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INSIDE TODAY: Trump emergency declaration faces fights in courts / A5 FEB. 17, 2019 JASPER, ALABAMA — SUNDAY — www.mountaineagle.com $1.50 BRIEFS ROTARY CLUB OF JASPER Jasper firm Rotary Trivia Night handling still seeking teams veterans’ By ED HOWELL Daily Mountain Eagle lawsuits WCAA’s encore performance of Teams are still being sought for the Ninth Annual Rotary Club of Jasper’s annual Trivia against 3M ‘I Love Lucy’ Night, which is set for Friday, set for March 8 Feb. 22, at the Jasper Civic Center. From Staff Reports The Walker Coun- The event, which is spon- ty Arts Alliance will sored by Honda of Jasper and On Friday, a Walker County Hyundai of Jasper, will open present an encore Daily Mountain Eagle file - Ron Harris veteran filed a lawsuit against its doors at 5 p.m., with ques- performance of “I 3M, which manufactured and tions starting at 7 p.m. Last year’s Rotary Club Trivia Night included a sold defective Love Lucy” on Fri- Honda of Jasper owner number of teams wearing a variety of costumes, combat ear- day, March 8, at 7 plugs to the See TRIVIA, A10 including one with ‘The Wizard of Oz’ theme. p.m. at Bevill State military. Community College. According to the law- Tickets will go suit filed by on sale Monday. Jasper law Further details are firm Nelson, not yet available. Bryan & THE BEARDED BAKER Cross, Min- Tickets to the Feb. nesota-based 7 Dinner Theater Sipsey’s Jason Patterson makes the world sweet with his rolls 3M designed Nick performance sold the earplugs Limberakis out in December. in a defective manner and By RICK WATSON failed to warn military service Trump picks Daily Mountain Eagle members of the defect. “3M knew of the defects as former state SIPSEY — Jason Pat- early as 2000. Yet the company EMA official terson of Sipsey is a hos- supplied the earplugs to the pice nurse practitioner by military between 2002 and to lead FEMA day, but most nights you 2015,” said Bob Bryan, an at- WASHINGTON can find him in his kitch- torney for Cordova native Nick (AP) — President en wearing gloves and Limberakis and more than 300 rolling out his homemade other service members. Donald Trump says dough. By bedtime, which 3M was paid $9 million per he will nominate is often after midnight, year for the earplugs. a former Alabama his counter is full of his The lawsuit contends that official to head the one-of-a-kind rolls. when inserted according to He got started with 3M’s instructions, the earplugs Federal Emergen- his baking business by suffer a loosening of the seal in cy Management accident. Agency. “It all started from a See LAWSUIT, A2 Jeffrey Byard held Facebook joke,” Patterson said. He posted that he’d several positions made too many orange with the Alabama rolls and asked if anyone INSIDE Emergency Man- would be interested in agement Agency any? His Facebook page lit Police: Aurora before he joined up. FEMA in 2017. He planned to give the gunman likely knew rolls away, but people he was being fired started offering to buy AURORA, Ill. (AP) — The DEATHS them. That was in No- vember 2018, and by New man who gunned down five David Allen Blackwell, 58, Year’s, he’d sold 85 trays co-workers and wounded Jasper of sweet rolls. a sixth at a suburban Chi- Mava Jean Finch Holloway, “That’s a lot for two cago manufacturing ware- 80, Forestdale people because we’re Gene Harbin, 76, Parrish making our dough from house before shooting and Janet Irene White Wilson, scratch,” he said. wounding five police officers 78, Oakman Patterson works day Daily Mountain Eagle - Rick Watson brought his gun to a meet- Ronald Lewis Aldridge, 47, shift in as a nurse practi- Townley Jason Patterson is a nurse practitioner during the day, but at night tioner, so his wife Sarah ing in which he was going Harvey N. Kilgore, 54, he is the Bearded Baker. Here, he puts his special topping on a to be fired, authorities said Jasper Tina Maria Zuehlke, 34, See BAKER, A9 batch of cinnamon rolls. Saturday. / A3 Oakman Jeffery Harrison, 44 Full obituaries / A2 WALKER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION BEVILL STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WEATHER Curry Middle School coach Top federal ARC High Low 67 42 honored for sports inclusion officials visit BSCC By NICOLE SMITH By ED HOWELL INDEX Daily Mountain Eagle Daily Mountain Eagle Classifieds ................... B7 Dear Abby ................... There was hardly a dry Appalachian Regional Commission B6 (ARC) officials from Washington, D.C., Horoscope .................. B6 eye at the Walker County Lifestyles ..................... Board of Education meet- visited Bevill State Community College B1 facilities in Jasper last week to under- Opinion ........................ A6 ing on Thursday, as Curry Sports .......................... A7 Middle School Coach Jamie stand the strides the college is making Harding was recognized for in developing the area, especially in Two sections, 18 pages seeing past circumstance to embrace one girl’s deter- See ARC, A9 mined spirit. Check Harding was presented out our the Arc of Alabama School Facebook Inclusion Award in No- Moore says Bevill State page at vember 2018, for allowing Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle London Farris to play on the Curry Middle School retraining Gorgas workers volleyball team. spokesperson confirmed Farris’ mother, Kelly By ED HOWELL Daily Mountain Eagle Alabama Power’s Gorgas Farris, wrote a letter to Steam Plant is shutting recommend Harding for the down and that the college award, which she shared, in Daily Mountain Eagle - Nicole Smith In the aftermath of state- is helping to retrain its part, at Thursday’s school ments by a Bevill State workers. Curry Middle School Coach Jamie Hard- Community College official See COACH, A9 ing poses with London Farris. on Thursday, a college See RETRAIN, A9 NEW LISTING OPEN HOUSE TODAY 2-4 The Closers MLS# 19-230 • 7BR/6BA • $699,000 MLS# 19-180 • 4BR/3.5BA • $237,000 1001 SHADES CLIFF ROAD, Jasper 500 17TH Ave, Jasper JASPER SMITH LAKE Donna Boshell 205-275-7418 • James Ann Martin 205-275-3994 Cindi Cain 205-522-7966 803 Airport Rd. • (205) 384-1113 Duncan Bridge • (205) 221-1221 A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sun., Feb. 17, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com Today’s weather DEATHS & FUNERALS Forecast for Sunday, February 17, 2019 TENN. Oxford 58/35 Huntsville David Allen Blackwell Janet Irene ARK. 66/40 David Allen Blackwell, 58, of Jasper, passed away Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, at UAB Medical Center. White Wilson Family will receive friends Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, Janet Irene White Wilson, 78, of Oakman, passed GA. from 6 until 8 p.m. at Kilgore-Green Funeral Home. away peacefully Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, at her Greenville Birmingham Services will be Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, at 11 a.m. at home with family by her side. Family will receive 59/37 69/46 Kilgore-Green Funeral Home. Burial will be at Ben- friends Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 from 6 until 8 p.m. nett Cemetery. Mickey Millican and Jerry Colburn at Kilgore-Green Funeral Home. Visitation will be will officiate. held Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, from 10 until 11 a.m. at David was preceded in death by his wife, Sharon Oakman Freewill Baptist. Services will follow at 11 Jackson Montgomery Blackwell; father, Clifford “Buddy” Blackwell; sister, a.m. Burial will be at Bethabara Cemetery. Johnny 69/41 77/57 Susan Blackwell; grandparents, Clifford “Tip” and Martin will officiate. Mae Blackwell, Arlie and Wylene Woods. She will be greatly missed, but she is now in her David is survived by his daughter, Shara Legg forever home with her father, Jesus. Brookhaven Hattiesburg 71/43 77/51 (Reno); stepchildren, Jerry Delay and Jody Knight; She was preceded in death by her husband, Wil- mother, Jo Ann Blackwell; siblings, Lisa Hammack liam A. Wilson; parents, Mr. and Mrs. DF White; Mobile (John), Cliff Blackwell (Jeannie) and Brad Blackwell four brothers, Farrada, Donald Lee, Billy, and Ray; LA. 78/57 FLA. (Amanda); step-grandchildren, Dylan Long, Zackary four sisters, Ruth, Louise, Amy, and Grace; as well as Long, and Savanna Knight; as well as several nieces, many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandneph- nephews, aunts and uncles. ews. You may register online at www.kilgoregreenfuner- She is survived by her siblings, Sarah Layton, Vir- alhome.com. ginia Cavin and Ralph White. You may register online at www.kilgoregreenfuner- Kilgore-Green Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-9503 alhome.com ©2019 AccuWeather, Inc. Kilgore-Green Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-9503 Mava Jean Finch Holloway Ronald Lewis Aldridge Storm-lashed South Mava Jean Finch Holloway, 80, of Forestdale, Ronald Lewis Aldridge, 47, of Townley, died Friday, passed away Thursday Feb. 14, 2019 at North Hill Feb. 15, 2019 at his residence. Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Carolina reassesses She was a graduate of Corner High school, class of Collins-Burke Funeral Home. 1957. There will be no services at this time due to her Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571 global warming’s role wishes to donate her body to the University of Ala- bama Science Department. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When he took the job 15 She was preceded in death by her father and moth- years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy er, Olen and Maggie Finch of Dora; brothers, Flavous Harvey N. Kilgore Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind Finch of Hayden and Jack Finch of Tuscaloosa; her Harvey N. Kilgore, 54, of Jasper, died Saturday, and surge rolling over his county’s beaches, South niece, Tracey Finch Smith of Birmingham and a very Feb.