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BALDWIN LIVING: Descendants of long-time residents to be honored, PAGE 5 Three Baldwin teams advance to playoffs PAGE 14 Share your smile The Courier PAGE 22 INSIDE NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ WWII Veteran’s final speech — a tribute to others By MARLA ARNOLD MONK cell phone, “Oh yes, Mrs. Tra- wick, I remember you. Yes, I Veteran's Day won’t be the will be happy to speak again same this year at Daphne this year.” At age 93, his Middle School. The band will memory for people and names open the ceremonies with a was spot on medley of patriotic songs, and For the past two years, Fairhope Film Festival the choir will perform on the Major Mordecai “Mawk” starts Thursday stage. The gym will be deco- Arnold, a native of Fairhope rated in red, white, and blue. who served in the Marine One of everyone’s favorite But the WWII veteran won't Corps during WWII, Korea, annual events, the Fairhope be there to present the key- and Vietnam, spoke at Daphne Film Festival, kicks off this note remarks. Middle School. He was hon- week with screenings start- I was with him when he ored as Fairhope's Veteran of ing Thursday and going received the phone call of the Year in 2012 and the Mo- through Sunday. For a full invitation last year. With bile Bay Area Veteran of the schedule of events, turn to crooked fingers, too large for SUBMITTED PHOTO the buttons, he answered his SEE VETERAN, PAGE 2 our Baldwin Living section on Page 6. Spanish Fort opens first all-inclusive kids park Child drowns in Daphne STAFF REPORT On Oct. 31, at ap- proximately 8:30 p.m., Baldwin County Sheriff Deputies responded to a call at 27150 Faircloth Place in Daphne in reference to a possible drowning of a 3-year- old. SUBMITTED PHOTO The child’s father had placed his son in a bathtub and stepped Spanish Fort Volleyball By CLIFF MCCOLLUM Kids Park on Ember Lane - a create a space where all of outside to smoke a ciga- [email protected] new play area complete with our children, regardless of rette. Once he returned, takes state Americans with Disabilities abilities, can come and play he discovered the child The Spanish Fort High Vol- Saturday morning was a Act compliant features. and learn with one another,” face down in the tub, leyball team took top hon- beautiful day in Spanish Fort, Mayor Mike McMillan said McMillan said. “It’s a totally unresponsive. ors in the state competition as city officials and residents this was a project the city had inclusive experience and we’re The father immedi- this year, as did Bayside gathered together to officially been looking to complete for excited for our citizens to get ately began life saving Academy. To see more re- open the new play equipment some time. and picnic pavilion at the “We’ve been wanting to sults from state, head to our SEE PARK, PAGE 20 SEE DROWNS, PAGE 2 Sports section on Page 16. Aglow in Fairhope Children of the World, Inc., of Fairhope, celebrated the In- dian Festival of Lights on Sat- urday at Fairhope Community Park. Attendees played glow in the dark games, enjoyed desserts and had henna de- signs painted on their hands. DEATHS PAGE 9 All proceeds were donated to the family of Ankitha Valdez Jerry Wayne Keith Sr. who is battling a rare child- Frank Ross McGinnis Sr. hood cancer. Richard Owens For more information, or to Joan Margaret Urban Robinson make a donation, visit child- renoftheworld.com. See more photos on page 2. ALLISON MARLOW / STAFF PHOTO INDEX Gulf BALDWIN LIVING, 5 OUT & ABOUT, 8 Coast CLASSIFIED, 25 PUZZLES, 4 Media HEALTH, 22 SPORTS, 14 VOLUME 125 • ISSUE 15 LEGALS, 27 TV LISTINGS, 10 1 SECTION • 36 PAGES OPINION, 3 2• The Courier • November 7, 2018 • Gulf Coast Media Aglow in Fairhope ALLISON MARLOW / STAFF PHOTO VETERAN 1961, so I want to get my She nods, and he asks money's worth.” how many spouses are CONTINUED FROM 1 I relax as we are here today? Several seated close to the po- raise their hands. “Well Year in 2013. dium, thankful we’re you’re all veterans too. The old Marine pushes on the gym floor with You’ve supported your his newly acquired no steps to maneuver. husbands and wives, walker into the shiny- Invited guests, veterans making their service clean school gym as the and their spouses, face possible. And for that we band warms up. us. An Air Force pilot thank you.” The patriotic tune is dressed in his flight “I’ll tell you the story transports me back to jumpsuit. Several wear of one Marine Corps Fairhope High School Vietnam-era caps. Some wife. Her husband was when we played John look young enough to be deployed overseas before Philip Sousa marches. students themselves. the end of the school He is on the sidelines The middle school year. She packed the with his movie camera students file in quietly, house, sold one car, poised onto his strong orderly, into the bleach- arranged for the fam- shoulders. ers. The school principal ily station wagon to be A flood of nostalgia and administrators shipped to Japan, got the overtakes me, tears make opening remarks four children and their stinging my eyes. His about the meaning and luggage from the East ever-present smile is history of Veteran’s Day, Coast to the West Coast, fixed. begun on the first an- through several airport He’s dressed in his niversary of the end of transfers. Arriving late SUBMITTED PHOTOS Marine Corps “blues”, the first World War. The at night to a hotel in San the bleachers. touching on different as- when meeting young the officer's formal uni- guest speaker teeters to Francisco, she left the 15 “You see the baby pects of being a veteran people. form worn for all official the podium leaving his month old baby with his needed milk and there of life. I feel nervous — This year Daphne events. It still fits after walker behind. three older sisters in the were no convenience he might go on too long Middle School will plan all these years, although His now stooped pos- room to go to the bar.” stores close by. The and lose the audience. and present an excep- the buttons at the waist ture belies his strong He pauses master- bartender gladly filled He stays on task, and tional Veteran's Day are tight. He says, “Look voice and immediate fully. I see expressions the baby’s bottle. She concludes by telling the program. The students in my left pocket, I have command of the micro- change on the faces of warmed it under the students that some of will be attentive and a tool to help with that.” phone. Having years of the guests seated before tap in the room.” After them may choose to go respectful, indicating a I retrieve the button experience in Public him. I see wide eyes, another pause he con- into the military. “Just well- disciplined group. hook made from a scrap Relations in the Marine furrowed brows. I think tinues… “So wives and remember — no mat- The band and choir will of wire and help him Corps he instantly en- I hear some hushed husbands of the military ter what you choose to perform beautifully . A with the last task. gages the audience. gasps. I see the middle- have many obstacles to do in life, if you do it to concluding video with I asked him once why “Ma’am, are you here schoolers turn towards overcome. You are all the very best of YOUR music will honor all he wore the uniform with your husband, who the podium, suddenly veterans.” ability, you will be suc- branches of service. instead of something is a veteran?” he asks more attentive, their He speaks extempora- cessful.” I had heard The World War II more casual. He replied, pointing to a woman backs straightening in neously, without notes, him say that many times veteran who was an inte- “It cost me too much in seated in the front row. gral part of civic events in the Baldwin County The Future of Christianity in America area for so long won't be there. He made his final ChristianityThe in AmericaLeaves has a unique areto keep attendingFalling and (2) has driven The Courier speech in 2017. I know Idynamicwrote thesethat separateswords while it fromwatching other forawaya memberslittle while. whoThe are seriousgood news about is that, how lucky I was to be developed nations. Whereas Christianity their faith. 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