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THE SONNY SIDE by Sonny Turnerby Sonny Turnerby Sonny Turner

My heart went out of rhythmrecently and it took a"shock" to get it back to tick-

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The doctor told me that it would onlytake seconds, but I can tell you itscared the daylights out of me.

After two days oftests in the hospi-tal, finally it wastime for the shock.They rolled me intothe shock room at7:30 that morning

and after 90 minutes of waiting, thedoctor finally showed up. I told thenurse that it appeared they wereabout ready for the electrocutionand that I was very nervous about it.But she replied, “Relax, you won'tfeel a thing. It will be over in sec-onds.”

The next thing I knew she was tellingme my heart was back in rhythm.They knocked me out for a couple of

minutes, but it seemed I never leftthe initial conversation with thenurse.

“Is it over?," I asked. "Yes sir," shereplied. Well, I thought, that was theeasiest procedure I've ever had - alot better than that flu shot I had ayear ago.

In addition to the ticking problem, Irecently also went through two daysof stress tests at The Heart Centerwith my cardiologist. I passed thosetests too, thank goodness. But I got

grilled to the bone by him.

"You are not still smoking, are you,"he asked. "No sir,” I replied. "I still re-member the day you told me tostop."

That day was March 1, 1988, twodays before my cardiologist advisedme that if I wanted to live to see mychildren and my grandchildren growold, I had better stay quit. Now, morethan 28 years later, I am glad to sayI did just that.

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The event was held August 5 &6 at the Elkton Road location.This is a chance for vintage

engine enthusiasts to observe turnof the century engineering tech-nology. Owners of antique gas andsteam engines converged at thesite from surrounding states to dis-play their equipment.

The annual tractor parade is an-other fun event that takes placethrough the county. There are

many supporters and volunteerswho dedicate their time to createa fun show. Oh, yes, one of my fa-vorite things to participate in is thegood eating- like pork cracklingsand many other delights.

The show is an educational expe-rience for young children to beable to see first hand what theirgrandparents used to carry out indaily chores. The vintage tractorsand machines provide a glimpseback in our past. The hit and miss

engines were used to powersawmills and early cotton gins.

Steam powered tractors were usedon early farms to power wheatthrashers and cut off saws. Steampower was replacing the farm workdone by mules and horses.

Some of the engines displayedwere a source of power forportable grist mills that traveledaround the farm communities atthe turn of the century grindingcorn into meal. The Piney eventprovides fun for everyone withfriendly competition like the skilletthrow and the slow tractor race.

Make plans next year to visit thisevent and experience a ‘back in

time’ snap-shot of the early ma-chines that helped build our coun-try. With the support displayed bythe communit, it provides the op-portunity to see friends and chatabout antique equipment from thepast.

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Piney Chapel AmericanFarm Heritage Days

Bobby Warren from Aberdene Mississippi with his

LookOut Boiler from the 1800's.

C.G. Benson from Amory, Mississippi

with his steam powered tractor. Roger Keyes cooking pork cracklings.

James and Kristy Blankenship

from Tellico Plains, Tenn.

with their rope maker.


Limestone County’s Jerry Allen Newby, right, is one of four finalists in the

State Young Farmers Discussion Meet contest. Newby competed in the Dis-

cussion Meet first round with 17 other participants July 30 at the Alabama

Farmers Federation’s 44th Commodity Producers Conference in Mobile. He

will compete in the final round in December at the Federation’s annual meet-

ing in Montgomery. He is pictured with Federation President Jimmy Parnell.

The Valley Star | featureFuture-focused young farmers flourish at annual conference

The Alabama Farmers Federa-tion’s Young Farmers provedthe future of agriculture is in

good hands as they competed instatewide events at the 44th Com-modity Producers Conference inMobile July 30. In the Port City, theOutstanding Young Farm Family(OYFF) was announced, and youngfarmers competed in the Excel-lence in Agriculture and Discus-sion Meet contests.

This year’s OYFF was MadisonCounty’s Stewart and Kasey McGilland daughters Allie, 4, Reece, 2,and Peyton, 3 months. The McGillsgrow cotton, corn and soybeansand help manage Kasey’s family’sagritourism operation, CottonPickin’ Pumpkins, a division ofTate Farms in Meridianville.

The McGills won a prize packageworth more than $60,000, includ-ing a new General Motors pickuptruck from Alfa Insurance, a JohnDeere 825i Gator from AlabamaAg Credit and Alabama FarmCredit and use of a John Deeretractor by John Deere and localJohn Deere dealers.

OYFF runners-up were Lance andStephanie Miller of Snead inBlount County and their childrenReed, 4, and Jade, 1; and Johnand Hannah Bevel of Albertville inMarshall County and their daugh-ter Madalyn, 3. The runners-up re-ceived $500 courtesy of AlabamaAg Credit and Alabama FarmCredit. The Federation presentedeach finalist a Big Green Eggcooker.

OYFF contestants must receivemore than 50 percent of their in-come from production agriculture.Finalists were announced at theYoung Farmers Conference in Feb-ruary.

Ben and Heather Maples of Elk-mont in Limestone County beatout 10 competitors in the Excel-lence in Agriculture contest. As thewinner, the Maples will receive aJohn Deere zero-turn mower spon-

sored by Dow AgroSciences and acomputer package from CCS/Val-com Wireless.

Excellence in Agriculture contest-ants are young people in agricul-ture earning no more than halftheir income from production agri-culture. The competition includedan application, 15-minute presen-tation and 10-minute question-and-answer session.

Excellence in Agriculture first run-ners-up were Brandon and AngelaSewell of Southside in EtowahCounty, and second runner-up wasAndrew Brock of Douglas in Mar-shall County.

Four finalists were named in theFederation’s Discussion Meet con-test, designed to simulate a com-mittee meeting where activeparticipation is expected. Eighteencontestants discussed pre-se-lected agricultural topics throughseveral rounds of competition.

Finalists are Lauren Cline of Ope-lika in Lee County, Jerry AllenNewby of Athens in LimestoneCounty, Hunter McBrayer of Boazin Marshall County and SidneyPhelps of Dadeville in TallapoosaCounty.

Discussion Meet finalists will com-pete in December at the Federa-tion’s annual meeting inMontgomery for the top prize of a4-wheeler sponsored by FirstSouth Farm Credit.

Excellence in Agriculture runners-up and Discussion Meet finalistsalso received Big Green Egg cook-ers from the Federation.

Young Farmers contest winnerswill represent Alabama at theAmerican Farm Bureau Federationannual meeting and contests inJanuary in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Alabama Farmers Federationis the state's largest farm organi-zation with more than 350,000members and affiliates in all 67counties.

Maples family wins State Excellancein AG competition for young farmers

Newby named finalist inState contest for young farmers

Limestone County's Ben and Heather Maples won the State Young Farmers

Excellence In Ag contest. They competed against 10 other participants July

30 at the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 44th Commodity Producers Con-

ference in Mobile, and will represent the state at the American Farm Bureau

Federation competition in January 2017. They are pictured with Federation

President Jimmy Parnell.

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An author who fights dyslexiaand overcame doubts shecould write stories people

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The first book in the series on theAlabama Tooth Fairy is set in down-town Athens, Ala.

Like her creator, Avery, the AlabamaTooth Fairy, struggles with doubts.Avery, who has served as the statefairy since Alabama gained state-hood in 1819, worries she hasenough magic and time to serve allthe state’s children because thepopulation continues to grow.

Northern Kentucky author SydneySinclair, creator of The Tooth FairyNetwork book series, recently vis-ited Athens to scout iconic locationsshe plans use in her Alabama ToothFairy book. Avery’s magical fairydoor will be at High Cotton Arts, anon-profit downtown art incubatoroperated by Athens Arts League.Athens Arts League is a committeeof Spirit of Athens, a nationally-ac-credited Main Street organization.

Sinclair, who works as a deputycounty clerk, began creating storiesabout the Tooth Fairy when herdaughter Chase started losingteeth. Katra, the Kentucky ToothFairy, would leave Chase a specialprize and note. The notes for eachtooth captured what was occurringin Chase’s life, and Sinclair’s familystarted asking to read the letters.

Her first book, The Curse of Crion,was published September 2013 byTate Publishing. This book show-cases characters in Fyedybar, thename of Fairyland.

Sinclair said throughout her life shehas fought to “rise above the ‘Ican’t’ stigma associated withdyslexia.” She encourages thosewith a learning disability to not onlydream but to work hard.

“It will pay off in the end,” she said.

Her ambition to write this 50-bookseries is her way of refusing to letdyslexia hinder her aspirations.Likewise, Avery the Alabama ToothFairy faces obstacles such as get-ting a fairy door installed in timeand breaking a special gift meantfor a boy who lost his tooth. Averytackles these obstacles in down-town Athens, where the main fam-ily of the book lives in the historicGreenhaw home on JeffersonStreet.

Athens became the book’s locationwhen Sinclair started researchingthe Marshall Space Flight Center inHuntsville, where the father of thefamily works.

“I wanted a suburb of Huntsville forthe family’s home,” she said.“When I found Athens, which startswith the letter ‘A’ I knew Avery theAlabama Tooth Fairy needed to livein Athens, Alabama.”

Sinclair said Athens-LimestoneTourism Association pitched High

Cotton Arts to her for a unique fairydoor location. Avery travels throughthe magical fairy door and throughdowntown Athens to bring a specialgift for the family’s son, who haslost his first tooth.

Sinclair said she loved the nameHigh Cotton Arts and set up a meet-ing with Athens Arts League Chair-woman Debby Smith.

“What an incredible day it hasbeen,” Sinclair wrote on her Face-book page, which is followed by herhometown supporters. “We (Sinclairand her daughter) arrived in thebeautiful City of Athens, Alabama, alittle early and were able to go to alocal burger place called Dub’sBurgers. We had a great time.”

Sinclair and her daughter Chasealso visited stores in downtownAthens, the Kreme Delite and theGreenhaw home. She was im-pressed with the Greenhaw home’sporch, ornate staircase, pocketdoors and hidden staircase, andthat owner Lanier Greenhaw wasswinging in one of the porch swings,

waiting to meet her.

“I really look forward to finishing theAlabama Tooth Fairy book,” shewrote.

Magical creativity has evolved fromthe collaboration between Sinclairand High Cotton Arts. Smith saidAthens Arts League is hosting the2016 Fairy Door Competition andExhibit to fund projects for the artsincubator and to further efforts toenrich the community through art.

There are various age group cate-gories from age 6 through adult.Cash prizes will be awarded to thewinners with the grand prize winnerreceiving $100 and considerationby Sinclair for the grand prize fairydoor to be featured on the cover ofher Alabama Tooth Fairy book.

Applications are due Aug. 31, andfairy door entries are due on Sept. 2and 3 at High Cotton Arts. Thedoors will be on exhibit from Sept.7 through Oct. 1. Contest informa-tion and applications are availableat www.athensartsleague.com/ andclick on “Upcoming Events.”

Once the book is published, HighCotton Arts will sell copies and offera coupon to children who buy thebook so they can get a free fairy icecream at Kreme Delite.

“Fairy ice cream has to have sprin-kles,” Smith said.

Children not only love ice cream buttechnology, so Sinclair plans to in-clude GPS coordinates for eachstate’s fairy doors so children canuse their cellphones and laptops tosearch for them. She said a fairydoor contest, incorporating technol-ogy and using sites children canvisit help make reading fun for chil-dren of all abilities.

“Sydney Sinclair has an incrediblestory about overcoming dyslexia,and she is using her talents toencourage children to overcome

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Downtown Athens opens the doorfor the Alabama Tooth Fairy

Author Sydney Sinclair visiting High Cotton Arts.

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learning disabilities through imagi-nation and determination,” saidAthens Mayor Ronnie Marks, whomet Sinclair during her Athens visit.“The City of Athens is honored to bechosen for her book, and we look for-ward to this collaboration with AthensArts League helping inspire a love ofreading, the arts and learning.”

Alabama Tooth Fairy Tidbits● Sydney Sinclair’s website with moreinformation about the Alabama ToothFairy book is: http://www.sydney-sin-clair.com/

● Athens Arts League’s website withmore information about the FairyDoor Competition and Exhibit is:http://www.athensartsleague.com/and click on “Upcoming Events”

● The Tooth Fairy Network book seriesis on Facebook at:https://www.facebook.com/world-offyedybar

Downtown Athens sites that will bepart of the Alabama Tooth Fairy bookinclude:● High Cotton Arts – 103 West Wash-ington Street

● Kreme Delite – 401 West Washing-ton Street

● Greenhaw home – 121 North Jef-ferson Street

● The trains that rumble throughdowntown Athens on the CSX trac

The Alabama Tooth Fairy will travel through a magical fairy door at High Cotton Arts and the family in the book will live in the historic downtown Green-haw home. To coincide with this book, Athens Arts League is hosting a Fairy Door Competition and Exhibit, and the grand prize will win $100 and be con-sidered for the book cover.

Alabama Tooth Fairy continued from page 6

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There were several patterns work-ing from the shallow water vege-tation bite coming on frogs andcreature baits. School fish weremoving in groups attacking theshad schools. Smallmouth basswere also be a factor as the tour-nament proceeded.

John Cox had a narrow lead goinginto the final day of the ForrestWood Cup. Cox had a 3 day totalof 43.5 pounds and nipping at hisheals was Todd Auten with a 3day total of 42.12 pounds. Day

four at weigh in at the VBCCpromised to be a hum dinger of afinish for the best anglers in theFLW fishing world.

A challenge anglers face with afour day tournament is that yourfishing holes become depleted ofquality fish. It takes a lot of fish toproduce good catches for 4 con-secutive days.

Huntsville’s VBCC was alive witheager fishing fans waiting to seethe final day’s weight of the For-

rest Wood Cup event. Countrymusic performer Dustin Lynchopened the show with a greatconcert entertaining the hugecrowd awaiting the weigh in.

Tensions mounted as the top 10anglers took their seats on stageand observed each fishermanweigh their fish. The 1st placelead changed several times be-fore John Cox of FL., being thelast to weigh in, nailed down the

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Forrest Wood presents John Cox with 1st place check and trophy.

1st. place finish with a 4 day totalof 54-13 pounds of Wheeler Lakebass. Michael Neal of TN. fin-ished second with 50-10pounds. Third place went to ToddAuten of SC with 50-5 pounds.

This was truly a great tournamentfeaturing some of the best fisher-men in the world. The final dayproduction was an amazing showto attend. The FLW tournamenttrail pushes fishing competition

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Let’s hope Wheeler Lake will be a

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Pro Mark Rose fishing a point on the 3rd day of the tournament.

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The Limestone CountyArchives is now closed to thepublic for a six-month reno-

vation project. The work, whichwill refurbish and provide fire pro-tection to the Archives office inthe historic former Athens L&NPassenger Depot, is scheduled tobe completed in early 2017.

Through Aug. 22, the Archives isnot able to provide assistance toresearchers as Archivist RebekahDavis and Assistant Archivist AprilDavis focus on the process ofmoving historic records out of theway of the renovation work andmoving their offices out of theArchives building.

“We are excited to get this projecton the move,” Rebekah Davissaid. The work has been plannedsince October 2013, when the Al-abama Department of Trans-portation approved a

Transportation Alternatives Pro-gram grant for renovation of ahistoric transportation facility.Built in 1905, the building servedas Athens’ only passenger depotfor the Louisville and NashvilleRailroad until it was decommis-sioned in the 1960s. It is listedon the National Register of His-toric Places and the AlabamaRegister of Landmarks and Her-itage.

“These renovations will provideprotection to our historic buildingand its priceless contents, andwill help ensure that the buildingremains strong and viable for atleast another century and be-yond,” Davis added.

Morrell Engineering and PremierStructures will oversee projectactivities, which will includeinstallation of a fire suppressionand alarm system, lead paint

abatement, repair andreplacement of exterior boards,scraping and painting thebuilding’s exterior and interior,and adding interior lighting. Thework will be completed in twophases, which will require movingall records and furniture from theback half of the building to thefront, and then reversing theprocess to complete work in thefront section. The work isscheduled to be completed in180 calendar days.

During the renovation process,limited operations of the Lime-stone County Archives will behoused in the basement of theLimestone County CommissionWashington Street Annex.Archivists will be able to providelimited assistance to researchersby appointment only, by calling256-233-6404 or [email protected].

Many of the vital permanentrecords housed at the LimestoneCounty Archives, including deeds,wills, marriage records, courtrecords and more, are now acces-sible for free on the Archives’website, www.limeston-earchives.com. The master indexto the Archives’ records is alsoavailable on the Archives website.

While working from their tempo-rary Archives office, Archives staff

will focus on processing specialcollections and cataloging his-toric photos to make those itemsmore easily searchable and ac-cessible. In addition to housingLimestone County governmentrecords dating to the county’s be-ginnings in 1818, the LimestoneCounty Archives holds tens ofthousands of historic photos andnon-government records that doc-ument the county’s history.

“Improving the access to theserecords is particularly importantnow, as the people throughoutthe county and city prepare to re-search and use these documentsin celebrating our bicentennial in2018,” Rebekah Davis said.

Premier Structures Inc., ofAthens, was the low bidder for theproject with a bid of $311,987.ALDOT funds 80% of the projectcost, with the remaining 20%coming from the LimestoneCounty Commission.

The Limestone CountyCommission established theLimestone County Archives in1980. It was located in theWashington Street Annexbasement, where the temporaryArchives office will be located,until 2003, when the Archivesmoved to the former L&NPassenger Depot.

YEARS AGO IN LIMESTONE COUNTYYEARS AGO IN LIMESTONE COUNTY by Rebekah DavisLimestone County Archivist

by Rebekah DavisLimestone County Archivist

by Rebekah DavisLimestone County Archivist

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UNCLE BONDEE’S ADVENTURES by Uncle Bondeeby Uncle Bondee

Papa had just got throughsaying Grace blessing thefood when from nowhere a

big commotion broke out.Blackie, our favorite coon hound,had cornered a pole cat on thefront poach. City folks referred tothese varmints as skunks. Thescrap was on when the skunksaw a way out and ran throughthe screen door into the kitchenwhere we were all seated.

Behind the skunk, Blackie torethrough the screen on the doorlike it wasn’t there. People start-ing scattering, and the preacherwho was eating lunch came closeto getting trampled. The oleskunk was pretty excited; by nowspraying everything in sight. ThisSunday feast has turned into amaylay. Dalton grabbed the tablecloth and tried to throw it over thescent spraying skunk. By thistime the house cat, Kitty, wasbrought into the ruckus. Daltonheld down the skunk under thetable cloth, but Kitty and Blackienow were tied up in a pretty goodfight.

Dalton managed to get the skunkto the front door and released iton the front porch. The skunkscent was so strong everybodyhad to go outside for some freshair. The preacher was coughingand said his eyes were burningfrom the spray. The kitchen areawas a total mess, but being hun-gry as we were, there was a planto salvage the fried chicken andthe garden vegetables that hadbeen prepared.

Humpy volunteered to go in thestunk up kitchen and gather upthe food. The food was broughtout and placed in the back of awagon parked in the front yard.The plates and forks were rinsedoff and OK to use. We never letgood cooking go to a waste. Dal-ton asked if Papa was going to

offer the Grace again. Humpyspoke up and said, “ Let some-one else say it this time.” I guessHumpy thought the last Gracedidn’t work out too good.

This was the first time thepreacher had eaten lunch with ussince he was hired to preachback in the spring. He asked, “Doyou folks have this kind of a thinghappen very often?” Papa an-swered, “ The last time we had toeat outside was when the stovepipe from the cook stove gotstopped up and filled the housewith smoke.”

The stench from the skunk hadcollected on everybody’s clothes.After a couple of days the smellstarted to dissipate or we just gotused to it.

Everybody eating together was aspecial time for country folks. En-joying the good food and sharingthe things that went on in our lit-tle world was special. We had nodistractions like TV or cell phonesthat robbed us of private familytime like it does in today’s world.

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By David RainerAlabama Department of Conservationand Natural Resources

Dr. Bob Shipp stood in amaze-ment at the 83rd annual Ala-bama Deep Sea Fishing

Rodeo (ADSFR) as he watched thefrenetic activity on Dauphin Island.

Shipp, Professor Emeritus at the Uni-versity of South Alabama’s MarineSciences Department, never wouldhave imagined the resilience of theAlabama Gulf Coast, its ecosystemand related recreational activitieswhen he was sitting at Dauphin Is-land Sea Lab six years ago.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill hadcast an ominous pall over all life onthe Gulf Coast in April 2010, andShipp thought coastal living hadbeen forever altered. For obviousreasons, ADSFR officials had to can-cel the 2010 rodeo.

“When it happened, I thought ourway of life was gone,” said Shipp,longtime judge for the ADSFR, whichattracts more than 3,000 anglersannually to the Alabama coast. “I re-ally never expected it to rebound likeit has. The first year, when thingsdidn’t look too very bad, I was still re-ally suspicious. But as time goes on,there appears to be no impact at all.And the rodeo is a good example.We’re getting the same kind of fishas before, maybe even better thanbefore. Certainly red snapper arebigger and there are more thanthere’s ever been before.

“From a fisheries standpoint, you’dnever notice there has been any im-pact at all. That’s not to say there’snot stuff going on in the sedimentsin deep water, but as far as the fish-eries are concerned, you’d neverknow we had an oil spill.”

Although the red snapper season infederal waters is closed, Alabamastate waters out to 9 miles are openthrough July 31 for red snapper. Andthe rodeo showed how big red snap-per can grow this close to shore. Thewinning red snapper, caught byDavid Silcox, weighed 29.05pounds, followed by MatthewO’Brien at 27.63 and Ryan Kennedyat 26.51.

Shipp continues USA’s Marine Sci-

ences research work on the redsnapper population off the Alabamacoast. In fact, he and his crew madea trip into the Gulf before the rodeostarted. Some of the spots checkedwere not regular sites but had beendiscovered by the charter captainswhile traveling from site to site.

“What we’ve done for the last twoyears is go to some of these (discov-ered) spots,” Shipp said. “We don’tknow who put what down and don’tknow what kind of material it is. Wego to the spots and put the camera(via remotely operated vehicle) downand fish them for 15 minutes. Everyone of them is totally loaded with redsnapper. The people I bring along onthe trip don’t believe me that it’s nota honey hole. What you see on thecamera is validated by what wecatch on hook and line.”

The research trip consisted of fish-ing five different spots for 15 min-utes at a time. Every red snapperthat hit the deck on the boat was ei-ther kept for post-mortem researchor tagged and released. Shipp saidabout 250 snapper were caught inabout an hour and 15 minutes offishing.

There was one disturbing aspect ofthe research trip. Shipp said the ROVcamera picked up not only plenty ofred snapper but also far too many ofthe invasive lionfish.

“One of the spots with chickencoops probably had 40 to 50 lionfishon it,” he said. “I think lionfish are aserious, serious threat. I think it’smore of a threat than overfishing.They feed on young, live fish, fishthat are an inch or inch-and-a-halflong, which means they are compet-ing with other species for food. Plusthey’re wreaking havoc on juvenilefish.

“The one fortuitous thing about red

snapper is that juvenile red snapperare not on the reef. They are on rub-ble or rough bottom. By the time thesnapper recruit to the reef, they aretoo big for the lionfish to eat. Butthey’re still competing for food. Withso many red snapper out there, Idon’t know why they all don’t starveto death.”

Fortunately, Shipp said examina-tions of the stomach contents of redsnapper indicate they can forage onspecies like eels and invertebratesthat live in the substrate.

“Believe it or not, red snapper canalso filter feed,” he said. “Not awhole lot, but it gives them some-thing. But I don’t know what’s goingto happen down the line with lion-fish.”

From an economic standpoint, JeffCollier, Dauphin Island Mayor for thepast 18 years, said the rodeo, whichstarted in 1929, is part of the fabricof this coastal community.

“The rodeo is one of the biggestevents we have on the island,” Col-lier said. “We’ve found more ways toleverage and partner with the Mo-bile Jaycees (rodeo sponsors) thanwe ever have in the past. It’s a verypositive impact on our island com-munity.

“Most of the people down here haveforgotten about the oil spill. What’sremarkable about our community isthat we have recovered to the extentwe have. If you roll the clock back sixyears, we had no idea what wewould be doing in the next one year,five years, 10 years or whatever.Here we are six years later and oureconomy has rebounded to betterthan pre-oil spill conditions. I thinkit’s nothing short of a miracle.”

Collier said as bad as the oil spillwas, it has provided an opportunity

to learn valuable lessons about un-expected catastrophes.

“We know hurricanes and what wehave to do in the aftermath,” hesaid. “The oil spill was a totally dif-ferent situation. Fortunately, wemade lemonade out of the oil spill.We’ve been able to come up withnew events and rebranding DauphinIsland. We’re now calling the islandthe ‘Sunset Capital of the World.’

“So as bad as it was, some of thethings that came from the oil spillturned out to be positive. We cameout of it a much better community.I’m very proud to have been a partof that recovery process.”

However, Collier is aware there maybe consequences from the oil in thefuture.

“The one thing we have hanging overour heads is the long-term effect ofthe oil on the fisheries or the envi-ronment in general,” he said. “Wecan easily gauge the economic re-covery, but we have to rely on thescientific community to help us de-termine the impacts, short and longterm, to the environment.”

Chris Blankenship, Director of the Al-abama Marine Resources Division(MRD), said he and the MRD staffwill remain vigilant in the monitoringof the marine environment in the af-termath of the oil spill, but he hopessaltwater anglers will take advan-tage of the great fishing opportuni-ties available right now.

“The fishing in Alabama is really out-standing overall,” Blankenship said.“The spotted seatrout, red snapperand triggerfish fisheries have beenoff the chart this year. We are alsoseeing a lot of big yellowfin tuna andsome of the biggest ground mullet Ihave ever seen.

“There are still several fisheries thatMarine Resources is concernedabout, including blue crabs andflounder. Those fisheries’ landingsare still below average. We are con-tinuing to monitor all the fisheries forlingering effects from the oil spill orother factors. But, we are building in-shore and offshore reefs like crazywith money from the oil spill, andthat should pay great dividends inthe future.”

Oil Spill Memories Fade at ADSFR, Dauphin Island

The rodeo’s live weigh-in category included speckled trout and redfish.

This month, kids and teach-ers are starting back toschool. You might have no-

ticed the faint grumble heardacross the country. Every year itseems like school starts earlierand earlier than the year before.It seems like you just got out forsummer, but “Back to School”supplies are already on theshelves of major departmentstores. Is it back to school al-ready? Time seems to fly by theolder you get. Not just school, butall holidays seem to be comingfaster and faster nowadays.When I was little, it felt like for-ever for my birthday to comearound. Now, it feels like we’reskipping months on the calendarjust to get back to my birthday. Itstarts to make me feel old.

When we are young, time is notan object. We feel like we will lastforever. We feel invincible. How-ever, when we get older, we real-ize just how foolish that way ofthinking really is. James tells us,“whereas you do not knowwhat will happen tomorrow. Forwhat is your life? It is even avapor that appears for a littletime and then vanishes away”(4:14).

The older we get, the more we un-derstand about life being a vapor.One minute we are enjoying sum-mer breaks from school, the nextminute we are working throughour summers. One minute ouronly concerns are who will bepicked last for football, the nextminute are concerns are jobs,health, taxes, insurance, etc.

Life goes by fast. Life is not aguarantee. I’m only 28 years old,but I have already watched highschool and college friends losetheir lives. We think we have therest of our lives ahead of us, butbefore we know it, we will bestanding at the judgement seat ofGod.

Peter asked his readers, “There-fore, since all these things will bedissolved, what manner of per-sons ought you to be in holy con-duct and godliness,” (2 Peter

3:11). Since we know our liveswill end, since we know this worldwill be destroyed one day, sincewe know that our lives are avapor, how should we be livingour lives? Peter says we shouldbe living in holy conduct and god-liness. Our lives should reflect alife that wants to be in heaven.

Let’s be honest, it’s no surprisethat school is starting already. Italways starts about this time ofyear. People get all up in armsabout it because they just don’t

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Let’s all start living a life that isready for heaven. Let’s all startliving a life of holy conduct andgodliness. Life is a vapor. Heavenis coming. Don’t be caught offguard.


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I stated above with a teaching men-tality and not a make mentality thehorse will learn rapidly and will re-spond appropriately with our legpressure when we’re in the saddle.In this article we will be teaching youthe better backup, from the ground.Let’s begin; you have your horse inhalter with your 12’ lead rope. Youhave your 4’ communication stick(you can get these in many tackstores or online). To begin we aregoing to ask for the horse to backaway from touch pressure. Standingin front of your horse or slightly toone side of the nose, You will put theend of your stick at the juncture ofwhere the chest and neck come to-gether on the horse. You will lowerthe handle of the stick to where youare actually at a slight upward anglefrom the ground. Why this, it’s be-cause the neck and chest are at anangle and if you come straight in, thestick will likely slide off.

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it just did and how it got there beforeyou begin again. Always begin withthe ‘Lightness’.As you know, horses learn throughassociation. So, we begin with light-ness so the horse will learn to associ-ate the light pressure from the hardpressure. It will associate it with, ‘If Ibackup off this light pressure I won’tget the hard pressure. That’s how Ithink the horse thinks about it any-way. Whether it does or not, I don’tknow but it works this way.Why are we teaching the horse toback in this manner? It’s still part ofthe concept of the horse moving offthe pressure from where ever we askit to move from.More can be explained and demon-strated at K-I-N Stables. Call for anappointment 256-874-6781.Next article in this series we willbegin to talk about rhythmic pres-sure. Be sure to pick up your copy ofThe Valley Star.

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