INSIDE TODAY: National defense goals could boost Alabama’s space industry /A3 FEB. 10, 2019 JASPER, ALABAMA — SUNDAY — www.mountaineagle.com $1.50 INSIDE A night to shine Avid recycler visits Arley ARLEY — Envi- ronmental educator Steve Trash remind- ed Meek students that “Mother Na- ture’s rules rule” during an appear- ance at Meek High School on Monday. Trash came to Arley to help celebrate a new “Meek Goes Green” initiative that started Jan. 14. /B1 Daily Mountain Eagle - Nicole Smith A crowd of hundreds attended the Night to BRIEFS Shine prom Friday night at Bethel Baptist Church in Dora. The memorable event is spon- Valentine’s sored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. Over 650 churches around the world hosted Night to luncheon set Shine dances on Friday. for Thursday The annual Val- entine’s Luncheon will be held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Feb. 14 from 11-1:30. $12 tickets may be purchased from a church member or at the door. There will also be a bake sale, local vendors and a silent auc- tion. Proceeds ben- efit the St. Mary’s Food Bank. DEATHS Glenda Gail Harris , 78, Jasper Jimmy Ray “Short Legs” Keeton, 72, Nauvoo Full obituaries / A2 WEATHER High Low 57 51 INDEX Classifieds ................... B6 Show choir event to bring over 1K students to Jasper Comics ........................ B3 Dear Abby ................... B3 By NICOLE SMITH groups will feature only Horoscope .................. B3 males or females, while other Opinion ........................ Daily Mountain Eagle A4 groups will be mixed. Sports .......................... A5 Jasper High School is set Lifestyles ..................... Encore, Jasper High’s male B1 to host a show choir compe- and female choir, is sched- Two sections, 16 pages tition that will bring over an uled to compete at 5:45 p.m. estimated 1,500 people to Saturday, while the high the city. school’s female-only show Check The Jasper Foothills Show out our choir group, Diamonds, will Choir Classic will be held perform at the end of Friday Facebook Friday, Feb. 15, and Sat- night’s competition. page at urday, Feb. 16, at the high A $15 ticket will allow Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle school and feature 26 show competition-goers to attend choir groups from across the event both days at the Alabama and surrounding high school auditorium. states. Friday’s competition will Jasper High Choral Direc- be from approximately 5 to tor Garrett Lindsey said 15 9:30 p.m., and Saturday’s Daily Mountain Eagle - Ron Harris or 16 schools will compete competition will begin bright at the event in one middle and early at 8 a.m. and last Pictured is Jasper High School’s Encore show choir group per- school division and five until at least 10:45 p.m., forming this year. They will be competing, along with the high high school divisions. Some See CHOIR, A8 school’s Diamonds group, in an event at the school. NEW LISTING NEW LISTING OPEN HOUSE TODAY 2-4 The Closers Gated Community Call Agent for Access MLS#19-220 • 3BR/2BA • $228,900 MLS#19-292 • 3BR/2BA • 502 W. 17th Ave. • Jasper JASPER SMITH LAKE 9661 Curry Highway, Unit 321, Jasper Gari Leigh Minor 205-275-7304 803 Airport Rd. • (205) 384-1113 Duncan Bridge • (205) 221-1221 John Brasfield 205-300-1757 Directions: From 9th Ave., turn onto 6th Street to 17th Ave., turn right. A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sun., Feb. 10, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com Today’s weather DEATHS & FUNERALS Forecast for Sunday, February 10, 2019 TENN. Oxford 53/51 Huntsville Glenda Gail Harris Jimmy Ray “Short Legs” ARK. 54/49 Glenda Gail Harris , 78 of Jasper, passed away on February 8, 2019, at Walker Bap- tist Medical Center. Keeton GA. Jimmy Ray “Short Legs” Keeton, 72 of Nauvoo, Visitation is at Kilgore-Green died Saturday, February 9,2019 at his residence. Greenville Birmingham Funeral Home on Monday, Feb- 56/52 57/51 Funeral arrangements will be announced later by ruary 11 at noon with funeral Collins-Burke Funeral Home. services following at 1 p.m. Joe Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571 Holly will officiate. Burial will be at Boldo Cemetery. Jackson Montgomery 69/56 Mrs. Harris was preceded in 63/52 death by her parents Fred and Celeste Grissom; siblings, Kenneth Brookhaven Hattiesburg Grissom, Buck Grissom, Sharon 68/58 69/58 Lyle, Sue Farley., and Dot O’Rear. She is survived by her hus- Mobile band, Gene Harris; children, Ron Harris, Larry 67/60 LA. FLA. Harris (Lisa), and Jason Harris (Chris); grandchil- dren, Haley Harbin (Justin), Matt Harris (Sadiey), Laney, Garrett, Nathan, Olivia Harris, Nick Har- ris, and Bethany Harris; siblings, Fredine Brand; great-grandchildren, Cooper Harbin, Linley Harbin, and Everley Harris. ©2019 AccuWeather, Inc. Leader of new climate Warren makes presidential bid panel talks of need official with call for change for ‘bold action’ LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren WASHINGTON (AP) and special interests” made her bid for the presidency — It does not yet have as they press for action official on Saturday in this work- office space, staff or even to reduce greenhouse ing-class city, grounding her 2020 Republican members, gas emissions and move campaign in a populist call to fight but Florida Rep. Kathy toward a clean-energy economic inequality and build “an Castor is confident that a economy, Castor said. America that works for everyone.” special House committee “Climate deniers, Warren delivered a sharp call for on climate change will fossil fuel companies and change at her presidential kickoff, play a leading role on other special interests decrying a “middle-class squeeze” one of the most daunt- have had an outsized that has left Americans crunched ing challenges facing influence” in Congress with “too little accountability for the planet. Castor, who in recent years, she said, the rich, too little opportunity for chairs the new panel, promising to “stand up” everyone else.” She and her back- says those early obstacles to those forces to protect ers hope that message can distin- can be overcome as law- the environment and guish her in a crowded Democratic makers move to reduce create green jobs. field and help her move past the carbon pollution and The climate panel is controversy surrounding her past create clean-energy jobs. separate from an effort claims to Native American heri- “The Democratic cau- by Democrats to launch a tage. cus is unified under the Green New Deal to trans- Weaving specific policy pre- belief we have to take form the U.S. economy scriptions into her remarks, from bold action on the climate and create thousands of Medicare for All to the elimination A.P. Photo crisis,” Castor said in an jobs in renewable energy. of Washington “lobbying as we interview. Castor dismissed the know it,” Warren avoided taking U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., acknowledges cheers as While that can take idea that the Green direct jabs at President Donald she takes the stage during an event to formally launch her presi- many forms, the transi- New Deal — put forth Trump. She aimed for a broader tion to renewable energy by freshman Rep. Alex- institutional shift instead, urging dential campaign, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Lawrence, Mass. such as wind and solar andria Ocasio-Cortez of supporters to choose “a govern- urday in New Hampshire, home they’d be very likely to support power is “job one,” she New York and veteran ment that makes different choices, to the nation’s first primary, and Warren if she runs than said the said. Sen. Ed Markey of Mas- choices that reflect our values.” plans to spend Sunday in Iowa, same of former Vice President Joe Castor, who’s in her sachusetts — will conflict Trump “is not the cause of where the leadoff caucuses will be Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris of Cal- seventh term represent- with the climate panel. what’s broken,” Warren told an the first test of candidates’ viabil- ifornia and Sanders. Still, about as ing the Tampa Bay area, “My job and the com- elated crowd without using the ity. many Democrats said they’d be at said Congress has a mittee’s job is to take the president’s name. “He’s just the Warren was the first high-profile least somewhat likely to support “moral obligation” to pro- general concepts (of the latest - and most extreme - symp- Democrat to signal interest in run- Warren as said the same of Harris tect future generations Green New Deal) and tom of what’s gone wrong in ning for the White House, forming or Sanders. from the costly effects of turn them into a real America.” an exploratory committee on New That challenge is on display this climate change, including policy framework and Warren announced her cam- Year’s Eve. weekend as Democratic presiden- more severe hurricanes, legislative language and paign in her home state of Mas- She was endorsed and intro- tial contenders — or those con- a longer wildfire season eventually law,” she said. sachusetts at a mill site where duced Saturday by Massachusetts sidering a run — fan out across and a dangerous sea-lev- Pelosi agreed, say- factory workers went on strike in Democrats Sen. Ed Markey and the crucial early-voting states. el rise. House Speaker ing in a statement that the early 20th century, a fitting Rep. Joe Kennedy III. Kennedy’s New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is in Nancy Pelosi named the climate panel will forum for the longtime consumer backing could prove valuable for Iowa, while New York Sen. Kirsten Castor to lead the panel “spearhead Democrats’ advocate to advance her platform.