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MO N D A Y , JU L Y 29 , 2013 SE C T I O N B
West Alabama
Effort to establish Cahaba trail gains momentum
Grant awardedto produce video,
book on river By Angel Coker
Special to The Tuscaloosa News
The Cahaba River Society has joined Alabama Innovative Engine and the Nature Conservancy in Ala-bama to produce the Cahaba Blue-way project, a proposed trail to guide outdoor enthusiasts along the river, bring economic development and raise awareness of the importance of the river.
Alabama Engine project director Matt Leavell said the three organiza-tions came together to get the multiyear project started.
“People have been trying to get a trail along the Cahaba for a long time,” Leavell said.
The three organizations sought the help of Doug Barrett, assistant professor of design at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a team of graphic design majors to pro-duce a logo, website, a mobile app, a book, a video and signage along the river.
The book, “The Cahaba River Ex-perience,” is expected to be com-pleted by early August. The goal of the storybook is to communicate to surrounding areas how the river im-pacts everyday life, according to Sa-
mantha Gibbons Design, a website of one of the designers of the project. The storybook features four themes: the river, trails, history and the com-munity.
The University of Alabama at Bir-mingham and Alabama Engine was awarded a $47,820 Sappi Fine Papers Ideas that Matter grant in 2012 to help fund the production of the story-book and video. The grant is awarded to a limited number of designers each year who support the needs of a nonprofi t organization, in this case the Cahaba River Society. Leavell said the grant paid for a few thousand copies of the storybook and a couple
thousand DVDs for the video, which will also be posted online.
Leavell said the Cahaba River So-ciety hopes the project helps improve the quality of the watershed by edu-cating people with the storybook and video. Alabama Engine hopes to bring economic development. With Americans spending $646 billion each year on recreation according to the Outdoor Industry Association, the economic impact of the Blueway will be great, Leavell said.
“The Cahaba Blueway will in-crease the people who will get out and enjoy the river and ensure that more people will understand and pro-tect the river,” said Cahaba River So-ciety Field Director Randy Had-dock.
The designers set out to talk to people in surrounding communities
FILE PHOTO | DUSTY COMPTON
The Cahaba River Society, the Alabama Innovative Engine and the Nature Conservancy in Alabama are in-volved in the Cahaba Blueway project, a proposed trail to guide outdoor enthusiasts along the river, bring economic development and raise awareness of the importance of the river.
PARAf undingnot yetfi nal
Burglary attempt
spurs chase, gunfi re
By Lydia Seabol AvantStaff Writer
TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa City Council approved $15.4 million in park improvements last week, costs that are largely meant to be split between the city and the county, with the city paying the larger share.
But the City Council and Tusca-loosa County Commission have not come to an agreement. The city’s list of projects include 4.8 million to improve and expand the facilities at Sokol Park and $5.4 million for Bow-ers Park, but it’s not clear whether the county will approve the city’s recommendation.
The County Commission is likely to discuss the PARA funding at its meeting Wednesday .
“I don’t think we have the support on the county commission to move forward with that,” said County Commissioner Jerry Tingle, who represents the eastern part of the county. “We are still in talks with them, but we are defi nitely not mov-ing in that direction right now.”
Commissioner Stan Acker said
By Lydia Seabol AvantStaff Writer
TUSCALOOSA | An attempted bur-glary turned into gunfi re and a car chase involving Tuscaloosa police early Sunday morning, police said.
At about 12:30 a.m., police said, a resident in The Downs historic dis-trict witnessed his neighbor’s home being broken into and called the Tus-caloosa police.
When three offi -cers arr ived on scene, two male suspects drove out of the home’s drive-way and tried to fl ee, driving toward the of f icers who were on foot, ac-cording to the Tus-caloosa Metro Ho-micide Unit.
The police told the men to stop and then shot at the suspects. The sus-p e c t s ’ ve h i c l e brushed up against one of the offi cers and continued to fl ee the scene, tak-ing out a mailbox, ramming into an-other police vehicle and nearly hit-ting another before it led offi cers on a short pursuit out of the neighbor-hood.
County has not agreed to proposal
approved by city
Hints for the 1913 homemaker
Hints for homemakers were pub-lished in The Tuscaloosa News 100 years ago.
Homemakers could reserve sum-mer’s abundance of eggs to be used when eggs were scarce by storing them in a solution of 1 gallon water-glass (sodium sili-cate) and 12 gal-lons o f w a t er, previously brought t o t he boi l i ng point.
The eggs were to be placed in
stone jars, with the little end turned down and enough of the solution poured over them to cover them. The homemaker was cautioned never to put fertilized eggs in the solution, since they did not keep well. It was recommended to re-move the males from the pens be-fore preserving any eggs.
Another bit of advice was to re-move all rugs, heavy draperies and curtains and to open the house wide to the air and sun to kill germs that could cause disease.
The homemaker was advised to annihilate fl ies and mosquitoes by screening .
Flies often came directly from carrion or excrement and deposited all kinds of matter and dangerous disease in homes and should be ex-terminated. The mosquito was a menace to health at that time in the South,with anopheles mosquitoes responsible for about 5,000 deaths a year from malaria and 500,000 cases of illness.
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago this week
Norman Bassett, editor of The ■Tuscaloosa News, was named Lion of the Year by the Tuscaloosa Lions Club.
The jury selected to hear evi- ■dence in the $10 million libel suit brought against the Saturday Eve-ning Post by former University of Georgia Athletic Director Wallace Butts will be shown fi lms of the Alabama-Georgia football game, which the magazine alleged had been rigged by Butts and Alabama Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant.
An 80-year-old Gordo man, ■J.D. Higdon, was in the county jail in Carrollton, charged with killing a 17-year-old Gordo youth in his wa-termelon patch.
A Centreville baby, Brigitte ■Ann Foster, who was bitten more than 1,000 times by toxic fi re ants in 1962 as she slept, had made a full recovery. She spent three weeks in the Bibb County Hospital. The ants had entered her mouth and stom-ach.
The Montgomery Advertiser ■reported that James A. Hood, one of two black students who integrated the University of Alabama the previ-ous June, might be expelled for com-ments he made in a speech to a black audience in Gadsden.
Juveniles confi ned to the Tus- ■caloosa County Jail were being housed in the old “Death Cell” on the second fl oor because no other facilities were available. The steel cage, which was inside a regular cell, was 6 feet wide, 7 feet long and 7 feet high. The last hanging there was in 1919, and the trap door and the brass ring used to attach the hangman’s rope were still there
25 years ago this weekThe King’s Ranch took over ■
the fi nancially troubled Linnie Oden
BLOGSS
Retired News Librarian Betty Slowe delves into The Tuscaloosa News ar-chive in her Looking Back blog. To read the rest of her blog, visit www.tuscaloosanews.com.
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PHOTOPROVIDED BY WILLITA ZOELLNER)
CATCH OF THE DAY: C.W. “Turkey” Johnston, left, and W.J. Skelton admire Skelton’s string of fi sh as they stand in front of Rex’s Drug Store on the Strip in Tuscaloosa. Johnston, known as “Tuscaloosa’s most famous insurance man,” worked for State Farm Insurance Company for 43 years. The sign for Pug’s restaurant can be seen farther down the street. Send comments on this photo to [email protected]
SUBMITTED PHOTO
LAST WEEK’S PHOTO: Pickens County offi cers with Gov. George Wallace. From left, are Pickens County Sheriff Louie Coleman, Wallace, Policeman Sam Brown, William D. Hayden of Gordo Police Department and Gordo Police Chief Dave Hood.
WWW.TUSCALOOSANEWS.COM
Read Betty Slowe’s blog at www.tuscaloosanews.com for information on the historic photo from last Monday’s Looking Back column.
ONLINE: Visit the Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum at tavm.omeka.net to see more historic photos from this area.
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Check out this week’s lunch specials and/orcoupons in today’s paper and on Friday in theWeekly Restaurant Guide. See what’s good.
Call a friend and plan your lunch for the week.
tuscaloosa news restaurant guide
LUNCH?WHAT’S FOR
Call 722-0154 to Place YourRestaurant in the Guide.
CAHABA RIVER FACTSStretching almost 200 miles ■
within central Alabama, the Ca-haba River contains more spe-cies of fi sh per mile than any other river in North America.
The river has been recognized ■by environmentalists throughout the United States and is consid-ered one of eight Hotspots of Bio-diversity in the world.
The river is also the main ■source of drinking water for the Birmingham Water Works Board, serving one-fi fth of the Alabama population.
Zhalil Tachaka Ware Zhalil, 19, above, and Marcus Dupre’ Johnson, 26, below were charged in an attempted burglary in the Downs.
STAFF GRAPHIC | ANTHONY BRATINA
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