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Page 5.---,Ab9ut All West Alabama
e ell'tO e IO r er ........................... ................. Thursday,. ' November° .......... ' :" 2012 .......
Sweet Water High School honored Veterans with a reception on
November 19. 2012. Veterans who attended the reception and cer-
emony are as follows: Samuel Blanks. Isiah Landmm, James
Pope;Jimmy Newton, Richard Brown. Andy Black. Bly Tucker,
The students and faculty at Sweet Water
High School honored its Veterans' with a
special reception and program on Monday,
Nov. 19th. The colors were posted by the
V.EW..Post 5106 and Senior Janae
Williams sang the National Anthem. Our
guest of honor was S.EC. Avery Williams.
who was a 1989 graduate of Sweet Water
High School. He joined the Army Reserve
Army Command Sergeant Major
....... Nathaniel J. Bartee, Sr.
Nathaniel J. Bartee Sr has
been appointed as Army
Command Sergeant Major
assigned to the 402nd Army
Field Support Brigade at Camp
Arifjan. Kuwait.
Bartee has served in the mil-
itary for 26 years:
He is the" son of Elnora
Bartee of Adel Highway,
Quitman, Ga. His wife. Pamela.
is the daughter of Emma Raby
Calvin McDonald. Jerry Kirkham, Anthony D BusE Avery
Wdliams, Greg Hudson. Robin Barnes. G. J. Tensley, Braden
Mims. James Kelly, James Williams. Andrew Harris and Paul
Weatherly.
HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE
in 1989 and was deployed to Saudi Arabia
in 1990 during Desert Storm/Sheild. He has
been in the military for 23 years. Williams
spoke about what the Pledge of Allegiance
meant to him, The program continued with
poetry readings by Olivia Blakeney and
Danny Nevils.
Andy Black completed the program with
the song "The Bravest Man I Know."After
(
,: ;,Becky Williams, BSN, RN
Voted.the Nation's BEST Homecare
iSd Hospice Nurse for 2012
jor
of County Road 44. Linden,
Ala.
Bartee graduated in 1985
from Brooks County High
School. Quitman. Ga.. and
received a bachelor of science
in 2007 from Excelsior College,
Albany, N.Y. He also earned a
master's degree in 2009 from
Trident University
International. Cypress. Calif.
the program concluded, the students were
able to meet the Veterans.
The decorations for the program were
created by the elementary art classes ted by
DeeAnn Hilderbrand. They included a
wreath that is currently hanging over the
permanent Veterans' display in the foyer of
our school and a flag that served as the
background for the program.
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Air Force Reserve Airman
Charles E. Stogner
ner com
ining
Air Force Reserve Airman
Charles E. Stogner graduated
from basic military training at
Lackland Air Force Base. San
Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an
intensive, eight-week program
that included training in mili-
tary discipline and studies. Air
Force core values, physical fit-
ness. and basic warfare princi-
ples and skills.
Airmen who complete basic
training earn four credits
toward an associate in applied
science degree through the
Community College of the Air
Force.
Stogner is the son of Lori and
Charles Stogner of Moffett
Road. Semmes.
He is a 2007 graduate of
Wilcox Academy, Camden.
r
DAYS GONE BYE...BY TOM BOGGS
I know I don't need to
harp on how different
things were back yon-
der...but by gum, they
were, and our priorities
were a bit different. How
excited I was in the late for-
ties to receive a letter from
the RCA mascot dog, Little
Nipper. Enclosed was a
membership pin, and a pic-
ture of that pooch with his
head stuck in a megaphone
attached to a record player.
I'm sure I attached that pin
to my Sunday School shirt
right off,
When's the last time you
saw a bunch of chullun
have a great o1' time with
sticks? (I'm pretty sure I've
written this before...but it's
all new to me.) Shucks, we
could find a stick to be most
anything from a Winchester
rifle to a 50 caliber machine
gun, and to say nothing
about riding the range on a
stick horse or batting a
cloth ball with a substitute
bat in the form Of a stick.
Moose and I used to plan
to get ready to play soldier
after school many times,
but it was not unusual that
by the time we got dressed
Watch Out For 'Grabbers'
up and had all our stuff
together, we'd get outer the
mood to play.
Now, I've told y'all
before how hard Franklin
Aydelott could shoot a mar-
ble, and how or Leo
Daniels had a special
method of shooting his taw
by pinching it between his
fingers. Dangest thing •to
watch. Now, we'd have us a
bunch of marbles in the
ring, and everybody would
be concentrating on prepar-
ing his next shot when all of
a sudden Leo or somebody,
without warning, would
holler out "GRABBERS!"
That was perfectly legal as
far as I knew, so you better
scramble to pick up as
many marbles as you could,
including your favorite
shooting taw,. or you'd be
out some glass eyes.
I've probably written to
you more than once about a
game I'd slip and play with
my 'cross the street neigh-
bor and cousin, Baby Fab
Little. When I was sure
Brooks Barkley from up the
street, Tommy Mack Jones
from down the street or
some other o1' boy was not
around to see...well, yep,
I'd play hopscotch. It did Camels Back or down the
take a certain amount of railroad track, and finally
skill if you think about it, got a pair of those o1' ugly
Talking 'bout my tl~ar • high top black and white [
friend, Baby Fab, with- ~ tennie shoes. They did keep
whom I keep upvia:email': the ice from forming
in this high falooting day' ::between our toes in the
and time, when .':she got. •: dead of winter.
ready to start to first grade, .:- i made a nickel or two
and leave me back-for a. iwall ing,-, ptllling my
year, she. pulled m: iTcid "-West,rnFlyer.wagon full of
and explained in:'- . cucumbers .to seli down-
tain terms that she was now town or hauling S0mescrap
going to be in school, anti metal:down tO Sammons
was not to ever again, call_ i .JUnk Yard, or fetching a
her "Baby Fab" so's any ' pennys i:..piece- for coat
body could hear it."-!: tried.- h gers down at Sunshine
not to do it, but I-call Cleaners.
Grandma' Feb "Baby Fab" i. :.:;- The0nlY time I walked
every now and again-these- delivering newspapers
days, and she does not seem .... would., be when the mud
to mind atall. . from all our dirt streets in
Let me tell y'all a little town e ed up between the
bit 'bout walking back then, bike fender and the tire. No
We walked on account of '" peddling then. "
that's the way we had Of
getting Somewhere, and " t reckon I'd of paid more
Moose and I usuallydid it attention to walking in
barefooted, at least !til those days if I had known
got to the eighth grade and
commenced to noticing that
the girls frowned on those
bare feet right there in the
classroom. After school,
we'd get those feet to
churning on over to Indian
Mounds, Backbone •Ridge,
ALABAMA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION NEWS
Kathryn Friday
Marengo County Extension
Thanksgiving marks the
beginning of what I often call
"Poinsettia season."
Everywhere you look there are
pots of poinsettias. They come
in several colors and many
sizes. The pnce range is large.
How can you choose one that
will last for the entire season?
Once you buy one. how do you
care for it? Here are some tips
about both.
Make sure you are buying a
high quality plant before you
leave the store. This will help
you have a beautiful plant
when the soil appears wet. This
is a condition called epinasty
from which the plant will not
recover,
how cool it was. Today,
looks like everybody harps
on fancy walking shoes,
.walking pants, walking
paths and walking
machines. Makes you just
want to walk up there and
holler out 'GRABBERS !"
After bringing your poinset-
tia home,you need to take sev-
I have killed many more plants
by overwatering than under
watering.
Poinsettias do not tolerate
extremes. These plants do not
last long when exposed to
eral steps to keep it healthy and extremes in temperature, partic-
time for next year's holiday.
When the bracts ~colored
leaves) begin to fade and fall
from your plant, cut the plant
back leaving 4 to 6 buds and
keep in a sunny window, water.
and fertilize regularly. By the
flowering. While all plants and ularly in drafty locations. This ................. see vig-
flowers have a limited life, you can cause overaliplant decline ;orOus lie,/,, growth" alJpearing.
should be able to enjoy•a poin- and leaf drop. Keep the plant The poinsettia will begin to set
settia for 4 to 6 weeks, away from heat vents and out- buds and produce flowers as the
Follow these tips. Keep the side doors or windows. Try to nights become longer. In
poinsettia in a location that maintain the temperature at no October, you should move the
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receives bright, indirect light, higher than 70 degrees E This .plant into complete darkness
Direct sunlight could discolor can be difficult, butit will keep :for 14 continuous hours, but in
the bracts, and low light can your plant healthy and looking the day-allow 6 to 8 hours of
cause the plant to lose some of beautiful much longer, bright sunlight. Continue this
its leaves. Water as the plant Poinsettias are often seen in cycle for 8-10 weeks andyour
needs it, when the potting mix dumpsters and sitting out by the poinsettia will develop a color-
throughout the Chris~as sea- - becomes visibly dry. Irrigate
road side ready for trash pick up " ful display just in time for the
with enough water to allow the week after Christmas.. With holiday season.
some to come out the bottom of a little workand some special " : If.the process-of Salvaging
the pot. Be careful not to allow attention, the poinsettia canbe your piani too demand-
son. The plant you choose
should have flowers that are
just beginning to open, or better
still, the plant should have
brightly colored bracts with
flower buds still very tightly
closed. (The flower is small
and yellow. The brightly col-
ored leaves that surround it are
the red or white or coral that
attracts us.) The plant should
appear full with uniformly dark
green leaves from under the
colored bracts to almost the
base of the plant, and the plant
should be strong enough to
stand on its own. No ties or
stakes should be needed. Don't
buy a plant that has been stored
in a sleeve or that looks wilted
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the potting mix to become too kept for the following, year., rag, a compost pile is. always a
dry as it will not easily become Tlais is sometimes hard .t0 :.great altemative -: Think ofit
wet again, but don't go to the accomplish, butifyou are'Will-: this:Way, Buying a' new one
other extreme and overwater. If ing to have a go at iL here/are next year:willcontributeto sup-
a plant is overwatered, it will some steps to bring.y0 poin: " portingour growers.
drop its leaves and look wilted, settia into a healthy lifejust in
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Dec. 7th
Christmas Carnival -All Evening
Chili Cookers Party!-7pm- 10pm
(T&D Project)-Free Concert!!!
Dec. 8th
Arts & Crafts and Food Vendors-8am- 4pm
Poot-n- Scoot (Run, Walk Fun Run)-9am
Christmas Carnival -All Day!
Gospel Explosiord ,10am- lprn
sponsored by WVFG 107.5
ChiLLy Fest Pageantd0 a,m.
Chili Cook Off .
Judging-I 1 am
Public Serving*l 2pm
Christmas Parade of Lights-6:30pm
Fireworks Extravaganza!!!-After rade
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Happy ChiLLy Fest & Merry Christmasl!!!! :i "
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