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Community celebrates back-to-school kickoff
By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
The lawn of City Hall was packed with children who were celebrating the last weekend before school began this week. The back-to-school kickoff celebration was held Saturday from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. During that time, inflatables, a gravity wheel ride, Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources and local businesses were on hand to welcome children and parents to the upcoming academic year. “We ended up with 208 bags of sup-
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plies,” said Corporal Bryan Clayton, event coordinator. “They were all given out by 11:30. That is up from last year. Last year we had 150.” Local businesses donated money and school supplies for children and community outreach brought drinks to keep the kids cool during the summer heat and Tallassee’s National Guard Armory supplied the celebration with hot and ready pizzas from Little Caesers. There were a couple of city officials on hand to join in the celebration. Mayor Johnny Hammock and Councilman Damian Carr joined in See KICKOFF • Page 2
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Catherine Halstead, a member of Tallassee High School’s FFA program, sends young Harley Clayton for a spin on the zero gravity wheel during the Back-toSchool Kickoff celebration held Saturday at City Hall. Formally known as Cops and Kids Day, the Back-toSchool Kickoff gives law enforcement the opportunity to meet local students before they head back to the classroom.
Tallassee Rehab to open satellite at ECHS By DAVID GRANGER Managing Editor
Established in 2015, the Tallassee High School Hall of Pride recognizes outstanding THS graduates. Last year, the alumni association honored five inductees. John L. Allbrittin who graduated with the THS class of 1981, Samuel Oscar Dunn who graduated with the THS class of 1938, Ernest Clayton “Sonny” Hornsby, a 1955 See ALUMNI • Page 2
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While summer is coming to an end, the new school year is just around the corner and coordinators of the annual Beulah Baptist Teachers Luncheon are busy preparing for the upcoming event. This year’s luncheon will take place Saturday at Beulah Baptist Church in Dadeville beginning at 1 p.m. The speaker will be Beverly Golden, a well-known teacher from Reeltown High School. See LUNCHEON • Page 2
Filled with excitement, Ja’Nea Youngblood holds tightly to her father, Cornelius Youngblood, as the two walk to Ja’Nea’s classroom on Tuesday morning to begin the new school year at Tallassee Elementary School.
Tallassee schools back in session By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
Vacations came to end and alarms clocks were set in households across the city as children and their parents prepared to head back to school. Principals, teachers and staff at Tallassee Elementary, Southside Middle School and Tallassee
High School have been preparing for this day for weeks. Buses started dropping off students at 7 a.m. prompt. Students were dressed in their best with smiles from ear to ear as they entered their classrooms. For many this was a time to reunite with friends
Students, faculty and staff at Elmore County High School will soon have the convenience of a rehab facility at the school four hours a week. Tallassee Rebab will operate the clinic in the athletic training room in the gymnasium that is now being used for storage. Currently, the hours are set for 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday and Thursday. Tallassee Rehab has been a longtime community partner and friend of ECHS,” said ECHS principal Wes Rogers. “From the very beginning, Tom Crain and his staff have worked with our student athletes and now, with the satellite clinic here on campus, it’s become even more of a game-changer. “ Physical therapist Scot Owenby, who will be over the clinic’s operation, said the therapists will address injuries and chronic pain, mostly among student athletes. “As physical therapists, hopefully we can get them back to their original state. In Eclectic, mostly See SATELLITE • Page 3
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Tech Pros celebrates grand opening By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
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The owners of Tech Pros along with friends, family, members of the Tallassee Chamber of Commerce, councilman Darrell Wilson and Mayor Johnny Hammock celebrated the grand opening of the new tech store with a ribbon cutting celebration on Monday.
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Broken cell phone, tablet or computer? Tallassee now has a place for that. Tech Pros celebrated their grand opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday morning. Brian Hanna, 21, has lived in Tallassee for three years now. He relocated to the area in order to be close to his family. “I moved to Tallassee to help my sister with my grandparents,” he said. Not long after moving to Tallassee, James and Caroline Haynes, who had been married for 54 years, passed away within a year of each other. Hanna chose to honor his grandmother by investing in Tallassee. “This is dedicated to my grandmother, Caroline G. Haynes,” he said. “She passed away in March.”
Hanna’s friend, Jonathan Haywood, introduced him to the world of tech. Haywood is the former owner of Web Devil Design. “Tech Pros is subsidiary to Web Devil,” Hanna said. “We were doing so much inside his store.” Web Devil recently closed, but Haywood has been working on tech repairs for many years. “He (Haywood) ran his business for 15 years from his home,” Hanna said. “When he opened the store it became a lot more mobile device repair and printing but he wanted to get back to his graphic design and his residential and commercial out calls.” Now that Haywood is focused on graphic design, Hanna is taking over the mobile repair and printing customer base See OPENING • Page 2
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