efforts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The committee suffered one robbery, announced the presence of a werewolf, and after two years ended in a disarray. The second group was anonymous, but apparently failed in its attempts to find a buyer for the old house: <b><a href="https://ripplesfromsweetwatermansion.blogspot.com/2011/01/where-does-history-of-sweetwater.html" target="_blank">Ripples</a></b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Now, it's been announced that a third group has formed:</span></p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><br /> Katie Randall of Aforepreservation (and formerly on the City Historical Commission). She's chairman. Dr. George Makowski, of UNA's Public History Dept., Brian Murphy of the City Museum Board and MSNHA, and City Historian Billy Warren.</b></span><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />Can these four succeed where at least a score of others failed? Who will be the final word on the location of a possible African-American cemetery?</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We've already had one member of Project Say Something post that the old home should be razed. (We blocked the poster since she also gave her opinion of Jews.) Will the former officer in PSS be committed to saving the home of erstwhile Confederates? Is there time for anyone to make a difference?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Does everyone remember the Chrighton Leprechaun outside Mobile? Any recent sightings? Perhaps he's moved to the Patton estate to join Sweetwolf?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMus2GWGyzlWZqx3RDlKrEDyiNMZ2_ZV45f_mGtEpoOS3ftf3O6rLeo8ALeIdtLd6DIO_POGgbnULZzq3Xf0OCWJgvj9HpY0ELmfGRGpnfx0HI3oR3WXJpuw6uf1MXrZZpKcwtz9ZOkLYsxlL5oE7eJB6Y92Wdg-ZaS0tOoXmUvW01nIcpqKZY2kcVAZAo/s393/Screenshot%202024-03-17%209.53.48%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="393" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMus2GWGyzlWZqx3RDlKrEDyiNMZ2_ZV45f_mGtEpoOS3ftf3O6rLeo8ALeIdtLd6DIO_POGgbnULZzq3Xf0OCWJgvj9HpY0ELmfGRGpnfx0HI3oR3WXJpuw6uf1MXrZZpKcwtz9ZOkLYsxlL5oE7eJB6Y92Wdg-ZaS0tOoXmUvW01nIcpqKZY2kcVAZAo/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-17%209.53.48%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-15677366516594819862024-03-16T23:00:00.002-05:002024-03-18T00:49:16.309-05:00Gov. Patton Home<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qFiRN1v54gnf-iVclXlS1DGuy5m1H-OzDidh3GVxBfa6cEJWHzwaTN3FrxZ8-1QHbJxulNusJhxNv0sY26YWGzJ2Wl2d4Vlg94lqLWuy5eAZ5YBk1502W6qm2v-e3o-xnzPm8YLEgcvAcV9j02cxslssg-lyqN0OwjPH6QI4J9ARBscSWodMdvJq1qF0/s441/Screenshot%202024-03-18%2012.31.49%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="441" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qFiRN1v54gnf-iVclXlS1DGuy5m1H-OzDidh3GVxBfa6cEJWHzwaTN3FrxZ8-1QHbJxulNusJhxNv0sY26YWGzJ2Wl2d4Vlg94lqLWuy5eAZ5YBk1502W6qm2v-e3o-xnzPm8YLEgcvAcV9j02cxslssg-lyqN0OwjPH6QI4J9ARBscSWodMdvJq1qF0/w320-h215/Screenshot%202024-03-18%2012.31.49%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Since our last article on "Sweetwater," several things have come to light. We'll address only one today. What is the official name of the old home? It's seems not Sweetwater Mansion or the Weeden Home.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">On June 17, 1976, the edifice was registered with the Alabama Historical Commission as the Gov. Patton Home. Is that what we should now call it? Should the name be changed? Since this is the official name, that is the name we'll use from this point on.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">What is being done to save the Gov. Patton Home? Either very little or quite a lot. We'll let you decide tomorrow.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Hello, Peeps! I'm Oakley, a 10 month-old male Hound mix. Come see me at the Florence shelter in the industrial park:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuH-s_A14pWl36QYe5znePxbGw_Ww-NEVySoFSz5jKVVZ0hxphzSC07GOuiePXG7EuF8UUYh9tSq25AEuZ6WFUq1nR5FoLYsuBKovccANxvyYE466R0-UcIfeaO6k3JqAQxMmulcJLsX97uGLqK_U2G60ZnB-K_0ADusCGDTGofMCt0yJPdAptifLQqia/s229/cc2f6702-55bc-4a54-95eb-2f68d3ceb3df.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="229" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuH-s_A14pWl36QYe5znePxbGw_Ww-NEVySoFSz5jKVVZ0hxphzSC07GOuiePXG7EuF8UUYh9tSq25AEuZ6WFUq1nR5FoLYsuBKovccANxvyYE466R0-UcIfeaO6k3JqAQxMmulcJLsX97uGLqK_U2G60ZnB-K_0ADusCGDTGofMCt0yJPdAptifLQqia/w400-h374/cc2f6702-55bc-4a54-95eb-2f68d3ceb3df.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-13558793917961480722024-03-15T23:00:00.001-05:002024-03-16T19:03:03.269-05:00Self Says Jamy Poss Told Him It Was All Right<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSk5kDLwPWhyphenhyphennmm4TEeG8sJH6zKa96qyI6XusNBrpP6DNMm3ZBoBITaKi4pnRxdlwi91IYfyvnnyfzBqb3g2QzXGAqiSF7mWXx5KpLbWPBpk-VLoXjKa64XJSaiHPRHRTVZf8Aitt4HD24wgcQRFAzZ5VJKf892Vm6MVpvQaK14lFnvzidkfmDgJEOxrtz/s225/images%20(3).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSk5kDLwPWhyphenhyphennmm4TEeG8sJH6zKa96qyI6XusNBrpP6DNMm3ZBoBITaKi4pnRxdlwi91IYfyvnnyfzBqb3g2QzXGAqiSF7mWXx5KpLbWPBpk-VLoXjKa64XJSaiHPRHRTVZf8Aitt4HD24wgcQRFAzZ5VJKf892Vm6MVpvQaK14lFnvzidkfmDgJEOxrtz/w320-h320/images%20(3).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">One of the most damning charges against Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Gil Self is hiring his son as a law clerk. The County paid the younger Self over 50K for the work he did with the approval of local attorney Jamy Poss who served on the law library board.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yet according to newly released court documents, last September Self testified that he hadn't asked anyone for approval. So which is it?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As of now, there's no trial date set for Self. All his cases have been assigned to others, but Lauderdale's trial docket has to have been dramatically slowed.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Readers frequently ask us why this or that defendant hasn't come to trial. Obviously, those seeking justice will have a much longer wait.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEuTStOzFX6wGtyNOd7PqhK-2bdKJNTbnjHqgysN65VG0eKVwf1ab2XxoxfdNDlK0NFmKxOOfTCrGaYlGoooJEDRQb8iQ9WJnFMwo6c-s39mlJ0ImRosqIToxPP4prHOFSG1gVAbOKDXNBf1KqTGTNaZXYI5cFeLN8KthqwTcA0GYTQYOoNfBdFOdLlARO/s301/images%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="301" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEuTStOzFX6wGtyNOd7PqhK-2bdKJNTbnjHqgysN65VG0eKVwf1ab2XxoxfdNDlK0NFmKxOOfTCrGaYlGoooJEDRQb8iQ9WJnFMwo6c-s39mlJ0ImRosqIToxPP4prHOFSG1gVAbOKDXNBf1KqTGTNaZXYI5cFeLN8KthqwTcA0GYTQYOoNfBdFOdLlARO/w400-h223/images%20(1).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-34191805807559615002024-03-14T23:00:00.005-05:002024-03-15T05:31:42.431-05:00Roy Moore Is Getting the Band Together Again?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGdPsuh5VCC3SfH886dNyoiK1a3J_egNwbB1As576_z_lVeXUqZBzCpE0VBFfnpRGvTnazURfUKmBxuziPCQYYp4mtEgTPQEhfEfBcqFpUNvR2RIWVPWuqfHcSbfUZ2SW9ec1Jq5sR82BW02Cl1NmxP0Q1S3zgUKcvaDP16u3dRALakG3qPNZ_oRWmZ-P/s225/images%20(18).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGdPsuh5VCC3SfH886dNyoiK1a3J_egNwbB1As576_z_lVeXUqZBzCpE0VBFfnpRGvTnazURfUKmBxuziPCQYYp4mtEgTPQEhfEfBcqFpUNvR2RIWVPWuqfHcSbfUZ2SW9ec1Jq5sR82BW02Cl1NmxP0Q1S3zgUKcvaDP16u3dRALakG3qPNZ_oRWmZ-P/w320-h320/images%20(18).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Remember Roy Moore and his lovely wife Kayla (that was sarcasm)? His Foundation for Moral Law is still alive and kicking and asking for money. Its chief counsel is one Col. John Eidsmore. Colonel of what? Is this man helping to run our military? Heaven help us!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Now Eidsmore has proclaimed IVF is wrong. He's worried that discarding frozen embryos is murder. Never mind the eight million people now alive in the U.S. due to this procedure.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In case there's any doubt, embryos can't grow outside a woman's body. That hasn't deterred Eidsmore who says science is working on implanting human embryos in sheep. Well, we certainly had to look that one up.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Guess what! We couldn't find that. We have found where certain organs may be cloned inside sheep at some point. Now, be honest, if your parent, spouse, or child needed that organ, you wouldn't object at all. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We're pretty sure Col. Eidsmore would object...in his finite wisdom. If you hear of anyone planning on giving money to Roy Moore's subversive group, please tell them not to.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hello, peeps! I'm Storm, a two year-old female Retriever mix in need of some TLC. Come see me at the Florence shelter on Roberson Road in the industrial park:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7subiu_Q2qrD9SOUkpbo55cChNjv5wY_ZupIvbzrfpcbsZQPqt-n7L-F82ty5AGdqsJx7UY16DkLE9B5zsJhJtZG0iiI4Cowq3A5UwhqBXKyd_hmiIQ9a3jCML5ql9sqTpQnvj-4M2k4-WrQ-J9nlvd6Oeq8PG0pTf6FrLfH1uc9XGOk2k_9hh-r6bWx/s315/4e8c4f55-f1bb-4ad1-b3fc-8f8ca43eadb5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="302" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7subiu_Q2qrD9SOUkpbo55cChNjv5wY_ZupIvbzrfpcbsZQPqt-n7L-F82ty5AGdqsJx7UY16DkLE9B5zsJhJtZG0iiI4Cowq3A5UwhqBXKyd_hmiIQ9a3jCML5ql9sqTpQnvj-4M2k4-WrQ-J9nlvd6Oeq8PG0pTf6FrLfH1uc9XGOk2k_9hh-r6bWx/w383-h400/4e8c4f55-f1bb-4ad1-b3fc-8f8ca43eadb5.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-85417368236783650722024-03-13T23:00:00.044-05:002024-03-14T08:10:24.372-05:00The Truth about Andy Betterton<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-48Q9oSYrkXXKFJCvsHHo-0IuDB9VcRgxmWNfqZXxpEJhw-kZVq0HWLjoZf8GTbJNloP23bvAKykj_4jyQqCFfeZw14teCgovc7VE9XqowFDLDh5kcp73hnpm9hmQ-Hn13oeaqUGPdzz5IDGKkyxsz43EF92eFgdzypCcjnR5yoINHHQJU5OzHofMe5A/s130/images%20(12).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="130" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-48Q9oSYrkXXKFJCvsHHo-0IuDB9VcRgxmWNfqZXxpEJhw-kZVq0HWLjoZf8GTbJNloP23bvAKykj_4jyQqCFfeZw14teCgovc7VE9XqowFDLDh5kcp73hnpm9hmQ-Hn13oeaqUGPdzz5IDGKkyxsz43EF92eFgdzypCcjnR5yoINHHQJU5OzHofMe5A/w320-h320/images%20(12).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The following inside complaints against Andy Betterton have been edited to preserve anonymity:</span></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"> 1. Many, if not all, were very surprised at the lack of the Mayor’s understanding how the City operates, including the rules and policies. For someone new coming in, it is common, but not someone who has served as a Councilman for over a decade. The problem is, he doesn’t seem to want to learn, or is not capable of learning.</span></b><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br />2. The Mayor has a difficult time making tough decisions, and many times simply hopes the problems will solve themselves, or go away.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"> <br />3. All politicians want, consciously or unconsciously, to please their donors, constituents, and prominent citizens, but Mayor Betterton seems to have a tendency to give these wants a higher priority than most, even after being advised that such actions are not advisable due to a negative appearance of being inappropriate, whether true or not. Mayor Betterton on more than one occasion has openly made in clear that his decisions are made based on the fact that the decision made would affect someone that was a campaign donor. Decisions should not be based in this way, especially openly.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"> <br />4. You can’t be everyone’s friend 100% of the time. You have to make hard decisions and stick to them. Even when Mayor Betterton makes a decision, there is no confidence that he won’t change his decision due to pressures from someone else that has other motives. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">*****</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's sad when a Dollar Tree can't make it. From a press release:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Dollar Tree plans to close about 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of this year and 370 Family Dollar and 30 Dollar Tree stores over the next several years.</span></b><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: AP; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-73015011922213531642024-03-12T18:00:00.010-05:002024-03-12T18:28:10.142-05:00Why Did City of Florence Delete the Videos?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvMa92td9YvQCP8FIU5yUdr0eYwlhsy1-HNO38kbXkspoFgDlO6jNACL_aWkOwYWD_qPio0plsWm42xXCoBPNo8fopM12mgaipCloWG5HO5SUM7WWRBstUUw3ln01wVT7T-s8Txa_m4u8xsOMU78XVZUfPFiENBgU0N_x9GwmDVFw_C8kqAAxvIubxjyx/s242/download%20(12).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="242" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvMa92td9YvQCP8FIU5yUdr0eYwlhsy1-HNO38kbXkspoFgDlO6jNACL_aWkOwYWD_qPio0plsWm42xXCoBPNo8fopM12mgaipCloWG5HO5SUM7WWRBstUUw3ln01wVT7T-s8Txa_m4u8xsOMU78XVZUfPFiENBgU0N_x9GwmDVFw_C8kqAAxvIubxjyx/w320-h276/download%20(12).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">For all the faults of the Florence City government (most related to its current mayor), it has for years presented its council meetings to the general public in some manner. For the past few years, Facebook users could see the exploits of council president Dick Jordan without having to dress and drive downtown twice a month. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Now some of this has changed. From a reader:</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>All the city council meetings between August 2023 - January 2024 appear to be completely gone off of Facebook, that is 11 meetings that the public can no longer go back and watch. Those meetings include several important votes such as the Air Bnb vote. By the way, the videos for the work sessions are also gone, so that is at least 22 videos that have been removed from the City Of Florence, Alabama - Government Facebook page.</b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We suggest creating a Facebook page called "Archived Florence Council Meetings." The 22 missing videos, as well as any others, will have a new home. Florence needs the transparency...and a new mayor.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Hi, I'm ZZ, a two year-old mixed breed male. Come see me at the Florence shelter in the industrial park:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQ4hAR7DzDsDxzCUnFOZox9Z-3Sfy6yaHktfLU7AA9x2AXzvtGvdhGlsO2bhtPkv0doSkx2xHF2gtSzdVW5Kl_FGHDoIbX8kxQToPwNOe2wTki8mIi6dlrjG7xTC25CWS6pzS7hhZIdfvDgbuzJE9_7rneCmEh7lq7zWXJKs8XZgwKM2MtcMeOnoJ0Drd/s371/ba0258f6-b37b-4833-b534-54177bae4041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="206" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQ4hAR7DzDsDxzCUnFOZox9Z-3Sfy6yaHktfLU7AA9x2AXzvtGvdhGlsO2bhtPkv0doSkx2xHF2gtSzdVW5Kl_FGHDoIbX8kxQToPwNOe2wTki8mIi6dlrjG7xTC25CWS6pzS7hhZIdfvDgbuzJE9_7rneCmEh7lq7zWXJKs8XZgwKM2MtcMeOnoJ0Drd/w223-h400/ba0258f6-b37b-4833-b534-54177bae4041.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-22199330157307439772024-03-11T23:00:00.004-05:002024-03-12T04:55:12.151-05:00The Fate of the Weeden Home (Sweetwater)? - Part II<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDJm5cCQiBaIShzXAuibh6wHzH17YA8mjXD2iJR-45Zl1OjIZquYjC5Q_KvsrMVIkiWG0-sBF1MQhjEF-XL6vPduoMuTXaRyXWwN-b0dlhJbuObYAi4YQFIpk0gxkrce2a6NsBZ5go4ETasXnf10Z8ZGEkix9LsoBhigofdAsR7Tkwr7DR6ICGZjbSq1R/s274/images%20(11).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDJm5cCQiBaIShzXAuibh6wHzH17YA8mjXD2iJR-45Zl1OjIZquYjC5Q_KvsrMVIkiWG0-sBF1MQhjEF-XL6vPduoMuTXaRyXWwN-b0dlhJbuObYAi4YQFIpk0gxkrce2a6NsBZ5go4ETasXnf10Z8ZGEkix9LsoBhigofdAsR7Tkwr7DR6ICGZjbSq1R/w320-h215/images%20(11).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Who sold Sweetwater? It had remained in the Brahan/Patton/Weeden family until the mid-1970s when it was sold. Apparently Florence didn't have large enough disco balls for the family at that point. Then Jesse and Edith Cavell Smithson purchased the home. The title was later passed to their daughter Susan Leigh Smithson (she currently spells her name Suzan).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Susan then passed the title to her son Jesse Cullen Jacques. By 2023, the entire property was in disarray and waiting for a buyer to reclaim it (see photo below). But as what?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZ3IC531oc0K9VA3e947USH8OW92EfCFHTuiCZI12hi3ixazhWgMnIDg_wLkmQvy7FA9aKU6vf5CgJTtj9uvLo8fpx0dHi2MJNCbW9UrTYv_efR3HqKrcuJhQmbJPsi8bMpxiLJXk431cB-V4GpRRMu_kVfMPk9mrZgWIf0NzjJJwcbVtzCiFhVh3Zmq8/s500/13701931273606997540.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZ3IC531oc0K9VA3e947USH8OW92EfCFHTuiCZI12hi3ixazhWgMnIDg_wLkmQvy7FA9aKU6vf5CgJTtj9uvLo8fpx0dHi2MJNCbW9UrTYv_efR3HqKrcuJhQmbJPsi8bMpxiLJXk431cB-V4GpRRMu_kVfMPk9mrZgWIf0NzjJJwcbVtzCiFhVh3Zmq8/s320/13701931273606997540.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Enter a hospitality group from Nashville. The hotel moguls officially took possession of the land on May 28th of last year. Reportedly, Mr. Jacques moved to Henderson, Nevada, with a cool 1.3 million of proceeds in his pocket. The hospitality group now has a mortgage of almost .9K that requires regular payments. You can bet your paws and whiskers that the owners will begin some kind of construction soon.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It's been 14 years since Susan Smithson attempted to turn the Weeden Home into a money-maker. When her attempts suddenly ended after two years and after a group threw in the towel on raising money to purchase the building and land, no one in the community made a real effort to purchase the former governor's home.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Will the hospitality group be allowed to pour asphalt over a cemetery (possibly two cemeteries)? We expect more legal actions in the next few weeks. At that time, you can expect Part III of this two hundred year-old saga.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Look Closely at the Black Line</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVwHogedigiCEqRTKCrJR21nivfCWDcNvFDspPERXdgA6NAa03nHpWW7cCl_fMaKxHtmU_AtxlvwwKqxDnUNusohR8L7JPULAmKXxB1GpSjjA2Y_SVhnKah_iCmUT1PtkuWdGBmQlcbu9L9TBXJ38nCOww6KJNHfivmGklw8f7upXPHHUwOyE5SvyW6Qh/s1140/430614457_122185836110007327_7863538816016692375_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVwHogedigiCEqRTKCrJR21nivfCWDcNvFDspPERXdgA6NAa03nHpWW7cCl_fMaKxHtmU_AtxlvwwKqxDnUNusohR8L7JPULAmKXxB1GpSjjA2Y_SVhnKah_iCmUT1PtkuWdGBmQlcbu9L9TBXJ38nCOww6KJNHfivmGklw8f7upXPHHUwOyE5SvyW6Qh/w185-h400/430614457_122185836110007327_7863538816016692375_n.jpg" width="185" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-86810597582221443022024-03-10T03:00:00.025-05:002024-03-10T03:24:34.903-05:00The Fate of the Weeden Home (Sweetwater)? - Part I<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2COi20h0cIEJQDH-5NEXZxCih2INkY5hMUBEqoppCl45bhq15lo8ovJipttQhZ3nVSfJdOjHYoaji1bArSjYvESIujtETcp9CwreHzxPt9d_DbakPtJLZS1n3lEiUM6XFOeTZJWlUAjZH85tht4F7piFLPMRTqJLqBYEikbE69HprFbW34BkKfDZegxHf/s193/images%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="135" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2COi20h0cIEJQDH-5NEXZxCih2INkY5hMUBEqoppCl45bhq15lo8ovJipttQhZ3nVSfJdOjHYoaji1bArSjYvESIujtETcp9CwreHzxPt9d_DbakPtJLZS1n3lEiUM6XFOeTZJWlUAjZH85tht4F7piFLPMRTqJLqBYEikbE69HprFbW34BkKfDZegxHf/w224-h320/images%20(1).jpeg" width="224" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Recently we've seen several ask where or what is Sweetwater Mansion. Why don't they know? For years, everyone referred to the old manse as the Weeden Home. Did calling it a real mansion help save it? It would seem that it has not.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First a little about the edifice from <i>Ripples</i>:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Part I - Genesis</b></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Where does the history of Sweetwater Mansion begin? Certainly the land on which the venerable home sits has a much longer history, but for the purposes of this account we'll begin with the foundations of the building itself. John Brahan, who served as a major general in the War of 1812, owned the land the Indians had called Sweetwater and began construction of the two story, eight room house in 1828. When Brahan died of pneumonia six years later, the house had risen only to the sills of the first floor windows.<br /><br />Despite a historical marker adjacent to Florence Boulevard, and despite what publicists for the current owner Susan Leigh Smithson have reported, John Brahan never lived in the home before his death. Brahan willed the property to his son Maj. Robert Brahan. The younger Brahan chose not to reside on the plantation and traded the estate to his sister's husband, Robert Miller Patton. Robert and Jane Patton finished the home in 1835 and became the first family to reside there.<br /><br /><br />Part II - The Pattons & Weedens<br /><br />Gov. Robert Miller Patton and his wife Jane Locke Brahan Patton lived in the plantation house at Sweetwater for many years. After their deaths, the mansion passed to their daughter Martha Hayes Patton and her husband Col. John David Weeden.<br /><br />John David Weeden and Martha Patton Weeden resided in the home until their demise, at which time their son John Dowling Weeden and his wife Jessie Ora Earthman Weeden took possession of the mansion, now almost universally known as the Weeden Home. John, who died in 1960, and Jessie, who followed in 1972, had one child. Their daughter Elizabeth married James Minton and chose not to live on the family plantation.<br /><br />Now the home that had sheltered the Patton-Weeden families for 138 years became part of what was known as the John D. Weeden Estate. In 1976, the Patton-Weeden home was added to the National Register of Historic Places, a distinctly different designation than that of a Federal Landmark.</b></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In today's world, the eight room home with no kitchen and only the smallest of bathrooms is hardly a mansion. That hasn't stopped many from calling the Weeden Home such a grandiose structure.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In 2009, several interests collided. The caretaker had died, the Florence Historical Board was looking into ways of saving the home, and several rushed in to provide their brand of salvation to an owner who was mainly interested in money. The asking price had risen to nine million dollars.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">A board was formed, with several of the members being high school students. In fact one of these former students is reclining in a jail cell as you read this. Others on the board soon saw how little was being accomplished and left. Only one attempted to inform the public.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The entire circus devolved into art lessons for children with a convicted rapist assisting. That rapist is currently doing his third stretch in the state prison system. Does anyone see a trend here? The engine that pushed the renovations was quickly running out of fuel and produced only sputters.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">Then the sputtering stopped. Nothing was happening. In 2019, there was a new realtor and new ghost hunters. The Ghost Girls from Cullman briefly </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">entered the picture, but to no avail:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQdBKto2GqsYtQ48k4cuBCKiaFF6MKDKrq025Sdq8FLYq1vyd7hvsy-QMM7xT_9F4WHUIFAvli731xnrpQ4jrYBe85HTbYRaGP2jNQTYIdZmOcK9ItHhF4_dUE_4_uLR3S_Ok-bIMbGczlWdpr7gnyaEjLhh9VXZTr-VEismz0d5774qTvho-yR2uQqp8/s750/71823441_537873693698937_7195009122125742080_n.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQdBKto2GqsYtQ48k4cuBCKiaFF6MKDKrq025Sdq8FLYq1vyd7hvsy-QMM7xT_9F4WHUIFAvli731xnrpQ4jrYBe85HTbYRaGP2jNQTYIdZmOcK9ItHhF4_dUE_4_uLR3S_Ok-bIMbGczlWdpr7gnyaEjLhh9VXZTr-VEismz0d5774qTvho-yR2uQqp8/s320/71823441_537873693698937_7195009122125742080_n.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">With no buyer on the horizon, things remained quiet for several more years until last Spring. By then, magician Robert Simone was calling himself the caretaker, but what did the old home look like after four more years of decay? Snaps from April 2023:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9GFJ39v9nDU515z44T5mIznBIqmqDZ5NwdBafaSiHp5p-OExpaC2COPaf71PQikpwAiq35TaVxxU8gWKCq5uw_pp058BSnzbOHpsbz5sj8_Lp7RE9VAtDBtt32jQzLgIOy7_ZoNbsY_-Jaexlq1pZyxysX-gBfipWhEOA2gL50jMpYgogYeK91lAjzC9c/s720/340742217_750401273160658_2566421721760251561_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9GFJ39v9nDU515z44T5mIznBIqmqDZ5NwdBafaSiHp5p-OExpaC2COPaf71PQikpwAiq35TaVxxU8gWKCq5uw_pp058BSnzbOHpsbz5sj8_Lp7RE9VAtDBtt32jQzLgIOy7_ZoNbsY_-Jaexlq1pZyxysX-gBfipWhEOA2gL50jMpYgogYeK91lAjzC9c/s320/340742217_750401273160658_2566421721760251561_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Then the property sold.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>To be continued...</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVqMBUB3Mg8VvoKpcXxRceybeZmU0shlTgCRIcfLMFiCJtdxgJ7LQJcmf1PVxeRQ8f58Fjozfm_jkyEjbvItn6bzx_z9zQ1zeECeIReGvilHQFHcSFXemeoCp2S0dmltUfsrhHTU8pbgNNI2NEFpQvIyaKvpYbf5eZSLAaysAqPtBTNAPyk2lMsS6ERQT/s866/Screenshot%202024-03-09%206.51.31%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="866" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVqMBUB3Mg8VvoKpcXxRceybeZmU0shlTgCRIcfLMFiCJtdxgJ7LQJcmf1PVxeRQ8f58Fjozfm_jkyEjbvItn6bzx_z9zQ1zeECeIReGvilHQFHcSFXemeoCp2S0dmltUfsrhHTU8pbgNNI2NEFpQvIyaKvpYbf5eZSLAaysAqPtBTNAPyk2lMsS6ERQT/w400-h199/Screenshot%202024-03-09%206.51.31%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-34688281074797705982024-03-09T02:00:00.006-06:002024-03-09T03:06:43.890-06:00Who Dropped the Ball in Sheffield?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrya9_vVkh0AH3yJy9gGOC5Jwpo5ndDcKKC5EaHkVj_ursM8Eywr-AVHdIiDRK1LvtgYovNShJKDHgF2t3lqM-xLbTir-edVg5rufmLfTXFDLRGWQeRDIwiLrkkOqFsoWIeAD6DjNictT9g2EmP7hOf3ehXJ7v4ceF5MJiIG42RQoC_ko4E9y8_QDV9xG/s244/images%20(34).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="206" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrya9_vVkh0AH3yJy9gGOC5Jwpo5ndDcKKC5EaHkVj_ursM8Eywr-AVHdIiDRK1LvtgYovNShJKDHgF2t3lqM-xLbTir-edVg5rufmLfTXFDLRGWQeRDIwiLrkkOqFsoWIeAD6DjNictT9g2EmP7hOf3ehXJ7v4ceF5MJiIG42RQoC_ko4E9y8_QDV9xG/w270-h320/images%20(34).jpeg" width="270" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">From Bennett Lee Pugh:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The transfer agreement between the Sheffield Redevelopment Authority and the developer of Inspiration Landing required the developer to host an event before 12/1/20 or pay the city $520,000. He didn’t perform under the contract and never paid the penalty. Why not and who let him off the hook? The citizens of Sheffield need answers while we pay increased taxes to repay the loans taken out for this debacle.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Wasn't this discussed at a council meeting? If it wasn't, why wasn't it?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We understand that if asked about the situation, Mayor Steve Stanley will tut-tut and tell the inquisitive person that he should be looking to the future, not the past. Okay, looking to the future, who will be paying those two huge USDA loans each month?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Apparently someone has been criticizing Nathan Fuller for referring to himself as the next Colbert school superintendent. Barring a calamity, Mr. Fuller will be the next super no matter what happens with the Democratic ballot.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The problem as we see it, just what did happen with Mr. McDonald on the ballot...or should we say NOT on the ballot. We were not aware that someone could just waltz into an election at any time and begin a campaign.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5UN8O2OoFs2-xyU8WJNC0ar-Z8HmcR83l8GK56TjD6UvM1ySVIjNdhmHokFIfts5SSneSaFiF0fzfv9WYAELUGUmRZ4xYocUBHRN0ihSyhQ7rk9lKgHn5uv3F2SPD8tlON-3lRHtM97RbRPOKVkbLSAh_5uGLJd4Ow7MGAMBJQ5AkhB5llIv4CJtlKWhn/s312/images%20(35).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="312" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5UN8O2OoFs2-xyU8WJNC0ar-Z8HmcR83l8GK56TjD6UvM1ySVIjNdhmHokFIfts5SSneSaFiF0fzfv9WYAELUGUmRZ4xYocUBHRN0ihSyhQ7rk9lKgHn5uv3F2SPD8tlON-3lRHtM97RbRPOKVkbLSAh_5uGLJd4Ow7MGAMBJQ5AkhB5llIv4CJtlKWhn/w400-h206/images%20(35).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-60445484020385732602024-03-08T02:00:00.001-06:002024-03-08T02:07:46.898-06:00Volunteer Coaches: Good or Bad?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSfsviepdRPrZblISp22ltc760UT5IoKiV1s7B6-QZ1bIsgPLcEtLP2LQPSq-xwZN6r4S7Z0ixbpq7umEc00oL7gQVKrMERglUahsEmOywpuqGaiZ9XIXWslV-x46W-VgddK-iDPHloZv_DyPWFbwcf6noFWJ1kosa3pILKtNVOwoZGO8Te04gRyqXSl-/s318/images%20(29).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSfsviepdRPrZblISp22ltc760UT5IoKiV1s7B6-QZ1bIsgPLcEtLP2LQPSq-xwZN6r4S7Z0ixbpq7umEc00oL7gQVKrMERglUahsEmOywpuqGaiZ9XIXWslV-x46W-VgddK-iDPHloZv_DyPWFbwcf6noFWJ1kosa3pILKtNVOwoZGO8Te04gRyqXSl-/w320-h160/images%20(29).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Not keeping up with the cutting edge of high school athletics, we had never heard of a "volunteer" coach until around 15 years ago. The first such coach we read of was arrested for taking long breaks with students...to discuss...oh, you know, whatever. That Lauderdale volunteer coach soon went to prison.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">One of the next was the Lauderdale volunteer who countermanded anything the actual coach said. He was ultimately banned from campus. He then attempted to place all the blame on others and tried to get much of the administration fired.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Of course, we can't forget one volunteer coach in Colbert County. He, due to the nature of his work description, kept irregular hours and no one missed him until the next day...when he had already been shot, stabbed, and thrown off a bridge.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We also heard of another Colbert County situation:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Paid coach: Okay, kids, I know it 998.4 degrees on that field, but our first game is in three weeks. Let's hang in there no matter how much you puke.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Volunteer coach: Ooh, look at the time. I have a hair stylist appointment this afternoon and then I start a four-week vacation in Vancouver. I'll see you...oh, around 68 degree weather. Y'all hang tough!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">That's not to say that no volunteer coaches out there are working, but a great many simply aren't. If a person's only affiliation with a school is merely volunteering to assist the paid coaches, it might not be anything worth putting on one's resume', much less suggesting the ability to serve on a school board.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We see Dick Jordan is commenting on people's ethical standards. Does he even know what that term means?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf479V95mXeYy_69ndHSOgIug2oe1br7fFeziZb_mCW4T2aaxQLRQDHeaPGxfh6ISWlGRrAeg1YaTnIQy_rZnl-5ha0v1I1LgreB0u7My7PfDdKelCOVRYoaDVzHpcB1i1B6XSiY8jp3ZjpA99xGyLEAApF5t_7SDtRke1lGZmHDMO85GmJctrd45iiat/s258/images%20(30).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf479V95mXeYy_69ndHSOgIug2oe1br7fFeziZb_mCW4T2aaxQLRQDHeaPGxfh6ISWlGRrAeg1YaTnIQy_rZnl-5ha0v1I1LgreB0u7My7PfDdKelCOVRYoaDVzHpcB1i1B6XSiY8jp3ZjpA99xGyLEAApF5t_7SDtRke1lGZmHDMO85GmJctrd45iiat/w302-h400/images%20(30).jpeg" width="302" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-24802675119770662392024-03-07T02:00:00.001-06:002024-03-07T02:25:01.214-06:00Veterans House Fence Sponsorship<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiC17GlA7vIQ6_zGUFjVmKwFAD8lfsz4YPJZgAQsLNZ9vSdTY2UVXyxv7oZpigy3WOJJn19vvkeYvZKJj9ZtSOCpCUTUSXZrDUm5JC3tFCqXjVYddgLvJj3Ik_rSZ8u_JbVdtLLgtTkuGwLxqkDi7faBiQBzPgyUKr0M_0KJkQKCoEXKajWlL858Urlfi0/s283/images%20(27).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiC17GlA7vIQ6_zGUFjVmKwFAD8lfsz4YPJZgAQsLNZ9vSdTY2UVXyxv7oZpigy3WOJJn19vvkeYvZKJj9ZtSOCpCUTUSXZrDUm5JC3tFCqXjVYddgLvJj3Ik_rSZ8u_JbVdtLLgtTkuGwLxqkDi7faBiQBzPgyUKr0M_0KJkQKCoEXKajWlL858Urlfi0/w320-h201/images%20(27).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We've recently posted on the new Veterans House in Sheffield. The property is in need of a fence. If you're a local business, can you help?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a brilliant idea that can benefit both the home and any business that chooses to advertise. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(If you're a business or an individual and don't want to purchase a whole panel, you can still make a donation.) </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here's all the info you need:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJP4O9l7bKCyvNm_40sCChCdxCxl0GEUtbXY8g7A-GnCLnzoz4utlOKXIfu4OEW0N1g-n4OfFqOQ-f9umDp7W7UTSwwJjqzCgCQs6SfcKghLyAYX3DuSpYjwZuJFPuPt-k_xWvjRR7jGI3qzdqY8tKkE2CTgLXAC-dcsS3jk56IBlZ1yUH4c0PMmi5k_m/s1056/423568283_1115276816322309_7112667263588268837_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJP4O9l7bKCyvNm_40sCChCdxCxl0GEUtbXY8g7A-GnCLnzoz4utlOKXIfu4OEW0N1g-n4OfFqOQ-f9umDp7W7UTSwwJjqzCgCQs6SfcKghLyAYX3DuSpYjwZuJFPuPt-k_xWvjRR7jGI3qzdqY8tKkE2CTgLXAC-dcsS3jk56IBlZ1yUH4c0PMmi5k_m/w309-h400/423568283_1115276816322309_7112667263588268837_n.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-32586329378988947072024-03-06T04:00:00.001-06:002024-03-06T04:13:04.619-06:00Bill Griffin's a Hero? Who Knew?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybYR9qu5QjP4hcsfEPErn7zIHqfJ9ff3nHsp9WFLbzfwKv6lwSibUEM9M7PI50Gi954zV5EYwGOikftWN2IpP1xdY-hT-O0iVF85m0EOIubKprTNKIKkLQFfJ-a7BsMCJkxPxuR6wubrtE0aRO9nTBXRm4uEQtiyemX0z54GEr_9G1RW04Xe6LBU5EGHF/s225/images%20(28).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybYR9qu5QjP4hcsfEPErn7zIHqfJ9ff3nHsp9WFLbzfwKv6lwSibUEM9M7PI50Gi954zV5EYwGOikftWN2IpP1xdY-hT-O0iVF85m0EOIubKprTNKIKkLQFfJ-a7BsMCJkxPxuR6wubrtE0aRO9nTBXRm4uEQtiyemX0z54GEr_9G1RW04Xe6LBU5EGHF/w320-h320/images%20(28).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Our Florence Detective is once again exposing some oddities of the Florence City Council. While we feel Brad Holmes is the best choice for Lauderdale EMA Director, we agree with the FD that, considering the importance of the job, the position should have been posted.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>From the Florence Detective (flodetective@gmail.com):</b></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />Chat GPT on Microsoft has the following information about Brad Holmes:<br /><br />Brad Holmes, a distinguished figure in Florence, Alabama, has made significant contributions to the community. Here are some of his notable achievements:<br /><br />1. Police Captain:<br /><br />• Brad Holmes serves as a Police Captain at the Florence Police Department. His leadership and commitment have positively impacted law enforcement in the area.<br /><br />2. FBI National Academy Graduate:<br /><br />• Brad successfully completed the 286th session of the FBI National Academy. This prestigious program equips law enforcement professionals with advanced skills and knowledge, enhancing their ability to serve and protect the community.<br /><br />3. Local Ties and Education:<br /><br />• As a lifelong resident of the Shoals area, Brad has deep roots in the community.<br /><br />• He graduated from the University of North Alabama, majoring in Business Management.<br /><br />• Currently, he manages family business holdings and real estate in downtown Florence at Anderson & Anderson, LLC.<br /><br />Brad Holmes’s dedication to public service and his impact on the safety and well-being of Florence residents are commendable.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">*****</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />In addition to these many accomplishments, Mr. Holmes has recently been nominated to fill the position of EMA director left open when George Grabryan retired. This was the item on the consent agenda for the 03/05/2024 meeting of the Florence city council: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">(u) Resolution to approve the appointment of Captain Brad Holmes as Director of Emergency Management and Emergency 911 Operations, and the EMA/ 911 Director Services Agreement, sponsored by Bill Musgrove. Given Mr. Holmes experience, his qualification for this position is beyond question. This was the first point Councilmen Bill Griffin made when he objected to this agenda item. He went on to state that what concerned him was the job was not posted as a job opening.<br /><br />It became apparent that Bill’s position was not agreeable with the rest of the council. Particularly Dick Jordan. I could not help but think: the man who saw to it that his wife and son were positioned into cushy city jobs with good salaries and benefits had the nerve to defend an appointed position? Just “choose” someone rather than it being posted so all who wished to apply in the city of Florence had the opportunity. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">And, for some reason, questioning the way this position was to be filled seemed to also rub Jimmy Oliver the wrong way. He made a point in his remarks to say that the council was doing nothing illegal by appointing Holmes to the position, although Mr. Griffin never accused anyone of illegality. Only a form of nepotism. “Good ol' boy” practices on display! And when put to a vote; Mr. Griffin was the lone "no" vote on the agenda item to appoint Brad Holmes EMA director.<br /><br />Bill Griffin was the hero of this meeting. He pointed out another case of favoritism in the city of Florence hiring practices. Fortunately, with this choice, the city did get it right. Brad Holmes is very qualified to be the director of EMA. But since this position will now be under the city payroll system it should have been posted for other candidates to apply like any other city job. Bill Griffin stated it was not the choice of candidate that bothered him, it was the way he was chosen. This reporter gives kudos to Bill Griffin and thanks him for pointing out another shady hiring decision by this council.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLnXxZFuO9FRQGEcXzgr3pSpK5xW6NRI9TDcOltvpgGIqV8DeGd4y5HnleZe5WHx_yAIFI9TtX80INExEQOFTanvecZMA1FTHk5u2ahWAdBFoox-PK1mtonHlGUfkA0LibZKUtuVYWbV06nC8W95yjQ0eqKE2OUl05sZARxh94HkRs-fS7J2CeZXE2GRm/s295/yoursign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="295" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLnXxZFuO9FRQGEcXzgr3pSpK5xW6NRI9TDcOltvpgGIqV8DeGd4y5HnleZe5WHx_yAIFI9TtX80INExEQOFTanvecZMA1FTHk5u2ahWAdBFoox-PK1mtonHlGUfkA0LibZKUtuVYWbV06nC8W95yjQ0eqKE2OUl05sZARxh94HkRs-fS7J2CeZXE2GRm/s1600/yoursign.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-45144022165695677702024-03-05T19:00:00.014-06:002024-03-05T19:41:15.635-06:00Who's Best? and Forged Bios<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnNI6vRJ0QEmhAgBhDKPYeE5UzCEYQY8aMWWsOwUUv5QYQ5nxRKPlB74idOlif2WGtawHXFhH3vBoRNoeTfgOKrpEeZdLiEfPZxyZHlQbkuwVRxDKRdgptS898Iqv9FdmdP-T8dJI8-cBUCyVEzQjMhpreA0HP_CvuvtymkQ4ZnsxITxMekWj7lpy_QahV/s275/images%20(26).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnNI6vRJ0QEmhAgBhDKPYeE5UzCEYQY8aMWWsOwUUv5QYQ5nxRKPlB74idOlif2WGtawHXFhH3vBoRNoeTfgOKrpEeZdLiEfPZxyZHlQbkuwVRxDKRdgptS898Iqv9FdmdP-T8dJI8-cBUCyVEzQjMhpreA0HP_CvuvtymkQ4ZnsxITxMekWj7lpy_QahV/w213-h320/images%20(26).jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Our blog on new Sheffield BOE member Scott Trimble was highly criticized in two areas. We hope this post clears up the confusion.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">First, an apology. It seems Mr. Trimble and his daughter both attended elementary school in Sheffield (we had implied they hadn't); however, both transferred to Muscle Shoals for high school. We will let each reader decide how relative that is to Mr. Trimble's current position. We are curious as to why elementary schools are adequate, but the high school is not.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Second, even though it was omitted from an online work bio, <i>according to a family member,</i> Trimble did teach at least two years at Sheffield before his coaching position at UNA. So why was this job not on his LinkedIn profile? Mr. Trimble has stated (via a family member) that he did not write the profile and was not aware that one had been posted. <b>BIG REVEAL: We understand that Mr. Trimble was a volunteer coach at Sheffield and not an actual employee. This may be why it was not on his work resume.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This is reminiscent of a few years ago when high school students created a Facebook page for their principal stating he lived in a certain Colbert County town. The problem with the faux Facebook entry was that the principal held an elected office in Lauderdale County. We imagine the LinkedIn profile which omitted Trimble's short tenure at Sheffield was written by some bored cross-country runners from our local university. We hope Mr. Trimble can easily sort that problem.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We're happy to make these facts known. So are there those in Sheffield who are more qualified and willing to serve on the board of education? We welcome ideas and input from readers.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">*****</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">As we write this blog, we await the results of today's local and state primaries.Voting was light at our polling place. In fact, there were more poll workers than voters.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">What does that say about us as citizens?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3etzLdqkgM6imhV7jLeY8Y9V8vLaZlxEj1XDGPNZCVFjKnDFxJLrMKHcNl7h53NDEdJU_N4wETtSrUSe3HFntHPIDYsJ7hRmH3mya1dN_fbehas7i1vG0qzHg_kX6Xrc7WHO0UTlscCcsPjSc_xw_h45futvKPD5ZCjTYjWtjamRzajGMX-Xg4BwFTlje/s300/download%20(3).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3etzLdqkgM6imhV7jLeY8Y9V8vLaZlxEj1XDGPNZCVFjKnDFxJLrMKHcNl7h53NDEdJU_N4wETtSrUSe3HFntHPIDYsJ7hRmH3mya1dN_fbehas7i1vG0qzHg_kX6Xrc7WHO0UTlscCcsPjSc_xw_h45futvKPD5ZCjTYjWtjamRzajGMX-Xg4BwFTlje/w400-h224/download%20(3).png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-77641873141117721782024-03-04T22:00:00.001-06:002024-03-04T22:06:06.440-06:00Vote on Tuesday!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWHCHcG6rLwB9GlOlysqqG0ZdI6fSFf2lbZM_Ac2EM2vqQvqlSrv9pkNcajucd_Qz0E-5BX7LSHmQcDYCnR4cI_oSKo0hyy91KOaoRG0vzF5-QuSVMENvhI31MdE1zRuTJ0RbiHYglvJ5ODtpCeD82h8BNBiiebzgfdIfKh58dj7oebqjAVsyQKEGq5NB/s177/shopping.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="173" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWHCHcG6rLwB9GlOlysqqG0ZdI6fSFf2lbZM_Ac2EM2vqQvqlSrv9pkNcajucd_Qz0E-5BX7LSHmQcDYCnR4cI_oSKo0hyy91KOaoRG0vzF5-QuSVMENvhI31MdE1zRuTJ0RbiHYglvJ5ODtpCeD82h8BNBiiebzgfdIfKh58dj7oebqjAVsyQKEGq5NB/w313-h320/shopping.webp" width="313" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Vote on Tuesday (tomorrow)!</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Nathan Fuller in Colbert County</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Todd Nix in Lauderdale County</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>If you don't vote, you have absolutely no right to complain!</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-12348651639264242622024-03-04T20:00:00.001-06:002024-03-04T20:13:29.511-06:00Interesting Doings in Muscle Shoals Today<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGbbAkEraUImsRdT7aG19ud3OSUFeoZyTZIJ0dwfCouKng1HipTxR-EJ6Ni5xkhNZhy4Ve6bnRaSN0flmitjiKWruC_tkzko1_UgXK4onpFSfu7xSF0GtZ-cH3JcIzdBVScgrIzZPUAtFcrkL7o-6qkPdEAwQGN0Dlu_fhzAtARH3ov8FydN9ZFrUgmC1/s572/Screenshot%202024-03-04%208.09.13%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGbbAkEraUImsRdT7aG19ud3OSUFeoZyTZIJ0dwfCouKng1HipTxR-EJ6Ni5xkhNZhy4Ve6bnRaSN0flmitjiKWruC_tkzko1_UgXK4onpFSfu7xSF0GtZ-cH3JcIzdBVScgrIzZPUAtFcrkL7o-6qkPdEAwQGN0Dlu_fhzAtARH3ov8FydN9ZFrUgmC1/w269-h320/Screenshot%202024-03-04%208.09.13%20PM.png" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Bully Bully Bully</b></span></span></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Muscle Shoals is NOT the Muscle Shoals long time residents enjoyed. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Those who came "here" from "there" to only bring "there" to "here" are ruining our city that people like David Bradford, Ricky Williams, Elaine Coan and many others that have the heart and love for the people.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br />People from "there" have become the adult bullies. Bullying business owners, Bullying citizens, Bullying employees.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Where else can a high school bully who was one of the "mean girls" become a secretary, then cross the city border from Tuscumbia and become the mayor's girl friday?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">When a citizen witnesses Mikie Lockhard inside City Hall and the bully tells the citizen that Mikie "isn't in" only confirms the magnitude of the problems in city hall.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The employees are being done the same as the average citizen. Lies, bullying, intimidation, harassment, threatening retaliation to anyone that dares to speak out against the bullies in city hall.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Tuscumbia bully, your school years victims are talking. We are *listening. You can go home with Lockhard when we run him out of city hall.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-17792678005995034002024-03-03T18:00:00.007-06:002024-03-03T18:11:16.600-06:00Reader Takes Exception to Heather Mize's Listed Qualifications/Todd Nix<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghUZRyMLKdlkzoOjKjncmXxZXxmefnNKvEbrCMKkfTQLv2sYmWFF42JDQsjbNlpCPNcmtIgeiUQIpzdVMudOn9DVqv8EVDGSez_mQuHs1i9PhKOWCojvEsyLQ1QqA7A6Oy0Ou7PnXqm3DQ1C83U4itLQi5oMfppP7vZoCl23p4EGa1V8hrL7haemy-3ONE/s259/images%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghUZRyMLKdlkzoOjKjncmXxZXxmefnNKvEbrCMKkfTQLv2sYmWFF42JDQsjbNlpCPNcmtIgeiUQIpzdVMudOn9DVqv8EVDGSez_mQuHs1i9PhKOWCojvEsyLQ1QqA7A6Oy0Ou7PnXqm3DQ1C83U4itLQi5oMfppP7vZoCl23p4EGa1V8hrL7haemy-3ONE/w240-h320/images%20(1).png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Sometimes a mistake on political or other advertising can be purely accidental; however, it is always important to make a correction. In the past, we have chastised both a Colbert County candidate and a Florence city employee for embellishing their titles. Now we must do the same concerning one of Heather Mize's ads:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Rbmo4NMPLLp8UgQLqjjOggUIdgAU8U8RdGtzjosh6khhTZkOpLp7O8iNWxvCUiAdVmwq0bDfhgUdcV3CoCepZOTrpCWppaoKHqbZu4pAw4poeK_nlFBRFEG7m5hM2AquFfZIdUxfirO5vGttjLJyXq2iKI1sLe-BDuAw0lHuSKapsrGLQxQWgTzgY9cM/s946/430371373_1575769222962828_6094158893738077387_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="946" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Rbmo4NMPLLp8UgQLqjjOggUIdgAU8U8RdGtzjosh6khhTZkOpLp7O8iNWxvCUiAdVmwq0bDfhgUdcV3CoCepZOTrpCWppaoKHqbZu4pAw4poeK_nlFBRFEG7m5hM2AquFfZIdUxfirO5vGttjLJyXq2iKI1sLe-BDuAw0lHuSKapsrGLQxQWgTzgY9cM/w400-h285/430371373_1575769222962828_6094158893738077387_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In this ad, it's stated that Ms. Mize is both director and principal of the Deshler Career Technical Center. While Mize is the director of that facility, it is part of Desher High School, and the principal of the high school is in charge of discipline, etc. In other words, Ms. Mize is not the principal of anything. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We're glad a Colbert reader noticed this and called attention to it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, in Lauderdale County, there will soon be a new commissioner in town. We're announcing that we support Todd Nix, but, Todd, you're not an adjunct professor. There is no such thing. You're an adjunct instructor. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">That being said, we expect great things of Todd in the animal welfare department. Too long have local animals been overlooked and cast aside.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We proudly endorse Todd Nix for Lauderdale County Commissioner District 2!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-K9Uh1zi1EJFJuX6ze-r0zD1BPRBzj-pan97sZ_2QkYjii-p1VKE79r-DfUZ90SrC7dFiUMGW42q6lJbRot4BoSKhNqvgeLchie67n9faA_Lx4NJQokrnqURFokBn70ATvTkYfFPR3loI377xBF_yjekHnTL-zOJPEqSQ3zbhmXPUhVddHz1RO7SZicRI/s103/430465549_8034687116561424_3182284824164663614_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="103" data-original-width="71" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-K9Uh1zi1EJFJuX6ze-r0zD1BPRBzj-pan97sZ_2QkYjii-p1VKE79r-DfUZ90SrC7dFiUMGW42q6lJbRot4BoSKhNqvgeLchie67n9faA_Lx4NJQokrnqURFokBn70ATvTkYfFPR3loI377xBF_yjekHnTL-zOJPEqSQ3zbhmXPUhVddHz1RO7SZicRI/w138-h200/430465549_8034687116561424_3182284824164663614_n.jpg" width="138" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-55099002491373176632024-03-02T16:00:00.006-06:002024-03-02T16:15:52.300-06:00What's Up with New Sheffield Board of Education Member?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjj0CBUqp7zD0nIQ1KV-C8v2ugEvm3gfDJ6tKbhnQ1TcVBwuEvzcj7atMLA3qp3_SF6N4gqu7388AGR2LJOBvzCZ9E3nyyYN2jyh8lO8yHh4sOBb_qRulc34oCuO4QmDUeezbcN7vaVY457vahYhd10-98MxjkJKrPHeZtCC1cC9VLozk8hjlUNBvKGK5R/s218/images%20(24).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="218" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjj0CBUqp7zD0nIQ1KV-C8v2ugEvm3gfDJ6tKbhnQ1TcVBwuEvzcj7atMLA3qp3_SF6N4gqu7388AGR2LJOBvzCZ9E3nyyYN2jyh8lO8yHh4sOBb_qRulc34oCuO4QmDUeezbcN7vaVY457vahYhd10-98MxjkJKrPHeZtCC1cC9VLozk8hjlUNBvKGK5R/w320-h317/images%20(24).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Scott Trimble has been named to replace Steve Nix as District 3 representative on the Sheffield Board of Education. The announcement states that Mr. Trimble is a lifelong resident of the city. That sounds great, but...</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Scott Trimble has lived in Sheffield his entire life, but he never attended any Sheffield City School, and neither has his daughter. They’re all Muscle Shoals folks.</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It doesn't really sound as if Mr. Trimble has been that supportive of Sheffield schools in the past. Isn't there someone out there who really loves not just Sheffield, but its schools as well?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*****</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hi, I'm Knoxley. I'm a 19 month-old female Staffordshire Terrier mix. Dig my ears! Come see me at the Florence shelter on Roberson Road in the industrial park:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsmiCguOUWJhVtdsyMJgOPqKymXjH4WvnJLlVBOe9gLAr93ZH052u_7kdOf96mpKVcMqicGvJby8IWIzbpx_5LdKMzG-aN3Mza-4xNaBpJEw1PR34JckLFEO4xHIVbsOfereyGIpZrzNPBjQO0JAqFoYvozHoZQ_4BGe0fDfat5hJpWpJowGVKHrZx1mh/s685/ffe47beb-4ab0-4ecb-9c90-b9dc5a6b45fd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsmiCguOUWJhVtdsyMJgOPqKymXjH4WvnJLlVBOe9gLAr93ZH052u_7kdOf96mpKVcMqicGvJby8IWIzbpx_5LdKMzG-aN3Mza-4xNaBpJEw1PR34JckLFEO4xHIVbsOfereyGIpZrzNPBjQO0JAqFoYvozHoZQ_4BGe0fDfat5hJpWpJowGVKHrZx1mh/w245-h400/ffe47beb-4ab0-4ecb-9c90-b9dc5a6b45fd.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-69901859833316477532024-03-01T23:00:00.004-06:002024-03-02T06:56:03.597-06:00Florence Police Chief Ron Tyler to Retire?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOhPN0yNtgDbGotV3sB7bE7sKS9lnlcP45sKIV6AnuX1c3V1A9pm5hx_eCh9NuDfUbbiR_C5okZfILdRpG-n0jVtQmYwC4QHv9FxDJQsdheSMNbVSYpHQRAGgFx_wJcH3f3j7QzJ9SG5x_ClekRB62nGPb-mEygg_tEmj_94huLTpE0y9vyRMbdEh3G6K/s700/s-l1600.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="700" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOhPN0yNtgDbGotV3sB7bE7sKS9lnlcP45sKIV6AnuX1c3V1A9pm5hx_eCh9NuDfUbbiR_C5okZfILdRpG-n0jVtQmYwC4QHv9FxDJQsdheSMNbVSYpHQRAGgFx_wJcH3f3j7QzJ9SG5x_ClekRB62nGPb-mEygg_tEmj_94huLTpE0y9vyRMbdEh3G6K/w320-h227/s-l1600.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Have you heard that Florence Police Chief Ron Tyler is retiring? No? Neither had we. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">How did we hear? Earlier this week, <i>TimesDaily</i> writer Bernie Delinski just casually threw it out there in an article. In fact, it was so casual that we have to wonder if the chief asked Mr. Delinski to drop the bombshell as a kind of joke.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We're sure there will be more to follow...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZFF5Qxcu_9ssq9HgxDcFRwLcFvXilZmvq7uW-bEoyjnTJLRFolvldGBgmJLffI3CpBk2CZB4tdGHiT1CQCoOWkcEq6zL7dxMQORLJkVp4tX2ECaDetyGnyMp_pZZ1No24iksltJcgIxiOYU-iLeAnLLuxsmKWJbjeuKVVRuBT_ZjRLNRLkH4kUKWMZQZJ/s299/download%20(18).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZFF5Qxcu_9ssq9HgxDcFRwLcFvXilZmvq7uW-bEoyjnTJLRFolvldGBgmJLffI3CpBk2CZB4tdGHiT1CQCoOWkcEq6zL7dxMQORLJkVp4tX2ECaDetyGnyMp_pZZ1No24iksltJcgIxiOYU-iLeAnLLuxsmKWJbjeuKVVRuBT_ZjRLNRLkH4kUKWMZQZJ/w320-h180/download%20(18).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Hi, I'm Dexter, an American Staffordshire Terrier mix. I'm a well-mannered three year-old, already settled down and looking for a permanent gig. Come see me at the Florence shelter in the industrial park:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrn8e1HCXxEj7KsF98OJ9reCVfZnykBqROmW1PHR7SjDwglUrsjrL2w1KRkBJMIIWB1BGAnDiOsVvZ-5qoA2ZNKBX8oP8Oc84zBJeT4UG_PauxmpmDjSJ3sw7C3O1GgXWYg__EM-M4dTVKeMuQyEwJw6qHuU2Zg2VFR-2kVVCuN1UF8ZH1HK3zlObX9SvF/s560/402091e9-ad23-4191-a6d2-3bf3c040b25d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrn8e1HCXxEj7KsF98OJ9reCVfZnykBqROmW1PHR7SjDwglUrsjrL2w1KRkBJMIIWB1BGAnDiOsVvZ-5qoA2ZNKBX8oP8Oc84zBJeT4UG_PauxmpmDjSJ3sw7C3O1GgXWYg__EM-M4dTVKeMuQyEwJw6qHuU2Zg2VFR-2kVVCuN1UF8ZH1HK3zlObX9SvF/w300-h400/402091e9-ad23-4191-a6d2-3bf3c040b25d.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-7430829804808397742024-02-29T16:00:00.019-06:002024-02-29T16:41:34.733-06:00Special: A Word on Four Mayors<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQ637gUEEwRtuxeVwaGenGFbr2Y2IIX4-N9jLN5_aGoC_W-IQjwLyOJ9eiIGQEEflue1aJjVnPJryAwVzdowEoHJ4GayRzysHKUA_3SBCcPbzlQ2qGn9T60MR6iQ6OwiWaDWWxiyOyXWnUuOsDsi8v_PNuTN8FJGOC5jtXSAn6raB_vi5upzBNg3I9CAH/s246/images%20(23).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="246" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQ637gUEEwRtuxeVwaGenGFbr2Y2IIX4-N9jLN5_aGoC_W-IQjwLyOJ9eiIGQEEflue1aJjVnPJryAwVzdowEoHJ4GayRzysHKUA_3SBCcPbzlQ2qGn9T60MR6iQ6OwiWaDWWxiyOyXWnUuOsDsi8v_PNuTN8FJGOC5jtXSAn6raB_vi5upzBNg3I9CAH/w320-h267/images%20(23).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We've had someone ask about reader commentaries on local mayors. We can tell you this:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">1. Tuscumbia Mayor William Foster - Very few comments sent to us. Some wonder if he'll run for a full term in 2025. Others think he should watch his back concerning whom he hires to promote the city. Nothing substantial concerning his job performance.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">2. Sheffield Mayor Steve Stanley - Mainly readers asking if Stanley is obtuse enough to think he can win a second term. Some just ask how "dumb" Stanley is in general.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3. Muscle Shoals Mayor Mike Lockhart - Readers criticize his exorbitant spending, his lack of care for most employees, and his favoritism for other employees. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some complain he spends too much time with a judge pal. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We never hear of anyone who is even slightly happy with Lockhart, aka Lockhard. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">4. Florence Mayor Andy Betterton - Readers complain of Andy's demeanor at work, stating he curses in front of anyone. Others complain about his napping on the job or his frequent trips to the county court house complex. Still others complain of his lack of respect for department heads and lament the misplaced votes of citizens who were led astray concerning Mayor Holt's job performance.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">These observations all come from readers, most of whom actually work at the various city halls or some who visit regularly.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Voters, What Say You?</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-4334176496123694852024-02-29T13:00:00.003-06:002024-02-29T13:54:51.129-06:00"Send Them Both Home!"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxTTSkDaO6CaS4eZ1j92YgEMueXkNK80tAk6loKtlZkZfiqoHfyfV_NNkyJMfbnLANy2ZqlAfc2z5_wGfkp1tRmJAI4kHHgVmBfBYa17stX_x1UpPQviFusFR9ucmFC34QJUtVwlLKjklFh9BqGBzTHRhc6QAN47QG2G8jsCJcs77z3OrQQxDx8J3HEer/s225/images%20(19).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxTTSkDaO6CaS4eZ1j92YgEMueXkNK80tAk6loKtlZkZfiqoHfyfV_NNkyJMfbnLANy2ZqlAfc2z5_wGfkp1tRmJAI4kHHgVmBfBYa17stX_x1UpPQviFusFR9ucmFC34QJUtVwlLKjklFh9BqGBzTHRhc6QAN47QG2G8jsCJcs77z3OrQQxDx8J3HEer/w320-h320/images%20(19).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">From a Muscle Shoals reader:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>It's apparent that the employees of the City of Muscle Shoals are not valued by Mayor Lockhard and City Clerk Mrs. Walter’s as they continually cut their benefits and hours from what they were promised.<br /><br />The underlying question is: Why? Is it about paying for the luxury vehicles they buy for themselves with our taxes, or the redecorating of city hall, or the new landscape, and certainly not the little ice rink and porta-potties? One has to ask what is their motive?<br /><br />We have seen increased taxes and fees for businesses, and citizens and employees have had their work schedules cut resulting in poorly maintained grounds and facilities. <br /><br />What drives the hierarchy of Lockhard and Walters? Are there financial issues they are hiding? How deep and wide is their abuse of our finances?<br /><br />One thing you can’t hide is our public servants, the firemen, policemen, street and sanitation department employees. They are the ones that are tirelessly working to keep us safe. While they work morning, afternoon, night, weekends, and holidays away from their families, Mayor Lockhard and City Clerk Walters are enjoying their evenings, weekends and holidays with their families. Driving their families around at our expense in luxury vehicles. Imagine not being with your children on Christmas morning, Christmas Eve, birthdays, and other important milestones and events in their lives like our public servants often are.<br /><br />Lockhard and Walters are a curse to the future of our once great city. Our employees deserve better. Our citizens deserve better. Our children deserve better.<br /><br />We need a change!!! Vote 2025. <i>Send them both home.</i></b></span><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Besides being Leap Day, February 29th is also called "Bachelors' Day." On this day, single women can ask single men to marry them. It's an old Irish tradition not to be confused with Sadie Hawkins Day, November 13th.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">So, girls, what are you waiting for?!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0U81oBe0lHWiYNrlV_B8bPiNC1TH_ptHRY8pAXlpIUpy8ECuJMa7LqfauznRrRzEXFI7kI8Mz3FVoWyiRB8PEhwwh3_wzbw-XcV_x4h6NTRbMQ16oSB9cyhFmKCMi5gZwDdgA7duTJT1f4nJIjWwEFJs4_zAq0Isfbc_4Ne9Yr1vBXW8rEpkVudQ2I9I4/s280/images%20(20).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="280" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0U81oBe0lHWiYNrlV_B8bPiNC1TH_ptHRY8pAXlpIUpy8ECuJMa7LqfauznRrRzEXFI7kI8Mz3FVoWyiRB8PEhwwh3_wzbw-XcV_x4h6NTRbMQ16oSB9cyhFmKCMi5gZwDdgA7duTJT1f4nJIjWwEFJs4_zAq0Isfbc_4Ne9Yr1vBXW8rEpkVudQ2I9I4/w400-h257/images%20(20).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-64996277281030573622024-02-28T15:00:00.001-06:002024-02-28T15:11:37.357-06:00Two Endorsements<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0eNY0mSIj1leKmdJv70AHfsnV2o9GBuIVxS42HgNnfW4ytzbaRifmL_IS2q48xmQl3Yj8Mh1E0-tRvd7z-tfcsFL7mcKbNxwveoeOC9uSXJ1VJCPel24Mze1tkeLJxh_9eYcdMYa5nQdRDH8UDhEiUnMBY7wdEHFDR0zCFb6THo_N4vMT01UtTwrHLx8/s327/images%20(18).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="327" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0eNY0mSIj1leKmdJv70AHfsnV2o9GBuIVxS42HgNnfW4ytzbaRifmL_IS2q48xmQl3Yj8Mh1E0-tRvd7z-tfcsFL7mcKbNxwveoeOC9uSXJ1VJCPel24Mze1tkeLJxh_9eYcdMYa5nQdRDH8UDhEiUnMBY7wdEHFDR0zCFb6THo_N4vMT01UtTwrHLx8/w320-h151/images%20(18).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">March 5th is fast approaching. Today, we're making two endorsements for local/regional offices. First, we're happy to endorse Dr. Allen Long for our State School Board - District 7. Dr. Long is an allopath who practices in Sheffield. While we see some dog whistles in Dr. Long's political flyers, we believe he's the best choice for a position that becomes more difficult with each passing year.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Our second endorsement is for the Superintendent of Colbert County Schools. Our mail ran five to one in favor of Nathan Fuller. Looking at Fuller's campaign literature, his financial expertise in establishing and managing a budget stands out. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">While we have been disappointed that neither Fuller nor Heather Miles provided us with any more detailed insight into their visions for the future of Colbert County Schools, we're happy to endorse Nathan Fuller for the office of Colbert County School Superintendent.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Dr. Allen Long</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSPGNQkMYW_6xgGVt9NEk2jEovDKpV3xTMdWTYSxxy-dqZLh7zs3ok7nsotzjWopruPm0YnIvwEOYfbgZ-0WGm2Hv7AiCazop3TaQWCPCpyDFz7gZa-3g2jH4ieTViv6Qatpvg9FS2ZRnKLnID_yRSKQ_yw2zB1uhnbhlgsvpmet0tF896Zeby_YlDG8o/s234/Screenshot%202024-02-28%203.04.12%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="173" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSPGNQkMYW_6xgGVt9NEk2jEovDKpV3xTMdWTYSxxy-dqZLh7zs3ok7nsotzjWopruPm0YnIvwEOYfbgZ-0WGm2Hv7AiCazop3TaQWCPCpyDFz7gZa-3g2jH4ieTViv6Qatpvg9FS2ZRnKLnID_yRSKQ_yw2zB1uhnbhlgsvpmet0tF896Zeby_YlDG8o/w296-h400/Screenshot%202024-02-28%203.04.12%20PM.png" width="296" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Nathan Fuller</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvJETEQhhUiT8Z57CxTqdGxZ4HH1zKdwL5KjpYpX4UzQGCCrFGhaJsKZeWG8DqzgJfCAusTK_MrIAErJJJ1pcT4pDzWl-D_4eRro5eAKKvI_VBHIA1SA5gCIF643PqxsRFd0yvzwNCWS-FYjndD-SuSKGajiE_37AwCqQ2VaN43u0C0zHhy9BRPbAD8-L/s291/rs=w_600,h_451,cg_true.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="285" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvJETEQhhUiT8Z57CxTqdGxZ4HH1zKdwL5KjpYpX4UzQGCCrFGhaJsKZeWG8DqzgJfCAusTK_MrIAErJJJ1pcT4pDzWl-D_4eRro5eAKKvI_VBHIA1SA5gCIF643PqxsRFd0yvzwNCWS-FYjndD-SuSKGajiE_37AwCqQ2VaN43u0C0zHhy9BRPbAD8-L/w392-h400/rs=w_600,h_451,cg_true.webp" width="392" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-24070405887996177362024-02-27T23:00:00.013-06:002024-02-28T11:38:10.448-06:00Fentanyl Bill Passes House<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuNr_NNWfAGaTNLaaH5MI4QcIzA892KDjF6CxNAYYfDmZU4AyWiUX8sirbzJrPt7eY8xlLkaTKhTk_sZgCIMla-LkgYRLz9J2igW4vQOXEIy-aF5kqXkIFU-EgDUMsq4M4_0IJLHmw1daIl0-WAoIweJZ7Qn7IsZiqXvAYnJmpPsEEZ1Qi1MP38wE0MBu6/s233/images%20(12).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="233" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuNr_NNWfAGaTNLaaH5MI4QcIzA892KDjF6CxNAYYfDmZU4AyWiUX8sirbzJrPt7eY8xlLkaTKhTk_sZgCIMla-LkgYRLz9J2igW4vQOXEIy-aF5kqXkIFU-EgDUMsq4M4_0IJLHmw1daIl0-WAoIweJZ7Qn7IsZiqXvAYnJmpPsEEZ1Qi1MP38wE0MBu6/w320-h298/images%20(12).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Many of you either knew or knew of our former blogger who passed away last year. He died from mental illness in general and a drug overdose specifically. We have heard the drug he took was fentanyl. While we're not sure fentanyl was the cause of his death, we know of many others who have taken the opioid and lost their lives.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Now the Alabama House has passed HB 10 which will make selling or giving a fatal dose of fentanyl a crime that falls under the umbrella of manslaughter. The bill now goes to the Senate to be approved there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Unless you know that the drug comes directly from a pharmacy, don't take it. It's simply not worth it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Hi, I'm Kevin. I'm a ten-week old Pit Bull mix. Come see me at the Florence shelter in the industrial park on Roberson Road:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFKOrPSq12p_0O7vjkjG3Dpp4k2Z96S-_EhrzRVDuI8iYXhObLZ7ll17oYybmoVho7aMIM2Et5RhUXdTMDe6d4AQe2nkzD0fRZr-CMdOjJeWdoT1_seHvC0yBJTojtyORh18t1SbNzox5B-bSxMlNGiRjX7b9MYzOs6rvGBpep9kyozmQ2s_IA6U3FirF/s909/30bfbffb-4f60-4ed3-a7da-7a9c3acd8de3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="420" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFKOrPSq12p_0O7vjkjG3Dpp4k2Z96S-_EhrzRVDuI8iYXhObLZ7ll17oYybmoVho7aMIM2Et5RhUXdTMDe6d4AQe2nkzD0fRZr-CMdOjJeWdoT1_seHvC0yBJTojtyORh18t1SbNzox5B-bSxMlNGiRjX7b9MYzOs6rvGBpep9kyozmQ2s_IA6U3FirF/w185-h400/30bfbffb-4f60-4ed3-a7da-7a9c3acd8de3.jpg" width="185" /></a></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-42210563740894529512024-02-26T04:00:00.001-06:002024-02-26T04:19:09.110-06:00More Trouble for Muscle Shoals High Baseball?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhhWns5WtaqMHYvbEk43U-FLQVYuwRRvXcJNG1EJPAAplja38trd-y0phOzn_-lCAqA63-gzuMO_2qW_rjtn5eKVHMMpndwe1yNB9fBptIhatPFVWyfX7QYEki1IPgkZaNjXkcr7x0pcqTzjw3_LkhLr9n-7AW0Z4h3LyiKIyifKvKmA3yrAUqFG8o9eA/s276/download%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="276" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhhWns5WtaqMHYvbEk43U-FLQVYuwRRvXcJNG1EJPAAplja38trd-y0phOzn_-lCAqA63-gzuMO_2qW_rjtn5eKVHMMpndwe1yNB9fBptIhatPFVWyfX7QYEki1IPgkZaNjXkcr7x0pcqTzjw3_LkhLr9n-7AW0Z4h3LyiKIyifKvKmA3yrAUqFG8o9eA/w320-h211/download%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We have a new complaint from a Muscle Shoals High parent concerning Belacky Beck:</span></p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b>It appears as though it hasn't taken the Varsity baseball coach at MSHS long to fall right in line with the tried and true way the faMily does things. Word around campus is, unless you have the right connections, you won't be allowed to participate in certain team activities, like practices and games. However, if you're talking about field maintenance, there are plenty of opportunities. Coach may have a team full of horticulturalists, but it remains to be seen if that strategy produces winning baseball. Could it be that lack of player development contributes to a lack of on-field success?</b></span><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Funny, we always thought Belacky's lack of success came from the fact that he has very little athletic skill. Who knows?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Hi, I'm Dexter. Yep, it was all fun and games until I wound up in a cone. I'm a Staffordshire Terrier mix of unknown age. Come give me a look at the Florence shelter in the industrial park:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKLUIiFA6GPj9MH72LqDrI-EDz4SsoYp6bvzJDq9woEvLaUFwyK96IiBlkhXxmauCRsbYJQW4BsoHm7RR2BEVuiyrOFy1pr16YtW4rVxVvhTn6VzauThyphenhyphenVjFqvt3GLfdowphuMPc-Xwlqts-fJIGD5HAGOZxpLvAwpab7avLh1rSgdiC8aKLIV_Awm8Dt/s326/6f090e27-cf79-4694-af5d-60eaf216f358.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKLUIiFA6GPj9MH72LqDrI-EDz4SsoYp6bvzJDq9woEvLaUFwyK96IiBlkhXxmauCRsbYJQW4BsoHm7RR2BEVuiyrOFy1pr16YtW4rVxVvhTn6VzauThyphenhyphenVjFqvt3GLfdowphuMPc-Xwlqts-fJIGD5HAGOZxpLvAwpab7avLh1rSgdiC8aKLIV_Awm8Dt/s320/6f090e27-cf79-4694-af5d-60eaf216f358.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-30030877508992987742024-02-25T23:00:00.001-06:002024-02-26T01:42:07.352-06:00J.D. Crowe Has the Best Idea/Thanking Tim Melson<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYasG5XtsbZNJvQb9zLAZ4TYIgeYL9WGWuH2t7I2snwWm8-Pr_YXJ0haWtUtE2Wln0mIFSqoagtWLMW5tJ9PmIgKXKkaqxCr5zVCdf9RfqRRSv1fCtFeu4SukNGkmmg0fZgt-d6FM6a93ozXsgsBef2dA6ucq7es80kOe9MURP-4j0iUBN4RnUAfDlrdC/s389/images%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="129" data-original-width="389" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYasG5XtsbZNJvQb9zLAZ4TYIgeYL9WGWuH2t7I2snwWm8-Pr_YXJ0haWtUtE2Wln0mIFSqoagtWLMW5tJ9PmIgKXKkaqxCr5zVCdf9RfqRRSv1fCtFeu4SukNGkmmg0fZgt-d6FM6a93ozXsgsBef2dA6ucq7es80kOe9MURP-4j0iUBN4RnUAfDlrdC/w320-h106/images%20(1).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Since there will be one place on the ballot for Alabama Supreme Court Justices without an incumbent, political cartoonist J.D. Crowe has a brilliant idea:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Write-in: <b><i>Frozen Embryo to be Named Later</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Sen. Tim Melson is one of two state legislators to introduce legislation declaring embryos not attached to a uterine wall are not human after all. Most in the medical profession consider conception to occur in two stages. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Catholics are an exception to this. They don't believe in IVF, but teach that embryos must be formed naturally - just don't have fun while doing it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The two stages? Fertilization and Implantation. It's not, as Dr. Walt Duncan says, rocket surgery. Fertilized eggs which don't attach to the uterus in about two weeks simply dissolve and leave the woman's body with her natural cycle. No murder involved.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thank God, quite literally, that Dr. Tim Melson is alive to present his legislation. Tim carries a great deal of weight in the Alabama legislature. We believe this is one reason God allowed Tim to live through his MI and return to his position in the state senate.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Again, thank you, Dr. Tim Melson.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IPGT5VEpZxtmd2BsZornoJaoap8HIArSZgmJm-S256ZB1NKaLjoVJ5_eMN6XLQUuRbnca4qvU4_pU-I8cjKYX_ayPYnKvjXIJlDhnCurHfuQR_HU_VRtXr7ABB5a_7s4ChZqU6b5xlJfxL4_t5KStKNHV56vWu-Q5SwrJLewaQSr_pHsoaHJeMBeGeAC/s283/images%20(3).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IPGT5VEpZxtmd2BsZornoJaoap8HIArSZgmJm-S256ZB1NKaLjoVJ5_eMN6XLQUuRbnca4qvU4_pU-I8cjKYX_ayPYnKvjXIJlDhnCurHfuQR_HU_VRtXr7ABB5a_7s4ChZqU6b5xlJfxL4_t5KStKNHV56vWu-Q5SwrJLewaQSr_pHsoaHJeMBeGeAC/w320-h201/images%20(3).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6105864577540212454.post-11403738739404784262024-02-24T23:00:00.001-06:002024-02-25T05:37:54.982-06:00Home for Displaced Shoals Veterans<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkd73cjIujgSLGUAqI8rhAtjM7JxgLEEkL7uQPh-91UgstWOqtTGoEDtmfHW6D1e93OiSctweARipYWL7IhyUHrR-UaxNxnCpjSRYHir8nCWsh-otyxbltxz0opGD24zwkB7QrJiFzgsERlF6gUSvHymuHGqP72HGV-sl2XLJSspOSkyNALcbohYHbhoB/s960/418292754_10161619971457884_1517369685467178738_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkd73cjIujgSLGUAqI8rhAtjM7JxgLEEkL7uQPh-91UgstWOqtTGoEDtmfHW6D1e93OiSctweARipYWL7IhyUHrR-UaxNxnCpjSRYHir8nCWsh-otyxbltxz0opGD24zwkB7QrJiFzgsERlF6gUSvHymuHGqP72HGV-sl2XLJSspOSkyNALcbohYHbhoB/w240-h320/418292754_10161619971457884_1517369685467178738_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It's been a long time in the making - at least five years. Now a Sheffield house is ready to serve displaced veterans of the Shoals. One can argue that many groups are overlooked in the Shoals, but United States military veterans are at the top of the list, not just in the Shoals, not just in Alabama, but across the country.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Now Community 360, a local non-profit based in Tuscumbia, is doing something to help any veteran in need of a hand up. The home will serve any veteran, but has room to offer temporary shelter to eight who have served our country.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">We'll have more on this later, but in the meantime, anyone needing more info or help can contact Wendy Snitzer at </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">(938) 646-3838.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">*****</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholy34Q3v6uJDPgSyHkLkPQ1Wq7AFPEjGnMnwAw6neszG5hY6AUapgvPKxNJZmswB-ru2OrFE_O7Ituc-SRm4RtCspuqQL7gKkOLHJi4QMn8OwPVJ7X-E95LK86QQq70z8Y3JZQguoAjSpFNBwqps4RlQlw5iPT72lReTuQh-aykhl1rSeQYB0Gzr_jhdq/s1113/Screenshot%202024-02-25%202.17.44%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="1113" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholy34Q3v6uJDPgSyHkLkPQ1Wq7AFPEjGnMnwAw6neszG5hY6AUapgvPKxNJZmswB-ru2OrFE_O7Ituc-SRm4RtCspuqQL7gKkOLHJi4QMn8OwPVJ7X-E95LK86QQq70z8Y3JZQguoAjSpFNBwqps4RlQlw5iPT72lReTuQh-aykhl1rSeQYB0Gzr_jhdq/w400-h171/Screenshot%202024-02-25%202.17.44%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0