They didn’t flinch when the eyes of strangers were on them.

About 10 Clay-Chalkville Middle School students participated Monday in a living mu-

seum in the school’s me-dia center, titled “March Through History.” They acted as various famous African-Americans, tell-ing visitors who they were and their contributions to society.

Student participants learned through research during February, Black

History Month, and spec-tators learned about sev-eral African-Americans from student dramatiza-

tion, student-made post-ers, and past and present pictures.

Students acted as Presi-dent Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, jazz singer Ella Fitzger-ald, author Zora Neale Hurston, bandleader Diz-

The Trussville City Council on Tuesday approved a proclamation calling March Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.

The proclamation states that intellectual and developmental disabilities affect more than 4.6

million Americans and their families.

“People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are defined by their own strengths, abilities and inherent value, not by their disability,” the proclamation states.

The proclamation encourages all Trussville citizens to give full support of efforts toward enabling all children and adults with

cognitive, intellectual and developmental disabilities to live full and productive lives of inclusion in the community.

The city council also approved a proclamation calling Saturday, April 25 Parental Alienation Awareness “Bubbles of Love” Day as part of Parental Alienation

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The end has come.Beginning Monday, the

area surrounding the historic school building on Parkway Drive and Jack Wood Stadium was closed to the public.

Contractors were slated to begin fencing off the area to prepare for construction.

The Trussville City Board of Education in December 2014 approved TriStar of America, based out of Norcross, Ga., as the low bidder for the demolition project at Jack Wood Stadium. The bid was $374,000.

The demolition project consists of Jack Wood Stadium; as well as a major

portion of the existing New Deal-era school building; interior tear-out of interior finishes, ceiling, lighting, plumbing fixture and associated piping; removal and safe disposal of hazard waste in the form of asbestos and lead paint; track field house; and sidewalks of the existing school.

The stadium was built in the late 1940s, the first football game being played there against Mortimer Jordan on Sept. 16, 1949. Hewitt-Trussville won 25-6.

Hal Riddle, who played at Jack Wood Stadium and was the head football coach at Hewitt-Trussville from 2002 to 2013, said in January he remembers the stadium before the tower sat between the visitor side bleachers. He remembers when, for a

time, there was nothing on that side.

“I don’t know Trussville without that stadium sitting there,” Riddle said.

A walking path around the Trussville Civic Center is available during construction. There will eventually be a small walking track where the field at Jack Wood Stadium currently sits.

The board in February approved Trussville-based Blalock Building Company to build a new elementary school, and renovate the existing structure, for $10,961,000. The company had been revealed as the low bidder Feb. 10 with a bid of $11,088,000. Minor adjustments decreased the

A Trussville girl was a finalist for Op-eration Homefront’s 2015 Military Child of the Year Award, it was announced last week.

Jordyn McNeal, 8, was one of 30 final-ists. All five service branches -- Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps. and Coast Guard -- and the National Guard, are represented. McNeal represents the Air Force. She is the daughter of Todd and Erica McNeal.

Each finalist has been interviewed by Operation Homefront staff, and award recipients will be chosen by a panel of judges including senior retired service

Almost 12 years to the day, Aaron Beam was watching the local NBC af-filiate in his Fairhope home when the news broke.

The title of the press release from the Securities and Exchange Commission was this: “SEC Charges HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy With $1.4 Billion Accounting Fraud.”

Beam realized pretty quickly that “in

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He was right. Beam, the former CFO of HealthSouth Corp. from 1984 to

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Former college football stars at Alabama and Auburn descended upon Clearbranch United Methodist Church in Trussville on Saturday to talk to men of all ages about the challenges of being leaders throughout their lives.

Throughout the day, speakers took to the stage to encourage the men, tell their own stories, and share the items of their faith that have allowed them to be successful not only on the field, but in the arena of life.

Former Auburn quarterback Ben Leard spoke of his playing career through his high school and college years and some of the events that made an impact on his life. He shared several verses from the Bible that have been key to his development as a believer.

He recapped his recruitment as a big-time high school football prospect, as colleges rolled out the red carpet for him, only “adding to his arrogance,” Leard said.

Another impactful moment from his high school years was having a “major come to Jesus meeting” with his head coach after inappropriately embarrassing a teammate in practice.

“He shared two verses with me that I will take with me and I will use them every time I talk (to a group of people),” Leard said.

His worst time at Auburn came following

his team’s final meeting of his sophomore campaign. He was singled out by a teammate for not leading his team like he was supposed to as their quarterback.

“I finally ran into a teammate that would be a man and call me out,” Leard said.

Leard also recounted his team’s first meeting with new head coach Tommy Tuberville, who came onto the scene before Leard’s junior year and coached at Auburn from 1998-2008.

“Guys, I need 15 scholarships,” Leard recalls Tuberville saying. “I’m going to get every single one of them. I’m going to work you until you quit. But if you stay with me, you’ll be my team. If you survive what I put you through, you’ll be men.”

Leard concluded his time on stage by sharing a story from former Alabama head coach Gene Stallings, about the importance of a man’s life.

“In a cemetery, that headstone will have the year I was born and the year that I passed. In the middle there is a dash. It’s what you do with that dash. Make your dash full, meaningful and something that you leave a legacy on,” Leard said.

Mike Kolen spoke next, a former Auburn linebacker who also played on the 1972 Miami Dolphins. That team, coached by Don Shula, remains the only NFL team to escape an entire season unscathed, going 17-0 and winning Super Bowl VII. Stan White was slated to speak, but was replaced due to a

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back Shaun Alexander kicked off the afternoon session by sharing details from his past and present, and how the lessons he learned can relate to the men in the audience.

He recalled one of his best games with the Crimson Tide, when they beat LSU 26-0. Alexander picked up 291 yards and four touchdowns on 20 carries, despite staying up until 3 a.m. the night before and not expecting to play much.

Going back to his childhood, he shared many stories of his home life and how his mother allowed him to have friends over Saturday night, under one condition: that they all got up on Sunday morning and went to church.

Alexander also spoke deeply of his faith in Jesus Christ, attributing all his life’s success on the foundation of his beliefs.

“I love the fact that I can’t take any credit for where I am,” he said.

The former star for Alabama and the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks lives at home with his wife Valerie, raising their eight children. He shared advice with the fellow fathers in the room and giving his definition of the word “love.”

“Love is a choice to have strong desires and strong devotion, wrapped in truth,” he said.

He concluded with an illustration from his life he believes represents his faith well. Paul Allen, the Seahawks owner, was approached by Alexander and a backup quarterback

at a gathering one night. Allen instantly recognized Alexander and began speaking to him but didn’t know the man with him. He tied this together by saying that God loves all people, but that he will not have a relationship with those that don’t follow him.

“Both of you, he pays the bills for. But he knows you. He doesn’t know the other guy,” Alexander said.

Jay Barker, quarterback of the 1992 national championship Alabama team, concluded the day’s events with his message. Barker is married to country singer Sara Evans, and they have seven children.

Barker largely expounded upon the acronym CHAMPIONS, with each letter representing a different aspect of a man’s Christian journey.

Christ-centered is the “C” in CHAMPIONS. Barker warned against being self-centered or morality-centered, and also challenged the men in the audience.

“I think there are a lot of non-authentic people in the church today. We need more authenticity,” he said.

The “A” stands for accountability, as Barker encouraged each person

to find a person that could hold them accountable in their lives. Next is to meditate on God’s word for the letter “M.”

Barker cited the Lord’s Prayer in the book of Matthew as an example of prayer, holding the spot for the letter “P.”

“Prayer is just talking to God,” he said. “It has nothing to do with how holy we are.”

Introduce others to Christ, obedience, never give up, and success versus significance rounded out the acronym to spell CHAMPIONS.

Barker concluded by challenging the men to make an impact and not rely on any church leader to do so.

“You can make a bigger impact on your community than the pastor ever could from a pulpit,” he said.

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A group of female students from Hewitt-Trussville High School recently took a field trip into what could very well be their future. The students, enrollees of the HTHS Engineering Academy, visited a Birmingham engineering firm to learn more about the profession and interact with the female engineers there.

The field trip came about when Jim Meads, P.E., president and CEO of Sain Associates and a member of the HTHS Engineering Advisory Council, initiated a discussion with his female colleagues about “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” and encouraged them to get involved.

“We were excited to get in on the conversation for the first time this year,” said Alicia Bailey, P.E., a transportation team

leader with Sain. “We’re fortunate to have several experienced and talented female engineers on our staff, but studies have found that many girls don’t even know what engineering is. There is a need for girls to see more role models advocating for the engineering profession.”

Joy Young, HTHS assistant principal and academies coordinator, agreed.

“Females are underrepresented as both engineering students and

working engineers,” she said. “In the U.S., females comprise only 19 percent of the total engineering school population. We hoped to give the girls an opportunity to visit female engineers in the workplace so that they could see and understand that this occupation is an excellent option for females who are gifted in math, science, critical thinking and problem solving.”

The Sain experience included a presentation, a demonstration of the firm’s design software,

office tours and a catered lunch. Because engineers often must collaborate and function effectively in teams, a team building activity was part of the

program as well.“One of our main

considerations in coming up with activities was thinking back to what we would have liked to learn that may have helped us in picking engineering as a career,” Bailey said. “We even added a ‘What to Wear’ element because in the field of engineering, our job responsibilities vary greatly and require a wide range of attire.”

The trip, said Jason Dooley of the HTHS Engineering Academy, was scheduled as part of Engineering Week, a yearly observance designed to promote engineering

careers to students, parents and educators, and to show how engineers make a difference in the world. And from the feedback he’s received, the Sain visit went a long way toward achieving those ends with the students who participated.

“The girls said it was good to hear how successful they can be even in the predominately male field of engineering,” he said, “and they came away with a sense of confidence that the hard work of going through engineering school will pay off with a rewarding career.”

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McNeal was not chosen as a category winner, Erica McNeal said last week. Each award recipient will receive $10,000 and will be flown with a parent or guardian to Washington D.C. for a special recogni-tion ceremony April 16.

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are small, it doesn’t mean they can’t do big things,” Erica McNeal said. “We are very proud of Jordyn. She has done every love project, not to receive ac-colades, but out of her love for Jesus.”

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Clay Mayor Charles Webster and his wife were the first visitors to Mon-day’s living museum.

“They worked hard,” Clay-Chalkville Middle School Assistant Principal Keith Hearon said of the students.

Scan this QR code with your smartphone to watch one student talk about bandleader Dizzy Gillespie.

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cost. Blalock Building Company was the company that won the bid for constructing Hewitt-Trussville Stadium, which was completed in October 2014.

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A final tour of the historic school, originally built in the late 1930s as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, was held in September

2014. Arthur Payne, who graduated from the school in 1964, was one of many to return to reminisce.

“This is the most historically iconic building in northeast Jefferson County, and the students came from all over, from Palmerdale, Pinson, Clay, Roebuck Plaza, Trussville, Center Point,” Payne said. “Everyone came here, so this building has a lot of memories for generations of people.”

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The Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency last Monday went live with an alert notification system.

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The fourth annual Trussville Leadership Conference is set for Thursday, March 19 at the Trussville Civic Center.

The conference is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.The keynote speaker is Dick Wells,

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Breakout session speakers include Pete Blank, training manager, Personnel

Board of Jefferson County; Tami Maze, Trustway; Richard Mitchell, Ascend Management; Michael Alan Tate, On the Same Page Consulting Group; Ruwena Healy, Marketing 24/7; Joni Claerbout, Charter Media; and George Brockman, Radient Professional Services.

Registration includes a morning and afternoon session, lunch from Taziki’s and a copy of Wells’ book.

Individual registration is $65. Reservation for a corporate table of eight is $475.

For more information, visit http://www.trussvillechamber.com/events/leadership-conference/.

Trussville Leadership Conference next week

Prevention Week. According to the proclamation, about 40,000 children in Alabama were subjected to child custody determination in 2013.

On April 25, residents

are encouraged to take 10 minutes at noon to blow soap “Bubbles of Love,” each one representing “the love our children have and should be allowed to share with both their parents,”

the proclamation states.

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The Trussville City Council on Tuesday awarded a bid on computers, servers and accessories.

The city council awarded the bid to Dasher Technologies for $82,697.90. The city council approved of going out to bid on computer upgrades in various departments in February.

The city council in February approved the purchase of a phone system for various departments from the state bid list for $51,209.52.

Both will be paid for from the city’s contingency reserves.

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Trussville OKs computer equipmentby Gary Lloyd

Editor

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Trussville City Hall

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From staff reports

Students from the Hewitt-Trussville High School Future Business Leaders of America chapter developed a community service project in conjunction with Children’s Hospital of Alabama and several local businesses and individuals.

The focus of the project was to provide teenage patients with items that make their hospital stay more enjoyable.

Donations were collected for this project and included books, toys, DVD players, DVDs,

Nintendo DS, Wii, games, iTunes gift cards, earbuds and monetary gifts to the hospital.

The co-chairs for the project were Mary Beth Butterworth, Mallory Fleck and India Clark.

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1996, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in May 2003. He served three months in prison and was released in February 2006.

Beam spoke to the Trussville Rotary Day-break Club last Wednes-day about the whole or-deal, starting from the be-ginning.

Beam co-founded HealthSouth Corp., a pro-vider of outpatient surgery and rehabilitative servic-es, with Scrushy in 1984. Beam told his wife at the time Scrushy hired him that he was either the best business man around, or the biggest con man.

“Donald Trump does not have an ego compared to Richard Scrushy,” Beam said.

HealthSouth flourished.

Beam was a million-aire. He bought a house in Greystone, then three beach houses, then a con-do in the French Quarter in New Orleans. He had a new car every year. He once spent $30,000 on ties.

“It changed me,” Beam said.

He easily got tables at high-end restaurants. Peo-ple bought him drinks.

“I was a rockstar in Bir-mingham,” Beam said.

Revenues grew to more than $3.5 billion. But in 1996, the company’s earn-ings fell slightly short of its goal during one quar-ter. That’s when, Beam said, Scrushy ordered the books to be fixed, telling Beam and a lead accoun-tant the numbers would be

made up the next quarter. Scrushy promised Wall Street more and more earnings, Beam said. Any-thing to keep the stocks up was the mindset. Beam states on his website that Scrushy is a “maniacal dictator.”

“We were very greedy,” Beam said.

Beam calls himself a “coward” for being “in-timidated” by Scrushy, when he knew “cooking the books” was the wrong move. He took part in it for a year. In 1997, hat-ing going to work because of guilt, Beam retired and built a large home in Fairhope. He sold all his stock in the company.

But by 2003, the news broke. Beam served three months in a minimum

security federal prison in Montgomery. He lost nearly everything he had -- the cars, the homes, amenities.

“I don’t have money today, but I realize today that’s not the most impor-tant thing in life,” he said.

Scrushy in 2005 was ac-quitted in a federal crimi-nal trial relating to the HealthSouth fraud, but the next year he and for-mer Gov. Don Siegelman were convicted of bribery. Scrushy paid $500,000 to Siegelman’s campaign for a state lottery in exchange for a seat on a state hos-pital regulatory board, according to Reuters. Scrushy was released from federal prison in July 2012 after serving about

five years. Beam said had Scrushy been convicted of the fraud at HealthSouth, he could have faced 20 to 30 years in prison.

“He got off all right,” Beam said.

Ethics are at the center of Beam’s new book, “Ethics Playbook,” which covers his personal and profes-sional insights on avoid-ing wrongdoing. Beam has also written a mem-oir about the HealthSouth fraud titled, “HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster.”

Beam said people can learn lessons from his experiences. People who cheat even just a little bit on taxes shouldn’t. People shouldn’t cook the books like he and others did. No amount of cheating is OK.

“You have to train your-self to do right,” he said. “You have to work at be-ing ethically strong.”

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Thursday, March 19th

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$55– on or Before March 7

$65– Beginning March 7

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Join fellow leaders from across central Alabama! You will be able to:

Design your own agenda by choosing from multiple concur-rent sessions

Network with over 100 business professionals from Trussville and the surrounding communities

Visit multiple vendors in the main expo hall

Enjoy lunch provided by Taziki’s

Keynote by Dick Wells

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leadership conference for additional information.

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The Trussville City Board of Education on Monday will likely choose the official names of the two new community elementary schools that will soon be constructed.

The meeting is Monday, March 16 at 6 p.m. at the Trussville City Schools Central Office. A public work session precedes it at 4:30 p.m.

The board last month placed seven possible names on the table for consideration for the schools, one to be constructed near Magnolia Place and the other in the Cahaba Project.

Two of the names on the table are for the elementary school to be constructed near the Magnolia Place neighborhood. They are:• South Trussville

Elementary School• Magnolia Elementary

SchoolThe other five names are

for the elementary school

to be constructed in the Cahaba Project. They are:• Central Trussville

Elementary School• Cahaba Elementary

School• Cahaba Central

Elementary School• Cahaba Village

Elementary School• Trussville Cahaba

Elementary SchoolThe South Trussville

Elementary School and Central Trussville Elementary School options would likely work together, much like three Vestavia Hills elementary schools that are named Vestavia Hills Elementary School Central, Vestavia

Hills Elementary School East and Vestavia Hills Elementary School West.

The board is not limiting itself to choosing from the seven choices it placed on the table. The board has been accepting input from the community on naming the two new schools at newschool@

trussvillecityschools.com.The schools are expected

to open for the 2016-2017 school year.

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Trussville City BOE likely to choose school names Monday

Scan this QR code with your smartphone to watch a report about the two new elementary schools.

by Gary Lloyd

Editor

photo courtesy of Trussville City Schools

A rendering of what the elementary school in the Cahaba Project will look like, as seen from where Jack Wood Stadium currently stands

photo courtesy of Trussville City Schools

A rendering of the elementary school that will be built in the Magnolia Place area

A dog lost during last Thursday’s multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 459 South near Grants Mill Road has been found.

The Irondale Police Department reported Friday afternoon that Lucy was found “safe and secure under I-459 at Ratliff Road.”

After last Thursday’s accident, Lucy slipped out of her collar and ran away.

The wreck involved approximately 20 vehicles, according to Alabama State Troopers. The wreck

happened due to icy roadways.

Serious injuries were reported in the accident.

Nothing further was available from Alabama

State Troopers.

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Dog lost in multi-vehicle crash found ‘safe and secure’

photo courtesy of the Irondale Police Department

Lucy

by Gary Lloyd

Editor

The Trussville Beautification Board is now accepting ballots for its annual Trussville Beautification contest.

Yards will be judged Tuesday, April 28, and the awards will be presented at Trussville City Fest on Saturday, May 2.

The categories are best landscape design, best turf, best use of color, best homeowner maintained, best professionally

maintained and best business.

There will be first place and honor roll winners. Winners who have won two years in a row will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ballots are available at the Trussville Public Library, Trussville City Hall and the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce. Ballots should include the name, address and phone number of the nominee, and the name and phone number of the person submitting

the nomination.Nominations must

be received by April 27, and can be turned in at Trussville City Hall or mailed to: The Beautification Board, 131 Main Street, P.O. Box 159, Trussville, AL 35173. Nominations may be emailed to Nina Orr at nrorr50@yahoo.com.

For more information, call Orr at 205-746-8606.

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Trussville Beautification contest now openby Gary Lloyd

Editor

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The city of Clay Planning and Zoning Commission will host a public meeting Thursday, March 19 at 6 p.m. in the Clay-Chalkville High School auditorium.

The meeting is for the purpose of receiving input on the update to the city’s comprehensive plan.

The meeting will likely last an hour and a half.

The commission will review progress made since 2005 and discuss ideas for the future. Residents’ input will be heard at the meeting.

The Clay City Council at its Jan. 20 meeting approved updates to the city’s comprehensive plan.

The plan includes the city’s major street plan, future land use, planned zoning and zoning changes.

The commission’s responsibilities are to design a plan for future development; advise the Clay City Council on zoning ordinance changes; create and enforce subdivision regulations; and make recommendations on

what properties should be annexed into the city.

Members of the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission are Dean Kirkner, Steve Ostaseski, Robert Thompson, Keller McKaig, Dennis Locke, Mayor Charles Webster, Clay City Councilwoman Becky Johnson and Clay City Manager Ronnie Dixon.

file photo by Gary Lloyd

Clay City Hall

Rep. Danny Garrett last week submitted his first bill as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives.

HB 97 would provide that teachers could receive a tax credit of up to $250 on their Alabama income tax return as reimbursement for money they spend out of their own pockets for

their classrooms.Garrett said that about

15 other representatives signed on as co-sponsors of the bill. The bill was pending committee action last week.

Garrett represents District 44, which covers Trussville, Clay and portions of Pinson.

Sen. Shay Shelnutt introduced his first bill, SB 28, a companion bill with House Bill 28 being introduced by Rep. David

Standridge of Blount County.

In short, this bill would provide that upon a second or subsequent conviction of second-degree criminal mischief involving a church or other religious building, the defendant would receive certain mandatory minimum sentences.

This bill would also provide that restitution would be a first priority in cases involving a church

or other religious building under certain conditions.

The bill was pending committee action last week.

Shelnutt represents District 17, which includes parts of Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair and Talladega counties.

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Garrett, Shelnutt submit first bills in Montgomeryby Gary Lloyd

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The Friends of the Trussville Library’s annual spring book sale is this week and weekend.

The annual sale is Thursday, March 12 through Sunday, March 15 at the Trussville Public Library’s meeting room. The library is located at 201 Parkway Drive.

Sale hours are the same as library business hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

“We have plenty of wonderful books at bargain prices,” said Friends of the Trussville Library President Mary Sue Landman. “This may be our last book sale for a while, as plans are well under way to expand the library into space now occupied by the old community center.”

Book prices usually range from 50 cents to $1, with special prices for coffee table volumes or sets. The Friends will also be selling and raffle tickets on gift baskets featuring a children’s theme.

Friends of the Library support numerous library programs and activities. These include the summer reading activities for children, young adults and adults;

book signings by local authors; and other special programs. Through projects like the book sale, the group has raised thousands of dollars to help fund library programs and projects.

Friends of Trussville Library book sale this week

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Joyce Ogletree, left, and Beverly Guerdat display several books from hundreds that will be on sale March 12-15 in the meeting room at the Trussville Public Library.

Clay Planning and Zoning Commission to hold public meetingby Gary Lloyd

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