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INSIDE TODAY: Days before spring, winter to bring heavy snow, wind to East / A3 MARCH 14, 2017 JASPER, ALABAMA — TUESDAY — WWW.MOUNTAINEAGLE.COM 75 CENTS JASPER MAIN STREET BRIEFS Read Alabama set for today Author Robert Perry will share one of his books about Indians at Read Alabama Daily Mountain Eagle - Ed Howell today on the Bevill State Community A flier announcing the College-Jasper closing of the Chick-fil-A campus. in the Jasper Mall was Perry is the author placed at the popular of six books and is eatery this week. a representative of the Chickasaw Na- tion as a tribal elder. Chick-fil-A He lives in Ala- bama and does to close reenactments for the Natchez Trace Jasper Mall Parkway. The program will location begin with refresh- Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron By ED HOWELL ments at 3:30 p.m. Carlos Pedraza gives consultant Ron Drake a tour of the third floor of the building that houses Los Daily Mountain Eagle in the Mathews Lec- Reyes Grill. Drake, a consultant who specializes in revitalizing small downtowns, spent Monday ture Hall of the Chick-fil-A, one of the orig- touring several downtown properties that could be turned into lofts. inal tenants of the Jasper Wade Math and Mall, will be closing its mall Science Building, location on Saturday, March followed by his 25, affecting 13 employees. reading at 4 p.m. A flier was posted at the restaurant on Monday. Kim Admission is free. Hall, the owner and opera- Amazing spaces tor, said the flier was posted Siren testing on March 6, after receiving in city set for word of the closing from cor- Jasper Main Street explores downtown’s potential for loft living porate officials on March 3. Wednesday She waited to post the sign Tornado sirens in By JENNIFER COHRON to first inform her employees Daily Mountain Eagle face-to-face. Jasper will be “I didn’t want them to tested at 10 a.m. A consultant who specializes in revitalizing small hear about it from anybody Wednesday, city of- downtowns spent Monday exploring Jasper’s potential but me,” Hall said Monday. ficials announced for loft living. See CHICK-FIL-A, A4 this weekend. “You are already creating the atmosphere that people will want to live in,” Ron Drake told Jasper Main Street board members on a morning tour of downtown Jasper. Drake, who is based in DEATHS Siloam Springs, Ark., vis- Local fire ited unused upper floors at “I think this is David Clinton King, 95, Los Reyes Grill, Bernard’s Carbon Hill Store for Men, the Ivey something that we departments Stella Bernice Hollis Phillips, 87, Carbon Hill Building and Twisted Bar- need to do. Now Judy Lee Goodwin, 66, ley before meeting with receive grant Parrish bankers, realtors and city that the downtown Vera Jeanette Farris leaders to get their input. movement is boom- funds McMicken, 92, Eldridge A market analysis con- Louise G. Ratcliff, 97 ducted last year as part of ing, this is the time By LEA RIZZO Kennith Lynn Jones, Sr., 66 Jasper Main Street’s revi- to do it to take ad- Daily Mountain Eagle Egdar “Root” Williamson, talization efforts revealed 75, Sipsey that approximately half of vantage of it. It’s a Three local fire depart- Andrew Michael Smith, 26, Carbon Hill the 1,000 respondents win-win for every- ments will receive a portion Jerleen Fuller Stephenson, would consider living in of $67,000 in wildfire re- 89 downtown Jasper, and body.” sponse grants awarded by most expressed an interest - Carlos Pedraza, Gov. Robert Bentley last Full obituaries / A2 in loft-style housing. month. Brent McCarver, chair- co-owner of Town Creek Volunteer Fire man of the group’s Eco- Los Reyes in Department was awarded WEATHER nomic Vitality Committee, $1,485, a portion of which said Drake will be helping downtown Jasper will be used for repairs to a building owners and com- rescue truck that was dam- High Low mittee members answer Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron aged while running a wild- several key questions during his two-day visit. fire call. 49 27 “We’ve researched this, but one of the things we don’t Consultant Ron Drake talks with building Hay Valley Volunteer Fire have a good grasp of yet is pricing. Does it make sense to owner Rusty Richardson, Main Street Ala- Department and Argo Volun- put $200,000 in it if you can only rent it for $300 a bama state coordinator Mary Helmer and teer Fire Department will re- month? Or vice versa, could an $80,000 investment ceive $1,184 and $158, INDEX bring a return of $1,000 a month,” McCarver said. Jasper Main Street executive director Mike respectively. Putman after touring the second floor of Cashword...............A8 See LOFT, A4 See GRANTS, A4 Classifieds............A12 Bernard’s Monday morning. Comics....................A7 Dear Abby...............A7 Horoscope..............A7 WALKER HIGH SCHOOL Opinion...................A6 Sports...................A10 One section, 14 pages JROTC cadets receive Check out our Gold Star Unit ranking Facebook page at By NICOLE SMITH the JROTC Program for Accred- Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle Daily Mountain Eagle itation (JPA) — a mandated in- spection that must be completed Walker High School’s Junior every four years. Walker JROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps Lt. Col. Ned L. Harrell Jr. said (JROTC) cadets recently com- he is proud of his cadets from pleted a six-hour evaluation, Walker High and several county earning them Gold Star Unit high schools for receiving the status — the highest ranking special designation. an Army JROTC program can Five active duty senior non- Daily Mountain Eagle - Nicole Smith achieve. commissioned officers com- On March 3, Walker High A JROTC cadet, far right, has his uniform examined during the in- School cadets participated in See JROTC, A4 spection on March 3. A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Tues., March 14, 2017 www.mountaineagle.com Today’s weather DEATHS & FUNERALS Forecast for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 TENN. David Clinton King Kennith Lynn David Clinton King, 95, of Carbon Hill, went home to Oxford Jones Sr. 47/27 Huntsville be with his Lord Saturday, March 11, 2017, surrounded ARK. 46/25 by his family. Kennith Lynn Jones Sr., 66, passed away Thursday, He was a lifetime member of Liberty Grove Baptist March 9, 2017, in the St. Martin community of Biloxi, Church, serving as deacon for 67 years and caretaker of Miss. GA. the cemetery for 27 years. He was a World War II Army He was born in Double Springs, Ala., was a U.S. Army veteran, carpenter/builder and Auburn fan, but most veteran of the Vietnam War and moved to the Gulf Greenville Birmingham 51/33 49/28 important to him was serving the Lord. Coast in 1986. He worked as a machinist and he retired Visitation will be held today, March 14, 2017, from from Keith Huber after 25 years. He loved to fish. noon until 2 p.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral Home Par- A visitation will be held at Popular Springs Freewill lor, with funeral services following at 2 p.m. at Collins- Baptist Church at 15687 Highway 195, in Nauvoo today, Burke Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will take place at March 14, 2017, where friends may visit from 11 a.m. Jackson Montgomery Grove Baptist Cemetery in Nauvoo. Gary Yielding will until the 1 p.m. funeral service. Burial will be at Popular 55/34 55/32 officiate. Springs Cemetery. King was preceded in death by his father, Doc King; He is preceded in death by his parents, Abner and Au- mother, Docie Romine King; son, Bobby King; sisters, drey Jones; his brother, Charlie Lee Jones; and his sis- Brookhaven Hattiesburg 57/36 Eva Mae King, Pernie King, Trannie Manasco, Jewel ters, Gail Harsany and Ester Remesnik. 60/35 Fields and Betty McDonald; and brothers, Cecil King Jones is survived by his loving wife of 44 years, Di- and Herman King. anna Lee Ramsey Jones of St. Martin, Miss.; his chil- Mobile He leaves behind his loving wife of 69 years, Genell dren, Kimberly Jones of Biloxi, Miss., Krystal Russell of 60/37 LA. FLA. Hill King; sons, Michael King, Eddie King (Kelley) and Vicksburg, Miss., Katie L. Jones and Kennith L. Jones Joey King (Kelley); grandchildren, Tracy King, Chris Jr. of St. Martin, Miss.; brother, Randy Jones of Double King, Cameron King, Brandon King, Michelle King, Springs, Ala.; six grandchildren; two great-grandchil- Lauren King, Mason King, Matthew Dill and Hunter dren; and his feline friend, Possum. Dill; and three great-grandchildren. An online guestbook may be viewed and memories Pallbearers will be Mark Dabbs, Tommy McDonald, shared at www.riemannfamily.com. Ron Hill, Wayne Myers, John Manasco and Rhett Barker. Riemann Family Funeral Home, ©2017 AccuWeather, Inc. The family also wished to give a special thanks to Biloxi, Miss.; 228-215-8700 Alacare Hospice. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Liberty Grove Cemetery fund in Memory of Edgar ‘Root’ Williamson David Clinton King at 8780 Highway 5, Nauvoo, AL 35578. Egdar “Root” Williamson, 75, of Sipsey, passed away Wait and see: Stocks Saturday, March 11, 2017, at Walker Baptist Medical Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571 Center. steady at beginning Arrangements will be announced by Bell Funeral Home in Sumiton. Stella Bernice of jam-packed week Bell Funeral Home, Sumiton; 205-648-6611 Hollis Phillips NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks held steady in a calm day Stella Bernice Hollis Phillips, 87, of Carbon Hill, of trading Monday, but the storm may be coming.