INSIDE TODAY: Impeachment now a threat like no other Trump has faced / A5 SEPT. 29, 2019 JASPER, ALABAMA — SUNDAY — www.mountaineagle.com $1.50 BRIEFS WALKER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Alabama Retired investigator hired to work health official urges numerous missing persons cases residents By JENNIFER COHRON his recent campaign. to not vape Daily Mountain Eagle “You had to find the right person who had the experience and was either MONTGOMERY retired or could dedicate the time. I (AP) — Alabama At least 13 people have gone miss- only pay him (Cole) for 29 hours but he health officials are ing in Walker County since 1983 and probably puts in 50 or 60 a week be- urging people to stop still have not been found, according cause he’s at home constantly working using e-cigarette or to the Walker County Sheriff’s Office and thinking on it,” Smith said. vaping products, at files. Now, former sheriff’s department Cole shares Smith’s passion for bring- investigator Mike Cole has come out of least until more is ing some closure to suffering families Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron retirement to help bring them home. who want to lay their loved ones to rest known about possible Sheriff Nick Smith has hired Cole illnesses. in peace if their worst fears are true. Mike Cole works at his new desk at the Walker part-time to focus on cold cases involv- Those who know more than they have The Alabama De- ing missing persons, the fulfillment of County Sheriff’s Office. Cole has been hired to partment of Public a promise Smith made to voters during See COLE, A4 work missing persons cases in Walker County. Health issued the warning Friday. The department says two people in MADDOX Alabama have been INTERMEDIATE identified as having SCHOOL probable cases of lung disease asso- ciated with vaping. Twelve cases remain under investigation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating several hundred reports of illnesses across the United States. The Alabama department says 12 deaths have been confirmed in 10 states. Alabama State Health Officer Scott Harris said Friday that the safest option is to refrain from using any e-cigarette or vape Daily Mountain Eagle - Ron Harris product while the out- break is investigated. Pete Key of Florence-based Public health Daily Mountain Eagle - Ed Howell ‘Hope is the Key’ spoke to officials are asking Maddox Intermediate School providers to report Dennis Alexander shares a moment with Lona Courington of the Walker County Coalition for students Thursday about respiratory illnesses the Homeless. Passing by this office led to Alexander’s road to recovery from opioids. among patients who how to deal with bullying. use vaping products. Maddox DEATHS Hitting rock bottom William (Bill) Clay Crunk, hosts anti- 80, Arley Phyllis Carol Vanzant, 72, Helena Bus ride saves Jasper man from life of opioid addiction bullying A2 Full obituaries / Doctor facing life in prison for allows you energy and have all thousands of opioid doses / A3 the fun you want in life, until program WEATHER the medication runs out. By ED HOWELL “Then you have the flu-like Daily Mountain Eagle symptoms and you don’t want to By RON HARRIS High Low do nothing” until you get more Daily Mountain Eagle 95 pills, he said. “What started out 69 Dennis Alexander has been to be 20 or 30 milligrams a day, Pete Key knows how to make clean of opioids for over a year Asked what people don’t un- you are using 60 to 80 milli- an entrance. now. However, he and his wife, derstand about opioid addiction, grams the next month. It’s a Key, founder of Flor- Stephanie, who is also clean which almost ruined his life. to progressive disease. It’s awful.” INDEX ence-based ‘Hope is the Key,’ now, want to move out of West the point of losing his family for Today, Lona Courington, the was led in to the theater at Classifieds ................... B3 Jasper to get away from the a while and living on the streets, executive director of the Walker Maddox Intermediate School Dear Abby ................... B5 drug deals there. Alexander said, “That it is so County Coalition for the Home- Thursday by a Jasper police Horoscope .................. B5 “I watch it every day. It’s bad,” powerful and quick to kill you less, whose organization played Lifestyles ..................... B1 he said, saying he sees drug won’t see it happening until it officer handcuffed and dressed Opinion ........................ A6 meetings “every single day.” is basically too late.” He said it See ALEXANDER, A4 in prison garb. Sports .......................... A7 The move quickly got the attention of the fourth-, fifth- Two sections, 16 pages and sixth-graders, and Key’s RIBBON CUTTING HELD FOR WATERWAYS PROJECT high-energy, music-filled pro- gram dealing with bullying in schools brought home its point — bullying, in any form, isn’t acceptable. “We want to spark that interest,” Key said following Use your smartphone’s QR Thursday’s program. “Any type scanner to quickly sign up for of movement has to start with our weekly e-mail newsletter a moment, and I feel like this is the moment that creates that conversation that stirs the emo- tions up. From there, you start to build on that.” Facebook: According to the ‘Hope is the Daily Mountain Eagle Key’ website, Key is an inter- national motivational speak- Instagram: er who is a leading growth dailymteagle development strategist. He Twitter: has impacted the lives of more @DailyMtEagle than a million people through presentations, programs and products. Daily Mountain Eagle - Jennifer Cohron Key’s program at Maddox was brought to the school — as A ribbon cutting was held Saturday morning at the Gardners Gin access point in Cordova. well as to Jasper High School The new site, along with nearby Disney Lake, are part of the Walker County Waterways proj- and Jasper Junior High School ect. A float to Disney Lake was held after the ribbon cutting. For more photos, see A10 of today’s Eagle. See BULLYING, A10 New Listing - Totally Renovated! OPEN HOUSE TODAY 2-4 2BR/1BA The Closers MLS#19-1829 $129,900 3BR/2BA Readers’ Choice $138,900 501 16th East Awards Jasper 2018 804 S Airport Rd Jasper Directions: From Hwy 78 turn toward town house on right James Ann Zoned James Ann 205-275-3994 205-275-3994 JASPER SMITH LAKE Residential or Gari Leigh Commercial Gari Leigh 205-275-7304 803 Airport Rd. • (205) 384-1113 Duncan Bridge • (205) 221-1221 205-275-7304 A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sun., Sept. 29, 2019 www.mountaineagle.com Today’s weather DEATHS & FUNERALS Forecast for Sunday, September 29, 2019 TENN. Oxford 93/71 Huntsville William (Bill) Clay Crunk Phyllis Carol Vanzant ARK. 95/72 William (Bill) Clay Crunk, 80, of Arley, passed Phyllis Carol Vanzant, 72, of Helena, passed away away Sept. 18, 2019. Thursday, September 26, 2019, at Shelby Ridge Nurs- He was born in Lewisburg, Tenn., on Dec. 21, 1938, ing Home. GA. and graduated from Marshall Coun- Family will be receiving friends Monday, Septem- Greenville Birmingham ty High School. Bill was married to ber 30, 2019, from 1 until 2 p.m. at Kilgore-Green 95/70 96/72 Mary Ann Davis Crunk on Oct. 25, Funeral Home. Services will follow at 2 p.m. in the 1968. Bill worked as an electronic Kilgore-Green Chapel. Burial will follow at Ashbank technician for Bellsouth Telephone Cemetery. Blake Jenkins will officiate. Co. He served as Deacon at Arley She was preceded in death by her parents, Phillip Jackson Montgomery First Baptist Church in Arley and Joseph LaRocca and Thelma Louise Setliff; and sis- 95/69 98/68 as a Deacon and Elder at Midway ter, Mary Ann Ingle. Presbyterian Church in Powder She is survived by her son, Steven Vanzant (Amy); Brookhaven Hattiesburg Springs, Ga. grandchildren, Danielle Vanzant, Kennedy Vanzant 92/68 92/68 He had a passion for living on the and Christian Vanzant; siblings, Becky Dabbs (Ricky) lake and living for Jesus. and Andy Setliff; special friend, Henry Norris; broth- Mobile Bill is survived by his wife, Mary Ann Davis er-in-law, Tim Ingle and a host of nieces, nephews LA. 93/70 FLA. Crunk; daughter, Cynthia Anne Smith, son-in-law, and friends. Taylor Smith; son, Jason Thomas Crunk; daughter- Friends may sign the guest register at kilgore- in-law, Mary Cathleen Camp Crunk; grandchildren, greenfuneralhome.com Sidney Claire and Mary Connor Smith, Mary Hinson, Charlotte McCall and Thompson Daniel Crunk; and Kilgore-Green Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-9503 sister, Denise Kay Crunk Sargent. He was preceded in death by his brother, Timothy ©2019 AccuWeather, Inc. Ray Crunk. Memorial service will be held noon on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at Arley First Baptist Church located at 1610 Hickory Lane in Arley. Dallas cop says she wishes neighbor had killed her instead DALLAS (AP) — A Jean grew up in the saying that two days af- Dallas police officer broke Caribbean island nation ter she shot Jean, Guyger her silence Friday about of St. Lucia before coming asked her police partner, the night she killed a to the U.S. for college. His with whom she was ro- young accountant who shooting drew widespread mantically involved, if he David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP lived in the apartment attention because of the wanted to go for drinks. Emergency personnel respond after a reported right above hers, telling strange circumstances Hermus also asked jurors that she has to live and because it was one Guyger why she didn’t gas leak early Friday in Lawrence, Mass.