When bring fall color to their homes, people traditionally use pumpkins for centerpieces at the dining table or for
outside decorations. In
Elkmont, Collin
Daly is harvesting pumpkins of six different colors, enough variety to go with any color fall color scheme you can think of. The growing popularity of colored pumpkins has even developed a need for pink and blue pumpkins. The Daly pumpkin patch has these but they often take about an extra 10 to 15 days to mature.
Collin Daly,
a 1995 graduate of Elkmont High, describes the pink ones as usually “squattier, off-textured and odd-sized.
The jack-o’-lantern pumpkins are kind of going away,” he said. “It seems
now, the uglier the pumpkin, the more popular it is.”
If you want to visit:
The
Daly Pumpkin Patch is located at Ft. Hampton Road, Elkmont (toward the rocket).
They have mums for $12. Pumpkins are $5 each or $20 for 5. You might
even be able to buy bales of straw.
ELKMONT INVITATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL TOURNAMENT CHAMPS
The Elkmont Invitational Middle School Tournament was held on the hilltop yesterday. These girls played 5 matchesand won every one, only giving up 2 games and fought back for the win! They won against a great
Ardmore team in a nail biter. These Lady Devils are fun to watch! They left everything on the floor tonight and pulled through with the win to be tournament champs! Still undefeated!
The Middle School Lady Red Devils have smashed their schedule and have an undefeated record. They have wins against many of the area middle school teams. Athens, Huntsville, Tanner, Lindsay Lane, Highland Rim, and East Limestone have all fallen to the ladies from the hill. They will take on Oak Park, Huntsville Catholic and Holly Pond this week. Look for them in the Homecoming Parade on the team float.
Photo provided by Down Home Portraits, Elkmont's sports photograher
Homecoming week starts September 10 and will end with the Red Devils lining up against the West Limestone Wildcats on September 14. There will be spirit activities each day but one that everyone looks forward to is the Homecoming Parade.
This will be at 6 pm, September 13 through downtown
Elkmont. We are asking all classes, clubs,
organizations, teams, etc to participate in the parade.
*HOMECOMING PARADE FORMS
Please attach all signed permission
forms to the entry form and turn in to the office by September 7. We encourage everyone to participate to make this parade a huge
success!!
The Homecoming Parade will begin at the Piggly Wiggly
Shopping Center on HWY 127 and will end at the softball field parking
lot. (The Christmas Parade route in reverse) First, Second, and Third
Place Prizes will be awarded to the top entries.
If you have any questions, please contact Emily Roberts-Boldin for parade entry information.
Mom fell today. Ambulance ride to the hospital. Fractured rib and sore
but back at the lodge. She’s extremely weak and has been for weeks.
Doctors aren’t sure of the cause. Still trying to find some answers.
Hard to watch her being so fragile. I’ve watched her withstand storms
that would knock a giant of a man down. I’ve seen her work tirelessly
through the week and give her weekends to taking kids skating and
swimming. I’ve seen her do with out so Dexter and I could have. I’ve
seen her laugh, worry , cry, mad, funny.. always funny... but never
weak. Hard to watch! Keep her in your thoughts please! Have a good
one!
We have the left media, we have the right media but there are other points of views still ... what do you think?
Modern
politics and the political process is a perpetual psychic system for
creating an ongoing hallucinatory mentality for the mass mind. It is
psychic persuasion that coerces the people individually and collectively
to imagine political and economic freedom.
On the national level, politics is the art of pacifying the
workers and producers of wealth while creating a false dichotomy of
political conflict. The political process capitalizes on our degree of
mental specialization, which has caused our thinking processes to be
narrowly prescribed.
We are trained from early on to focus on our occupation and
specialty. From the beginning we are unconsciously channeled into a
mental straightjacket. Few men and women engage their mental processes
in introspection. They have no contemplation of their own thoughts,
feelings and sensations. They do not engage their minds in
self-examination. They do not question external influences upon their
minds because they are unaware that they exist. They do not question the
sources and reasons for their political persuasion because they are
unaware that they exist. The majority is systematized into a learned
process that has killed all imperative to inquire into the nature of
things.
The baffling thing is that discriminating people seem to come
from various levels of mental abilities and initiatives. We cannot seem
to index people according to I.Q. Some people have introspection, logic
and reason. They inquire into relationships. Education does not promote
these mental attributes. They seem to be innate or expressed as
biochemical individuality. It seems to be a sixth-sense syndrome.
Human nature responds to authority. Human nature does not
question authority. In other words, it is more natural to the human
species to respond to authority than not to respond to authority.
Authority can be political, medical, economic or social. We are
intellectually lazy. It is easier to follow the crowd with conditioned
responses. It is far easier to be dependent than to be independent.
Everything in our culture is created for us, even our mental processes.
In his book, The Crowd, Gustave LeBon writes:
"The majority of men, especially among the masses, do not
possess clear and reasoned ideas on any subject whatever outside their
specialty… We are overwhelmingly supplied by the mainstream media
electronic media and "by the periodical publications which manufacture
opinions for their readers and supply them with ready-made phrases which
dispense them of the trouble of reasoning.
"As soon as a new dogma is implanted in the minds of crowds, it
becomes the source of inspiration whence are involved in its
institutions, arts and mode of existence... The only real tyrants that
humanity has known have always been... the illusions it has forged for
itself. The philosophic absurdity that often marks general beliefs has
never been an obstacle to their triumph."
I would take issue with Monsieur LeBon on the fact about the
source of the illusions of the crowd. They are not forged by the crowd
but by the dogma implanted in the minds of crowds. Our thought processes
are not our own. They are supplied to us. We are only the "hard drive."
We respond exactly according to our programming, except those few of
our readers who still have the mental capacity for introspection and
discrimination. Congratulate yourself for not being a part of the
automatic response society. An inquiring mind is symptomatic of
intellectual freedom. Few have it.
Now, shouldn’t we give these words practical application as to
our current political situation? Separate your thinking for a moment
from the mass mind.
Look at the last week’s lionization of Senator John McCain. All
of the former presidents and most of the political establishment were on
hand for the political theater. One would think McCain was George
Washington or Thomas Jefferson rather than a lifetime political hack,
member of the Keating Five, godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood, ally to al-Qaida terrorists,
supporter of the slaughter of innocent women and children in the Middle
East and puppet of the globalists who work behind the scenes to destroy
our liberty and steal our wealth.
Politicians and media who previously accused McCain of fathering
an illegitimate child with a black woman, spreading rumors that his
second wife, Cindy, was addicted to pain-killers, that McCain was
unstable due to his time as prisoner of war and visited prostitutes
(George W. Bush campaign); that claimed he was having an affair with a
lobbyist (The New York Times); that cast him as the kin of the evil
ruler in Star Wars (The Atlantic); and who likened him Hitler and Stalin
(Hollyweird and DailyKos); and a racist (Democrat politicians); sang
his praises as if he were a great statesman and patriot.
Here’s an experiment for you. Draw a line down the middle of a
piece of paper. On one side put Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. On the
other put George W. Bush and John McCain. Forget, if you can,
personalities and physical appearances. List the differences of each.
Have you discovered that their differences have become their
similarities? Are they not politically the same? Whence came these
manufactured politicos?
For public consumption on the campaign trail they appear to be
mortal enemies. Then all gather together outside of "politics" and
they’re all in the same club, glad-handing and hugging one another like
family.
During his eulogy of McCain, Obama opined that "when all was said and done, we were on the same team. We never doubted we were on the same team."
There is their team: the elites. Then there is our team: the
exploited. Their goals and values are far different from ours, and never
the twain shall meet.
The definition of a cult is "great devotion to a person, idea,
object, movement, or work," and "a usually small group of people
characterized by such devotion." Politics is a cult.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor,
The Bob Livingston Letter™
Ok...a few Sundays ago Jensen and I went to Zaxby’s after church to pick
up lunch. The dining room was full and no parking so...yep...you
guessed it ...DRIVE THRU!! I have documented my fear of drive thru’s on
here in the past. The anxiety started. I pull up to the dreaded
speaker from the bowels of the earth and the guy speaks. He sounds
almost “unearthly”...like Charlie Brown’s teacher and Homer Simpson had a
baby. I immediately break into a sweat. I “assume” He says
“ may I take your order?” or something like that. So Jensen and I are
pretty good at ordering straight off the menu. Leigh on the other hand
likes those “special requests .” She wanted a Zac Snack buffalo
style. I’ve yet to see this on the menu and every time she requests that
I follow with “are you sure they’ll make it?” It’s some kind of
irrational fear because she and I have ordered it many, many times.
It’s a struggle sometime for Mr. or Mrs “teeenager just order from the
menu”person who takes the order but we usually can get er’ done as they
say.
Anyway I order. The alien voice in a blurred , tinny, Wayne
Newton-isk asks a question. I panic! WHAT? I don’t know what he said.
I’m struggling trying to figure out context clues as to what would
logically be the next question. Jensen has been un- interested and
quite amused at my panic attack. I look to her for help and she says
in an excited voice “JUST SAY SWEET TEA” “SAY SWEET TEA!” So I get my
wits about me and turn to the box from the depths and scream...yes I
screamed...SWEET TEA!!!”.....Silence....dead silence ....then a “normal”
voice comes on and says “Ma’am”..(got to work on deepening my
voice...probably the scream). “You want your chicken dipped in sweet
tea ?” All the color leaves my face. No, no mild...I want mild
buffalo sauce ! You can hear the chuckling in the background from the
speaker. Always happens to me...Always. I hate drive
thru’s....never gonna change. Have a good one!
The funeral Service for Elizabeth Smith Lewis, age 97of Decatur, was
Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 1 P.M. at McConnell Memorial Chapel as Judy and Keith Letson officiated.
Visitation was Saturday September 1, 2018 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at
McConnell Funeral Home.
Burial was in Athens City Cemetery.
She passed away on Wednesday August 29, 2018 at River City Rehab and
Nursing home.
Elizabeth was born December 11, 1920 in Elkmont, AL; to James and Ida
Smith. As a young girl, she grew up splashing in the creeks and listening to train whistles as the big engines passed by Elkmont Depot. Mrs. Lewis retired from Behr’s. She was a member of Somerville Rd Church
of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Roosevelt A. Lewis;
one son Arthur Wayne Lewis; one brother Bonnie Lee Smith; and one sister
Florene Smith Brooks.
She is survived by one son Kenny Lewis; two daughters Joan Lewis
Burgreen and husband Bobby; Lisa Lewis Dobbs; eight grandchildren Pam
Burgreen Barlow; Greg Burgreen; Susan Burgreen Fogg (Tim); Michelle
Lewis Davis; Todd Lewis (Dena); Amanda Lewis (Marcus); Justin Dobbs
(Amy), Lindsay Dobbs; ten great-grandchildren Kennedy Burgreen, Mary
Burgreen, Lily Burgreen, Annabelle Dobbs, Samuel Lewis, Naudia Horton,
Heath Fogg (Heather), Leigh Ann Fogg Brooks (Sam), Jessica Cook (Aaron)
and Preston Lewis; five great-great grandchildren Ruby Brooks, Lewis
Brooks, Natalie Fogg, Ansley Cook and Evelyn Fogg.
Pallbearers were Mike Dobbs, Tim Fogg, Gil White, Justin Dobbs,
Preston Lewis and Heath Fogg. Her granddaughter, Michelle Lewis Davis and Great-granddaughter, Chloe Davis both currently live in Elkmont.
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Since Elkmont is a small town much of what goes on revolves around the school. Those of us that appreciate how special that makes life in Elkmont look forward to the beginning of each new school year. Life gets busier and we love to see how our children, our kin and neighbors' children are doing.
There will be school related events, games, and lots of other fun. Many of you are involved with the various events. Having heard that occasionally it is asked why this and that haven't been on the blog there is an easy answer - no one has sent anything to the Hill Spirit. If you send it, it will be posted that day or soon after. Don't think your writing or pictures aren't good enough, it will be polished up if needed, so don't worry.
The empty nester, Hill Spirit, doesn't know many of you who have children in the system at this point so please don't wait to be asked to share the good news and events your family is involved in. If you want the team or group you are interested in to be something the Elkmont community follows and reads about, please send your articles and pictures to elkmont1@charter.net or Hill Spirit's facebook page.
The papers don't cover Elkmont very much since there are many schools and communities in the area but the Elkmont Alabama Blog is just about Elkmont.
Help Wanted: No experience necessary
- Class Reporters
- Event Reporters
- Historians
- Team Reporters
- Organization Reporters
- Funny Reporters
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You know September is almost here when thoughts turn to dove hunting. The Elkmont Lions Club is having its annual dove hunt, September 8-9. Clean those guns and mark your calendars, dove season is around the corner.
HOBBS FARMS @ 26229 VETO ROAD ELKMONT AL
*Permits will go on sale @ noon, September 7th
*Fee will be $30.00 per individual to pick a spot
*$100.00 for a round bale for 4 huntersAND AT *Noon of shooting day, fee will be$20.00 for remaining spots.
FOR INFORMATION:
JOHNNY JENKINS
256-732-4304
DICKIE HOBBS 256-509-5121
WEB SITE www.elkmontlionsclub.com
The Elkmont Lions Club uses money from their fundraisers to fund:
- Lions Club Scholarships Children's eyeglasses
- Community Projects
- Disaster Relief
- Ala Sight
- Leader Dog for the Blind
- Southeastern Guide Dog
Building your PREPared pantry is
really easy to do, and can be done faster than you think without a huge
hit to your budget. You can either use one of many lists published on the internet or create one for yourself based off of what you
eat all the time. The important thing is to be systematic about the
stocking. Many of you do this already in your couponing efforts.
Think of it as the “working supply” of your food storage.
It’s Friday after work, you had to stay late to finish a project and
you’re tired. You really don’t feel like going to the grocery store and
you can’t remember what you have at home in the pantry. So much for all
that meal planning you were going to do… Could you pull together a
nutritious meal for your family using only what you have in your pantry?
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE TO HELP YOU GET STARTED
