INSIDE TODAY: Death toll rises to 11 as Florence pours on the rain / A3 SEPT. 16, 2018 JASPER, ALABAMA — SUNDAY — WWW.MOUNTAINEAGLE.COM $1.50 WALKER COUNTY BRIEFS BOARD OF EDUCATION State to host job fair for Board lists people with disabilities Dora, Cordova MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama is schools on hosting a job fair for people with dis- ‘wish list’ of abilities. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's office future projects announced that the second annual By NICOLE SMITH Governor's Job Daily Mountain Eagle Fair for People The Walker County Board of Educa- with Disabilities will tion’s five-year capital plan includes the be held Oct. 25 at hope for two new school construction projects in Cordova the Von Braun and Dora and other Center in needs in the school Huntsville. system. The event will co- Board members and interim Superin- incide with Na- tendent Dr. Joel Ha- tional Disability good approved a list Awareness Month. of 10 items on their Alabama Depart- capital plan Thurs- ment of Labor Sec- day. Daily Mountain Eagle - Ron Harris The first item on retary Fitzgerald the list is renovations Dr. Joel Washington said Taylor Hicks, center, and Robert Randolph, far right, performed together at the end of to the Cordova High Hagood the state is hosting Hicks’ set during last weekend’s Foothills Festival in downtown Jasper. School field house, which was recently approved by the the fair for a sec- school board in the amount of $100,000. ond time after the Other projects on the list for 2019, in success of last order of mention, include: Land acqui- year's event. sition of a property at Oakman High The governor's ‘A huge success’ School ($100,000); a boiler at the trans- portation department ($60,000); a office said more boiler at Cordova Elementary School than 1,100 job- ($60,000); and a new roof at Parrish El- seekers and nearly Foothills Festival organizers pleased with reviews ementary School ($260,000). Renovation of bleachers at the Curry 100 employers at- High School football field is next on the tended the first job By ED HOWELL Myers, the city’s special events coordinator, and Daily Mountain Eagle Brent McCarver, the city’s revenue compliance capital plan ($200,000) in 2020, along fair held in Birm- officer, were given “total control” to coordinate with a new roof at Curry Middle School ingham last year. City officials said this week the Coca-Cola the festival this year. A meeting with the mayor ($290,000) that same year. The job fair is free Foothills Festival on Sept. 7-8 went over well was held between the three officials Monday See BOE, A7 for employers and with audiences, vendors and entertainers. morning to review events of the weekend. Zach Baker, an advertising represen- “I could not be more pleased with the jobseekers and is tative for the Daily Mountain Eagle outcome of Foothills 2018,” O’Mary open to the public. who is also the talent booker for the said, adding he visited every ven- WALKER COUNTY The event will last Jasper festival, said Tuesday, “I don’t dor and all were pleased with the COMMISSION from 10 a.m. to 2 think it could have gone any better, volume of business. “Our people did to be honest with you.” He said the a great job — police, fire, public p.m. response was very positive, with works, park and rec.” Jobseekers and audiences coming early in spite of Noting Myers and McCarver, O’Mary said, Bishop suggests employers are en- hot temperatures. “To have two rookies looking after the majority couraged to pre- “It may have been the biggest one we’ve had of it and to turn in this kind of performance, I looking at business so far. It may have trumped 2016,” he said. register online at Mayor David O’Mary said Tuesday that Lisa See FOOTHILLS, A7 license fees www.labor.al- abama.gov/jobfair. By ED HOWELL Daily Mountain Eagle Foothills entertainment scores big hit, organizers say The Walker County Commission is DEATHS looking at the possibility of bringing in By ED HOWELL officer, McCarver said he We offer for them to go back an extra $700,000 a year by increasing L.T. Knight, 88, Dora Daily Mountain Eagle spent most of the festival be- and forth on carts. ... The county business li- Mason Robert Burns, 94, tween the Main Stage and spread is really great. Aaron’s cense fees to the level Ashville Organizers gave a positive Five Loafs/Highlands on delivered three living room of the city of Jasper, reaction to the entertainment Fourth, where entertainers re- suites so they have a place to as suggested by Full obituaries / A2 at the 2018 Coca-Cola laxed in between performances relax in there,” McCarver said, Chairman Jerry Foothills Festival on Sept. 7-8, upstairs. noting Jasper Main Street vol- Bishop. noting that it proved that “We got a lot of really good unteers help. The proposal was great talent can be booked WEATHER feedback. Almost to a person, “Paul Thorn had a lot of re- discussed during a which are economical and may they said it was a class act, top ally nice things to say about budget work session not be the most well-known of the line, you guys are doing us,” he said. “He lives in Tu- held by the commis- artists of the moment. High Low a great job.” He said it re- pelo. He had a lot of nice sion on Thursday. During a joint interview minded him of the fishing things to say about Jasper. County Adminis- 93 68 Monday with Lisa Myers, tournaments, where people say Taylor Hicks was very pleased. trator Robbie Dicker- Jerry Jasper’s special events coordi- chamber officials go above and His family was coming to see son said Bishop had nator, and Brent McCarver, Bishop beyond to do a good job. asked her to research the city’s revenue compliance See ENTERTAINMENT, A7 INDEX “We have security for them. what such a move could bring. Dicker- son said she looked at 2016-17 data. Classifieds..............A9 “He wanted me to compare it more to Dear Abby...............A8 HILLFEST DEEMED A SUCCESS like a municipality license,” she said. Horoscope..............A8 “It’s mot true apples to apples, but it is Lifestyles.................B5 pretty close.” Opinion...................A6 She said many of the rates are by Sports.....................B1 gross receipts so she had to “use, I guess, some common sense and try to Two sections, 20 pages figure out, with my retail experience, how much a business would have to pay Check in order to stay in business — not low- out our ball it too much but not make it crazy Facebook high.” She noted there is a difference page at than being in a larger city. Dickerson made comparisons and Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle came up with an average, and multi- plied times the number of business li- censes sold by the county in that period. “Doing that I came up with a $1.2 million increase by converting business license fees to more of a municipality,” Daily Mountain Eagle - Ed Howell she said. However, in talking to county A good crowd was on hand for both days of this year’s Hillfest in downtown Carbon Hill. employee Randy Dodd and Bishop, she The two0-day festival drew a large number of vendors hoping to sell their wares. See COMMISSION, A7 OPEN HOUSE TODAY 2-4PM “T he C losers” Directions: From Curry Hwy to JASPER • 803 Airport Rd. S. 15 ACRES & POND Mulberry St (Just Directions: From before (205) 384-1113 MLS#18-1723 • 6BR/7BA • $379,900 19th St. E, R on MLS#17-2326 • 3BR/2BA • $229,000 Blackwater), 5175 SQ. FT. • 505 E 20TH ST, JASPER Florida Ave., 1658 SQ. FT. • 616 MULBERRY ST., JASPER turn L. Property SMITH LAKE • Duncan Bridge CALL GARI LEIGH MINOR 205-275-7304 house on R. CALL PATSY ESTES 205-388-0245 on L. Red Gate (205) 221-1221 A2 — DAILY MOUNTAIN EAGLE Jasper, Ala., Sun., Sept. 16, 2018 www.mountaineagle.com Today’s weather DEATHS & FUNERALS Forecast for Sunday, September 16, 2018 TENN. L.T. Knight Mason Robert Burns Oxford L.T. Knight, age 88, of Dora, passed away Saturday, December 24, 1923-September 14, 2018 90/68 Huntsville September 15, 2018, at his residence. Mason Robert Burns, 94, of Ashville, passed away Fri- 88/66 ARK. He was a retired coal miner and a member of the day, September 14, 2018, at his residence. UMWA. He was a member of Sipsey Masonic Lodge 783 He was a loving father, who took care of his family. He F&AM. loved watching Alabama Football and the Atlanta GA. Visitation will be held Monday, September 17, 2018, Braves. “Roll Tide.” He will be missed very much. Greenville Birmingham from 1 until 2 p.m. at New Horizon Memorial Funeral Mr. Burns was preceded in death by his wife, Zora 92/70 93/68 Home in Dora. Funeral services will be Monday, Sep- Colleen Burns; sons, Stephen Burns and Bob Burns; fa- tember 17, 2018, at 2 p.m. in the New Horizon Memorial ther, Jess Clarence Burns; mother, Bertha Ruby Blanton Chapel. John Pinion will officiate. Burial will follow in Burns; and sisters, Hazel Baxter and Mary Jo Rollo. New Horizon Memorial Gardens. He is survived by his daughter, Cindy Farmer He was preceded in death by his wife, Gwinlon (Robert); five grandchildren, Zach Farmer, William Jackson Montgomery 93/70 Knight; parents, Lester and Minnie Knight; brothers, Farmer, Tabatha Burns, Josh Burns, and Deanna 94/70 Grady and Donald Knight; sister, Agnes Pate; and Reaves (James); and six great-grandchildren, River daughter-in-law, Phyllis Knight.