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T he old saying, “here today,gone tomorrow,” held sotrue recently for a good

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Bobby Hanserd isgoing to bemissed becauseas for as I know,

he was a good friend to everyonewho knew him.

Bobby, who almost always had asmile on his face, was wellknown and respected in all ofLimestone County. He was 69.

I got to know Bobby when wewere students at Elkmont HighSchool back in the 1960s. Bobbywas a few grades ahead ofme, but he always cherished hisclassmates whether they were a

few grades ahead of him or a fewgrades behind him.

Bobby, who was born and raisedmost of his life in Elkmont, livedin Athens in his later years. Heloved to hang out at his favoriteplace, Bradford Pawn and Gun,where he was friends with every-one and greeted customers, al-though he did not work there,with a big smile. When his sud-den death hit home, it was ashock to many, including myself.

Bobby was a pretty good footballplayer in his time. I remember hewas an offensive lineman at Elk-mont. He told me recently that hewould never forget those footballdays even though the Red Devilswon very little back then.

But the best quote to ever comeout of his mouth was the one hetold about Wayne “Red”

Yarbrough, the big fullback whosome say was as strong as bull.

“I was in the line trying to blockfor Red and he told once during agame to get out his way becausehe didn’t want to hurt me,”Bobby said. “I did what he said. Igot out of his way when he wasrunning the ball. He was a bull-dozer. He didn’t need a blockfrom me.”

Although he lived in Athens,Bobby Hanserd was Elkmont inand out. He loved that little com-munity and whenever there wasa school reunion, like the 100-year reunion last year for all Elk-mont students, faculty and staff,he was always there.

I know Bobby is now lookingdown on us with that big smile.He was a good friend and neigh-bor to all. He was a class act.

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ATHENS/LIMESTONE COUNTY, ALABAMACalendar of EventsRecurring EventsSenior Fellowship - meets 2nd Wednes-day at the Veteran’sMuseum at 11:30 a.m.(for 50 and over)

Singing on the Square.3rd Friday night of each month(April - September) at 6:00 PM -Enjoy thefree concert on the squarefeaturing gospel, bluegrass, and countryentertainers.

1st Saturday of each month at 11:00 AMuntil, come and jam, sing, observe andenjoy live entertainment at Consign Worldlocated at 661 Hwy 72W, Athens. Contact256-444-2055.

1st Saturday night of each month(April - October)3:00 PM - 9:00 PMCruise In on the Square. Come to down-town Athens, AL and enjoy the beautifulantique vehicles. Bring your beauty andshare with all. No fees, no admission.Everyone welcome. Contact 256-4579179.

Events:Saturdays in March 2, 9, 16, 239:00am to 12:00pmAYSO Region 914Spring Soccer RegistrationBoys and Girls, Ages 5-14 years old. EastLimestone Fire Department, East Lime-stone Road next to the High School.

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Mar 16 at 8:00 AMMooresville Rocket Run 10-MilerThis is a 10 mile run in Mooresville, AL.Huntsville Track Club membership re-quired to participate in race. MemberFormshttp://www.huntsvilletrackclub.org/Mem-berApp2012.pdfhttp://www.active.com/running/mooresville-al/rocket-run-ten-miler-2013

Mar 16 at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PMEaster Egg Hunt on the Courthouse Lawn The hunt is for ages toddlers to 11 years.Pictures with the Easter Bunny will be$5.00 and taken outside this year. They willhave a jelly bean guessing contest and acoloring contest. Sponsored by Spirit ofAthens partnering with First Baptist Church.

Mar 16 & 17Home and Garden ShowIt’s time to start planning that garden andthis is the perfect place to get your plantsand lots of ideas. The event is hosted by theGreater Limestone County Chamber of Com-merce at the Limestone County Event Cen-ter. Contact 256-232-2600.

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hosted by Athens-Limestone Hospital inpartnership with Chick-fil-A.

March 29 - 1st CreekWest Limestone Baseball/SoftballSummer Association 4th Annual Bass TournamentFriday, March 29, 2013 1st CreekSafe Light - 2:30 PM Entry Fee $50 perboat. Deadline for early registration bymail is March 21, 2013. For more infocontact Brad Casteel 256-729-6193 or256-777-5123

Mar 30 at 10:00 AM (kids 5 and under)Easter Bunny Breakfast& Easter Egg Hunt10:15 AM (kids 6+)Breakfast 7:45 AM - 11:00 AM $6.95adults, $4.50 kids 5-10 and kids under 5free. RSVP by Mar 26 to [email protected] or 256-232-2412, X 7. Meet theEaster Bunny at Canebrake Club. “Mem-bers only - Not a Canebrake Club mem-ber? Visit http://www.canebrakeclub.com/belong/membership/membership.html?menu_id=52 for membership information!”(You can link that to our website if you’dlike — whatever is easiest for you!)

Mar 31 at 11:00 AM & 12:45 PMEaster Sunday BuffetCanebrake members are invited to enjoythe delicious meal of Prime Rib and allthe trimmings. RSVP by Mar 26 [email protected] or 256-232-2412, X7. “Members only - Not a Cane-brake Club member? Visit

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Vidalia Onions – Athens Ladies Civitanis now taking orders for Vidalia onions tobe delivered fresh from the field aroundthe first week in May. The Vidalia is asweet onion grown in Georgia. They canbe wrapped and stored in the crisperdrawer for about a year. The price is $10for a 10 lb. bag and the deadline for or-ders is April 12. You will be contactedprior to delivery. Funds raised from onionsales supports activities for TannerSpecial Needs Classes and LimestoneCounty Mental Health Clients. To order,contact Beth Batts at 256-729-1255 orCarol Malone at 256-232-2865 or anyAthens Ladies Civitan member.

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Motivational speaker, Je-remy Williams, was in-vited to speak to 5th

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rently holds Character lessonstwice a month during lunch. As-sistant Principal, Phillip Jarmon,has talked to the students aboutkindness, work ethic, and avoid-ing peer pressure.

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Skyler Cook, a student at BlueSprings Elementary, had her artdrawing sent to Montgomery tobe displayed in an exhibit at theCapital. She, along with a fewother winners, took a free trip toMontgomery to see their art onexhibit. Skyler is the daughterof Debra and Scott Cook, andher art teacher is Mrs. Gover.

The hunters and bar-b-quecookers pulled off anotherfun and tasty event for the

folks who participated in the wildgame meal. The hunters eachshared their bounty with friends

and landownerswho allow thehunter the oppor-tunity to hunt ontheir property.Limestone Countyis blessed withmany species ofwild game.

The quail that once populated ourfarm land and woodlands are basi-cally extinct. I sure miss jumpingup coveys of quail as I once did inmy teen years.

Dexter Turner, one of the event or-ganizers, said, “It’s a chance for ushunters to give back game to ourfriends and landowners that arewilling to allow us the opportunityto hunt their land each season.”

Robert Shaw was cooking his fa-vorite deep fried rabbit. DexterTurner had a smoker going withwild hog. Ricky Craig was stayingbusy cooking his famous hushpup-pies. The hungry guests weretreated with deer meat, pheasant,and baked raccoon. One of thecrowd favorites is Don’s mouth-wa-tering duck gumbo. There were

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As late as the 1990s, visitors todowntown Athens could still thepainted sign on the side of the two-

story brick building: “Griffin Hotel – Rooms75 Cents.”But the nights spent afew steps from the rail-road tracks in Chap-man Quarters were bythen no more than amemory for some ofthe old-timers aroundtown, and within a fewyears the hotel and therest of Chapman Quar-

ters would be no more than a picture in aframe.The strip of shops between Washingtonand Market Streets that became known asChapman Quarters was founded in theearly 1900s when John H. Raney built agroup of one-level structures along MonroeStreet facing the railroad tracks and, in1906, the newly-built L&N PassengerDepot. By 1909, Raney had finished thefourth brick building, just in time for LeonCartwright to move the Express Office intoits new home. Another occupant of one ofthe buildings was Dr. W.R. McWilliams,dentist. In 1914, the year in which the railroad wasdouble-tracked, R.C. Harris arranged with

Raney to build a two-story building on thenorth end of the row of buildings Raneyhad completed. Harris was interested inhaving a place to move his City Café with afew rooms upstairs that could be rented.The Harris Hotel and Café opened itsdoors in August 1914. That same year, Paul J. Campbell, a Scotts-boro native, opened The Flag TailoringCompany in part of the Harris Hotel. Thecompany specialized in tailor-made cloth-ing before Campbell went on to becomesales manager of the W.S. Quimby Co. inBoston, makers of LaTouraine coffee. In 1916, Lloyd Griffin purchased the

restaurant androoming house fromHarris, and within afew months, soldpart interest toRube Chambers ofGiles County. Thehotel became popu-lar as Chambersand Griffin, butChambers soonsold interest back toGriffin and moved toTexas. In 1921, Griffinchanged the nameto European Hotel.He refurnished it

and rented the dining hall to Mr. and Mrs.Ben Rambo, who would operate it in theEuropean style. Griffin sold the hotel in1923 to Mr. W.D. Eastep and moved toBirmingham to manage a large roominghouse. After Mr. Eastep died in 1930, Mrs.Eastep continued as proprietress. In January 1929, Will Kennemer openedhis newly-purchased Shell gas station thatoccupied the corner building along Wash-ington Street. Kennmer’s station was aswell known for sandwiches, hamburgersand drinks as it was for its gas prices. Ken-nemer later sold it to J.E. Chapman, and in1941, Chapman purchased the other

buildings from Frank Duffy, including theGriffin Hotel.Under Chapman’s ownership the businesssection became known as Chapman Quar-ters, and as new occupants moved in andredecorated, the buildings took on the ap-pearance of a New Orleans Street. In 1980, Athens resident Frank Looney re-called early Chapman Quarters in an inter-view, recounting the combination tobaccoand candy shop and fruit stand that stoodon the corner next to Washington Street.While some cigars sold for a quarterapiece, others were two for a nickel.By 1982, Chapman Quarters was filledwith crafts and antiques shops like JackieJohnson’s Olde Town Sampler crafts shop.“We’ve no desire to change the looks ofthe buildings,” Johnson said that October.“I hate to see the tearing down of an oldbuilding. Old buildings have personality.”Personality or not, over the next severalyears, the businesses gradually closed andmost of the buildings remained empty. In2000, the buildings were razed to makeroom for the Limestone County ClintonStreet Courthouse Annex and parking lot,completed in 2004.Note: Information for this article taken from “Trea-sures of Athens and Limestone County” by Betty Tay-lor and from Rick Mould’s article in the Oct. 24,1982 edition of The News-Courier.

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T he spring rain had arrivedwith a vengeance causingthe Elk River to get out of

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farm land belowMaples Bridge onHighway 127. Dal-ton came by witha roll of chickenwire and somelong hickory

poles. I asked what he was up to.Dalton asked if I would help himmake a fish basket with a longhandle. I said, “Sure, but what intarnation do you need such acrazy looking basket for?” Daltonexplained to me that when theriver got out of the banks in thespring, the fish would also ven-ture into the new territory insearch of worms and bugs. Themain fish Dalton was after wascarp and buffalo, which grew to15 to 20 pounds. The fish wouldbe in 3 or 4 feet of water coveringthe farm land bottom. The planwas to walk around in the newlyflooded land and drop thechicken wire hoop baskets over

the big fish. In about 3 or 4 hourswe had this fish basket ready fora trial run. Uncle Grady drove usover to the Maples Bridge and letus out and said he would be backto get us before dark.

We got started wading around inthe waste deep water looking forsome fish movement. After fallinga few times and tripping oversummered corn stalks we sawsome fish. Dalton dropped thehome made net over 2 big olecarp, and they commenced toflop and ram the chicken wire netbreaking a hole through the wireand both fish escaped. Daltonwas pretty aggravated about los-

ing the fish and getting the netbusted. We got a piece of barbwire off a fence post andpatched the weak place in thewire net. Then another group ofcarp swam by, and Daltondropped the net on 5 fish. Thistime they didn’t get away, and weput the fish in an onion sack tiedto my belt. Dalton said we shouldhave brought Humpy along tokeep up with the fish. After a cou-ple hours we had the onion sackfull of fish. Dalton took out hisshoe string and used it for a fishstringer. By dark we had morefish than we could possibly eat.Uncle Grady came up and start-ing blowing his truck horn signal-

ing us it was time to go. He could-n’t believe how many fish we hadcaught with the chicken wire dipnet.

On our way back through Leg-gtown we gave several messes offish away to friends who livedalong the way. We also received afew gifts in return like a gallon jugof the fruit of the vine. When wegot home and cleaned the fish,we needed Aunt Minnie to cookthem. She said she would cookthem up for us tomorrow. TheCarp and Buffalo were known tobe quite bony, and a pressurecooker was used to soften up thebones making the fish eatable.Aunt Minnie confiscated thegrape juice and said she wouldshare on special occasions.

A meal of fresh fish was hard tobeat topped off with hushpup-pies, fried tatters, cabbage slaw,and a big glass of tea. Eachspring when the mighty Elk Riverbroke it banks and covered thebottom land, we repeated the tra-dition of catching our share offish using the chicken wire net.

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thoughts on paper.I felt there was aneed for this infor-mation for thesafety and wellbe-ing of studentsand horses, and

hoping people would understandthe importance of teaching and in-structing from our stand point andthe students stand point. This arti-cle is not intended to be Biblicalbut it does have a Biblical over-tone. It’s kind of like when Paulwrote the letters to the Churches ofCorinth giving them instructions ofthe dos and don’ts. This is to us as teachers and instruc-tors and anyone else, who is in-structing or teaching a person abouthorses, riding horses or handlinghorses, to know how to be safe. First off, allow me to say this; thereare some good qualified teachers,instructors and horse handlersaround. I would recommend someif they did it naturally but not theones who have to resort to me-chanical devices to handle theirhorses. As I have stated in previous arti-cles, horses are prey animals andneed to be handled as such. No

macho stuff. It doesn’t work. Don’thave the make mentality or thepredator action. Horses aren’tafraid of predators, only when weuse the predatory action, do theyget afraid. What I would like to say, if we clas-sify ourselves as instructors orteachers to people about and ofhorses, then we need to be so. Thisarticle is written because of cir-cumstances over the last severalmonths. Some teachers and in-structors aren’t teaching and in-structing. I write this because a student, whohad just begun here, told me theyhad taken lessons elsewhere for 2years. After about 25 minutes ofclass here they stopped, looked atme and this is what they had tosay: I have learned more in 25minutes than I did in the 2 years. Now the concern; When we have a person come andsign on to learn about horses, be itriding or horsemanship, they arelooking to us as the authority andwe are suppose to know what theydon’t know. It is VERY important forus who classify ourselves as teach-ers and/or instructors to know allwe can and to teach what we know,that came from the right sources.There are so many students (kidsand adults) who come to us want-ing to learn about horses. It’s notour job to teach them, it’s not ourduty to teach them, IT IS OUR RE-SPONSIBILITY to teach them. Thisis the reason I study as much as I

do. I have to know. If anyone tellsyou they know all about horses theyare lying to you. You don’t know un-less you are one. These students come to us puttingtheir confidence and trust in us, sowe must know. And it AIN’T whatsomebody’s neighbor’s cousinsaid, do some research. My students usually have a bit ofhomework to do between lessonsand some studying as well, why,because it is very important fortheir safety, for one thing and theymust know. This is not swimminglessons or hopscotch or a summeractivity. You are working with or ontop of, a living, breathing, and heartpumping, and thinking animal. Youbetter know what you’re doing orwhat to do in a given situation. Youbetter have some horsemanshipknowledge. Why am I writing this, you ask? It isfor all us teachers and instructors.We need to know what we don’tknow. There is no shame in notknowing, but shame on us if it’savailable and we don’t take advan-tage of the learning opportunity.These people are depending onUS. I don’t profess to know it alland never will. Only the horse will. ButI try to learn what I don’t know. It’s anon going process.

It’s about safety and knowledge weare charged with providing to thesepeople. Our responsibility is to providethe information. Their job is to learn it. For the student, yes, riding is sup-posed to be fun, relaxing and en-joyable but it won’t be if you don’tknow what you’re doing. It does be-come fun after you gained someknowledge. You wouldn’t jump outof an airplane without prior trainingfrom someone qualified to teachyou, would you? The same withhorses. So, to the students, learnthe nature of the horse, learn howthey learn, be committed to learn-ing all you can about them. Teachers and instructors, we needto do the same. We can’t teachwhat we don’t know. As teachersand instructors, it is imperative weknow. These people are countingon us, especially the parents. Theybelieve their little girl or boy is safewith us. Make it so. Guys and Gals who say we areteachers and instructors, let’s bejust that. The fun comes after thesafety and knowledge. Teach aboutthe horse not just sitting on a pieceof leather on the horse’s back.Knowledge and safety is that impor-tant.

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Clements - MLS#5449052BR/2BA, 955 sq. ft.

$109,900Athens - MLS#688928

2BR/1BA, 1,289 sq. ft.,$86,000

CAN BE COMMERCIAL

Clements - MLS#3014322 BR/2 BA - 1,401 sq. ft.

$230,000

WATERFRONTWATERFRONT

WATERFRONT

Clements- 1 BR/1 BAMLS#457073 - $172,900

WATERFRONT

Clements - 2 BR/2 BAMLS#307514 - $125,000

FURNISHED

Tanner- $58,500MLS#392901

10 ACRES!

Clements - MLS#9568983BR/1BA, 1,096 sq.ft.

$69,900East Limestone - MLS#9285204BR/3BA, 2,821 sq.ft. $199,500

PENDING

Athens MLS#7039933BR/2BA, 1,476 sq. ft.

$169,000

Ginna ChittamAssoc. Broker

(256) 777-3300

Jim TalbertRealtor

(256) 777-9273

Denise TeavenRealtor

(256) 278-9803

Kim ShindorfRealtor

(256) 431-7916

Cliff MansellBroker

(256) 777-5170

Debbie WoodyRealtor

(256) 278-0671

Leonel WhiteAssoc. Broker

(256) 337-3165

Carla Morell Asst. Property Mgmt.

(256) 777-8131

Brenda WilsonAssoc. Broker

(256) 508-6495

Rogersville$18,000

3 ACRES!


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