INSIDE TODAY: Alabama lawmakers hit midway point of legislative session / A4 MARCH 13, 2016 JASPER, ALABAMA — SUNDAY — WWW.MOUNTAINEAGLE.COM $1.50 INSIDE Staying safe on Sunday Carbon Hill First Baptist Church forms security committee By JENNIFER COHRON As a result, a new security committee Daily Mountain Eagle has spent the last several months look- ing for ways to prevent the kind of On Sunday morning, the doors of Car- tragedies that have happened in college bon Hill First Baptist Church are open classrooms, public buildings, theaters to all, including those who may wish to and churches in the past year. do harm to those gathered for a time of worship. See SECURITY, A8 Walker High’s Daily Mountain Eagle - Dale Short Harris signs 2016 ELECTRATHON GRAND PRIX Jason Farley stands alongside bundles of alu- with Mobile minum cans ready for shipping to a mill. Anna Claire Harris’ first trip to Mobile University came as a seventh grader. Since that first visit, CAN DO the Walker High School senior knew Recyclers help cans take a circuitous that was where she route back to grocers’ coolers wanted to play col- lege volleyball. She By DALE SHORT Daily Mountain Eagle made the move of- ficial on Wednes- day. / B1 ou take the last sip from the can, toss it in the Y nearest receptacle, and go about your day. What happens to the can? There’s an increas- ing chance that the aluminum it contains will even- BRIEFS tually be made into a new can that ends up in your grocer’s cooler. City council to The folks who help it get there are people like Jason Farley, vice presi- meet Tuesday dent of Farley Recycling The Jasper City Company. “I’d say the aver- Council will meet at “Our truck heads for age person brings Daily Mountain Eagle - Ron Harris the mill about every two 10 a.m. Tuesday in Six schools from across the state had electric-powered cars entered in Sat- weeks,” Farley says. “I’d in about 20 or 30 the council cham- say the average person pounds, which is bers on the second urday’s Electrathon Grand Prix in downtown Jasper. brings in about 20 or 30 floor at City Hall in pounds, which is several several tall kitchen tall kitchen bags. They bags. They gener- downtown Jasper. generally store them in The meeting is their garage until they ally store them in open to the public. The race is on have a load big enough their garage until to fill their car. There are other people who save a they have a load Electrathon Grand Prix takes over downtown Jasper lot of cans, and they big enough to fill DEATHS might bring 200 or 300 More photos from pounds in a truck. And their car.” Anthony Scott Bonner, 45, Saturday’s races / A12 then there are sweet old Berry ladies who bring in just - Jason Farley, vice Fred Killingsworth, 97, a plastic grocery bag president of Farley Carbon Hill By RON HARRIS with a couple of pounds Rev. Fredrick Stephen Daily Mountain Eagle at a time.” Recycling in Jasper Bucky Rizzo, 76, Sumiton Kenneth Wayne Townley, Downtown Jasper was Concerns about the 57, Quinton transformed into a half- environment have mile race course Saturday brought a steady increase for the can business lately. Full obituaries / A2 for the inaugural Elec- “For us, I’d say that’s been true the last four or five trathon Grand Prix. years,” he says. The winner of the race, There’s not likely to be a shortage any time soon. WEATHER which included high school Industry sources say Americans go through about a students from across the state, is determined by See RECYCLING, A8 High Low how many laps a car can complete — using battery 79 57 power only — in a one- hour time period. Cars in INSIDE 5-day forecast / A2 the race reached upward of 20 to 25 mph. Daily Mountain Eagle - Ron Harris Trump's new normal: Campaign Schools participating in rallies where chaos is expected INDEX Saturday’s race were the The Walker County Center of Technology had two Classifieds............A10 cars entered in Saturday’s Electrathon Grand Prix CLEVELAND (AP) — Hundreds of police of- See RACE, A12 Dear Abby...............B5 in downtown Jasper. ficers, Secret Service agents and private se- Horoscope..............B5 curity guards in cars, on foot and on Lifestyles.................B7 Opinion...................A6 horseback blanketed the area around Donald Sports.....................B1 Trump's campaign rally Saturday afternoon. State/Local.............A4 Following distinguished career, Dozens of protesters would soon be ejected from the event. / A7 Two sections, 22 pages Dora native honored posthumously Check out our By RICK WATSON was 3 years old. Facebook Daily Mountain Eagle “Daddy would hand the Bible to visi- page at tors at our house and ask them to open it Cat Spay and Neuter When Timothy Sumner Robinson — to any page.” Young Tim would then take Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle Tim to his friends — walked down the the Bible and begin reading to the Day set for March 19 aisle of the Dora High OUR FACEBOOK amazement of the guests. QUESTION OF THE WEEK School auditorium in Tim’s older brother Nelson of Dora re- 1961, he wasn’t old members the first words that his young By NICOLE SMITH Spring Break begins next enough to drive. With brother wrote. Nelson said that it was Daily Mountain Eagle week. Do you have any his age, horn-rimmed homecoming day at Dora High School Next Saturday, many stray and feral cats in Walker plans and, if so, do they glasses and an off-the- involve going out of town? and Tim, who was still a small child, County will be spayed and neutered free of charge. charts IQ, it’s likely Or will you simply enjoy watched the parade pass in front of their Animal rescue group R.U.F.F. (Rescuers United For classmates considered your week at home? home. Furbabies) is sponsoring the Snip ‘N Tip Feral/Stray him a nerd, and this “When I got home, I saw the words Cat Spay and Neuter Day on Saturday, March 19, in was long before being Beat Parrish written in chalk on Tim’s partnership with the Animal Hospital of Walker a nerd was cool. little blackboard. I asked our mother if County. The goal of the event is to spay and neuter as But Tim was driven she’d written the message and she said many cats as possible, reducing the number of home- by ambition and a love Tim no. When we asked Tim, he said that he’d less felines in the county. of words which made Robinson read the words on the parade signs and The spay/neuter day is being made possible by a him one of the most re- wrote them on his chalkboard afterward.” $5,000 grant from the Walker Area Community Foun- markable people who ever called Walker He entered grammar school in the dation, and R.U.F.F. co-founder Marsha Miller says Dr. County home. third grade mainly because both his fa- According to his sister, Terah Robinson See CATS, A8 Sherer, Tim could read by the time he See ROBINSON, A8 3 LOCATIONS: Open Open HouseHouse TodayToday 2-4pm2-4pm To preview this house, go to JASPER YouTube and enter 803 Airport Rd. S. address. (205) 384-1113 SUMITON/DORA Call 2371 Old U.S. 78 Misti (205) 648-1113 Lee 522-1149 SMITH LAKE Directions: From Duncan Bridge MLS#15-1478 • $339,900 • 4BR/3.5BA the Trace turn onto See Us For All Your Real Estate Needs. (205) 221-1221 803 Virginia, Jasper • THE TRACE Virginia Drive. A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sun., March 13, 2016 www.mountaineagle.com TODAY’S WEATHER DEATHS & FUNERALS Anthony Scott Bonner The Rev. Fredrick ++ 77 Funeral services for Anthony Scott Bonner, 45, of Berry, !6! !6$ !6 !6 !6 will be today, March 13, 2016, at 2 p.m. in the chapel at Stephen Bucky Rizzo Norwood Chapel Funeral Home in Fayette, with burial to The Rev. Fredrick Stephen Bucky Rizzo, 76, of Sumiton, follow at Victory Tabernacle Cemetery. The Rev. David went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 10, Long and the Rev. Phillip Bonner will officiate. Visitation 2016. He was a Church of God minister and pastor for $%&$ $%&'' ()&* $%&+ $&** for family and friends was held Saturday, March 12, 2016, more than 50 years. * * ;4 ;4 < < ' ' ; from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home. The family will receive friends today, March 13, 2016, : ;4 : ;4 4<4< ' ' " " 4<4< ' ' < < ' ' 0 0 00 " 00 " " 4 4 00 " 00 " "" " "" Bonner was preceded in death by his grandparents, from 3 until 5 p.m. at New Horizon Memorial Funeral < ' < ' 4 4 "< "< 4 4 4 4 Tommie Lee Pasley and Millie LouJean Pasley, and Cleo Home in Dora. %<%< 7 7 7 7 4 "<4 "< 4 "<4 "< $"< $"< Bonner Sr. and Evelyn Bonner Beard; and uncles, Cleo Funeral services will be held Monday, March 14, 2016, " 0< " 0< Bonner Jr. and Jimmy Bonner. at 1:30 p.m. at Sumiton Church of God. The Rev. Jerry , -, -$-+. $-+. , -$-++, - $-++ , -, -)-% )-% , -)-$, - )-$ , -, -)-) )-) Survivors include his sons, Anthony Blake Bonner of Lawson, the Rev. Frank Graham, the Rev. Chuck , -, -)-) )-) , -)-), - )-) , -)-$, - )-$ , -)-(, - )-( , -)-%, - )-% Bankston and Tyler Gentry Bonner of Berry; daughter, Kennedy, the Rev. Randy Eubanks and Bishop Raymond Brittany Michelle Bonner of Bankston; granddaughter, Culpepper will officiate. His body will lie in repose at the Ava Grace Bonner; parents, Lester and Ludy Bonner; church from noon until service time on Monday.