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BRIEFS Trump rails against delay in Man pleads guilty in boat moving impeachment to Senate crash that Pelosi: Power of gavel means Trump. He’s mad as hell that they would killed 2 Trump ‘impeached forever’ / B8 do this to him and now deny him his day in WETUMPKA (AP) court.” The White House did not immediate- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Don- ly respond to questions about his account. — A man pleaded ald Trump railed behind closed doors about Trump has seen a Senate trial as his guilty to reckless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to means for vindication, viewing acquittal as AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta murder on Thursday delay sending articles of impeachment to the a partial antidote to impeachment’s stain on in a boat crash that Republican-controlled Senate, putting an his legacy. But that effort has been threat- President Donald Trump acknowledg- killed two people on a expected trial in limbo. ened by Pelosi’s decision to delay sending the es the applause during a summit on central Alabama lake Sen. Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump articles approved by the House Wednesday on July 4. GOP ally, emerged from a White House to the Senate until, she says, Republican transforming mental health treatment The Montgomery meeting with the president with a message. leaders offer more details about how they to combat homelessness, violence, Advertiser reported “He is demanding his day in court,” Gra- will handle an expected trial. and substance abuse at White House that Damion Bru- ham said in an interview on Fox News Chan- Thursday. nel Thursday evening. “I just left President See TRUMP, A4 no, 41, of Clanton, entered the plea in Elmore County, where he was charged in a crash that killed a WALKER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE DORA man and a teenager CITY COUNCIL on Lake Jordan on Independence Day. Court records Road near show he was over the state’s legal limit for Dora High intoxication after the crash. The state rec- ommended a prison School finally term of 30 years on two counts of reck- gets paved less murder, but no sentencing date was By RICK WATSON set. Daily Mountain Eagle Bruno was driving a boat that collided with another boat that DORA — Mayor Randy Stephens reported at Thurs- was carrying Devin day night’s Dora City Council Clay Jackson, 26, of meeting that District 4 Walker Deatsville and Travis County Commissioner Steven Lee House, 17, of Aderholt and the City of Dora Marbury, who died in gave Dora High School and the crash. early Christmas present. Five other people After years of trying to were injured in the pave Glenn C. Gant Circle, crash, which hap- contractors started the project pened after a fire- on Thursday and completed it Friday. Glenn C. Gant Circle is works show. the stretch of road between the Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron See dora, a4 DEATHS The sheriff’s department’s new vehicle, seized in 2016 from two individuals eventually sen- tenced for trafficking meth, will help spread the word about the Mercy Project. The Rev. Gene Smith, Burnwell Carolyn Swindle, 83, Nauvoo Vickie Kimbrell, 66, Parrish Alma Rene Tubbs Robbins, Spreading the word 72, Jasper

Full obituaries / A2 Car seized from drug dealers put to good use by Mercy Project

WEATHER By JENNIFER COHRON Sheriff’s Office since the start Men have no choice except Daily Mountain Eagle of Sheriff Nick Smith’s tenure, leaving the county, according to has served more than 50 indi- Smith, because they are cur- High Low viduals in 2019. Two of the first rently no programs in Walker A vehicle previously used to 52 44 to enter the program, a male County to accept them. Even for Daily Mountain Eagle - Rick Watson distribute drugs is now being and a female, recently completed those who might be able to stay used by the Walker County treatment. locally, a fresh start in a new Contractors were finish- Sheriff’s Office to get people to “We want to dedicate this place far from corruptive influ- ing up resurfacing work on INDEX treatment. vehicle strictly to the Mercy ences is usually what is needed, Mercy Project participants Glenn C. Gant Circle Friday. Classifieds...... B6 Project to help spread the word he added. Comics...... who need transportation will be about the project and help people Smith said the legal process This stretch of road had B3 given a ride in a Chrysler 300 Dear Abby...... B3 get to and from because a lot of required to get seized property been in disrepair for years seized in 2016. Horoscope...... B3 them don’t have rides. They got awarded to the department is but after navigating legal is- The Mercy Project, which Religion...... A5 here by hitchhiking or someone often a lengthy one. sues, the road work began Sports...... B1 was started at Cordova Police dropped them off, and the treat- In the case of seized vehicles, Today in History...... A2 Department and has been oper- ment facilities are in all differ- Thursday and was complet- ated out of the Walker County See MERCY, A4 ed Friday. Two sections, 16 pages ent counties,” Smith said.

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By RICK WATSON When asked why it’s import- Daily Mountain Eagle ant for children to read, Jackson points to a quote by George R. R. Facebook: Martin: “A reader lives a thou- DAILY MOUNTAIN EA- SUMITON — Lori Jackson of sand lives before he dies. The GLE Dora wanted to work with the man who never reads lives only FBI, but six years ago, she land- Instagram: one.” ed a job at the Sumiton Public Sometimes people from this dailymteagle Library and fell in love with the Twitter: area do not have the opportunity work. to travel and experience different “Libraries are important be- things, according to Jackson. cause it offers equal opportunity,” “It’s healthy for a kid to pick up she said. “No matter what in- a book and read because it shows come, your race, social standing, them there is more out there or background you come from, than our tiny small-town life,” Daily Mountain Eagle - Rick Watson everyone can come here to check she said. out books or use our computers. Lori Jackson, the librarian at Sumiton Public Library, checks Libraries are equalizers.” See JACKSON, A4 out books for Abbie and Emma Lewis. A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sat., Dec. 21, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com Today’s weather DEATHS & FUNERALS Forecast for Saturday, December 21, 2019 TENN. Oxford 52/43 Huntsville The Rev. Gene Smith Vickie Kimbrell ARK. 53/42 The Rev. Gene Smith, of Burnwell, Ala., went home Vickie Kimbrell, 66, of Parrish, passed away Fri- to be with his Lord and Savior on Dec. 19, 2019. day, Dec. 20, 2019, at her residence. He was born Clifton Eugene Arrangements will be announced later by Col- GA. Smith in Chattanooga, Tenn., on lins-Burke Funeral Home. Greenville Birmingham Sept. 12, 1945, to a loving family. 53/43 52/44 They moved to Burnwell, Ala. when Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571 he was seven years old. Gene spent his life serving God, his church and his community. While serving in the Alma Rene Jackson Montgomery Alabama National Guard, his pro- 52/43 53/46 fessional career began in construc- Tubbs Robbins tion with Brasfield and Gorrie in Alma Rene Tubbs Robbins, 72, of Jasper, passed Birmingham, and he later founded Brookhaven Hattiesburg away Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at her residence. 53/45 51/45 and owned a heating and air condi- Family will be receiving friends Sunday, Dec. 22, tioning company. He also spent many years as an in- 2019, from noon until 2 p.m. at Kilgore-Green Funer- Mobile surance agent. While a young man he began singing al Home. Service will follow at 2 p.m. in the Kilgo- LA. 54/45 FLA. with the Psalmsters, a Southern Gospel quartet that re-Green Chapel,. Burial will follow at Windham included Melva Nix who would become his wife and Tubbs Cemetery. T.J. Millican will officiate. ministry partner for 42 years. His ministry included She was preceded in death by her parents, Shepard not only singing, but also several years of travel as Lee and Clara Belle Tubbs; brother, Donald Tubbs an evangelist, and he pastored churches in Georgia (Jackie); grandparents, Glaude Harris Sr. and Ollie and Alabama. From 1985 until his death he served Harris, Vin Lee Tubbs, and Daily Tubbs; and son-in- as pastor at Burnwell Bible Church of God. He was a law, Scottie Johnson. ©2019 AccuWeather, Inc. gifted minister, preacher, singer, and songwriter. She is survived by her loving husband of 48 years, Rev. Smith was preceded in death by his wife, Paul Ray Robbins Sr.; children, Paul Marshall Rob- Melva Nix Smith; daughter, Andrea Lynn Smith; bins, Tina Maddox, Carla Johnson (Don); sons, Paul parents, Dora and Joe Smith; and brother, Joseph Lee Ray Robbins Jr. (Christy), David Robbins (Lesley), Smith. and Jody Robbins (Christy); grandchildren, Paul Rob- Boeing capsule He is survived by his devoted wife, Norma Mc- bins, III (Brianna), Wesley Key, Ashlon Key, Hunter Mickin Smith; loving daughter, Melia Smith D’Amico Robbins, Matthew Wallace, Sydney Wade, Brook- and her husband, Joe; grandchildren, Cruz and Faith lyn Robbins, Destiny Robbins, Jojo Robbins, Krista launches to wrong orbit, Ann D’Amico; sisters, Ova Jane Gilbert and Juanita Spurgeon, Jaxon Spurgeon, and Phillip Maddox, Jr.; Fay Snow; brother, Arthur Smith; and many extend- great-grandchildren, Hannah West, Easton Key, skips space station ed family, nieces, nephews, and cousins. He leaves and Emberley Key; brothers, Bual Tubbs (Bobbie), behind a family and community that he loved deeply Dual Tubbs (Helen); special daughter in love, Cin- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s new Star- and that will miss him profoundly. dy Wright; and a host of nieces, nephews, and good liner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting To honor and celebrate the extraordinary life and friends. off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the compa- ministry of Rev. Smith, a Homegoing Service will be A special thank you to Fresenius Dialysis Center ny’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year. held Sunday, Dec. 22, at Burnwell Bible Church of and Kindred Home Health Care. As the company scrambled to understand what God. Visitation will begin at noon with the Homego- Honorary Pallbearers will be Easton Key and happened, NASA canceled the Starliner’s docking with ing Service beginning at 2 p.m. The Rev. Ray Jackson Jaxon Squrgeon, the sweet customers of Blackwater the International Space Station, instead focusing on will officiate. Interment will immediately follow at Restaurant, R.J. Higginbotham, Russell Lockhart, a hastier than planned the adjacent cemetery. A reception in the church din- and Mark Baker. Pallbearers will be the grandsons, return to Earth. The Star- ing hall will follow the services. Paul Robbins III, Wesley Key, Hunter Robbins, liner could parachute into In lieu of flowers, Rev. Smith has requested memo- Matthew Wallace, JoJo Robbins, and friend Buddy its landing site in the New rial contributions be made to Burnwell Bible Church Maddison. Mexico desert as early as of God, where he served as pastor for 34 years. Friends may sign the guest register at kilgore- Sunday. greenfuneralhome.com Officials stressed the New Horizon Memorial Funeral Home, capsule was stable and Dora; 205-648-2323 Kilgore-Green Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-9503 safe, and that had astro- nauts been aboard, they would have been in no dan- Carolyn Swindle ger. A crew may have been Carolyn Swindle, 83, of Nauvoo, passed away able to take over control Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at her residence. and salvage the mission. Arrangements will be announced later by Col- The problem was with the lins-Burke Funeral Home. Starliner’s mission clock: It was off-kilter, which de- Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571 layed timed-commands to AP Photo/Terry Renna put the capsule in the right A United Launch Alli- orbit. Engineers worried the problem could resurface ance Atlas V rocket car- during descent. rying the Boeing Starlin- ‘Vast majority’ of vaping illnesses blamed on vitamin E It was a major setback er crew capsule on an for Boeing, which had been Orbital Flight Test to the returned to the hospital new information that of patients.” hoping to catch up with By CARLA K. JOHNSON International Space Sta- AP Medical Writer after discharge and seven continues to point to a The nation’s outbreak SpaceX, NASA’s other com- who died after hospital culprit: vitamin E ace- of vaping-related lung in- mercial crew provider that tion lifts off from Space discharge. tate, a thickening agent juries continues, but new successfully completed a Launch Complex 41 Health officials now The study suggests that that’s been added to illicit cases are on the decline. similar demonstration last at Cape Canaveral Air blame vitamin E acetate vaping illnesses can get THC vaping liquids. THC More than 2,500 cases of March. SpaceX has one last for the “vast majority” of Force station Friday in worse, even deadly, after is the chemical in mari- vaping illness have been hurdle — a launch abort cases in the U.S. outbreak patients leave the hos- juana that makes users reported by all 50 states. test — before carrying two Cape Canaveral, Fla. of vaping illnesses and pital and doctors should feel high. There have been 54 NASA astronauts in its they say doctors should check on patients within A report published in deaths and more deaths Dragon capsule, possibly by spring. monitor patients more two days of sending them the New England Journal are under investigation. NASA officials did not think Friday’s problem would closely after they go home home. of Medicine identified the Interviews with pa- hold up SpaceX, but said they would need to make sure from the hospital. The two-day followup substance in the lung tients and families led nothing was in common between the two companies’ The Centers for Disease after hospital discharge is fluid of 48 out of 51 vap- investigators to some of on-board mission timers. Ground controllers were Control and Prevention shorter than the previous ing illness patients and the websites that were puzzled over why the Starliner’s timer was not working announced the updated recommendation of one to did not find it in the lung shut down by the Food properly when the capsule separated from the rocket advice Friday. two weeks. fluid of healthy people. and Drug Administration and began flying freely. And, in a related move Compared to other Vitamin E acetate also and the Drug Enforce- NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said it was too Friday, authorities in- vaping illness patients, has been found in vaping ment Administration. soon to know whether Boeing would need to conduct vestigating how patients those who went back to product samples. The agencies did not another orbital test flight without a crew, before flying obtained possibly tainted the hospital were more In the strongest lan- announce any criminal astronauts. The company had been shooting for its first vape products said they likely to have chronic con- guage yet about what’s charges. crew launch by the middle of next year. An additional have shut down 44 web- ditions such as diabetes, caused the outbreak, The 44 website domains test flight would almost certainly push the first astro- sites advertising the sale heart disease or other Dr. Anne Schuchat of — with names including naut flight back. of illicit vaping cartridges breathing problems such the CDC told reporters Stoners Marketplace and Boeing’s Jim Chilton, a senior vice president, stopped containing THC. as sleep apnea. Those who during a telephone brief- Anonymous Meds — now by the Starliner’s manufacturing plant at Kennedy The new medical advice died after hospital dis- ing Friday that it is her direct visitors to a mes- Space Center to address employees on his way to a is based on a close look charge were more likely “conclusion” that vitamin sage in red letters that somber news conference. at about 3% of vaping to be 50 or older. E acetate caused the ill- says “This Site Has Been “These are passionate people who are committing a illness patients who The CDC also released ness in “the vast majority Seized.” big chunk of their lives to put Americans back in space from our soil, so it’s disappointing for us,” Chilton told reporters. It’s been nearly nine years since NASA astronauts have launched from the U.S. The last time was July 8, 2011, when Atlantis — now on display at Kennedy TODAY IN HISTORY Space Center — made the final space shuttle flight. Since then, NASA astronauts have traveled to and Today is Saturday, Dec. 21, In 1967, Louis Washkansky, er met before, Elizabeth Quinn from the space station via Kazakhstan, courtesy of the 355th day of 2019. There are the first human heart transplant Gallagher, a 23-year-old student the Russian Space Agency. The Soyuz rides have cost 10 days left in the year. Winter recipient, died at a hospital in from Nova Scotia, set out on a NASA up to $86 million apiece. arrives at 11:19 p.m. Eastern time. Cape Town, South Africa, 18 days round-the-world trip. 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DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sat., Dec. 21, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com — A3 NATION IN BRIEF Official: Shooting at Winston-Salem Illinois school: Students disciplined over racist chants building was ‘workplace violence’ ELGIN, Ill. (AP) — Students at a suburban Chicago WINSTON-SALEM, Catholic high school were disciplined for shouting N.C. (AP) — A deadly racist and body-shaming chants at members of a shooting at a city building visiting girls basketball team, the principal said. in Winston-Salem, North In a letter obtained by the (Elgin) Courier-News, Carolina was an act of the principal of St. Edward Central Catholic High “workplace violence,” the School acknowledged that the allegations made by city’s police chief said officials at Bishop McNamara Catholic High School Friday. in Kankakee were true. According to a Bishop Winston-Salem Police McNamara football and track coach who was at the Chief Catrina Thompson game, students from St. Edward Central in Elgin told news reporters the gunman at a city build- were making the sounds of monkeys and whales at ing was killed during the team. a gunfight with police “The behavior of some individuals from our school officers who responded to at the St. Edward CCHS and Bishop McNamara girls the scene. One officer was basketball game was completely unacceptable and wounded. She said the runs contrary to our belief and values,” Brian Teka- gunman was a 60-year- mpe, who is also the school’s superintendent, wrote old city employee who in a letter to the school community. “As a school, as shot and killed another a community and as a Catholic faith, we condemn employee whom he had racism and discriminatory behavior against all peo- targeted. Another city employee and a police offi- ple in any form.” cer were also wounded. Tekampe’s letter did not say what discipline the Police Capt. Steven Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal via AP students faced. Tolley said the slain em- City workers and police stand outside the Joycelyn V. Johnson Municipal The principal at Bishop McNamara, who had pre- ployee and the gunman viously said in a letter that his girls varsity team was had a “longstanding dis- Services Center after reports of gunshots in Winston-Salem, N.C. early Fri- subjected to “racist and discriminatory behavior” like for each other,” but he day. Winston- Salem Police are confirming there was a shooting but are not said that St. Edward officials have apologized. couldn’t elaborate on the saying at this time if there are any injuries or deaths. source of their disagree- ments. Tolley said the two 245,000 people in the gunshots. He said he and House fire kills 3 children, men had been involved central part of the state. the coworker ran and hid 2 adults in Alabama in a physical altercation Martinez said he stayed in a ditch, where they Thursday that wasn’t in his truck and heard heard more gunshots. FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) — Three children and two reported at the time to adults died in what appeared to be an accidental fire their superiors. Another at a mobile home in rural north Alabama, a coro- city employee who was ner said Friday. News outlets reported that flames wounded wasn’t targeted engulfed a trailer in DeKalb County near the Georgia and was “collateral dam- SunroomsS Suunnrroooommss state line Thursday morning. age,” Tolley said. Tolley & ScreenroomsScreenrooms DeKalb County Coroner Bruce Wilson said the said the gunman brought & Screenrooms dead include a woman, her three young children and multiple firearms to the F ree E stim ates! shooting Friday. the woman’s boyfriend. No names were released Winston-Salem city • Since 1966 • immediately, and Wilson said autopsies were being spokesman Ed McNeal conducted. said: “There is no ongoing The family had a wood stove and other heaters threat.” Andrew Dye/The Winston- Creative Aluminum inside their home, Wilson said, and the fire appeared Sanitation worker Salem Journal via AP to have been an accident caused by one of the heat- Dwight Black, 66, was 1206 Curry Hwy 387-7683 387-7698 ers. The state fire marshal’s office was investigating, running five minutes late City employees and a Jasper, AL 35503 he said. when he parked his car police officer with the at the facility. He said he Winston-Salem Police was about to swipe his Officers shoot woman during card to enter the building Department stand out- search for man already in jail when people ran past side of the Joycelyn him. V. Johnson Municipal MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Officers who mistakenly en- “They’re shooting. Services Center after tered a home trying to arrest an Alabama man who Run!’ Black said of the was already in jail shot a woman who was inside, people leaving the build- reports of gunshots in news outlets reported. ing. “Fight or flight. I just Winston-Salem, N.C. Ann Rylee, 19, was wounded during the raid on followed suit.” early Friday. Thursday, television news outlets quoted family “I didn’t know what was happening so I just kind was shooting inside the members as saying. They said she was hospitalized building east of down- and was expected to survive. of got out of the way until I could ascertain what town in the city about Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran told WALA-TV was going on,” he added. that officers shot Rylee after she pointed a shotgun Black ran back to his at them. He said a “miscommunication” led to offi- car and said other people cers being at the home in the first place. did the same and drove Mobile County sheriff’s deputies joined federal off. He said he just stood officers at a home in the Wilmer community looking back and watched until T h e little ad for Nicholas McLeod, who used to live there. Jail re- police arrived. cords show he was actually arrested a day earlier on Black said he was charges including possession of drug paraphernalia “kind of numb” after the and evidence tampering. shooting. “Everybody was devastated,” he said. th at c o u ld . A nephew, Christopher McLeod, told news outlets “Tough day.” he was outside the house emptying the trash with a Numerous police cars friend before work when multiple officers armed with were on the scene in the rifles and wearing body armor pulled up in vehicles late morning. Workers in Once upon a time there was and demanded that they put up their hands. the reflective gear worn “They were looking for someone who used to live by city sanitation work- a little ad that ran in the at that house years ago. He was my uncle,” McLeod ers were seen standing paper. It wasn’t very said. in a parking lot talking McLeod said he told them Rylee, his fiancée, was to each other. The scene expensive. It wasn’t loud inside the house asleep in a recliner in the living outside the building ap- peared calm. like commercials on the room, where they kept a shotgun for protection. Two Herbert Martinez federal marshals who had approached the home told local news outlets a radio or TV. It didn’t started yelling “gun” and fired multiple times, he coworker at the site ran said. out and told him someone have flashy color graphics or sound effects either. This United Airlines pulls 737 Max little ad simply until June, adding to Boeing woes stated a message from a local business to the NEW YORK (AP) — United Airlines was supposed to go to the International says the Boeing 737 Max has been Space Station, but will not land there as readers of the paper day pulled from its flight schedule until planned. June, the latest in a string of troubling Boeing and Spirit have the financial after day. In fact, the little ad news plaguing the airplane manufac- resources to manage through delays to was in the paper 3 days turer. the Max return, but smaller suppliers The developments follow Boeing’s to both companies — who are attempt- a week for 13 weeks. announcement Monday that it would ing to hold onto skilled workers in a halt Max production in January as it tight labor market — may not, said It just lay there on the became increasingly clear that it still Richard Aboulafia, an aircraft industry has many regulatory hurdles to clear. analyst at the Teal Group. If companies pages in all of those It did not say when production would along the supply chain lose workers, it resume. could slow progress when production editions alongside the news of the day including Also on Friday, Spirit AeroSystems, eventually resumes. the obituaries, weddings, city council meeting which builds fuselages for Boeing, “If they’re not building, how do they said it will end deliveries intended get paid? And if they don’t get paid, how details, editorial opinions, sports reports, want for the Max as damage from the trou- do they pay their workers? How do they bled plane begins to ripple outward to remain in place?” Aboulafia asked. “It’s ads, feature stories and more. But a funny thing suppliers. Adding to the woes, Boeing’s this trickle-down effect that’s most con- new Starliner capsule went off course cerning, and the biggest question is, you happened… the people who were interested in Friday during its first test flight. 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By ED HOWELL Wilcox County had the highest jobless which is a new record high and rep- Daily Mountain Eagle rate at 6.3 percent, followed by Clare resents an over-the-year increase of County at 4.8 percent and Greene and 82,609 workers. The 61,963 workers who Lowndes counties at 4.7 percent. Shelby were unemployed was touted as a new re- Walker County’s unemployment rate County was the lowest in the state’s 67 cord low, down from 83,298 in November rose in November, from 2.7 percent to 2.8 counties at 1.8 percent. 2018. The state’s civilian labor force also percent, while Winston County remained Winston was the highest unemploy- reached a new record high of 2,265,458, unchanged at 3 percent but standing as ment from this area, with the top 21 representing an over-the-year increase of the 21st highest unemployment in the unemployment counties being 3 percent 61,274. state. or higher. Alabama Department of Labor Secre- The statistics were released Friday Marion County was 25th highest in the tary Fitzgerald Washington said in the by the Alabama Department of Labor, state, while Walker County was 28th and release, “The number of jobs our economy which noted that for the seventh month Fayette 33rd. Tuscaloosa was the fifth is supporting is, yet again, at a record in a row, Alabama has reached a new re- lowest and Cullman was 10th lowest, high. We’ve seen a gain of more than cord low unemployment rate. Alabama’s while Blount was 11th lowest and Jeffer- 50,000 jobs since this time last year. preliminary, seasonally adjusted Novem- son was 12th lowest. Our job growth rate in November is the ber unemployment rate was 2.7 percent, Meanwhile, Gov. Kay Ivey talked highest it’s been all year, and we’ve once down from October’s previous record rate about the state’s low unemployment in a again surpassed the national job growth of 2.8 percent. It was well below Novem- release. rate.” ber 2018’s rate of 3.8 percent. “For seven months in a row now, we The release noted Alabama’s job The national seasonally adjusted rate have announced record-breaking jobs growth rate for November is 2.4 per- was 3.5 percent in November, down from numbers in Alabama,” Ivey said in a re- cent, the highest recorded in 2019. The 3.6 percent in October and 3.5 percent in lease. “We are consistently seeing yearly national job growth rate was listed at 1.5 November 2018. drops that are the highest in the nation. percent, and officials said November was In November 2018, Walker County’s Our jobs count continues to break re- the 10th month the state’s job growth rate had been 3.6 percent. cords and beat expectations. More than equaled or exceeded the national version. An estimated total of 712 people were rate there was 3.6 percent. 80,000 Alabamians are working today Cities not far from Walker County said to be unemployed in Walker County Other surrounding November unem- that weren’t last year. All this data were listed as having some of the lowest last month, up from 691 in October. The ployment rates included Blount, Cull- combines to paint a picture of economic major municipality unemployment rates estimated civilian labor force in Novem- man, and Tuscaloosa, all at 2.2 percent health in Alabama. We have one more in the state. ber was 25,808. and up from 2.1 percent in October; Fay- month to report on for 2019, but it’s cer- Homewood and Vestavia were at 1.6 A total of 295 workers out of a civilian ette, 2.6 percent (up from 2.5 percent); tainly shaping up to be a banner year!” percent, and Alabaster and Hoover were labor force of 9,932 were unemployed last Jefferson, unchanged at 2.3 percent; and State officials said in the release at 1.8 percent. Northport also was at 1.7 month in Winston County. The year-ago Marion, unchanged at 2.8 percent. 2,203,495 were employed in November, percent.

STATE IN BRIEF Mercy From A1 Pastor sentenced to more the department uses the than 1,000 years for sex abuse ones that can be repur- GADSDEN (AP) — An Alabama youth evangelist posed and auctions off the was sentenced Friday to more than 1,000 years in ones that doesn’t fit the prison after pleading guilty to multiple child-sex needs of law enforcement. charges. The Chrysler 300 was Al.com reports that a judge handed down the seized after WCSO’s Nar- maximum sentence on every count to Paul Edward cotics Division conducted Acton Bowen. Bowen had pleaded guilty in Etowah an eight-month investiga- tion with the U.S. Drug County to 28 counts involving six boys between the Enforcement Administra- ages of 13 and 16. tion of a group suspected The 39-year-old Bowen faced charges that in- of trafficking 40 to 50 clude sexual abuse, sodomy, enticing a child for sex kilos of meth ICE valued and traveling to meet a child for sexual abuse. He at more than $1 million still faces other charges in the Birmingham area. in Walker County over Victims and family members wept as the judge the last several years. slowly read out the maximum sentence and fine on The meth ring was operating in Pineywoods, every count, the newspaper reported. Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron The shackled minister apologized to his own fami- Curry and Thach, with the hub located on Old The sheriff’s department’s new vehicle, seized in 2016 from two individuals ly and victims in the courtroom. Pineywoods Road. “The shame and guilt I feel is overwhelming and The department con- eventually sentenced for trafficking meth, will help spread the word about has been for a long time,” he said. “My heart was firmed that the vehicle the Mercy Project. never wanting to hurt anybody but my mind was not belonged to Connie Hall- well.” mark Batchelor and Allen Batchelor and Morgan to traffic methamphet- time. He had previously pleaded not guilty by reason of M. Morgan. Batchelor, were among seven people amine across northwest “That vehicle was used mental disorder. arrested in June 2016, from Jefferson, Walker, Alabama, according to to cause a lot of damage Bowen was arrested on sex abuse charges last was sentenced to eight Marion and Franklin a press release from the to people’s lives. What year. Authorities say additional victims came for- years and four months in counties sentenced the U.S. Attorney’s Office in better way to use it now ward after he was in jail. prison. Morgan was sen- week of April 20, 2017, by Birmingham that was than to help people who Bowen was a Christian minister who wrote books, tenced to five years and U.S. District Judge R. Da- reported by the Daily want the help?” Smith three months in prison. vid Proctor for conspiring Mountain Eagle at the said. ran his own youth ministry and traveled to speak at youth events. Bowen pleaded guilty as his first trial was set to begin. Dora From A1

U.S. marshals arrest Alabama school and Highway 78. section of the road if the city would to purchase a new scoreboard and man wanted in Georgia slaying Resurfacing that stretch of street take over maintenance of the road basketballs. PHENIX CITY (AP) — U.S. marshals have arrested has been on Stephen’s radar since in the future. The old scoreboard is no longer an Alabama man accused of fatally shooting a wom- he took office. The road has been in “We are so grateful to all of functioning, and the department bad shape for years, but the Walker the people that were involved in only has practice basketballs for an after being robbed by her boyfriend at a Georgia County Board of Education didn’t getting this project done— Leeann the youths to use. gas station. have the funds to make repairs. Headrick, Dr. Joel Hagood, Mayor The estimate for the new score- News outlets report Tierre Tyrell Williams was ar- Neither the city nor the county Stephens, and Stephen Aderholt,” board and game balls is $600 and rested Wednesday night in Phenix City, Alabama, on could legally work on the road said Dora Principal Paige Abner. will be paid for out of the Park and charges including murder and aggravated assault. because it was considered private “This has been a goal of mine since Recreation fund. LaGrange, Georgia, police said Da’Jai Green, 22, property. 2015, and it is very gratifying to • Agreed to a request from the and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Deangelo Finley, The school board deeded the land see it come to fruition. Our stu- Police Department to send Chief stopped at an area gas station on Sunday and got to the city last spring, but when dents deserve to drive on decent Jared Hall to the Alabama Asso- into an argument with Williams. the clerk tried to record the deed, roads.” ciation of Chief of Police Winter “The two of them had some sort of a grudge over they discovered that the previous Stephens was elated that the Conference in February. administration at the board of road work had finally started. The cost of fees and expenses is a sale and a belief that there had been some kind of education had sold the property In other action, the council: $879. scam involved, and they just happened to run into to Richard Lovelady. This meant • Adopted a proclamation to • Approved a request from the each other,” LaGrange police Chief Lou Dekmar that the city still did not own the designate January 2020 Human Police Department to purchase new said Thursday, according to the LaGrange Daily property, and the road could not be Trafficking Awareness Month. body cameras at the cost of $2,770. News. paved. According to the wording of the The department recently received Finley then snatched Williams’ necklace, got into Lovelady later deeded the prop- proclamation, human trafficking is a $500 donation from Walmart, the car with Green and tried to flee, but Williams erty on which the road sits to the a growing problem, and the victims so they will apply this donation opened fire, fatally striking Green, according to city. This started the ball rolling. are usually women and children. toward the cost of the body camer- police. Stephens worked with Aderholt, • Approved a request from the as and the remainder of the money who agreed to resurface the short Park and Recreation Department coming from the court fund.

Jackson From A1 Trump From A1

When asked the best approach for encouraging “So far we haven’t parading his own witness Such messaging has he has not been bothered children to read, she said that it’s best to let them seen anything that looks list, including former been effective in driving by the whole impeach- read anything that interests them until they find fair to us,” she said late Vice President and 2020 outrage among the pres- ment episode, despite all what hooks them. Wednesday, dropping Democratic candidate Joe ident’s core supporters, evidence to the contrary. One obstacle is that often children are told at a surprise procedural Biden, even though there which Trump’s campaign Asked how he felt school what they have to read, and it makes them bombshell just after the is little appetite for that hopes will help propel about going down in not want to read. House cast its historic among Senate leaders. him to reelection next history as only the third Angela Lewis, who homeschools her daughters votes making Trump “The reason the year. president to be im- Abbie and Emma, said that libraries are a won- only the third president Democrats don’t want to But Graham made peached, Trump quipped, derful resource for parents who homeschool their in the nation’s history submit the Articles of Im- clear the president has “To me it doesn’t feel like children. The library gives children an abundance to be impeached. House peachment to the Senate not been swayed by that impeachment.” of books from which to choose, according to Lewis. Democrats had argued is that they don’t want argument, calling the Pelosi’s unexpected Jackson, who has loved of libraries for most of for weeks that Trump’s corrupt politician Adam delay a “constitutional procedural delay also her life, started reading books in the third grade. impeachment was needed Shifty Schiff to testify outrage” and insisting got a sour response from Her teacher, Donna Hall, got her hooked when she “urgently” to protect the under oath, nor do they everyone should have Senate Majority Leader suggested the Harry Potter books. nation. want the Whistleblower, their day in court. Mitch McConnell, who After Jackson’s initial exposure to books, she fell Democrats do not have the missing second Whis- Trump had told report- described the delay as a in love with reading. She began 2019 with a goal of enough votes in the tleblower, the informer, ers in the Oval Office “very unusual spectacle,” reading 150 books. She reached that goal in Sep- GOP-controlled Senate the Bidens, to testify!” earlier Thursday that given the urgency Dem- tember. to convict Trump and re- Trump tweeted late Democrats were “playing ocrats had previously “As of today, I’ve read 163 books,” Jackson said. move him from office, but Thursday. games,” claiming they expressed. “I lean toward mystery thrillers, or maybe fantasy have been pushing for a One White House offi- didn’t want to submit the “The prosecutors novels,” she said. “But, I read anything that catches trial to include witnesses cial mused that Pelosi’s charges “because they’re appear to have developed my interest.” Jackson can typically tell within the who declined to appear decision to indefinitely ashamed of ‘em” and add- cold feet,” he said Thurs- first few chapters whether or not it’s for her. during House committee delay the trial would be ing, falsely, that “they’re day on the Senate floor. The Sumiton library has events for adults and hearings, including act- an even more effective not allowed to do that. I “I admit, I’m not sure children throughout the year. An upcoming event is ing White House Chief of talking point for the hear it’s unconstitutional what leverage there is in Breakfast with Santa on Dec. 23, from 9 a.m. till 11 Staff Mick Mulvaney and president than his ex- and a lot of other things.” refraining from send- a.m. former national security pected acquittal because, There is no constitu- ing us something we “We also have a story hour every Thursday from adviser John Bolton. they argued, it would tional requirement for do not want,” he added. 3 p.m. till 4 p.m. where we read a story and do a Trump, meanwhile, highlight how Pelosi has the Democrats to trans- “Meanwhile, other House craft,” she said. For the past six weeks, the activi- has been hoping the trial manipulated the process mit the articles swiftly, Democrats seem to be ties have centered around the holidays. “This is all will serve as an opportu- to deny Trump the oppor- or at all. suggesting they’d prefer to get kids interested in reading early on,” Jackson nity for vindication, and tunity to defend himself Meanwhile, Trump never to transmit the said. continues to talk about and clear his name. insisted Thursday that articles. Fine with me.” Daily Mountain Eagle CHURCH Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 Religion A5 HAPPENINGS

Local church events are featured each Wednesday and Saturday in the Daily Mountain Eagle, and daily on the calendar at www.moun- taineagle.com. Events are listed by calendar date and time as space allows. There is no guarantee when or the number of days an event will run. The deadline to place an event is no later than noon Tuesday Write a letter to your pastor and Friday. Email event information to elane.jones@mountaineagle. com or call 205-221-2840, ext. 246. This wonderful new people, me without sugar coat- Pastors, stay in the story and getting to disciple ing anything! And then, Word. Never neglect it. NOTICE begins new believers I had led how the healing began to Sermon prep time is not • Matthew Ministry Outreach/Soup kitchen a year to Jesus. Not everything trickle, and later flood, devotion time. You desper- is held every Friday at 11 a.m. at LifeSprings ago with was bad by any means. into my heart! I began ately need God’s Word in Assembly of God on Highway 195. a walk Yet the hits became to reject the enemy’s lies you daily, just like every • Mt. Carmel Baptist Church on Horse Creek in the constant. I became part and held tighter to God’s follower of Jesus does. Go Blvd. in Cordova holds a Soup Kitchen every park. of a national news story truth. I am grateful God find you a “park” where Tuesday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. The that I wanted nothing to wanted me to stay in you can think, plan, and • Boldo United Methodist Church holds a park Be Our do with and social media Carbon Hill and God has pray. clothes closet the second Saturday of every was in Guest was not kind. In addition, given me a new vision for Church folks, pray for month from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Fayette Scott McCullar I experienced deep hurt 2020 and I am excited to your pastors! The enemy and the from unexpected places. implement it among our desires nothing more than SATURDAY, DEC. 21 walker I was busier than ever Faith Family and minis- to destroy them and their • Maranatha Baptist Church will host a was me. before and refused to try field. families. Can you imagine “Happy Birthday Jesus” party with a meal I had been contacted by stop and rest against the Why would I share any an enemy that targets served at 1 p.m. for children and adults. At 2 a church to become their wishes of my wife. I didn’t of this with you? Why someone each day and p.m., District 4 Councilwoman Jennifer Smith pastor and after a few take care of myself as I would I open up this vul- plans meticulously how will be introducing Santa and presents will be long discussions they had should have and began a nerable part of my life for to destroy them? This is distributed to all children present. offered me the position downward spiral in my you to examine? I share the devil’s heart and goal along with a higher heart and mind that I felt this because I am not towards your pastor, staff, SUNDAY, DEC. 22 salary. The pastor search like couldn’t be revealed alone. There are many of and church leadership. • Church of the Living God will have their committee was very kind to anyone. I mean, I’m you out there who strug- Your pastor is always, Christmas Program “Almost There” at 6 p.m. and encouraging and a Pastor, right? Aren’t I gle as I have. There are and I mean always, with fellowship to follow. was sincerely excited for supposed to have it all Pastors who would quit under attack. Never stop • Maranatha Baptist Church will be serving the possibilities should I together? Aren’t I never the ministry this minute praying for them. Forgive their annual Christmas Dinner at church at become their pastor. supposed to frown or be if they could find another them when they fail you 12:30 p.m. immediately following morning wor- I wrestled mightily upset and aren’t I obliged way to take care of their (because they will) and ship service. with the decision. Carbon to carry everyone’s bur- family. There are minis- encourage them when Hill was the only place dens without pause or ters who carry so many you get the opportunity MONDAY, DEC. 23 my kids had ever known. difficulty? This thinking burdens that they think (because they need it). • New Life Christian Church at 2780 Old Bir- Many pastors don’t have almost cost me every- their backs will break. As a matter of fact, will mingham Hwy will feed Christmas Dinner to the luxury of having their thing. There are Christians you do something for me? 100 people starting at 10:30 a.m. They will de- kids grow up in just one I began to struggle to who have suffered such Will you, today, write a liver to elderly if you provide the address. They town. In addition, the make it through any day. disappointment, loss and letter to your Pastor? You will also be selling smoked turkeys, smoked First Baptist Church of I became depressed. I con- heartbreak that they won- can put a gift in there if hams, and Boston butts. Carbon Hill has loved me tinued to refuse to take der if God is really good you like, but more im- and followed me and has time off as I should and after all. There are people portantly would you just TUESDAY, DEC. 24 been a great blessing to I didn’t rest. I just kept who are on the brink of write him an encouraging • Maranatha Baptist Church will host a me and my family and pushing and kept going disaster because they note that God can use to Christmas Eve Candlelight and Communion we love so many people and my family noticed it. have become disillusioned cheer and bless his heart? service at 11 p.m. there. In fact, one of the How could they not? My and disheartened because Christmas is this week families I treasure had kids didn’t understand of this difficult world we and what a wonderful WEDNESDAY, DEC. 25 experienced a devastating why Daddy was differ- live in. present it would be for • Maranatha Baptist Church will have Break- tragedy just days before ent. Why does Daddy not As Christians, Heaven him to know that you fast with Pastor Jerry Boyd on Christmas morn- this visit to the park. smile anymore? Why is is our home, not this de- are praying for him and ing from 8:30 until 9:30 a.m. All are welcome. My heart was broken for he always in a bad mood? praved world. No matter standing behind him. them: how could I leave? Several Sundays I carried how beautiful this world How he would be heart- SUNDAY, DEC. 29 However, I had been in around a resignation is or how wonderful the ened and strengthened for • Macedonia Baptist Church will host a 5th Carbon Hill for over a letter in my pocket and on experiences are within the year ahead knowing Sunday night singing at 5 p.m. decade. I was no longer a few occasions I even had it, only Heaven is our that you are lifting him the “new” pastor and my hand on it to bring it true home. No matter up before the Lord. SATURDAY, JAN. 4 people could easily get out and read it and leave how awful and tragic our You never know — you • Winston County Gospel Music Theatre will very comfortable which is the ministry for good. I circumstances become, might just save his min- host their monthly singing at 6 p.m. featuring never good because it can was in a darkness that I only Heaven is our true istry, his family and his the group Heartfelt Trio. Admission is free, destroy the urgency of the could not see myself out home. How often I forgot life! everyone welcome. Gospel. Maybe new blood of, except for one dark, this truth in those dark and leadership would be awful way… I believed my days, only seeing the sit- Scott McCullar is pastor at First a good thing. I lost much family and everyone else uations before me instead Baptist Church of Carbon Hilland can be reached by calling (205) 924-4145 sleep over the decision. as well would be better of focusing on the Savior or by email at [email protected]. So, I went to the off without me. I truly who will return for me. Guthrie J. Smith Park in came to the end of myself. Jesus said in John 16:33 Fayette. Fayette is where It was a very scary and that “I have told you these I grew up and always has shocking time. things, so that in me had a special place in my But God had told me you may have peace. In heart. And, for some rea- back at the park, “You this world you will have son, I can “think” there. will have to rely on Me trouble. But take heart! I I can go there and feel like never before.” God have overcome the world.” at ease and open before revealed to me that I had Trouble will find us, but “Did you see that the Lord. I walked the not relied on Him at all Jesus knows where we are winding track through in those dark moments. too. Praise the Lord! the trees and around the I had fallen prey to the Just because you are billboard we just pond. I completely poured enemy’s flaming arrows, a pastor, minister, or my heart out to God. nasty whispers, and Christian doesn’t mean And God spoke to me. destructive wiles. I was a you have to have it all passed?” Clearly. Directly. Pastor, though. I needed together. Don’t forget, you He told me not to go to to handle this all by my- get to be human, too. You the new church, but to self, right? Wrong. can’t be everywhere at stay where I was. But, The Bible teaches in 1 all times and you can’t be He added, this next year Peter 5:7 to cast “all your the solution to everyone’s would be very hard for care upon Him for He problems. I am not the me. I felt a sinking in my cares for you.” So I did. I one who can fix people gut. God then said to me: cast it all upon Him and and their issues. You are you will have to rely on His marvelous, amazing not the one who can fix Me this next year like grace. I began to realize people and their issues. never before because it anew some critical truths. But we know the One will be your hardest year I can’t do this, Lord, but who can! You can’t carry of ministry yet. Before I You can. I’m not good everyone’s burdens, make even drove home I called enough, Lord, but You everyone behave, or con- the chairman of that are. I am weak, Lord, but trol everyone’s beliefs. You pulpit committee and told You are strong. You are are not God! him of my decision to stay God and I am not. You are As ministers, we also “Not really. What did it say?” in Carbon Hill. He was in control and I, thankful- have to learn the dis- shocked and dismayed ly, am not. cipline of rest without “It was really interesting. It was something about a but was also very kind God, in His great grace, worrying about being and gracious. And then I led me to call a dear perceived as lazy or un- local business... let’s see... I’m trying to remember...” drove back to Carbon Hill. friend who, as a Pastor concerned. Take time off! Sure enough, this year himself, had suffered Go to a ballgame! Watch “HEY, watch that guy pulling over in our lane!” has been very difficult. through some of the same a movie! Work in the gar- Having said that, God has issues. As a matter of den! Enjoy your hobbies! “Yea, he’s been swerving around a lot.” provided great blessings fact, he was one of the Spend time with your throughout year, includ- most “successful” pastors family! Take a vacation! “Probably trying to dial his cellphone.” ing seeing my son Zak get I knew and yet had left Sit and do nothing for a his Children’s Ministry the pastorate because of while! IT’S OK! You can’t Day motion passed with stress and depression. care for others properly “There you go, he’s straightening up now. I bet his the Southern Baptist How God used this man if you aren’t caring for wife gave him an ear full!” Convention, meeting in my life as he talked to yourself properly. “What did you ask me before?” “I asked if you saw that billboard back there.” Trump blasts Christian magazine “No, what was it?” that called for his removal “I can’t remember now. Maybe we’ll come back this WASHINGTON (AP) — President helped propel him into office and sug- way next year.” Donald Trump blasted a prominent gested the editorial would likely do little Christian magazine on Friday, a day to shake that group’s loyalty. after it published an editorial arguing The Rev. Franklin Graham, who now that he should be removed from office leads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Who sees your ads? because of his “blackened moral record.” Association and prayed at Trump’s Trump tweeted that Christianity To- inauguration, tweeted Friday that his day, an evangelical magazine founded by father would be “disappointed” in the the late Rev. Billy Graham, “would rath- magazine. Graham added that he “felt er have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who it necessary” following the editorial to wants to take your religion & your guns, share that his father, who died last year than Donald Trump as your President.” after counseling several past presidents, Daily Daily MountainMountain EagleEagle The magazine “has been doing poorly voted for Trump. The president thanked and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham for the disclosure. Graham family for many years,” Trump Christianity Today “represents what It’s read and remembered wrote. I would call the leftist elite within the He later questioned whether the maga- evangelical community. They certain- by people who live and shop here. zine would prefer a Democratic president ly don’t represent the Bible-believing “to guard their religion.” segment of the evangelical community,” Some of his strongest evangelical sup- Graham told The Associated Press in porters, including Graham’s son, rallied an interview. He wrote on Facebook: “Is Call 221-2840 for to his side and against the publication. President Trump guilty of sin? Of course Their pushback underscored Trump’s he is, as were all past presidents and as advertising that works! hold on the evangelical voting bloc that each one of us are, including myself.” A6 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sat., Dec. 21, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com WALKERWALKER COUNTY COUNTY CHURCH CHURCH DIRECTORYDIRECTORY This Devotional & Directory Is Made Possible By These Businesses Who Encourage All Of Us To Attend Worship Services

LOCKSMITHS SAFES AL. LIC. #542 ADVENTIST NEW CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST Telephone: 648-6481 PRESBYTERIAN MT. ZION SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Walston Bridge Rd. 387-8702 Carbon Hill 924-8811/924-4306 TOWNLEY CHURCH OF GOD CARBON HILL PRESBYTERIAN A DVANCED L OCKSMITH 7th Ave. & 26th St. 387-1556 NEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF CHRIST Townley-Fayette Hwy. 102 227 NW 3rd Avenue • 924-8330 Alan & Diane BAPTIST CHURCH Hwy. 13 924-9715 924-9725 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN (PCA) & S ECURITY Clark ASSEMBLY OF GOD Pastor: Bro. Ed Frazier 221-5840 CHURCH OF CHRIST TRINITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF GOD 1510 4th Ave. • Jasper, AL 35501 • 1808 5th Ave. S.W., Jasper, AL 35501 ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST White Street 686-7996 300 The Trace East 221-9551 384-3994 “Y OUR S ECURITY I S O UR B USINESS ” ASSEMBLY OF GOD 770 Hwy. 5, North 384-4808 CLOVERHILL CHURCH OF CHRIST UNION CHAPEL CHURCH OF GOD 32365 Hwy. 69 N, Jasper 35504 NEW UNION HILL BAPTIST CHURCH Julius Brown, Sr., Minister Old Hwy. 78 483-8001 OTHER (205) 387-1969 • Fax: (205) 387-1913 Pastor, James Lee Aaron - 384-9817 Wright Rd., Townley COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHRIST HIGHWAY 5 CHURCH OF GOD ABUNDANT LIFE TEMPLE BETHEL GRACE CHURCH NEW ZION BAPTIST 1901 15th Ave. West • Jasper Nauvoo - Rev. Richard Harbin Jr. Hwy. 78 924-9317 Alabama Hwy. 5 North 295-1439 Nauvoo 697-5414 Minister: Robert Jeffery Jr. 924-8709 - Pastor AGAPE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES Outdoor Power Pastor, Curtis Hammonds NORTHSIDE BAPTIST 920-3511 NEW BEGINNINGS 303 Birmingham Ave. • Jasper, AL CROSSROADS ASSEMBLY OF GOD 500 Hwy. 78 By-Pass 384-3214 CORDOVA CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF GOD 35501 • 384-0229 Equipment, LLC (Formely Cordova A.G.) 387-0264 208 Alabama Ave. 483-7032 860 New Parrish/Cordova Hwy Parrish ARLEY HOUSE OF PRAYER 6000 Curry Hwy., Jasper 50 Warrior Ave. • Cordova, AL OAKMAN CENTRAL BAPTIST CROSSROADS CHURCH OF CHRIST Rev. Bobby Shedd 221-5974 - Pastor Hwy. 41, South - O’Neal Taylor, Pastor 205-387-8905 Senior Pastor Jay Trayal Oakman 622-3983 Bro. Kyle Gilpin • Hwy. 5 N. 384-9761 205-300-4257 PEACE BAPTIST CHURCH 221-2777 CHURCH OF AWAKENING LIFE ® CORNERSTONE ASSEMBLY OF GOD Mae Francis Street, Parrish CURRY CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS CHRIST 8400 Curry Hwy.. • Jasper, AL Hwy.195, Thach 384-5449 686-5656 Curry 387-7338 5454 Curry Hwy. OF LATTER DAY SAINTS Pastor Anthony Sellers 221-4664 Dr. Mark Barker EMPIRE ASSEMBLY OF GOD PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST DILWORTH CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST BACK FORTY COWBOY CHURCH ACAC 648-5685 Burrow’s Crossing 384-9628 Dilworth Community OF LATTER DAY SAINTS 134 Highland Shores Drive All 215 Curry Hwy. LIFE SPRING CHURCH PISGAH BAPTIST DOVERTOWN CHURCH OF CHRIST 18th Ave., NW 384-9510 Past, James Wright Jasper, AL 35503 2686 Hwy. 195, Jasper, AL 35503 Sipsey Cut-off 648-3788 Dovertown Community (205) 275-7545 Creatures 221-9320 PLEASANT GROVE BAPTIST BAHA’I COMMUNITY OF JASPER Phone: 205.221.3812 EARNEST CHAPEL CHURCH OF CHRIST EPISCOPAL Animal GRACE ASSEMBLY OF GOD Rt. 2, Nauvoo Rt. 2, Oakman ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL P.O. Box 2419, Jasper Urgent Care Line: NEW BEGINNING PROVIDENCE BAPTIST EAST WALKER CHURCH OF CHRIST 801 The Trace West 205-302-0931 Clinic 205.544.7180 Just off Prospect Rd. on Oakman 686-9555 Hwy. 78 East, Sumiton 648-3488 Rev. Robin H. Hinkle, Recto BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH [email protected] Lenard’s Chapel Rd., Carbon Hill PUMPKIN CENTER BAPTIST GOODSPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST 387-7746 McCollum Rd. - Jasper Pastor: Vernon Prescott 932-3562 20 Pumpkin Center Loop, Quinton Goodsprings 686-7014 Rev. Robert Taylor 387-1050 SUMITON FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD RIVERSIDE GENERAL BAPTIST CHURCH HATT CHURCH OF CHRIST HOLY CHURCH OF CHRIST CHRIST FELLOWSHIP 7421 Hwy. 5 North 648-8197 Located on River Road Hatt Hill 686-7446 HUNTER’S CHAPEL HOLY INTERNATIONAL Nauvoo, AL VICTORY ASSEMBLY OF GOD Paster: Rev. Michael Banks SUMITON CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF CHRIST P.O. Box 1791, Jasper, AL 35501 Sipsey Rd. 384-0857 (256) 287-1971 47 Scurlock St., Sumiton, AL 331 Hunters Chapel Road 205-522-7845 or 205-522-5633 205-384-9570 Pastor: Jay Trayel SAMARIA BAPTIST 648-2717 Jasper, AL CHRISTIAN WORSHIP CENTER artectractor.com FREEDOM ASSEMBLY OF GOD Industrial Blvd., Jasper LIBERTY CHURCH OF CHRIST (205) 483-6075 For Prayer & Info: 387-1264 1320 Curry Hwy • Jasper, AL Pastor: Rick Sherer • 387-0132 Boldo 221-2700 Paster: SAM CAIN CORONA INDEPENDENT 384-3337 • Pastor: James A. Grace SARAGOSSA FIRST BAPTIST MACEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST CAIN’S CHAPEL PINEY GROVE - BOLDO HOLINESS CHURCH Artec Tractor & Equipment 221-3834 Holly Grove Road 221-4436 PHILLIPS CHAPEL - SUMITON P.O. Box 183 • Oakman BAPTIST SHADY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH 622-3996 - Pastor, Larry Woods fuel • coll egiate merchandise McARTHUR HEIGHTS NEW HOPE ALDRIDGE COMMUNITY BAPTIST Parrish 686-3024 CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF DELIVERANCE b a r aA n n ’ s P l a 45 Vining Rd., Parrish 686-7400 SHANGHI BAPTIST CHURCH Old Parrish Hwy. 686-5620 JEHOVAH’S Zero Main St., Parrish, AL B a r a little bit of everything c e ARGO FIRST BAPTIST Minister: Gene Boshell 647-0122 MIDWAY CHURCH OF CHRIST WITNESSES CHURCH OF THE HOLY BIBLE Eldridge, AL 35554 U.S. Hwy. 78 • Argo SHILOH BAPTIST Hwy. 69 221-2760/221-2340 JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES 701 McCollum Rd. • Jasper, AL Pastor: Harold Spradlin 2406 24th 387-7078 MT. HARMONY CHURCH OF CHRIST 1609 6th W. 221-5121 Pastor, Randy Brand 205-924-9771 ARLEY FIRST BAPTIST SIXTH AVENUE BAPTIST New Birmingham Hwy. 384-3254 CHURCH OF LIVING GOD Ann and Barry Cook, Owners Arley 384-4667 2913 6th Avenue West NEW HOPE CHURCH OF CHRIST METHODIST Parrish Hwy. 221-6968 [email protected] BLOOMING GROVE BAPTIST Rev. Edmon Hullett Oakman ALDERSGATE UNITED METHODIST CUTTING EDGE MINISTRIES CHURCH Curry 387-8751 384-5593/836-3161(H) NORTH JASPER CHURCH OF CHRIST Hwy. 78, Dora 11:00 AM Service 648-2470 7655 Hwy. 78, Dora • Pastor Joe J. BOLDO FIRST BAPTIST STRAIGHTWAY BAPTIST Hwy. 5, Jasper ARLEY UNITED METHODIST Brock (205) 737-3343 Boldo 387-7956 Corner of Main St. & State St., Sumiton • OAK GROVE CHURCH OF CHRIST Hwy. 41 • Arley, AL DELIVERANCE WORSHIP CENTER BOLTON GARAGE, INC. CALVARY BAPTIST Pastor: Michael Isbell 240 Pumpkin Center Cutoff Rd. Quinton, AL BOLDO UNITED METHODIST 1501 5th Ave. S., Jasper, AL. 35501 • Greg Sims Owner Box 124, Dora 648-5757 SUNLIGHT BAPTIST 35130 • Minister: Jerry Johnson 483-1039 55 Gray Rd., Boldo 205-256-2173 Mon. through Fri. 8AM to 5 PM CEDAR HILL BAPTIST Sunlight Rd. OAKMAN CHURCH OF CHRIST CHRIST UNITED METHODIST Pastor : Wanda Standfield Box 540, Jasper TOWNLEY FIRST BAPTIST Townley P.O. Box 396, Oakman 622-3410 602 28th Ave. 387-7603 Co-Pastor: Robert Standfield delwor- 1182 Golf Course Rd. (205) 384-0844 CENTRAL INDEPENDENT BAPTIST TWENTY-SIXTH STREET BAPTIST THE PARRISH CHURCH OF CHRIST CORDOVA BIBLE METHODIST [email protected] Jasper, AL 35504 [email protected] 900 Airport Rd., South•Jasper 221-3394 26th East 384-5151 584 New Oakman Hwy. • Parrish, AL 686- Corner of Linden & Massachusetts DESPERATION CHURCH COAL CITY BAPTIST UNION GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH 7996 • Minister: Scott McCown Rev. Paul Key • 483-6068 204 19th St. E, Jasper 2906 Coal City Rd., Jasper, AL 35501 Cordova (Barney) TUBBS CHURCH OF CHRIST CROSSROADS UNITED METHODIST 256-255-5979 “Home of The Lifetime Engine Warranty” 387-7774 or 384-6042 WESTSIDE BAPTIST Rt. 1, Oakman 3785 Hwy. 5 • Jasper 221-1552 FAITH WORSHIP CENTER CORINTH BAPTIST 1201 22nd W. 384-5182 VALLEY VIEW CHURCH OF CHRIST CURRY UNITED METHODIST 2075 Main St., P.O. Box 38, Sumiton Gardners Gin Rd. 483-9534 WYATT BAPTIST CHURCH Manuel Hil Rd. in Hay Valley Hwy. 257, Curry Mark E. Ridgeway, Min. 648-8261 Boyles Auto Sales CROSSWAY BAPTIST Burnwell 686-9982 DURR’S CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST FREEDOM WORSHIP www.boylesauto.com 1160 Aldridge Rd., Parrish, AL 35580 WEST WALKER CHURCH OF CHRIST Corner of Euclid Ave., Jasper Behind PJ’s Rest. on Hwy. 69 686-7881 FREEWILL BAPTIST Hwy. 78 E. 924-9038 ELDRIDGE UNITED METHODIST Marlin ‘Cotton’ Eddy, Pastor 221-4074 DORA FIRST BAPTIST ARGO FREEWILL BAPTIST WOODLAND TRACE CHURCH OF CHRIST 188 Kelley St., Eldridge GOD’S CHILDREN 205-265-3011 Jasper, Alabama Dora 648-9414 648-3279 The Mall Way & The Trace FIRST UNITED METHODIST Main, Parrish 686-5088 DORA SECOND BAPTIST CARBON HILL FIRST FREEWILL BAPTIST ZION CHURCH OF CHRIST 1800 Third Avenue 387-2111 healing the nations int’l church Dora 648-5998 Pastor: Dewight Bailey Cordova Road 686-5277 FIRST UNITED METHODIST 7655 Hwy. 78 Dora CANDYLAND DUTTON HILL BAPTIST CEDROM GROVE FREEWILL BAPTIST Carbon Hill 924-4409 Pastor Mike Ingle 205-384-1089 2263 Dutton Hill Rd., Oakman, AL 35579 Carbon Hill • Pastor Ron Woodard CHURCH OF GOD JASPER INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH HOPE HOUSE CHURCH Day Care EASTSIDE BAPTIST (205) 602-9444 ARGO CHURCH OF GOD 3405 Veteran Dr., Jasper 35501 1602 10th Ave., Jasper, AL 35501 6am to 6pm • 221-(LOVE) 5683 Hwy. 69 East 387-1406 CORDOVA FREEWILL BAPTIST Hwy. 78, Argo 648-6745 KING’S CHAPEL METHODIST Thomas Martin, Pastor Breakfast - Lunch - Snacks EDGIL GROVE BAPTIST 414 First 483-6846/483-6272 BAGLEY CHURCH OF GOD Hwy. 124 HOUSE OF PRAYER #1 721 Curry Hwy, Farmstead Area Edgil Grove 221-2203 DOVERTOWN FREEWILL BAPTIST Hwy. 78 W. on the right just before you LAMON CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST Florida Ave. 221-0662 After School Pick Up, Jasper Schools ELDRIDGE BAPTIST Dovertown 483-9650 get to Sumiton • Pastor Larry Gilbert Hwy. 195 N., Thach HOLY GROUND Eldridge 924-4102 FAITH FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH 648-0830 LONG MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST FREEDOM WORSHIP CENTER FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH, Pastor: Darryl Gurganous, Hwy. 5 BOLDO CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY 207 Green Ave., Cordova Garvey Lee Dr. (Off Blackwell Dairy Rd.) GOODSPRINGS 300-3126 34 Pine Drive, Jasper 295-0042 483-6550 Pastor: Jimmy Grace God Bless Our Community! 49 Robbins Road • Goodsprings FIRST FREEWILL BAPTIST Roy Lynn Hitt, Pastor NAUVOO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GOOD NEWS 3 MINISTRY 686-9868 Bobby F. Smith, Pastor 2200 Gamble Ave - 221-9270 CHAPEL HILL FULL GOSPEL Pastor: Roger Watkins PO Box 3303 • Jasper, AL 35502 Thank You! FARMSTEAD BAPTIST 221-9283 CHURCH OF GOD 205-706-2193 (205) 275-8027 Curry Rd. 384-3501 HARVEST FREEWILL BAPTIST 1919 Arkadelphia Rd., Jasper OAKMAN UNITED METHODIST JASPER ALLIANCE FERN SPRINGS 6688 Curry Hwy. Rev. Chris Bowen 302-0430 OLD ZION UNITED METHODIST Hwy. 5 at Bradford Rd. Policeman and Firefighters 1646 Fern Springs Rd., Eldridge, AL Ricky 221-5634 Pastor: Jess West CHURCH OF GOD CARBON HILL Hwy. 5N, Saragossa JASPER BIBLE MISSIONARY Meeks, Pastor • 924-1694 NEW CALVARY FREEWILL BAPTIST North Maple St., POCAHONTAS UNITED METHODIST 220 Hunters Chapel Rd., Jasper FIRST BAPTIST - CARBON HILL Prospect Rd. Johnny Sims | 205-275-6281 Rt. 2, Hwy. 78, Carbon Hill 384-0919 FROM YOUR FR IENDS AT: 924-4145 924-9477 • Pastor: Bobby Connell CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY PROSPECT METHODIST CHURCH JASPER PILGRIM NAZARENE CHURCH FIRST BAPTIST - CORDOVA NEW OAK GROVE FREEWILL BAPTIST 253 Stevens St., Cordova • 648-9894 Prospect Road 1409 5th Avenue South • Jasper CARL CANNON Massachusetts Ave. 483-7492 Rev. Mickey Crane Rev. Bobby Patterson ST. JAMES CME Pastor: Bryan Shields CHEVROLET—CADILLAC—BUICK—GMC FIRST BAPTIST - JASPER OAKMAN FIRST FREEWILL BAPTIST COPELAND’S FERRY CHURCH OF GOD 409 25th 221-4137 205-221-2470 1604 4th Ave. 221-6444 Oakman 622-3496 16255 Hwy. 269 • 674-0269 SUMITON UNITED METHODIST LIVING WORD TABERNACLE FIRST BAPTIST - PARRISH POCAHONTAS FREEWILL BAPTIST Pastor: Rev. Joshua East • 639-2316 Main Street, Sumiton 205 Fall City Rd. - Pastor Greg 384-5561 or carlcannon.com 686-5707 Nubbin Bend Rd. 924-3184 CORDOVA CHURCH OF GOD UNION CHAPEL UNITED Strickland, 384-5613•387-1118 FIRST BAPTIST - OAKMAN TOWNLEY FREEWILL BAPTIST River Road 483-7714 METHODIST MY FATHER’S HOUSE MINISTRIES Exit 65 on Corridor “X” Water Oak St. • Bill Phillips, Pastor 205- Townley 924-8926 CORDOVA CHURCH OF GOD 330 Buttermilk Rd, Cordova 535-8983 711 McCollum Rd. • Jasper, AL 622-3400 OF PROPHECY 438-8130 WILLIAMS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST Pastor: Kenneth Hyde•205-275-0706 CHECK OUT OUR FIRST BAPTIST - SUMITON MISSIONARY BAPTIST CURRY CHURCH OF GOD Hwy. 69 N. Co. Line NEW BEGINNINGS 648-9558 AIKEN GROVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST Curry 221-7710/221-9629 Pastor: Charlie Brown CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP LOW PRICES! FIRST BAPTIST Pastor: Archie Homan • 384-5374 DILWORTH CHURCH OF GOD WRIGHT’S CHAPEL AME 1901 15th Ave. West, Jasper 818 Fall City Rd., Jasper 2701 Corona Ave. 387-7030 ALDRIDGE MISSIONARY BAPTIST 3688 Hull Road, Empire 648-6327 607 27th St., West 384-0558 Pstr: Bro. James Cook 924-0517 FREEDOM BAPTIST 1160 Aldridge Rd., Parrish DORA CHURCH OF GOD ZION UNITED METHODIST NEW DAY OUTREACH CENTER 205-300-5292 Nauvoo Hwy. 924-8611 1306 1st Street • Jasper CALL CENTRAL READY 686-7881 • Rev. Scott Argent Dora 648-6865 1910 3rd St. Southwest, Jasper MIX FOR ALL YOUR FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST BARTON’S CHAPEL EMPIRE CHURCH OF GOD 205-221-0579 behind Marvins, beside Hudson Pawn CONCRETE NEEDS! 483-7080 MISSIONARY BAPTIST Empire 648-6159 Rev. Joseph O. Strawn Sr. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST Pastor: Johnny Franklin HOLY BIBLE NAZARENE 265-3322 Rt. 7, Jasper 648-5668 River Rd. Loop — Cordova Fall City CHURCH OF GOD IN NAUVOO BOLEY CHURCH OF THE Services 7:00 pm Saturday Nights Compliments Of GIBSON HILL BAPTIST CHURCH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH HOMEWOOD FULL GOSPEL NAZARENE www.newdaymins.webs.com 622-2358 7327 Fall City Rd., Jasper, AL 35503 CHURCH OF GOD 4020 County Rd. 83, Berry NEW VISION MINISTRIES GLORY FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH Youth Minister: Andrew Dickerson 388-2215 Old Hwy. 78 City Limits Jimmy Earnest, Pastor 27913 Hwy 69 • Boldo 175 Cordova Cutoff Rd, GRACE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 924-0431/924-9700 988-3433 Pastor - Bro. Dewayne West 387-0500 Pastor Adam Brewer 25899 Hwy. 69 N., Jasper, AL 35504 JASPER CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY FIRST CHURCH PLEASANT HILL GOODSPRINGS BAPTIST Pastor: Bro. Danny Carter 295-1111 502 Airport Rd. N. OF THE NAZARENE Townley 689-4660 Rt. 2, Parrish 221-2338 MT. PISGAH MISSIONARY BAPTIST Leland Lowery, Pastor • 471-3470 400 14th 384-4492 RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS 205-924-9922 GORGAS BAPTIST CHURCH Cordova • 483-8188 LEONARD’S CHAPEL GRACE CHAPEL formerly Key Hill Church Gorgas - Pastor Tim Saylors 483-1108 NEW BETHEL CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 1589 Hayes Hill Rd. • Oakman GORGAS MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Johnny Franklin Rev. Tony Key 221-1787 Hwy. 124 221-7656/384-5231 Rev. Henriques • 205-388-3811 1105 Martin School Rd. ODOM MEMORIAL THE LIVING LIGHT CHURCH OF GOD Pastor: Chris Lindsey (cell #) 522-4808 SLEEPY HOLLOW IND. MEM. CHURCH Collins-Burke Pastor Charles Harbison 483-7716 MISSIONARY BAPTIST 3420 N. Airport Rd. Pastor Joey Vick NORTHSIDE NAZARENE Union Chapel 483-7947 GREATER SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH Parrish 686-5753 387-7195/384-6356 1909 Snoddy Chapel Road SMITH CHAPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH Funeral Home 2603 Martin King Drive 387-7078 PLEASANTFIELD SANCTUARY CHURCH OF GOD 384-5429 Smith Chapel Road • Carbon Hill Pastor 923-1400 MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 205 Fall City Rd. NAUVOO CHURCH Pastor: Steve Thompson SERVING WALKER COUNTY OVER 30 YEARS GREATER VISION BAPTIST 109 Rob Key Rd. -Parrish • 686-9889 Pastor: Keith Banks 387-1118 OF THE NAZARENE 205-471-9064 303 Oak Hill Road Mike Burke 384-5571 Sharon Blvd., Dora PLEASANT GROVE MEMORIAL PARK CHURCH OF GOD 3rd St., Nauvoo • Pastor, David Farris SPRINGHILL COMMUNITY Pastor Wayne Ferguson, 648-3481 MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 1002 11th Ave., West 387-2713 522-6408 Nauvoo 924-9842 GRACE BAPTIST Pleasant Grove Rd., Jasper, AL 221-4134 NAUVOO CHURCH OF GOD PARRISH CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE THE R.O.C.K. IN JASPER Kristy Mauldin, RN, BSN US Hwy 78, Sumiton - Pastor Andy Frazier SHADY GROVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 445 19th St., W., Jasper Administrator Dogtown 924-9080/924-9136 Pastor: Randy ‘Bubba’ Clark, HARMONY BAPTIST 44 Reese Street • Sipsey NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH OF GOD Assoc. Pastor: Roy Smith Pastor: Todd Hunter 205-471-4952 Hwy. 195 221-1377 Pastor: Shedrick Jones Jr. TOTAL PACKAGE MINISTRY 319 19th Street West 1802 15th Avenue West, Jasper Pastor: Alvie 1436 New Parrish Cordova Hwy. HERMON BAPTIST NON DENOMINATION Jasper, Al 35501 (205) 648-9666 Cook • (205) 924-1144 or Parrish, AL 35580• 686-9556 205-282-4308 Rt. 8, Jasper UNION CHAPEL (205) 522-3296 SALEM CHURCH 2700 Highland Ave. • Jasper Toll Free 1-855-577-4308 KANSAS BAPTIST CHURCH MISSIONARY BAPTIST NEW BETHANY FULL GOSPEL OF THE NAZARENE Pastor: Spencer Abrom 205-282-2377 Fax 205-265-2677 33017 Hwy. 11, Carbon Hill, AL Union Chapel • Pastor Adam Bolton CHURCH OF GOD County Rd. 83, Berry TRINITY CHURCH [email protected] LUPTON FIRST BAPTIST Galloway Rd. 924-0176/924-8133 Rev. Johnathon Smith-622-2300 2615 Ripley Road • Carbon Hill, Nauvoo 384-3951 PRIMITIVE BAPTIST NEW BETHEL SARAGOSSA CHURCH (205) 275-6628 MON.-FRI. SAT. 8:AM - 4:PM MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH LIBERTY GROVE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST OF THE NAZARENE Pastor: James M. Smith 8:AM - 6:PM Floors, Doors, Macedonia Loop Rd., Jasper New Flatwoods Road 2302 8th Ave., Jasper Rt. 2, Jasper-Greg Tinker, Min. 387-2893 TRINITY GOSPEL CENTER Cabinets, Pastor: Donnie Elliott LIBERTY PRIMITIVE BAPTIST Elder Murray Johnson Main St., Sumiton 648-5070 MANCHESTER BAPTIST 7828 McCormick Rd. 648-6281 OWEN CHAPEL CHURCH OF GOD PENTECOSTAL WALK OF FAITH MINISTRIES and More! Bob Holley, Min. PLEASANT GROVE Coon Creek Road in Empire FAIRVIEW PENTECOSTAL 9290 Hwy. 124 Carbon Hill, AL Discount MARANATHA BAPTIST PRIMITIVE BAPTIST Joey and Nancy Clark • 648-3584 Oakman 622-3181 Pastor: Tony German • 924-8479 205-295-2000 Corner Josephine & Barker St. Cemetery Rd. • Boldo THACH CHAPEL CHURCH OF GOD GOODSPRINGS FULL WEST JEFFERSON ASSEMBLY HOME CENTER 2105 Hwy. 78 East, Jasper Jasper • 387-9275 ZION REST PRIMITIVE BAPTIST Hwy. 195 Bennett Rd., Jasper GOSPEL CHURCH located at old West Jefferson HS www.facebook.com/DHC.Jasper MEEK BAPTIST 1304 Viking Drive, Jasper Pastor, Jonathan Lombard 5 Mi. So. of Parrish 686-9210 Bishop Timothy Buckelew • 674-0746 Arley 387-7731 384-4831 - 384-1524 OAKMAN CHURCH OF GOD GREATER JOY DELIVERANCE CHURCH WILLIS CHAPEL MOUNT CARMEL BAPTIST 622-3472 507 23rd Street West - Jasper 221-9336 6509 Horse Creek Blvd. CATHOLIC PARRISH CHURCH OF Pastor: Willie E. Sanders, Jr. THE HEALERS HOUSE Cordova, AL 483-7729 St. Cecilia Catholic GOD of PROPHECY 205-815-9520 4154 Hwy. 5 • Jasper, AL 35504 Dobbins Oil Company MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH 2159 Hwy 195 384-4800 Cohn Street, Parrish JEHOVAH JIREH APOSTOLIC Pastor: Clarice Higgins 387-7035 6509 Horsecreek Blvd. • Cordova Wendall Cephus Prophitt, Pastor 686-5623 HOLINES FAITH CHURCH THE LIFEHOUSE All Major Oil Products (205) 924-4126 483-7729 Pastor Kip Cordell CHRISTIAN PARRISH FREEWILL 4040 Veterans Memorial Dr., Adamsville 445 Pinedale Drive• Jasper, AL Shirley Dobbins, President / Art Stoval, Sales Rep. MT. JOY BAPTIST FIRST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH (205) 674-7438 Pastor: Richard & Julie Aaron Jeffery Stoval, Warehouse Mgr. Smith Lake 384-4406 400 W. 18th 384-6302/221-4872 (Formerly Old Freewill Baptist) Parrish Pastor: Johnny Traylor Jackson 221-6746 MT. OLIVE BAPTIST NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY SIPSEY CHURCH OF GOD MY FATHER’S HOUSE UNITY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH 1001 27th St., West 221-5874 Cordova Rd. - James Aycox - 648-6544 Sipsey Piney Woods Rd. - Sipsey Hwy. 257 N.-Gateway Plaza - Curry 1301 US Hwy. 78 E, Ste 211 Jasper MT. PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST 255-6088 • Pastor Jeffrey M. Long Elder Mac Wright-302-0586 Pastor: Ricky Henrique 205-388-1566 Gorgas Rd. 483-7576 CHURCH OF CHRIST SOUTHSIDE CHURCH OF GOD MY FATHER’S HOUSE CHURCH MINISTRIES WHOSOEVER WILL COMMUNITY CHURCH MT. PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST CHURCH ARGO CHURCH OF CHRIST Bro. Mike Jenkins • Carbon Hill, AL 505 19th Street West • Jasper, AL Alabama Highway 5 North 1885 Cordova-Gorgas Rd., Cordova Hwy. 78, Argo 387-0290 Pastor: Louise Posey • 686-7075 Nauvoo, AL 483-7576 ARLEY CHURCH OF CHRIST SPRINGHILL PHILADELPHIA DELIVERANCE MT. VERNON BAPTIST Hwy. 41, Arley 221-6564 FULL GOSPEL CHURCH OF GOD TABERNACLE 6450 Curry Highway BLACKWATER MACEDONIA Bonner Holler Rd. in Dogtown Lynn 893-5822 John Gates, Min. 205-387-8251 CHURCH OF CHRIST Sister Debbie Guthrie PRAISE TABERNACLE MT. ZION BAPTIST Macedonia 384-6330 CE SUMITON CHURCH OF GOD UNITED PENTECOSTAL Fall City Rd. 384-1925 CEDAR CREEK CHURCH OF CHRIST 50 Hosanna Drive • Sumiton, AL 1600 6th Ave., Jasper 387-1633 NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH Oakman - Tutwiler Rd. Senior Pastor: Dr. J. Martin Taylor WORD OF FAITH DELIVERANCE TEMPLE Carbon Hill 924-3085 CHURCH OF CHRIST Telephone: 648-3257, Extension 0 303 Birmingham Ave., Jasper Pastor Derrick Hall 24th 387-0222 SUMITON CHURCH OF GOD Certified Public Accountants, LLC 205-295-5079 NEW BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST Joseph R. 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CBS parting Addison ways with SEC football The SEC on CBS Wright scores has an expiration date. The confer- ence won’t carry 25 points in win SEC football games after the 2023 sea- By JOHNATHAN BENTLEY son according to Eagle Sports Editor the Sports Business SUMITON — A night after becoming only the Journal. fifth Sumiton Christian player to top the 1,000 The network’s career point barri- current $50-million- er, Isaiah Wright scored 25 points to a-year deal was up lead the Eagles to for renewal after a 68-56 home win that season and over Addison on Fri- CBS was outbid. day night. With the win, Sumiton Christian picked up its According to SBJ, 10th victory of the season while avenging a road ESPN and ABC loss to Addison. look like the likely Wright and fellow senior Jeremy Brown com- bined to score 16 points in the fourth quarter. home for the con- Wright put the game away by going 7 of 8 from ference’s top game the free-throw line in the final period. of the week starting Addison trailed by 11 points (46-35) going into in 2024. The move the final quarter, but cut the gap to six points at 49-43 early in the fourth, after a 3-pointer to ESPN and its and a dunk by Logan Wilkins. Sumiton Chris- partner channel tian opened the lead back up to 10 points after ABC makes a lot of a free throw by Jase Barrentine and baskets by sense and would Wright and Brown made the score 59-49 with 3:33 left. Addison didn’t get closer than eight turn the conference points the rest of the way. into entirely an Wright had nine points in the fourth quarter ESPN property on and was 13 of 15 from the free-throw line in the the football side. game. He had 13 points in Thursday night’s win over Jefferson Christian. He needed just four ESPN has a stake points to get to 1,000 points. Wright now has in the SEC Network 1,034 points for his career. and CBS is the only Sumiton Christian’s other 1,000-point scorers non-ESPN affiliated are Andy Rice (1998), Josh Russell (2001), Jus- tin Craig (2007) and Judson Laird (2019). network that cur- Brown had seven of his 10 points in the fourth rently has the rights quarter. Cody Long had 12 points for Sumiton to broadcast SEC Christian (10-5), Barrentine finished with eight football games. points, Josh Allred had four while Eli Moon, Zach Hill and J.C. Sheffield each had three CBS has been the points. home of the SEC’s For Addison, which earned a 63-61 win over top games since Sumiton Christian earlier this month, Wilkins 1996. had 24 points, including 17 in the final quarter. Cannon Hiller added 11 points and Eli Howse put in 10. Daily Mountain Eagle - Johnathan Bentley Sports on TV Sumiton Christian defeated Jefferson Chris- Sumiton Christian’s Isaiah Wright (4) shoots as Addison’s Logan Wilkins (1) tian 76-38 on the road Thursday night. The Ea- gles outscored Jefferson Christian 35-11 in the College Football defends during their game on Friday night. Wright had 25 points in the Eagles’ Alcorn St. vs. NC A&T, 68-56 win. Wilkins had 27 points for Addison. See BASKETBALL, B4 11 a.m., ABC C. Mich. vs. S. Diego St., 1 p.m., ESPN UAB FOOTBALL Liberty vs. Georgia So, Several top 1:30 p.m., CBSSN SMU vs. FAU, No. 22 Appalachian State, UAB 2:30 p.m., ABC recruits FIU vs. Arkansas St., 4:30 p.m., ESPN face off in New Orleans Bowl still remain Boise St vs. Wash., By The Associated Press 6:30 p.m., ABC Appalachian State wants to finish ranked — pref- App State vs. UAB, erably in the top 20 — and that won’t happen if they unsigned 8 p.m., ESPN cannot defeat a UAB team coming off a lopsided loss By STEVE MEGARGEE in the Conference USA title College Basketball game. AP Sports Writer Indiana vs. N. Dame, The Mountaineers also College football’s early signing 11 a.m., ESPN are trying to go 5-0 in bowls period closed with several top-100 in their first five bowl eligi- prospects still officially uncommit- Kansas at Villanova, ble season since their transi- ted. 11 a.m., FOX tion from FCS-level play to the top tier of Division I. That doesn’t necessarily mean UAB is seeking its second bowl victory and third they’re undecided. Samford at G’town, victory over a ranked team in program history. Nine of the nation’s top 100 pros- 11 a.m., FS1 ——— pects according to composite rank- NEW ORLEANS BOWL Illinois at Missouri, ings of recruiting sites compiled by No 20 Appalachian State (12-1, Sun Belt) vs. UAB 247Sports are listed as uncommit- noon, SECN (9-4, Conference USA), Saturday at 8 p.m. CST ted, but the majority of them plan Texas at Providence, (ESPN). to announce their college decisions Line: Appalachian State by 17. over the next two weeks. 1 p.m., FOX ——— Cornerbacks Kelee Ringo Florida vs. Utah, KEY MATCHUP (ranked No. 8 overall) and Dontae Appalachian State’s balanced and multiple of- 1:30 p.m., FS1 Manning (No. 76), tight end/ath- fense run by dual-threat QB Zac Thomas against an lete Darnell Washington (No. 10), UCLA vs. UNC, attacking UAB defense that ranks ninth nationally wide receivers Gary Bryant Jr. 2 p.m., CBS in yards allowed per game and eighth in sacks per (No. 57) and Xzavier Henderson game. The Mountaineers this season have averaged (No. 59) and running backs Zach- Belmont vs. Alabama, 229.2 yards rushing and 206.3 yards passing, while ary Evans (No. 14) and Daniyel 2:30 p.m., SECN scoring 34 TDs on the ground and 28 through the Ngata (No. 80) are scheduled to air. The Blazers have allowed less than 300 yards announce at their respective high Ohio St. vs. Kentucky, per game while totaling 99 tackles for loss and 43 school all-star games. The Under 4:15 p.m., CBS sacks. Armour All-America Game takes ——— Minnesota at OK State, place Jan. 2 in Orlando, Florida, PLAYERS TO WATCH and the U.S. Army All-American 4:30 p.m., ESPN Appalachian State: RB Darrynton Evans Bowl is Jan. 4 at San Antonio, rushed for more than 1,100 yards for a second Lehigh at Auburn, Daily Mountain Eagle - Matt Norris Texas. straight season to go with 23 total touchdowns, in- “It’s just an opportunity to do it 5 p.m., SECN cluding 17 rushing, five receiving and one on a kick UAB linebacker Alex Wright celebrates on national television and just sort Oregon St at Tex A&M, return. He needs two touchdowns to break the Sun a sack against Louisiana Tech this of make a moment out of it,” said Belt record for TDs in a season of 24 set by Middle 7:30 p.m. SECN season. UAB plays Appalachian State Barton Simmons, the director of See UAB, B2 in the New Orleans Bowl today. See RECRUITS, B4 B2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sat., Dec. 21, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com SPORTS DIGEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL ‘Petersen Bowl’: Washington, Pass rusher Nick Coe leaves Auburn before Outback Bowl AUBURN, Alabama — Auburn pass rusher Nick Boise State meet in Las Vegas Coe has left the team and will not participate in the Outback Bowl. By DAN GREENSPAN ern Conference or Big Ten foes on a The Buck/defensive end announced Friday af- Associated Press rotating basis. The Mountain West ternoon on Instagram he has left the team and will champion will still face a Pac-12 LAS VEGAS — Chris Peters- opponent but in a new bowl game pursue the NFL. en brought Boise State into the to be held at the stadium the Los The news comes on the heels of a disappointing national consciousness with trick Angeles Rams and Chargers will regular season in which he did not live up to expec- plays and toughness. share in Inglewood, California. tations after breaking out as the Tigers’ top pass He returned Washington to the MUSICAL CHAIRS rusher (team-leading seven sacks and 13.5 tackles top of the Pac-12 with his kind of The Broncos needed three differ- guys. ent quarterbacks to win the Moun- for loss) in 2018. Coe finished his junior season with Now, as Petersen is set to step tain West, and they will have a a career-low 15 tackles, including three for losses, in away after six seasons leading the different play caller after offensive only nine games. He did not record a sack. Huskies and 14 consecutive years coordinator Zak Hill took the same He did not play in Auburn’s 51-10 victory against of the “frustration and anxiety position at Arizona State. Harsin will take a bigger role but joked he Arkansas in late October because of a coach’s deci- and stress” that come with being a head coach, his final game for the will “just put it on autopilot. Yeah, sion. time being will fittingly match the it’s already prerecorded, so we’re “He’s gonna have to do better off the field, on the Huskies against the No. 18 Broncos good that way.” field, so we’ll see how that works this week,” Auburn in the Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday. ASCENDANT AHMED coach Gus Malzahn said at the time. Petersen initially expressed After his first two seasons at Washington saw him used as a Malzahn seemed disappointed in Coe’s efforts at hesitation about having his Hus- kies (7-5) play the Broncos (12-1), change of pace rusher capable of the time. providing big plays, Huskies run- who are led by his former offensive AP Photo “Yeah, you got to have a good week,” Malzahn coordinator Bryan Harsin. But ning back Salvon Ahmed showed said. “He’s got to show up and have a good week on Washington players have embraced Former Boise State head coach he could handle a full workload as the field and off the field.” everything around the matchup. Chris Petersen will coach his a junior. Ahmed had four games “There is motivation, 100%,” de- with at least 20 carries, including fensive lineman Levi Onwuzurike final game as Washington ‘s a career-high 25 attempts for 174 TCU placed on NCAA probation said. “We all know the history, head coach in the Las Vegas yards and two touchdowns against (Petersen) has been at Boise State Bowl today. Oregon State, en route to rushing for athletes’ no-show jobs and is here now. We want to win a for 1,000 yards and nine touch- The NCAA placed TCU on probation for one year bowl game and send him out with cess. Harsin has tried to emulate downs. a win.” that model, and with five seasons PAC ATTACK after the school self-reported 33 athletes in football Petersen, 55, caught college foot- of at least 10 wins in his six years Boise State is 12-6 against the and basketball being paid for work they didn’t do. ball by surprise when Washington with the Broncos, it seems to have Conference of Champions since The NCAA released the decision of the committee announced on Dec. 2 that he would carried through. 2004, including a 4-1 record in on infractions Friday. step down, with defensive coor- “If you’re smart, you want to bowl games with wins over Arizona try to figure out the formula and TCU was also punished for practice violations in dinator Jimmy Lake taking over State, Washington and Oregon in as the next coach of the Huskies how do you incorporate that into the Las Vegas Bowl. men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and a for- following the bowl. It was typical what you do,” Harsin said. “You do DRAFT DEPARTURES mer coach in those sports was given a show-cause Petersen, unexpected but carefully it your way, but when people are Washington will be without two order. measured. doing things the way that he does of its top offensive players as tight TCU reported the violations in 2018 when it discov- Petersen has led Washington to it, you need to utilize that and pay end Hunter Bryant and left tackle attention to it and try to make it ered athletes were not clocking out of their summer two Pac-12 titles and three New Trey Adams will not play in the Year’s Six bowls, including a berth part of who you are and what you Las Vegas Bowl. Bryant is enter- jobs with the school’s physical plant. The payments in the College Football Playoff do.” ing the NFL draft after he led the totaled about $20,000 over four years and 22 ath- in 2016. But he was feeling the MOVING ON UP Huskies in receiving yards (825), letes competed while ineligible. need to recharge, and Washington The Las Vegas Bowl will relocate was second in receptions (52) and The committee on infractions declined to vacate already had Lake ready to provide from Sam Boyd Stadium to the tied for second in touchdown recep- new Allegiant Stadium just off the tions (3) as a junior. Adams started victories in which ineligible athletes competed after both continuity and a fresh per- spective. Las Vegas Strip in 2020, bringing 44 games in five seasons with the TCU successfully contested those penalties. TCU The ability to identify talent and with it upgraded conference tie-ins. Huskies, but he missed time in was fined more than $47,000, which included a por- build relationships has always The game moves up the Pac-12 2017-18 because of knee and back tion of the revenue the school made from its men’s been at the heart of Petersen’s suc- pecking order against Southeast- injuries. NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018. The committee on infractions considered the case through the cooperative summary disposition process in which all parties agreed to the facts and COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAMES violations.

Arizona hires Paul Rhoads as Kent State, Buffalo get bowl wins By The Associated Press put the Golden Flashes ahead for Charlotte (7-6) played its first bowl defensive coordinator good, then scored with 1:56 left on game. TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona has hired former FRISCO, Texas — Dustin Crum a fourth-and-1 run from the 4. Patterson had 32 carries for, who Iowa State head coach Paul Rhoads as its defensive passed for 289 yards and two Jordan Love passed for 308 yards were winless in three previous coordinator. touchdowns and ran for 147 yards and three touchdowns, two of them bowl appearances. He finished the and the clinching score to help to Siaosi Mariner, in his final game year with a slew of school sin- The school announced Rhoads’ hiring on Friday. Kent State beat Utah State 51-41 for Utah State (7-6). The junior an- gle-season records, including 330 He replaces Marcel Yates, who was fired with line- on Friday night in the Frisco Bowl nounced last week that he’ll bypass carries, 1,799 yards and 19 rushing backers coach John Rushing on Oct. 30. Former NFL for the Golden Flashes’ first bowl his senior season to enter the NFL touchdowns. coach Chuck Cecil served as the Wildcats’ interim victory. draft. Deven Thompkins scored on Antonio Nunn caught a 12-yard defensive coordinator after Yates was fired. Kent State (7-6) closed with a 57-yard run and a 17-yard recep- pass from Vantrease on the first four straight wins to finish with a tion for the Aggies. Buffalo drive to open the scoring, Rhoads spent the past two seasons as UCLA’s de- winning record for the first time ——— and Vantrease capped a 15-play, fensive backs coach after a two-year stint at Arkan- since 2012. BAHAMAS BOWL 74-yard drive by plunging in from sas, where he was defensive coordinator in 2017. He Matthew Trickett kicked five Buffalo 31, Charlotte 9 the 1 with 3:33 left in the half to also served as interim head coach after Bret Bielema field goals to set a Kent State game At Nassau, Bahamas, Jaret Pat- make it 14-0. Patterson scored on was fired in November 2017. record. terson ran for 173 yards and two a 6-yard run midway through the Crum threw a 78-yard touch- touchdowns, Kyle Vantrease passed third quarter to make it 24-0, then Rhoads spent seven seasons as Iowa State’s head down pass to Isaiah McKoy down for a touchdown and ran for anoth- sealed it with a 10-yard TD run to coach, leading the Cyclones to three bowl games. He the right sideline on Kent State’s er and Buffalo won a bowl game for cap a 16-play scoring drive. also worked as an assistant at Pittsburgh, University third play from scrimmage. Crum the first time in school history. Chris Reynolds threw a 51-yard of Pacific and Ohio flipped a 1-yard scoring pass to The Bulls (8-5) were winless in scoring pass to Victor Tucker for Antwan Dixon with 9:36 to play to three previous bowl appearances. Charlotte. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Michigan State’s Langford has season-ending foot surgery NBA sends proposal for 78-game season EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State senior Joshua Langford has had season-ending foot The Associated Press a $1 million per player prize for the with the Players Association,” in-season tournament. Silver said earlier this year. “I’ve surgery. MIAMI — The NBA has sent The league would make the had very general discussions with Spartans coach Tom Izzo said Thursday the a proposal to teams calling for a changes for the 2021-22 season on (union executive director) Michele surgery should help Langford have a chance to play 78-game regular season, along a trial basis, with an option to con- Roberts about the notion that professional basketball in the future. with an in-season tournament for tinue the next season. The league’s these are the kinds of things we’re The shooting guard averaged 15 points a game last all teams and a reseeding of the board of governors is expected to looking at. I think she, of course, is playoffs when the field is cut to the discuss and likely decide whether supportive of looking at any ideas season. Langford was one of the team’s top defend- final four clubs. to go forward or not with the plan we have to build the business over ers before hurting his right foot and needing sur- A copy of the proposal was ob- in April. time.” gery after playing in 13 games as a junior. He hasn’t tained by The Associated Press on The notion of adding a in-season ESPN and The Athletic first played at all this season. Friday. The plan laid out for teams tournament has been something reported on the contents of the Commissioner Adam Silver has proposal. He started 75 games over three seasons, averaged calls for a play-in tournament to decide the seventh and eighth talked about since at least 2016, The NBA told teams that a 10 points and made more than 40% of his 3-point seeds in both conferences — the drawing the parallel to how such study it commissioned through a shots. The Alabama native was a highly touted recruit top 10 finishers in both the East events are customary in European third-party company earlier this when he signed to play under Izzo in 2016. and West would therefore have a soccer. year showed that 60% of NBA fans No. 15 Michigan State (8-3) hosts Eastern Michigan chance at the playoffs — as well as “It would need to be negotiated want a shorter regular season. (9-1) on Saturday night. UAB From B1 No. 21 Tennessee adding guard Fitness Factory Tennessee’s Dwone Hicks including last season’s Santiago Vescovi later this month in 2001. New Orleans Bowl, and KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Rick UAB: LB Kristopher also have hosted and won Moll has the speed to pur- the first two Sun Belt & Spa Barnes says the 21st-ranked Volunteers will be add- sue the ball from sideline Conference championship HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 8a.m. to 6p.m. ing point guard Santiago Vescovi to their roster later to sideline and has been a games in 2018 and 2019. this month but notes that the newcomer probably blitzing ace for the Blaz- ... For the second straight CLOSED Saturday & Sunday won’t play this season. ers. He has 16 tackles for season, Appalachian loss, nine sacks and four State has had its head Barnes said Friday that the Vols expect to have forced fumbles. coach leave before the Vescovi on campus by Dec. 28. Tennessee officials ——— New Orleans Bowl. Scott SENIORS said Vescovi signed with Tennessee earlier this year FACTS & FIGURES Satterfield left before last and has been academically cleared. Appalachian State is year’s bowl game to take Come join us for Vescovi will be eligible to play for Tennessee as the first ranked team to over at Louisville. ... UAB play in the New Orleans is in its third season since exercise classes. We soon as he arrives on campus, but Barnes said the Bowl, which began in its football was re-instat- have trained Silver FREE guard is “highly unlikely” to play for the Vols this 2000. ... Shawn Clark ed in the wake of a brief Sneaker instructors. season. makes his debut as Appa- but highly unpopular dis- WiFi “It’s hard enough to learn when you’ve been lachian State head coach bandment in 2015. ... The after taking over for Eli- Blazers have made a bowl Supervised childrens room available around a while,” Barnes said. “He’s young, but he’s ah Drinkwitz, who left for game in all three seasons coming in and we’re excited. Our team’s excited. Missouri. ... The Moun- since resuming the pro- for children to play while We’re looking forward to him getting here.” taineers are the first gram, getting their first PARENTS EXERCISE Tennessee (7-3) will try to end a two-game skid team to win bowl games bowl wins over Northern CLASSES AVAILABLE FOR: Saturday when it hosts Jacksonville State (4-7). in each of their first four Illinois in the Boca Raton bowl-eligible seasons, Bowl last season. Zumba, Silver Sneakers Water Aerobics DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sat., Dec. 21, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com — B3 Husband keeps close tabs on wife following overdose DEAR ABBY: GARFIELD My BY JIM DAVIS 47-year- old daughter is an al- coholic. A year ago, she took Dear Abby several By Abigail benzodi- Van Buren azepine pills along with the booze and overdosed. My son-in-law found her in time and BLONDIE called 911. She spent five days in a psych hospital to detox, but never went to any follow-up rehab. BY DEAN YOUNG & DENIS LEBRUN I had been led to believe she was sober, but recent- ly found out it was not true, and my son-in-law for some reason decided not to tell me. The other issue is, since she OD’d, he keeps track of all her online spending and personal emails (he has PEANUTS all her passwords) because he claims it’s the only way BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ he can keep tabs on her to find out how much she’s drinking and where she goes to do it. She doesn’t know he’s doing this, and I’m afraid if she finds out she will go ballistic. I don’t know whether or not to tell her, because I don’t want to do anything to make things even worse between them. Advice? MARVIN -- FEARFUL IN FL DEAR FEARFUL: BY TOM ARMSTRONG I see nothing to be gained by telling your daughter her husband is watching her closely. She is a woman with very serious problems, and it’s a shame she didn’t follow through with more rehab after what may have been a suicide attempt. 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Unscramble these Jumbles, BEETLE BAILEY alized she had over- one letter to each square, dosed, he called to get to form four ordinary words. help for her. That he’s monitoring her closely EEOSB is not a bad thing; it means he loves her and wants to avoid a repeat of what happened. Ask LIVAL him what you can do to support your daughter, if anything, and take your cue from there. WOCARD

DEAR ABBY: Ever since BY JOHN ROSE I got married a year ago, my family has been trying to “fix” me. My sister PRISTI app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble Twitter the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Get texts me asking if I’m OK BARNEY GOOGLE & SNUFFY SMITH and how she can love on Now arrange the circled letters me better because she ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC to form the surprise answer, as thinks I have no life and All Rights Reserved. suggested by the above cartoon. don’t socialize. My mom makes comments when- Print the answer here: ever I’m over about how (Answers Monday) I’m introverted, etc. Abby, Jumbles: GUILD AROSE CASINO SPIRAL Yesterday’s I just had a baby, and I Answer: When she found out how many calories were in work full time. I don’t her can of cola, it was — “SODA-PRESSING” have time to go over to see them often, so they think CRANKSHAFT I stay home all day long and do nothing. But it’s so HOROSCOPES By Eugenia Last far from true. I have tried & CHUCK AYERS BY TOM BATIUK talking to them about it and saying I have friends, CELEBRITIES BORN efit your community. A etc. But nothing works. ON THIS DAY: Steven shopping spree will lead What do I do? Yeun, 36; Ray Romano, to some special purchases -- FINE AS I AM 62; Samuel L. Jackson, that will delight the little 71; Jane Fonda, 82. ones in your life. DEAR FINE: Because Happy Birthday: LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. talking to your mother Consider what makes you 22): Take a timeout to and your sister hasn’t happy and healthy, and spend time with a good helped, remember that start to implement plans friend. Short trips will they mean well and are that will lead to a bright- be eye-opening regarding HI & LOIS trying to be helpful. er future. how others live. BY CHANCE BROWN Then tune them out. ARIES (March SCORPIO (Oct. 23- DEAR ABBY: My daugh- 21-April 19): Evaluate Nov. 21): Make unique ter’s boyfriend recently your current situation. changes at home that will came to us asking for our The year is coming to a inspire you to be more daughter’s hand in mar- close, and the pressure to creative. riage. We like him very make a lifestyle change SAGITTARIUS (Nov. much, and we were happy that will improve your 22-Dec. 21): Look at your to give our blessings. emotional well-being is day-to-day routine, and What threw me was, after near. make an adjustment that he got our permission, he TAURUS (April 20- will bring you greater asked if we had any fam- May 20): Refuse to let peace of mind and allow ily heirlooms (diamonds) your emotions cause you you more time to spend to act irrationally. Look with the ones you love. he could use to have made BABY BLUES into an engagement ring. over your options, and CAPRICORN (Dec. Call me old-fashioned, but you’ll discover that you 22-Jan. 19): Touch base I thought the groom-to- have more choices than with someone you won’t be usually got something you realize. get to see over the festive SCOTT BY RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY like that handed down GEMINI (May 21- season. It will give you a from HIS family, not the June 20): Primp and boost and lead to future bride’s. Please tell me if prepare for upcoming travel plans. I’m wrong about this events. Reaching out AQUARIUS (Jan. -- OLD-FASHIONED to someone you haven’t 20-Feb. 18): A stressful MOM seen for some time will situation will affect your help you put unfinished health. Don’t let the deci- DEAR OLD-FASH- personal business to rest. sions others make disrupt IONED: You are not CANCER (June 21- your plans or your emo- wrong. The groom July 22): Get out and tional well-being. (not the parents of the have fun. Put your emo- PISCES (Feb. bride-to-be) is sup- tions on hold and your 19-March 20): A chance posed to be responsible wallet in a safe place. to win points at work or for the engagement LEO (July 23-Aug. in your community will ring. Because you like 22): Don’t get into a spat be made available if you the young man, you with someone close to take extra measures to should have conveyed you. Put your emotions ensure the job you do is that message as gently aside, and direct your en- spectacular. as possible. ergy into something that Birthday Baby: You will occupy your mind are sensitive, caring and Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and your time. appealing. and was founded by her mother, VIRGO (Aug. 23- Visit Eugenialast.com, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby Sept. 22): Get out and do or join Eugenia on Twit- at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box something that will ben- ter/Facebook/LinkedIn. 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. B4 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sat., Dec. 21, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com

Basketball From B1 the second half. Long led the lead into the final quarter. Jan. 3 with Carbon Hill hosting points, 15 rebounds and 11 victory over the Vikings Friday Eagles with 25 points and Bar- Carbon Hill (8-6) got a Haleyville and Cordova hosting assists, Bailey Kelley had 12 night. Jasper had rallied to tie rentine put in 19. balance offensive attack led by Sumiton Christian. points and 12 rebounds, Kens- the score in the closing sec- Next up for the Eagles is the Haden Pare’s 16 points. Clay ——— ley Barron had seven points onds leading up to the Aggies’ Sumiton Holiday Classic set to Cerezo had 12 points, Alex Varsity Girls and Alleigh Keeton had two game-winning shot. begin on Dec. 27. Atkins added 11, Ishmael Jones Carbon Hill 64, points, 13 rebounds and seven Jasper (6-5) plays in the Win- ——— put in nine points, Josh Kilgore Cordova 35 assists. For Cordova, BG Bras- field Christmas Tournament Varsity Boys had eight, Bryson Prince had Carbon Hill’s Alayna Ivie well and Makensie Boteler had starting on Thursday. Carbon Hill 69, seven and Matthew Wallace had a career high 29 points 13 points. ——— Cordova 54 added six. and Ally Martin had a triple Carbon Hill (9-5) plays Cle- Friday’s other scores Carbon Hill took control from For Cordova (0-7), Kason double as the Bulldogs knocked ments at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Varsity Boys the opening tip and earned a Smith had 15 points, all in the off Cordova 64-35 on Thursday the Winston County Christmas Dora 49, Corner 43 69-54 home win over Cordova second half, Jason Johnson had night. Tournament. Meek 59, Falkville 54 on Friday night. 12 points, Miguel Lopez had 11, The Bulldogs led 21-7 after ——— ——— The Bulldogs led 15-3 after both Dylan Hendrix and Cody the first quarter, 35-17 at the Varsity Boys Varsity Girls the opening quarter and never Headrick had five and Hayden half and 46-31 going into the Hamilton 66, Jasper 63 Hamilton 58, Jasper 51 looked back, taking a 28-16 Bates put in four. final quarter. Hamilton made a last-second Lynn 37, Brilliant 30 lead into the half and a 51-32 Both teams play again on Martin finished with 12 three pointer to earn a 66-63 Dora 35, Corner 25

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WASHINGTON (AP) — the brag — she brings McConnell who calls Nancy Pelosi promised as more legislative experi- himself the “grim reaper” speaker she would “show ence to her job than those in his Senate graveyard the power of the gavel.” immediate predecessors. of House-passed bills he This year, she laid it Particularly during the refuses to bring forward out for all to see. start of Obama’s first for a vote. The past week alone, term, when her party “The time is not up,” the Democratic leader controlled both chambers, Pelosi said Thursday, a delivered a $1.4 trillion she ushered health care, reminder that all those government funding financial reform and oth- pieces of legislation carry package to stop a shut- er major items to passage over to 2020, because down, pushed through in what historians say Congress runs in two- the bipartisan U.S.-Mex- was the most productive year cycles and this ico-Canada trade agree- session of Congress since session doesn’t conclude ment, and passed her Lyndon Johnson’s Great for another year. party’s plan to lower Society years. “As the election ap- prescription drug costs. Critics contend Pe- proaches, we would not In between, she led a losi strong-armed bills want these to be election congressional delegation through the House, issues, we would like to Europe for the 75th resulting in 2010 Demo- them to be accomplished anniversary of the Battle cratic midterm election legislation,” she said. of the Bulge. losses that cost the party “So they either pass the And on Wednesday, she its majority and her the bills or pay a price for not impeached the president. gavel. passing bills.” As the first year of Trump said Democrats The impeachment Pelosi’s second stint as are on a “suicide march” vote will be what history speaker draws to a close AP Photo/Patrick Semansky toward electoral defeat remembers most from — she is the only woman once again with impeach- this week. But passing to hold the office, and the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi smiles as she holds the gavel as the House ment. the trade bill is a major first speaker in 60 years votes on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump by the “Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s win for both parties. And to reclaim the gavel after House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington Wednesday. House Democrats have approving the govern- losing it — the California branded themselves ment funding — Pelosi Democrat took stock of what others have not, Pelosi’s earlier term as emerging from a con- with an eternal mark of was negotiating the whether she fulfilled her which is to build a coali- speaker, from 2007-2011, tentious internal party shame,” Trump told a ral- package in calls with campaign trail promise. tion strong enough to hold saw Democrats approve election, after sweeping ly crowd in battleground Treasury Secretary Ste- “Donald Trump thinks the president accountable, the signature achieve- House Democrats to the Michigan on the night he ven Mnuchin during her so,” Pelosi told The Asso- through impeachment, ment of the Obama era, majority in the 2018 mid- was being impeached. weekend diplomacy pay- ciated Press during an while also muscling the Affordable Care Act, term elections. The Republican lead- ing tribute to World War interview Thursday at through big bills. This, during Christmas in Pelosi’s ability to steer er of the Senate, Mitch II veterans in Europe — her office in the Capitol. on top of what she did 2009, though most of the the agenda is shaped in McConnell of Kentucky, counts too. Last year at “He just got impeached. during her first term in action by that stage in the part by her decades in said Pelosi’s House isn’t this time, the government He’ll be impeached for- the office. legislative process had office. accomplishing much be- was heading toward what ever. No matter what the “She is likely to go moved in the Senate. She immodestly calls cause she is wasting time would become the na- Senate does. He’s im- down in history as one of She regained the gavel herself a master legisla- on impeachment. tion’s longest-ever federal peached forever because the most effective Speak- in January of this year, tor, but there’s truth in But she notes that it’s shutdown. he violated our Constitu- ers,” he said. tion,” she said. Congress often runs “If I did nothing else, toward a big year-end fin- he saw the power of the ish as lawmakers try to gavel there,” Pelosi told rack up accomplishments the AP. “And it wasn’t me, for the elections ahead. it was all of our members Lame-duck sessions, making their own deci- which this year is not, are sion.” often particularly robust Not since an earlier era as members capitalize on of leaders — like Sam the narrow calendar win- Rayburn, whose name is dow after the election but on a building at the Cap- before the new Congress itol, or Newt Gingrich, forms. who defined a political Former Speaker Paul movement — has the Ryan delivered the GOP’s House speaker wielded sweeping tax cuts pack- such influence. age in December 2017. “She has governed with Former Speaker John force and authority,” said Boehner tried to secure Julian Zelizer, a profes- the fiscal cliff deal of tax sor of history and public and spending cuts at the policy at Princeton. end of 2012, and it was Zelizer said Pelosi has eventually approved at accomplished with Trump New Year’s.

Pelosi invites Trump to deliver State of Union on Feb. 4

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will deliver the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 4. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the president on Friday formally inviting him to deliver the address at the U.S. Capitol. Get your PAWS on the “In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a Joint Session of Congress,” new 2020 Pet Calendar! Pelosi wrote. Trump has accepted the invita- tion, said White House spokesman Hogan Gidley. President Pelosi extended the invitation to Trump Trump to make the annual address just two days after the House adopt- ed two articles of impeachment against Trump. A date for the Senate impeachment trial has not yet been set.

Navy, Army probes find no racism intent in hand gestures

WASHINGTON (AP) Clips of the hand — Hand gestures flashed gestures by the students by West Point cadets and went viral on social media Naval Academy midship- and immediately raised men during the televised questions about whether Army-Navy football game they were using a “white were not racist signals, power” sign. But others military investigations suggested it was part of have concluded. what’s called the “circle A Navy probe of the game,” in which someone event found that the stu- flashes an upside-down dents were participating OK sign below the waist in a “sophomoric game” and punches anyone who on Saturday and had no looks at it. 2020 Pet Calendar Winner: racist intent. The Navy said that re- Jasper Pete An Army statement views of the footage, more Friday also rejected any than two dozen interviews racist overtones, saying and background checks by Come by the Daily Mountain Eagle the hand gestures were the Naval Criminal Inves- “not associated with ide- tigative Service and the office for your copy today! It makes ologies or movements that FBI determined that the are contrary to the Army two freshmen midshipmen values.” were participating in the a great gift for friends and family. The Navy said officials “circle game” with West are, however, disappointed Point cadets. in the immature behavior The investigation added of the students and “their that the two naval acad- actions will be appropri- emy students “exhibited $ $ ately addressed.” There genuine shock” and said 3 each -OR- 5 for 10 were no details about they were not aware of their exact punishment, the racist connotation of (OWNERS RECEIVE ONE FREE COPY) but a Navy report on the the hand gestures. It said investigation said the two interviews with friends, midshipmen should face roommates and other “administrative action” commanders also found no for “failure to use good links to the white power 1301 VIKING DRIVE | JASPER | 205.221.2840 judgment.” movement.