Terry Pruitt and his wife Jane (owner of Pruitt Towing Double Springs) had flown to Las Vegas to pick up a truck for a customer. After picking up the truck, they drove to New Mexico to visit Jane’s son and daughter-in-law.  Heading home to Alabama about noon on Tuesday, August 7, driving through Archer County, Texas, northwest of Fort Worth,  a tire blew causing Terry to lose control of the truck which left the road and flipped.

Both were taken by ambulance to a hospital in Wichita Falls.  Jane suffered 3 broken vertebrae in her back, multiple broken ribs,  multiple cuts, and contusions. Terry was released on Thursday, August 9 and returned home Friday, August 10 accompanied by his daughter Krista Adkins and her husband.  Jane will remain in the hospital until Monday when she will hopefully be released to an inpatient facility or her son Evan and his wife, Nicoles’ care.

Donations are being accepted to help them while Terry is unable to work. at Traders and Farmers Bank and Rosey Posey’s in Double Springs.

A two-vehicle crash at 6:45 p.m., August 7, 2018, has claimed the life of an Arley woman.  Pamela Lawler, age 64, was killed when her Ford Explorer collided with a tractor-trailer truck. Lawler was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash occurred on I-22 near the 67 mile make, 1 mile east of Jasper.  Nothing further is available as Alabama State Troopers continue to investigate.

Please keep this in mind, not only today but every day in while dropping off or picking up your kids at school. In Haleyville, it is against the law to use your cell phone in the school zone. You can be ticketed for doing so. A few years ago, a crossing guard actually wound up on the hood of a lady’s car because the driver was distracted by a phone. As a result, the city passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of phones while driving a vehicle in the area of the schools.

There are new laws and regulations about what you should do when near a school bus. Those new laws are posted here on hbtv.us.

All of our kids are precious, and no one should be injured or hurt while traveling to or from school.

The Haleyville Board of Education met Tuesday afternoon with only one item on the agenda. The Board approved the hiring of Candy Hicks Garner as STEAM instructional coach.

The Haleyville City Council met Monday with Blue Russell absent. After approving the minutes of the last regular and work sessions, the Council approved the resignation of Connie Handley, secretary in the Police Department. The Council approved changing the date of the September 3rd Council meeting to September 4th due to the Labor Day holiday. Poll workers and a contract with the county commission for voting machines for the upcoming school Board Election on August 28.

Bids for street paving for the city were approved for a total of $199,500 to Mallory Burkhalter Paving, Inc., with the asphalt from the S.T. Bunn Asphalt Plant in Guin, through the Winston County Road Department.

A pay adjustment was approved for all city employees with an across the board pay raise of $.50/hour increase. Adjustments were also approved for the Police Department. Starting pay will be $12/hour for new hires/$13/hour for certified and topping out after 3 years at $15.50/hour. Sergeant pay will be $16.50 and Lieutenant/Investigator $18.50/hour.

A contract for opioid litigation was approved. This will cost the city nothing, but if funds become available because of legal action, the City could be reimbursed for expenses, incurred for handling cases involving opioids

The Council approved an application for a Homeland Security Grant for $39,000 with no match.

Susan Morgan was hired as the Human Resource Manager for the City.

The next Haleyville City Council meeting will be Monday, August 20th.

A house on 20th Street, near 14th Avenue, was struck by lightning at 1:08 PM today during the passage of an isolated thunderstorm. With both parents at work, Chris Brewer was home at the time and called 9-1-1 to report smoke in his house.  The Haleyville Fire Department responded quickly. however the fire, smoke, and water left the house with heavy damage.

Dear Friends,

WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Doug Kennedy, from Haleyville, is a record-setting, gold medal, Paralympian wheelchair racer.  No one is more deserving of recognition as an Alabama sports hero than Doug.  Doug was nominated by his friend, Belinda Masdon Kimble, also from Haleyville, for the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in Birmingham, in 2015.  He has been passed by for the past three years, and the ASHOF nominating committee meets again in July.  The committee votes to put candidates on the ballot, and then a larger selection committee votes for the inductees from those on the ballot.  WHAT CAN YOU DO?  Please contact Scott Myers, ASHOF’s executive director, and let him know that Northwest Alabama wants to see Doug in the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.  Please read Doug’s nomination letter below to refresh your recollection of Doug’s extraordinary athletic career.  Thank you.  Harold and Belinda

Scott Myers, Executive Director, Alabama Sports Hall of Fame

2150 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. N.

Birmingham, AL  35203

205-323-6665

info@ashof.org

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The Haleyville Farmers Market is open each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings till noon.  The market is located next to Rocky Ravine Park on Highway 195 at 20th Avenue. The sign may be missing because it was damaged when hit by a wine delivery truck. See the previous story.