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| Clemson golfer Turk Pettit. |
TWO YEARS AGO
JUNE 28, 2018
Bradley named among Top 50: AL.com sports writer Daniel
Boyette published a story on Friday that ranked the Top 50 high school athletes
from the 2017-2018 school year, a list that included national record breakers,
Major League Baseball draft picks and five-star college recruits. Coming in at
No. 26 on the list was Hillcrest senior football and basketball star, Kobe
Bradley.
“Bradley was a first-team athlete in football and helped Hillcrest
win the Class 3A state championship,” Boyette wrote. “He was also first-team in
basketball after the Jaguars finished as state runner-up.”
Earlier this year, Bradley signed a football scholarship
with Alabama State University.
Pettit named All-American: Clemson golfers Turk Pettit, Doc
Redman and Bryson Nimmer have all been named to All-American teams by the Golf
Coaches Association of America. Nimmer was named a second team All-American,
while Redman and Pettit were both named to the honorable mention team.
Pettit is the son of Evergreen native Kelly Pettit and Kevin
Pettit, and he is the grandson of Conecuh County Board of Education member,
Willene Whatley of Evergreen.
Earlier this month, Nimmer and Redman were named second-team
All-Americans by Golfweek, and Pettit was named to the honorable mention team.
27 YEARS AGO
JUNE 24, 1993
Brandon Coleman, son of Tammy Coleman of Castleberry,
caught this seven-pound catfish using a piece of bread. Brandon said he caught
the catfish in the mouth, in water, and in a secret place.
52 YEARS AGO
JUNE
27, 1968
Two days of fun and instruction in various phases of outdoor
sports and wildlife conservation were enjoyed last week by 52 campers at the
annual Evergreen Rotary Club Fish and Wildlife Camp. Tal Stuart’s Pond near
Belleville is the permanent site of the camp.
The Rotary Wildlife Camp Committee made up of Johnny
Nielsen, Hub Robison, Bill McGehee, Kilmer Bodiford, Tal Stuart, Sam Cope,
Mabry Huggins, Bob Bozeman, Henry Kinzer, Luther Gowder, Hill Stallworth, Brown
Boykin, Jack Wild and Henry Sessions was responsible for the successful camp.
Huggins and Bobby Moorer, assistant county agent, were directors.
Counselors were Tommy Weaver, Emmette Price, Armour Stacey,
John Crum Sessions, Hill Harper, Mike Lanier, John Robinson, Jim Williams,
Eddie Reeves, James Coburn, Lynn McCreary, Shelby Windham and Jeb Barron.
A new activity, tent pitching, was introduced this year. Two
boys were assisted to a pup tent.
Rotarians and youth and adult counselors gave instruction in
bait, fly and spin casting and rifle marksmanship. Prizes were awarded to the
outstanding camper in each category.
The boys attended sessions on Fish Pond Construction and
Management led by Luther Gowder, Trapping and Hide Preservation led by A.K.
Williams and Herbert Oakley, Firearm Safety led by Earl Kennamer, Auburn
University Extension Wildlife Specialist, and Tree Identification and Forest
Management for Wildlife led by Kilmer Bodiford. Tal Stuart and Skip Stacey
conducted a tour of the Wildlife Management Area. A water safety demonstration
was provided by the Water Safety Division of the Alabama Department of
Conservation.
The camp was termed a big success and thanks expressed to
the Soil Conservation Unit in Evergreen and all others who made the camp
possible.
Steve Dunn is mighty proud of the wristwatch he received as
a prize for being selected as the Best Camper at the Rotary Wildlife Camp last
week. Steve is the 12-year-old son of Mrs. Ernestine Dunn of Lyeffion. The
prize was given by Boykin Jewelers of Evergreen.
These six boys won proficiency awards at the closing of
Rotary Wildlife Camp last Thursday. Winners were Troy Bakel of Evergreen, best
fly caster; Steve Dunn of Lyeffion, best camper; Benny Landon of Evergreen,
best rifle shot; Doug Austin of Brewton, best spin caster; Harry Pipkins of
Lyeffion, best bait caster; and Johnny Andrews of Evergreen, best shotgun shot.
Prizes were donated by Conecuh Quick Freeze, Bank of Evergreen, Persons
Hardware, Wild Brothers Hardware, Western Auto and Boykin Jewelers.
CATFISH SUPPER: The Lyeffion Quarterback Club will sponsor a
freshwater catfish supper on Sat., July 6, at Lyeffion High School. Serving
will begin at 6:30 p.m. The price is $1 for “all you can eat.”
127 YEARS AGO
JUNE 22, 1893
THE EVERGREEN STAR
BICYCLING: Now, that the boys and young men of Evergreen are
taking so much interest in bicycling, why may not the ladies do the same? There
are wheels made especially for them, and Mr. Whitcomb can supply the demand.
Should they, however, wish to use the wheels their fathers
and brothers own, they can, with a slight change, adapt them to their purposes,
or they can use them as they are by wearing a sort of bloomer garment made for
those ladies who wish to exercise on the wheels made for gentlemen.
The outfit for a lady consists of a blouse waist, over which
is an Easton jacket of cadet blue, full Turkish trousers all of cadet blue and
black gaiters to the knees and a cap of cadet blue with white band. This
costume is a vast improvement on the clinging, disagreeable skirts, and there
is said to be nothing about it even suggestively immodest or unseemly.
While on this subject, we will ask, why is it that female
attire, which is always a burden, an annoyance and little protection from the
cold, is not discarded for something like the above? We firmly believe, about
half the ills to which our wives and daughters are subject, come from the
burdensome manner in which they dress. If they will have independence and
courage sufficient to make a change on this line, and them take a
before-breakfast spin on a modern bicycle every morning, at least, nine-tenths
of the sallow, sickly complexions and slow gaits of our ladies will be
succeeded by healthy, rosy cheeks and robust frames.
Throw medicine in the slop bucket and try a bicycle.
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