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Area property owners suffering sticker shock taxes that they had missed. No, the change is a product of new guidelines for valuing homes in the county. Most are reporting spikes in values between 15 and 30 percent and Tallapoosa County Revenue Commissioner Eva Middlebrooks said calls have been flooding into to her office
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Many Tallapoosa County property owners are suffering from sticker shock after receiving new property valuations in the last few days. Calls to the Outlook asked if there had been a vote to raise
as a result. “We normally do new assessments every four years and the way it has worked is that each year roughly a fourth of the properties in the county were appraised,” Middlebrooks said. “But this year we had to do all the properties based on a new state manual that
had significantly different valuations of materials and other factors. The values that people are seeing are a result of that.” Middlebrooks said that until this year the county had been using guidelines from a manual that was created in 2005. The manual is what appraisers use
AUTOMATION PIONEER Local man pens book about time at Mayo Clinic
Lawsuit filed over constable vote bill By MITCH SNEED Editor Ed
A lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of M the th Tallapoosa County Commissioners seeking C to have a portion of the th recently passed legislation giving the le people of the county p the th right to vote on the th future of constable positions struck down. p The suit, filed in the th Circuit Court of Tallapoosa County T in Dadeville, cites a portion of the bill that th is allegedly
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A man who now calls Dadeville home has penned a book about his experiences while on the staff of the world-renowned Mayor Clinic. “The Automation of the Clinical Practice: Lessons in Systems Management” is a memoir newly released by the author, Reg Smith, retired systems analyst and developer. After a career that spanned 35 years in health care and relocating to Lake Martin with his wife of 48 years, he wrote about a career of working with systems in healthcare. In this book, he recounts his team’s efforts to automate the system for the outpatient practice at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. His team faced and overcame the challenges of implementing new technology, including complications presented by medical situations to maintaining patient privacy and records security, allowing authorized access and use while avoiding the devastating and costly implications of system failure. Industry Professionals will remember significant developments by the Mayo Clinic in this field. “My time there began just as so many technologies that are now so widely used were just becoming See SMITH • Page 5
to arrive at the value of a home. For example it says what value is added by brick versus wood and what each square foot means in value. “A lot of things change in 12 years,” Middlebrooks said. We are hearing about 30 percent for a lot of folks. We are finding See TAX • Page 5
unconstitutional. The suit names Sen. Tom Whatley and Attorney General Steven Marshall and cites the 1975 Officials Code of Alabama, Section 6-620 and Rule 57 of the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedures. The suit, which was filed by County Attorney Thomas Radney, says that because the clause that calls for a vote is different than what was legally advertised, it should be removed and See LAWSUIT • Page 5
Soap box derby event coming to Dadeville cheers on Saturday, Aug. 19, as the town turns out to watch young racers At a recent meeting speed down the hill in the of the Dadeville City planned soap box derby. Council, the council “I did them when discussed trying to find I was a child,” said ways to promote the town local resident Marrell beyond Lake Martin. Ward, who has been One event designed to do instrumental in planning this is moving closer to the derby. “I feel that, becoming a reality. since the whole family The section of East gets involved, it’ll Columbus Street between be a day of fun for Dadeville Elementary everybody.” School and the football Ward said that he field will come alive See DERBY • Page 5 with excited shouts and By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
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Reginald Smith poses for a photograph at his home in StillWaters.
Dadeville Kiwanis Club learns about Antarctic issues By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
The Dadeville Kiwanis Club welcomed Dr. James McClintock, a professor of polar and marine biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to their weekly meeting on Thursday afternoon. McClintock, who has been studying the environment on the continent of Antarctica for over 30 years, explained some of the major changes he and his colleagues have noticed during their time at a research station on the Antarctic Peninsula. “The Antarctic has been warming,” McClintock said. “87 percent of glaciers across the continent have been receding. Ice
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shelves are breaking off, which means higher sea levels.” With major changes like this occurring across the Antarctic Peninsula, the animals calling the southern continent home have been dealing with serious issues to the way of life they have been used to for centuries. With snow falling during a season not traditionally seen, the eggs laid by the Adelie Penguin have been buried under the snow, and subsequently drowned when the snow melts later on. The loss of sea ice has meant a decrease in the amount of krill, a small shrimp that is food for virtually every creature living in the Antarctic. Furthermore, animals not
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commonly seen in the ocean surrounding Antarctica have made their presence felt as the water warms, the most noticeable of these being the king crab. Looking at the question of why the general public should care about this, McClintock explained how the area, one of the richest and most diverse zones of marine life on the planet, can be beneficial to humans. For example, he and some of his fellow researchers discovered a chemical compound produced by some of the undersea creatures that, when tested at the National Cancer Institute, was found to fight melanoma. See KIWANIS • Page 5
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UAB Professor Dr. James McClintock talks to the Dadeville Kiwanis Club about his many years of research on the Antarctic Peninsula.