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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2017
Council moves forward on square renovation
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
The Dadeville City Council approved a $12,000 geotechnical study to allow progress to be made on the courthouse square renovation project that the city is partnering with Tallapoosa County on. The council also approved a quote that will allow the demolition of dilapidated
Second annual cornhole event coming Saturday
structures to begin. According to Jeff Harrison with CDG, the firm overseeing the project explained the design and planning part of the project is about 50-percent complete and is currently in a holding phase until the study is completed. “Things are moving along with DOT,” Harrison said. “We have got comments back from DOT and things
are looking good. The have the traffic study but before they will say anything about allowing a continuous traffic flow they want a geotechnical study.” Harrison explained that the study would involve pulling four cores from Tallassee and Cusseta streets to see if the base under the road would allow for the expected traffic. The council approved the $47,288
quote from Thomas Land Clearing of Birmingham to allow the company to clear the structures from the first of the lots identified under the demolition grant. The motion passed unanimously but Dick Harrelson did abstain from the vote as his wife owns one of the
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Constable’s eligibilty questioned Glaze’s criminal past may disqualify him
By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
The Rodeo Club on Highway 34 near Dadeville will play host to Second Annual Lake Martin Championship Cornhole Tournament, sponsored by the Dadeville Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, July 1. Beginning at noon, both amateurs and more experienced players will fill the air with kernel-filled bags aimed at the six-inch hole on a board 30 feet away. “There are tournaments like this all over the United States,” Dadeville Chamber of Commerce board member Mickey Tarpley said. “This has really taken off in Alabama in the last 10 years.” While the hotbed of support for cornhole is in central Alabama, clustered around where the colleges are, players who take part in events and tournaments like this every weekend can be found all throughout the state. “When you announce an event like ours through the state and national associations, people will come. We had our first one last year, and teams from west Georgia, central and north Alabama came, and all of them indicated they’d be back this year,” Tarpley said. Tarpley said they were currently expecting around 40 participants in this year’s tournament, though
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RiverKids Kayaking Kampers practice their paddling skills before taking on Sandy Creek Tuesday morning.
4-H Kayaking Kamp gets participants outdoors and active All the thoughts of the next trip followed a successful trip down Sandy Creek Tuesday – albeit wet and adventurous. By all accounts the third annual 4-H “My favorite part was going down the RiverKids Kayaking Kamp was a hit. R rapids,” Bransley said. “It was kinda scary but Rising Horseshoe Bend School fourthfun.” grader Carissa Looser and her older sister gr Carissa’s excitement was evident to her Bransley are already planning their next water- grandmother. B bound adventure. bo “Looking at her hair, I think she had a “They are already planning their next kayak blast,” Pike said. “They both were excited trip,” tri said Brenda Pike, the girls’ grandmother. about coming. They would stay all the time if “They would sleep in one if they could.” “T I let them.” That statement got Carissa to thinking. “I had fun,” Carissa said. “Sometimes when “We need to get a kayak where we can go I got stuck, I thought I was going to go over down do our creek,” Carissa said. “You could put backwards. a mattress on top and your good to go.” See KAYAK • Page 10 By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Jacksons Gap resident David Glaze is currently serving as the Tallapoosa County Constable for Beat 18 and was sworn into office in January of this year, but his eligibility to hold the office has been questioned. A petition was filed in circuit court in February challenging Glaze’s eligibility based on a felony conviction in Sept. 1982 in Florida where Glaze was found guilty of bail bond jumping from a charge of battery of a law enforcement officer where he was sentenced to two years in a Florida state prison. Alabama Code prohibits those that have been convicted of any crime punishable by imprisonment in state or federal penitentiary from holding office. Glaze was before Circuit Court Judge Tom Young to answer questions about his past that might disqualify him from holding office. “I got my rights back,” Glaze told the court. “I got See GLAZE • Page 3
McMichael discusses new communication methods at Kiwanis Club meeting By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
The weekly meeting of the Dadeville Kiwanis Club featured Chief Deputy David McMichael of the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department talking about new law enforcement methods being implemented by the department, as well as other issues facing the county. He began his presentation with a brief history of how law enforcement tactics have changed over the last century, from one of the first cases where fingerprints were used as evidence in Chicago in 1910 to the Sheriff’s Department getting their first bodycams in 2009. Most recently, McMichael attended a seminar teaching a method of dealing with the public, the Verbal Defense and Influence for Contact Professionals. Begun in the 1970s as Verbal Judo, the system was created by an English professor turned police officer as a way to improve communications between officers and the general public. “Many complaints against the police come
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from communication issues,” McMichael said. “With this, we want to talk to people, treating them with dignity and respect.” Since McMichael attended the seminar, two classes of law enforcement agents from the Sheriff’s Department have gone through mandatory classes to understand and be able to use VDI during interactions like traffic stops and other similar instances. “We’ve had two classes so far, and everyone has been giving good feedback for the classes,” he said. “Some of them said they wished that they had gotten this training during academy.” Giving these officers the training that can help keep them from making mistakes, VDI promotes personal, organizational, legal and emotional safety. McMichael said that all officials within the Sheriff’s Department would be going through this training, though it is a rather lengthy process, and each class can only hold so many officers. “We have between 12 and 16 officers per See KIWANIS • Page 2
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Chief Deputy David McMichael from the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department talks to the Dadeville Kiwanis Club Thursday afternoon about the department’s Verbal Defense and Influence training.