The Haleyville Rotary Club 2nd Annual Miss 9-1-1 Competition

This competition is a preliminary to the Miss Alabama Competition this Saturday, February 2, 2019, 3 pm. at the Haleyville Elementary Cafetorium. Tickets are $10 available at the door.

The winner of Miss 9-1-1 will be a contestant in the Miss Alabama Competition. The winner of the Miss Alabama will then compete in the Miss America competition. Thus, it is entirely possible that this year’s Miss 9-1-1 could become Miss America. Here is your chance to see the competition from the beginning. The contestants compete in four areas: A non-public judge’s interview plus talent, swimsuit and evening dress competition which is very much public.

This event is a fundraising project of the Haleyville Rotary Club and your $10 ticket will help with scholarships and other Rotary Club projects throughout the year. The Haleyville Rotary Club meets every Thursday at noon in the Boardroom of the Lakeland Community Hospital.

It’s a 2019 ‘Three-Peat’ for the Phillips High School She Bears again in claiming the Marion County Varsity Girls Championship Friday night, January 25.  The Girls from Bear Creek claimed victories in three tournament games this past week. On Monday it was Phillips over Brilliant 75-32; then Tuesday’s defeat of Hamilton 68-35; and closing out the week on Friday by dominating Winfield 67-40 in the tournament finals.  The Phillips She Bears were the runner-up 2018 State Champions and are currently listed as #4 of all 1A teams in this season’s ASWA rankings.

Front Kneeling L-R…Mary Ashton Hyde, Lexie Dishner, Gracie Hallman & Caitlin Martin

Back L-R…Assistant Coach-Jacob Feltman, Head Coach-Scott Veal, Allie Veal, Baily Bishop, Ally McCollum, Amber Markham, Assistant Coaches-Julie Hallman & Deb Cook.

Another short agenda and a short meeting. With all members present, after approving the minutes of the last Council meeting on 1/7/19, approval was made for the general operations bills and purchase orders for December 2018 in the amount of $447,183.12. Approval was made for the acceptance of the low bid for striping of the road recently paved at Boar Tush railroad crossing in the amount of $3,820.00 to WB Builders, LLC. The Council also approved a public hearing to be held for La Cazadores Mexican Restaurant concerning a tax abatement.

The next scheduled meeting of the Haleyville City Council will be on Monday, February 4, 2019.

Tuesday, January 22 – The HHS Lady Lions defeated the Lamar County Lady Bulldogs 65-31 preceding the HHS Varsity Boys defeating Lamar 54-45. The next Haleyville High basketball game will be at home Tuesday night, January 29. This will be the last regular season home game, and it will be Senior night. The girls’ game should start around 6 p.m. and will be broadcast live on Paradise 92.7 with Craig Wakefield and David Albright.

Clinton League escaped serious injury when his Chevy Impala struck the back of a pickup and rolled over. The crash happened on Highway 195 in front of Burger King at 6:20 pm on Monday evening, January 21. Mr. League,  the only occupant of his car, had a minor cut on his right hand but was otherwise unhurt as well as the driver of the rear-ended pickup.  You can see the full moon in the top of both photos. Experienced police officers, emergency personnel and even reporters will tell you, they dread working on full moon nights. More things happen then than normal.

The regular scheduled bi-monthly meeting of the Haleyville City Council has been moved from Monday, January 21 to Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. at the Haleyville City Hall because of Martin Luther King Day on Monday.

A Haleyville Police Officer on patrol Sunday morning spotted smoke. He checked with dispatch to see if there were any controlled burns. Learning there was not, he found the source of the smoke, a house fire on 13th Street in South Haleyville with no nearby houses. The unoccupied house was fully engulfed in flames when before the fire department’s arrival to extinguish the flames. The cause of the fire is unknown.

Alli Temple was honored Friday night for having scored 1000 points in her high school basketball career. And she is only a Junior! She accomplished this feat at the January 8 home game against Curry in which she scored 20 points and led the Lady Lions to a 50-31 area victory. She is one of 7 Juniors who play for the Lions. She was recognized as being outstanding in the classroom as well as on the basketball court. She is also a leader on the volleyball court and in track field. Before Friday night, her career point total stood at 1,068. Her parents are Al and Stacie Temple.

The Haleyville Lions Lady Lions defeated the Fayette Lady Tigers Friday night 60-53. The Varsity Boys defeated Fayette 59-41. Both teams will play Carbon Hill at Carbon Hill Monday, and back home on Tuesday against Lamar County.