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Marilyn Phillips was too excited last Wednesday night, too eager for the next day, that she accidentally painted part of a wall inside her new home with primer instead of paint.

But that’s OK, because she was tak-ing pride in her home, wanting it com-plete for herself and daughter Amari.

Last Thursday, Phillips’ home, along with the homes of 12 other families, was dedicated in Clay’s Winchester Hills subdivision, part of the ninth an-nual Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity Home Builders Blitz.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of vol-unteers helped in the weeklong build-ing project. Twelve building companies participated.

“I had such a great time at last year’s Blitz that I volunteered to serve as this year’s event chair,” said Kyle Murphy from Murphy Home Builders. “The

Home Builders Blitz is a great way for builders to get involved with Habitat and help families who would not be able to purchase a home through con-ventional means achieve their dreams.”

Families at last Thursday’s dedication ceremony wore lime green T-shirts with “I’m a Proud Homeowner” stitched across the front in blue.

“We prayed for a day like this,” said Tara Sweeney, who will live in one of the new homes with sons JaCarrius, Jayden, T’yon and Alonzo. “We’re just so happy for this opportunity.”

Builders presented families with large picture frames including photos from the week, Bibles and keys to their new homes.

“Without Habitat, this wouldn’t be possible,” said new homeowner Carla Smith, who will live with her son Jus-tin.

Brittany Dixon, with daughters Alana and Londyn beside her, said the week was a “very pleasurable experience” and that she was “in love with my home.”

“Owning a home will give my fam-ily stability; I will have the space to play with and teach my children new things,” Dixon said. “It is such a bless-ing to be a part of this program and to know that very soon my daughters will have a place to call our home. God has

The first thing Matt Pitt wanted to do when he was released from Shelby County Jail last month was go back in.

The Basement founder and youth evangelist, who served eight months for a probation re-vocation on an impersonating a police officer charge, wanted everyone to come inside, to see

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The Trussville City Council on Tuesday voted to rezone a portion of land on U.S. Highway 11 for future commercial develop-ment.

The area of 1941 Gads-den Highway through 2101 Gadsden Highway, roughly

27 acres, was rezoned to commercial after about an hourlong public hearing. The action just approves the zoning of the land, not of the commercial develop-ment itself.

The Trussville Planning and Zoning Board had rec-ommended the zoning to the city council.

Blackwater Resources has an option on the stretch

of U.S. Highway 11 start-ing at Gloria’s Hair Salon and up to and including the boarded-up house across from the Tutwiler Farm subdivision entrance.

Trussville City Clerk Lynn Porter said in January that the company had about 70 percent of the space spo-ken for with no duplication of retailers already in Truss-ville. Blackwater Resources

has not disclosed who the retailers are. The shopping center space could cover more than 290,000 square feet, generate $45 million in sales and create 550 jobs, according to the company.

The potential shopping center would have three access points. A new traf-fic light would likely be constructed at the Calumet Downs entrance.

Many Calumet Downs residents voiced their op-position to the possible shopping center. Most cited traffic congestion and di-minishing property values as reasons not to have a development across from their subdivision.

“I feel like we’re paving Trussville from one end to the other,” a Dew Gardens resident said.

Councilman Anthony Montalto said traffic will continue to increase in Trussville.

“People want to come to Trussville,” he said. “If they live here, they want to shop here.”

One Trussville resident said crime will increase with another shopping cen-

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Tamika Pope, with her family around her, shows off her home’s keys to a crowd at last Thursday’s dedication in Clay.

The Pinson City Council meets Thursday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Pinson City Hall, and a rezoning issue may be discussed again.

The city council last month voted to reconsider a previous action, one in which the rezoning of land

at 7068 Highway 75 for a Kellogg’s warehouse was denied.

For the rezoning to pass, four positive votes were needed. Dawn Tanner, Robbie Roberts and Joy McCain voted for the re-zoning. Mayor Hoyt Sand-ers and John Churchwell voted against it. Joe Co-chran was not present for the vote. To be approved,

the vote needed to be 2/3.“A motion to reconsider

can be made by a mem-ber voting in the majority from the previous action,” Sanders said. “The mat-ter was then tabled till the next meeting to confirm any legal steps to recon-sider a zoning case.”

Sanders said last month he didn’t believe there had been a motion to reconsid-

er on a zoning case since Pinson has been doing zoning, which has been for three years.

“All others have been re-classification based on annexation,” Sanders said.

The owner of the prop-erty, Jason Stidham, wants to open the warehouse, and he has said the ware-house would be quiet, hid-den from view by trees, as

non-intrusive as possible and as far away on the property from housing as possible.

The city has already des-ignated the area as a site for future highway com-mercial businesses, ac-cording to the master plan. According to current zon-ing rules these businesses could include bus stations, funeral homes, printing

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A home was built in the Chalkville area Friday as part of National Women Build Week.

The Greater Birmingham Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s teamed up for the build. Ten volunteers

from The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham built the home for Keyona Samuels and her family, on Vernon Street.

More than 13,000 volunteers were expected to partner with 300 Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the country to help build affordable housing in their local communities

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According to Blackwa-ter Resources’ website, the company has managed

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A pair of Trussville wom-en won Volunteer of Ex-cellence awards at the Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama annual meeting earlier this week.

Allison Rudick and An-nette Wickert, both of Trussville, were recognized as volunteers who have contributed outstanding service while partnering directly with girls to teach leadership or who have supported the delivery of the council’s mission to girl and adult members. Sherry Holloway of Mount Olive and Catherine Fowler of Mountain Brook also won the award.

Frances Faulks, Jeanette Humes and Peggie Myles of Birmingham received the Juliette’s Pearls award, which recognizes an out-standing volunteer who has served Girl Scouts for 10 or more years and has had a significant impact on GSNCA.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama received the

Juliette Low Community Partnership Award. Sophie Martin accepted the award on its behalf. This award recognizes a corporation, civic organization or spiri-tual community that has collaborated with the coun-cil to advance the council’s mission and goals and re-sulted in positive commu-nity awareness of the Girl Scouts movement.

Maria Burke of Vestavia Hills, Judy Cullinan of

Mountain Brook, Dee Walker and Joyce Christian of Birmingham received the Appreciation pin, which recognizes outstanding ser-vice that goes beyond the expectations for the recipi-ent’s position.

Rachel Estes of Home-wood and Beverly All-dredge of Birmingham re-ceived the Honor Pin. This award recognizes an indi-vidual’s exemplary service in support of delivery of

the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, which has had measurable impact on two or more geographic areas of service, allowing the coun-cil to surpass its mission-delivery goals.

Service Units 54, Moun-tain Brook, and 56, Shades Mountain, received the Girl Scouts of the USA Presi-dent’s Award. Accepting the awards on behalf of vol-unteers of each unit were Cullinan, service unit man-

ager for Mountain Brook, and Joan Page, service unit manager for Shades Moun-tain. The President’s Award recognizes the efforts of

a geographic area team or program delivery team in moving its assigned area or audience toward achieve-ment of the council’s goals.

Sheila Smith of Bir-mingham and Linda De-Long of Hoover received the Thanks Badge II. The Thanks Badge II honors a previous Thanks Badge I recipient who has contin-ued to provide exemplary service in a leadership role, resulting in a measurable impact that benefits the to-tal council of entire Girl Scouts movement.

Page, of Birmingham, re-ceived the 30 Years of Ser-vice pin.


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The Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club hosted internationally known Dr. Ashok Kapadia at its weekly breakfast on May 7.

Kapadia has served in various capacities within the Rotary Club, including president of the Rotary Club of Bharuch in 1991-1992. His club was formed in 1944, and he was the first district governor from his club. Among his club’s projects are a drinking water project, assistance during an earthquake, and a dolls museum that included dolls from 91 countries. His club has 100 members. He said there are 124,000 Rotarians in India as of April.

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Results from Saturday’s Jefferson County Republi-can Straw Poll fundraiser at the Gardendale Civic Center have been revealed.

In the governor straw poll, Gov. Robert Bent-ley won. Kay Ivey was revealed as the straw poll winner in the lieutenant governor category.

Paul DeMarco won the straw poll for Alabama’s Sixth Congressional Dis-trict.

In the House of Rep-resentatives District 44

straw poll, John Amari, of Trussville, was named the winner. Fellow Trussville residents Joe Freeman and Danny Garrett are running for the seat, which covers Trussville, Clay and Pin-son.

Brett King was revealed as the straw poll winner for State Senate District 17. Other candidates are Trussville’s Shay Shelnutt, Pinson’s Joe Cochran, Jim Murphree, Gayle Gear, Adam Ritch and Jim Rob-erts.

Other straw poll winners included Adam Thompson (auditor), Jeremy Oden (Public Service Commis-

sion Place 1), Chip Beeker (Public Service Commis-sion Place 2), Reese McK-inney (secretary of state), Joel Blankenship (Jeffer-son County tax assessor), Cheryl Ciamarra (House of Representatives District 43), Steve French (House of Representatives District 46) and David Wheeler (House of Representatives District 47).

Primaries are June 3.


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Moneyette Armstrong said her new home in Clay, where she’ll live with daughters Trinity and Zion, is “truly a blessing.”

Tamika Pope, along with daughters Cortney, Cami-lah and Caliya, and grand-daughter Jhonna, said she was happy to see the day finally come.

“I couldn’t wait for my day to come and it’s here, and I’m so happy,” Pope said.

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last Thursday’s dedication was “very emotional.” She said it was special seeing her kids, Nicholas and Na-kia, run through the house for the first time.

“They were every-where,” she said.

Others who received keys to their new homes last week were Shaunte Miller; Cathy Walker and daughters Calandra and Cassandra; Tyechia Ow-ens and children Cam-eron, Courtlyn and Cyd-ney; Ashley Robinson and daughter Mari; Jareace

Boxley and daughter Jil-lian; and Oneasha Swan-son and son Mentae.

“Me and my son are very, very happy,” Swan-son said.

At the end of last Thurs-day’s ceremony, Clay Mayor Charles Webster presented certificates to each family.

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High Fly, a main-stream competitive cheerleading and dance organization, has a new 28 ,000 - squa re - foo t Trussville location, on Valley Road, that opened earlier this year.

The original High Fly was on Camp Coleman Road, established about 11 years ago.

Owner Shane Sharpe said the company has grown significantly.

“This location has been awesome, the par-ents can make a really quick move over to any of the stores to go shop-ping or grab a bite to eat while they drop their kid off,” Sharpe said. “The other location wasn’t very convenient.”

High Fly teaches g y m n a s t i c s - b a s e d skills, essential tools for cheerleaders. The busi-ness has groomed more than 90 college athletes over the past few years, Sharpe said.

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building for baseball and softball sessions will enter its preparation phase this week.

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A Trussville Dunkin’ Donuts job listing posted on the Birmingham Craigslist website asking for “young personable white people who can listen” is the result of a hack, according to the company.

The ad was posted last Sunday with the headline “Cooks, cashiers and time to make the donuts (Trussville).”

The ad in part states, “No more cry babies or welfare chasers!!!” and asks to not waste time “with non experienced people from center point. If your from center point apply at that location please.”

“We are aware of the Craigslist ad in question, and upon following up with our local franchisee learned that

their Craigslist account had been hacked,” Dunkin’ Donuts said in a statement. “The ad in question was not posted by our franchisee. Dunkin’ Donuts and our franchisee contacted Craigslist to have the ad removed.”

The ad appears to have been removed late last Wednesday afternoon.

Dunkin’ Brands Group Public Relations Manager Justin Drake said he believes the ad was not posted by a current employee.

“While we are currently working with our franchisee to investigate who may have been responsible for the post, our franchisee has no reason to believe it is a current employee,” Drake said.


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The Jefferson County Board of Education on Fri-day named Bobby Neigh-bors, of Nixburg, its inter-im superintendent.

Neighbors replaces Ste-phen Nowlin, who earlier this month was moved to a consulting job within the school system for the re-mainder of his contract.

Neighbors was the Jef-ferson County School Dis-trict superintendent from

2000-2003. He was ap-pointed when the school system was put in state intervention for financial challenges.

“He calmed the waters and helped us through dif-ficult challenges then, and he can

do so again for us,” said board President Jennifer Parsons.

Neighbors formerly was the former superintendent of Jasper City Schools. His son, Mark Neighbors, is the superintendent of Ope-lika City Schools.

Neighbors’ first official day was Monday. He will serve as interim superin-tendent for the system’s 56 schools through June 30. His compensation can’t exceed $23,000 because he is in the retirement system for the Alabama Retire-ment System for Alabama schools. The board expects to have a permanent super-intendent by July 1.


The Trussville Public Library registered 22,123 visits in April, Trussville City Council President Buddy Choat said at Tuesday’s Trussville City Council meeting.

The library also gained 73 new members in April, he said.

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A 34-year-old victim reported that her car had broken down, leaving her stranded. While she was waiting for help a passing motorist in a white van stopped. The male driver of the van was the only occupant, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office

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Christian said the man got out and offered to help. After looking under the hood he told her that she needed oil and coolant, and offered to drive her to the store to get it. She believed him to be a Good Samaritan and got in the van, Christian said. He took her to three gas stations in Fairfield and then back to her car. Once they arrived back at her car the man slapped her, sexually assaulted her and took her money and cell phone, Christian said.

He then left her on the side of the road. Another passing motorist stopped and called 911.

Sheriff’s detectives began work on the case and sent the description of the vehicle and the suspect to law enforcement agencies across the Southeast. On April 30, detectives received information from Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia that provided valuable leads in the case and painted a picture of a three-state crime spree.

The investigation revealed that a man matching the suspect’s

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Jefferson County detectives obtained photographs of the suspect and identified him as the man responsible for the attack on a 34-year-old woman who was broken

down along Interstate 59 near mile marker 117 on April 23.

On May 1, sheriff’s detectives obtained arrest warrants for 21-year-old Malachi Josephus Moody of Jackson, Miss. He’s charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. He was being extradited to Alabama when released in Georgia.


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Suspect in I-59 sexual assault captured, charged

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what was happening in a place not accustomed to positivity.

“It was so alive and re-vival was really happening that I wanted everybody in the lobby, if I could have had one dream at this mo-ment, I would have had everybody to come see what God was doing in this block,” Pitt said.

Pitt went into the jail to begin serving time last Au-gust. About two months in, he began a “prayer call” each night at 8:30 with one, maybe two inmates. Those couple became four. Four became eight. Eight turned into 12, then 12 be-came 32. Prayer calls were then held each morning, after lunch and at night.

“It was so cool,” Pitt said.

Pitt said he received many postcards and words of encouragement during his once-a-day, 15-minute phone calls.

“I couldn’t thank people enough,” Pitt said.

He said he knows there are also critics. He remem-bers the old saying, “Sticks and stones may break your

bones, but words will never hurt you.” Then, he shakes his head.

“That’s a lie,” he said. “Words hurt.”

There were nights he cried in jail, he said. He felt misunderstood, and was upset that his family were having to go through the ordeal. That was the tough-est part, he said.

In jail, inmates are prom-ised an orange outfit, three meals per day and a Bible.

“The word of God be-came everything to me,” Pitt said. “I had to eat, sleep and breathe God’s word because inside there, you’re scared. You’re go-ing through a lot of emo-tions.”

Inmates heard bad news from family at home, from lawyers about their cases. One of Pitt’s cellmates was looking at a 20-year sen-tence and was never happy. Pitt said he found his place by praying for others, for those with addictions, for those who needed their marriages restored, for those who just needed to know God would forgive them.

“That became my church, just being able to pray for people,” he said. “I felt so blessed to just be in there just doing time.”

Some inmates were sui-cidal. Some inmates would use the phone to call peo-ple on the outside, but no one would answer. Pitt told inmates there was a family on the outside who would listen to them. His parents began fielding phone calls from inmates. Pitt called in to The Basement in Truss-ville.

The prayer calls that were taking place got so big that they couldn’t be done in the lower part of a cell block in Shelby Coun-ty Jail. One inmate asked if they could move it to “the upper room.” Pitt remem-bered that from Acts 1.

“When he said that, I thought, ‘No way. This is it,’” he said.

Inmates throughout the jail heard about it, he said. The room got crowded. Inmates listened from the stairwell. Pitt spoke from atop a toilet.

“Everybody was trying to get in,” he said.

It was the same room, Pitt said, where inmates would get into altercations before he was put in jail. Inmates asked each other if that was the same room, he said.

“That was the biggest miracle inside jail,” Pitt said.

Pitt said one inmate considered suicidal was brought to stay with him in his cell, despite there being empty cells. After spend-ing some time with Pitt and at prayer calls, the inmate ended up preaching in one of the blocks. Fighting in the jail declined. Guards and inmates got along, smiled at each other, Pitt said.

“You’re not used to see-ing peace between the in-mates and the guards, and there became a lot of it,” he said.

Pitt spent time in mul-tiple blocks, something he said he felt like God was doing so he could go through every room in the jail to identify with every kind of inmate. Pitt said he feels bettered by the expe-

rience.“I believe that it will be

one of the greatest experi-ences of my life,” he said. “God uses every kind of thing in my life. He uses trouble, He uses trials. Any time I’ve been knocked down, He uses the pit as my greatest story. He’s al-ways used the craziness of my life to reach so many more people.”

Pitt said being incarcer-ated has opened his eyes to who to speak to. He hasn’t put together the eight-month experience on paper yet, likening it to a move he hasn’t yet been able to package.

“Now that I’ve been where a lot of people in my generation are, I believe that this will be one of the greatest stories I could tell for the rest of my life,” Pitt said.

While in Shelby County Jail, Pitt got an hour outside per day, just a “dog kettle” area where 60 or more in-mates could look up and see the sky, feel the heat or cold. Every day, Pitt said, he wondered what it would

be like in the grass, seeing trees. Now that he’s out, he sometimes steps outside, just to sit in the grass.

“It gets no better than this,” he said. “Everything has changed. It’s just such a blessing to even be able to walk outside now.”

He said he’ll look around and think, “I’m never leav-ing this place. I want to sit and look at this forever.” He said he notices things he didn’t before. He’s try-ing to see everything, ev-ery place, in Alabama.

“Sometimes God will put you in the dark, in order for you to see the light,” Pitt said. “My passion is now at a level it’s never been. My commitment, my dedication to reaching lives, oh, it’s on now. God used it to spark a fire in my heart to reach this genera-tion. That’s what I’m going to do.”


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Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange last week filed an amicus brief, or friend of the court brief, that was joined by a bipartisan group of 21 attorneys general against a New York law banning certain kinds of

semiautomatic firearms. The brief was filed in

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as a part of a lawsuit filed by organizations and individual gun-owners who challenged New York’s gun ban.

“This brief is about protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to

bear arms in the defense of themselves and their families,” Strange said. “I and other attorneys general believe these fundamental rights deserve the highest protection and that New York’s gun ban is unconstitutional under principles the Supreme Court has already established.”

Alabama was the lead

author of the bipartisan brief, joined by attorneys general representing Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

The brief explains that semiautomatic firearms are commonly owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes. It urges the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to subject New York’s categorical ban of certain semiautomatic weapons to heightened scrutiny. The brief argues that, because New York failed to show that

banning semiautomatic weapons would increase public safety or decrease gun violence, the ban is unconstitutional.


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Editor

Alabama joins lawsuit against New York’s gun ban


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A national takedown on the synthetic designer drug market was carried out last Wednesday, and one location was in the area.

A residence on Falling Creek Lane in Grayson Valley near Trussville was raided. Other areas raided in Jefferson County included Center Point, Birmingham and Mulga.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, FBI, IRS and other federal, state and local partners announced the culmination of Project Synergy Phase II, an ongoing effort targeting every level of the dangerous global synthetic designer drug market. Since January and leading up to early Wednesday morning, nationwide enforcement operations have taken place targeting these drug trafficking organizations that have operated in communities across the country.

The second phase of the Project Synergy, which began in January, culminated last Wednesday morning in 29 states, involved more than 45 DEA offices serving nearly 200 search warrants. As of last week, more than 150 individuals had been arrested and

federal, state and local law enforcement authorities had seized hundreds of thousands of individually packaged, ready-to-sell synthetic drugs as well as hundreds of kilograms of raw synthetic products to make thousands more. Additionally, more than $20 million in cash and assets were seized. These numbers are expected to grow as investigations continue. Charges of individuals were not released last week.

In addition to targeting retailers, wholesalers,

and manufacturers, many of these investigations continued to uncover the massive flow of drug-related proceeds to countries in the Middle East, including Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and others. Investigations also targeted trade implements such as organic leaves and packaging material used in preparation for drug re-sale and distribution. These facilitators are key players in the designer drug industry.

DEA spokesman Rusty Payne said several stores

and residences were raided last week. He said 30 to 40 of the nearly 200 locations raided nationwide were in Alabama. Payne said the drugs come from China and law enforcement officials are targeting the importers, who are routinely convenience store owners. The drugs carry a large profit margin, Payne said.

Payne said authorities believe this could be a matter of national security.

“We don’t know for sure that these guys are funding terror, but the money’s going to the Middle East so that’s red flag No. 1,” Payne said.

Designer synthetic drugs have caused significant organ damage and overdose deaths. Over the past five years, the DEA

has identified between 200 and 300 new designers drugs from eight different structural classes, the vast majority of which are manufactured in China.

“Many who manufacture, distribute and sell these dangerous synthetic drugs found out first hand today that DEA will target, find and prosecute those who have committed these crimes,” said DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. “The success of Project Synergy II could not have been possible without the assistance of our state, local and foreign law enforcement partners. We stand united in our commitment to aggressively pursue criminals who are all too willing to experiment on our children and young

adults.”Alabama Gov. Robert

Bentley in a news conference last week said 10 Alabama counties, including Jefferson, were involved in Project Synergy.

“Alabamians should know that synthetic drugs are dangerous to their health, and as governor, I am going to do everything I can to rid Alabama of these drugs,” Bentley said. “I appreciate the partnership with our federal, state and local law enforcement officers to confiscate synthetic drugs in Alabama.”


by Gary Lloyd

Editor

1 area residence part of nationwide drug raid

photo courtesy of Rusty Payne

Some of the drugs from one of the busts last week


The Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce last week announced its ambassadors for 2014-2015.

Named ambassadors were Jason Sparks, Randy Jinks, Brooke Morris, Sherri Hood, Brigitte Johnson and Michael Lynam.

These individuals assist the chamber in recruiting and retaining members, and coordinating events.

The Clay City Council is moving forward with plans to upgrade the field at Clay-Chalkville High School’s Cougar Stadium.

The city council last week voted to enter into a facilities use agreement with the Jefferson Coun-ty Board of Education, in which the city would provide up to $265,000 -- roughly half the cost

of new field turf -- in ex-change for usage of all school sports facilities for the next 15 years.

“We reached out to the Jefferson County Board (of Education), and they are very receptive to reaching some sort of in-tergovernmental agree-ment where the city of Clay Park and Rec would have the next first option behind the high school, middle school, elemen-tary school and Jefferson County sports,” Clay-

Chalkville head football coach Jerry Hood said.

Just fixing the existing field would cost between $350,000 and $400,000, Hood said. For around $200,000 more an artifi-cial turf can be installed with a 10-year warranty, and the capability to drain 14,000 gallons per minute with an included under-ground drainage system.

This is the same type of field used by Jackson-ville State University and Lincoln High School, and

UAB will soon be install-ing two fields of this type, Hood said.

The city would also save on various rental fees. Through the previous agreement, city officials could request the usage of school facilities, such as gyms and fields, a some-times time-consuming task. The city was also re-sponsible for paying rent for the use of those facili-ties. Councilman Kevin Small estimates that the city would save more than

$150,000 in fees from bas-ketball alone by entering into this agreement. This means that, for the city, a new field could pay for it-self in less than two years. The city would still be re-sponsible for the electric-ity used for events.

If everything is ap-proved, the school board will have a bid meeting May 20, with bids for work opening May 27, Hood said. The field could be completed by Aug. 11, or as early as 40 days after

groundbreaking, if condi-tions allow.

In other Clay news, the city allocated more than $52,000 to be divided equally among the three Clay-area schools from revenue acquired through the city’s additional sales tax. The city last year ap-proved a two-cent sales tax increase. City Manag-er Ronnie Dixon said the funds may be used for any items of “direct student benefit.”

Clay moving toward new turf for Cougar Stadium

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May 16.Due to the extreme hard-

ships placed on Alabama motor vehicle registrants who reside in locations af-fected by the severe weath-er that occurred beginning April 28, the deadline for April 2014 motor vehicle

registrations in Jefferson County has been extended until May 16.

The car tag renewal dead-line in January was also ex-tended by order of Alabama Department of Revenue Commissioner Julie Magee due to the winter storm.

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The Trussville Area Chamber of Com-merce announced this week that Michael Korpiel, president and chief operating of-ficer of St. Vincent’s East Hospital, has been appointed to its board of directors.

Korpiel fills the term vacated by the res-ignation of Patricia McKnight.

Korpiel has served as president and COO of St. Vincent’s East since Decem-ber 2013. He is administratively respon-sible for the 362-bed acute care hospital including the 90-bed psychiatric unit and 20-bed rehabilitation unit.

Prior to his position at St. Vincent’s East, he was the COO at the University of Mis-sissippi Hospital and Health System for three years, and from March 2005 through October 2010, he served as vice president of operations for Methodist Hospitals of Dallas.

He authored “Issues Related to Clinical Pathways: Managed Care, Implementa-tion, and Liability,” in the Journal of Burn

Care and Rehabilitation in 1995.Korpiel earned a bachelor’s degree in

health education from Slippery Rock Uni-versity in Pennsylvania and also a mas-ter’s in health care administration from Texas Woman’s University in Dallas.


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The Pinson Public Li-brary will hold its sum-mer reading kickoff event Saturday, May 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The event is to celebrate the beginning of the sum-mer reading program, which is for adults, young adults and children. There will be ice cream and Pete the Cat at Saturday’s event.

Pinson’s summer reading program is June 2 through July 19. There will be 60 different programs this year, and kids will learn about music, art, animals, science, the library and their community.

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Paine Primary School’s Math Team consists of 11 first- and second-graders who meet weekly with Donna Brumlow, the math coach.

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