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SEHS principal gets promotion
By WILLIAM CARROLL Managing Editor
Stanhope Elmore High School Principal Jamey McGowin was unanimously approved by the Elmore County Board of Education to take over the position of Director of Secondary Education/ Student Services during a special called board meeting Wednesday afternoon. According to Elmore County
Schools Superintendent Dr. Andre Harrison, McGowin will be replacing Interim Assistant Superintendent Steve McKenzie who is being reassigned to supervise human resources and elementary education replacing Claire Moore, who resigned the position effective Sept. 23. According to information provided to board members during the meeting, five applicants applied for the position that
McGowin was elected to fill. Harrison said that the district posted the newly created SEHS opening Wednesday and that they would be accepting applications and interviewing potential candidates over the next two weeks. “I would like to have a recommendation to submit to the board by our next scheduled meeting,” Harrison said. The board’s next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 24.
McGowin’s promotion was voted on along with several other personnel actions that the board was asked to consider. During the presentation of information, board chair Larry Teel asked several questions about the recommendations and candidates. Specifically, Teel asked district staff to provide copies of resumes of those individuals recommended by
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Millbrook to build new conference center By WILLIAM CARROLL Managing Editor
One of the many new projects planned for the city of Millbrook is a new conference center to be built at Legacy Park on the north end of the city. According to Millbrook Mayor Al Kelley, the new center was approved over a month ago by the city council and plans are that construction on the new structure will commence later this year. Kelley said the new facility will replace the current structure being used for public meetings and other gatherings at the park. “Right now we have a mobile office building at the park that we have been using for a number of years,” Kelley said. Kelley described the new facility as a smaller version of the Millbrook Civic Center. “We basically took the civic center and made it smaller,” he said. Project Manager and engineer with Landmark Engineering and Construction Stuart Peters said that the Legacy Park Conference Center, as the new building will be known, is a multi-purpose facility, which will include a lobby, kitchen area, storage and a large assembly area for a wide range of uses. The building will hold around 120 people and will be just short of 2,700 square
By COREY ARWOOD Staff Writer Corey Arwood / The Herald
The city kicked off its Breast Cancer Awareness Month’s activities Friday with “The Pink Ribbon Walk.” A number of survivors and supporters gathered at the civic center at noon to begin a walk down to Gold Star Park where they had a ceremonial pink balloon release. Rebecca Buckalew, 39, a nurse practitioner at Ivy Creek Healthcare, gave a testimony of her fight against cancer. The event was planned in conjunction with Ivy Creek which will provide free breast exams this month. The Joy To Life Foundation was also at the event and will help provide mammograms with donations received from other events planned with the city.
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A Wetumpka family’s scholarship foundation for Elmore County students is nearing its application deadline to award two area seniors $1,000 each, all in the name of community betterment and to remember the woman who started it all. The director of the Lucille Wise Memorial Foundation Inc. said it was all done to continue the legacy of the mother of 11, who he said promoted education in her family first. “What we’re trying to do in the community is what our mother did for us,” said David Wise, of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Wise said he was one of the 11 who experienced Lucille Wise’s emphasis on education first hand. Recently he talked with The Herald after his successful efforts to get a previously segregated school in Wetumpka deemed a historical landmark. The historic landmark at Wetumpka Elementary School to mark its role as a segregated school from 1963 to 1970, then known as W.B. Doby High See SCHOLARSHIP • Page 3
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Barks & Rec brings pet boarding to Wetumpka By WILLIAM CARROLL Managing Editor
Barks & Rec is one of the newest business additions to Wetumpka, having been opened a couple of months ago by co-owners Stephanie McDaniel and Amy Myers at 42 Coosa River Parkway, Suite D. Dozens of area residents packed into the facility Thursday afternoon to enjoy a ribbon cutting ceremony and refreshments in honor of the new business. The ladies said that the idea to William Carroll / The Herald locate such a facility in Wetumpka came from their current clientele Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis (center) cuts the ribbon at Barks & Rec at River Region Vet Services in Thursday afternoon while co-owners Amy Myers (left blue shirt) and See PETS • Page 3 Stephanie McDaniel (right in green) look on.
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Wetumpka couple charged with chemical endangerment of child By COREY ARWOOD Staff Writer
A Wetumpka man and woman were charged with chemical endangerment of a child, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia said the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office and the local D.A.’s office. According to media reports, Tonya Michelle Blankenship, 23, and Wesley Todd Casey, 27, took their one-yearold to a Montgomery hospital where it was found to be under the influence of a drug. See ARREST • Page 3
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