Pell City Chamber gearing up for Block Party, other festivities

stclairtimes – Pell City Chamber gearing up for Block Party other festivities

PELL CITY — A weekend of fun free family events with one goal in mind: bringing local folks back to their hometown.

“Last year, notice went out all over the state for towns to join the Year of Alabama Small Towns & Downtowns,” Mayor Bill Hereford said. “We already had the key ingredient in place, the annual Block Party, and that weekend was perfect.”

Hereford said Pell City is one of 215 towns participating in the Great Alabama Homecoming, a part of the Year of Alabama Small Towns & Downtowns. Pell City’s Great Alabama Homecoming weekend is June 4-6.

“We want folks to come home for the weekend, and spend time with family attending many of our great free family events,” he said.

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Cherokees of Alabama buy Gadsden golf property, say they plan major tourist attraction

Cherokees of Alabama buy Gadsden golf property, say they plan major tourist attraction | Breaking News from The Birmingham News – al.com

GADSDEN — The new owners of a golf course in East Gadsden, Alabama say they paid $13.1 million and have plans to make it one of the biggest tourist attraction in the state.

Joe Huddleston of Vintage Properties, which handled the sale for the Cherokees of Alabama, said Thursday an announcement will be made in three or four weeks with more details on plans for the 103-acre site.

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Mr. Clarence F. “Sugar” Pate III — Anniston Star, March17, 2010

Clarence Pate Obituary: Clarence Pate’s Obituary by the The Anniston Star.

Mr. Clarence F. “Sugar” Pate III
Memorial service for Mr. Clarence “Sugar” F. Pate III, 52, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 18, 2010, at Chapel Hill Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Tony Thrower officiating. Mr. Pate is survived by his daughter, Melissa A. Schlerf and husband, David, of Weaver; parents, Clarence F. Pate Jr. and Patricia Meyer Pate, of Weaver; sisters, Denise M. Sparks and husband, Jim, of Lineville, Tina M. Wood, of Weaver, Julie A. Winfrey, of Oxford; grandchildren, Dillon M. Schlerf and Joshua D. Schlerf. Mr. Pate was a native of Pennsylvania and resident of Alabama for the past 17 years. He was a graduate of Weaver High School where he was the drum major of the Marching Matadors for 4 years. He was also an avid bowler at Anniston Bowling Center. He was a musician who loved to play the bass guitar. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Clarence “Chief” and Cora Etta Pate, of Anniston and Ammon and Marceline Meyer, of Fredericksburg, Pa. Chapel Hill Funeral Home will be servicing the Pate family 256-820-5151 www.chapelhillfh.com
Published in The Anniston Star on March 17, 2010

Mayor says mound will be demolished, hill developed

Anniston Star – Mayor says mound will be demolished hill developed

Oxford may be planning to remove a controversial pile of stones from a hill behind the Oxford Exchange shopping center, according to a story in a national newspaper.

A story that appeared on the Web site of The New York Times on Friday said Mayor Leon Smith plans to demolish the stone pile, which may have been built a thousand years ago by American Indians, and make it the site of a hotel, restaurant or health clinic.

When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce

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OXFORD, Ala. — Overlooking the Interstate and an outdoor shopping mall here stands a sad little hill, bald but for four bare trees and a scattering of stones.
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Harry O. Holstein, the archaeology professor who tried to protect the stone mound.

That the stones are there is beyond argument. But everything else about them — whether somebody put them there, how long they have been there and what should be done with them — became a matter of fierce debate last summer and has continued to yield surprising twists into recent weeks.

The latest episode in the very long history of the Oxford stones began last June, when an excavator showed up on the hill. The city was planning for the construction of a Sam’s Club nearby and intended to use dirt from the hill for the area where the store would sit.

Then a local archaeology professor began making phone calls.

The professor, Harry O. Holstein of nearby Jacksonville State University, had concluded that a stone mound at the top of the hill was constructed by American Indians more than a thousand years ago, and in 2003 he recorded it in a state archaeological registry. The possibility of its being destroyed, Dr. Holstein said, made him sick.

“I’m not against development,” he said. “But some things should just be saved.”

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Native American Heritage and Education Day – March 13th

EVENT UPDATE/SCHEDULE:

“Come join us for a fun day of education about Alabama’s rich and native cultural heritage.

This event will be held on the public square in Jacksonville, Alabama on March 13, 2010 from 9 am – 5 pm. We will have a hot dog vendor, funnel cake/nachos vendor, craft vendors, Native arts and crafts, and assorted baked goodies for sale courtesy of our group and cause.

We will also be holding a raffle for the chance to win great camping and out-gear donated by Camping World as well as arts and crafts donated by local craft vendor Kathy Morehart of Morehart Creations.
Raffle tickets will be $1.00 each and you do not have to be present to win.
Proceeds for the raffle will go toward funding the event.
The raffle winner will be announced at the end of the day!

We will also have local artist Shanna Butler donate some of her artwork for proceeds to funding the event.

We will also have Native musicians as well as local musicians. Dr Harry Holstein of JSU will be present to give a talk on archaeology and preservation as well as local Director of the Janney Iron Furnace and Native American Museum, Tim Moon.

We will also be showing a mound documentary by Rob and Cora Dunaway.

Everybody come out and bring the kids to participate in this great event! We will be having a great time!
Rain or Sunshine (come on sunshine)!!!

Parking is available at various spots around the square and facilities will be located across from the Jacksonville Police Station.

Chairs will be provided for seating near the stage, and there are several park benches located on the square.

Tentative Schedule:

9:00 Am – Opening Announcements and Introductions
9:15 Am – 10: 00 AM – Harry Holstein discussing archaeology and preservation
10: 00 AM – 10: 30 AM – SPECIAL Guest Speaker
10: 30 AM – 11: 00 AM – Acoustic music Brandon Butler
11:00 AM – 11: 15 AM – Video Mound Presentation
11: 15 AM – 11:30 AM – Tim Moon discussing local cultural history
11:30 AM – Noon – Carl Brady Interview on Mounds with Cora and Rob
Noon – 1 PM – Native Musicians
1 PM – 2 PM – Acoustic music with Rob Dunaway
2 PM – 2:30 PM – Cora Dunaway discussing mounds and preservation
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM – Acoustic music with Kyle Morgan
3:30 PM – 3: 45 PM –Video Mound Presentation
3:45 PM – 5 PM – SPECIAL Guest Speaker

This schedule may be changed around a little before the 13th, but the line-up is in place.

We are so excited that the group and administrators have helped Rob and I get this event up and running!

We could not have done it without everybody’s help!
We really hope the weather holds us, and we are going to have a good time!
– Cora”

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Okay people, are you planning to attend?

I am hoping to.

– Cathy
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