Race car driver Bobby Dotter |
43 YEARS AGO
JULY 21, 1994
English wins medals Alabama Sports Festival: On June 25,
1994 Jason English of Evergreen, who holds a brown belt in Taekwondo, brought
home a gold medal in forms and a gold medal in free sparring at the Alabama
Sports Festival held in Mobile.
Jason will be a ninth-grader at Hillcrest High School this
Fall. Jason is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald English, grandson of Mrs. Jim
House and nephew of Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Ikner.
Homer Chavers, manager of the Evergreen location of Swift
Supply, is shown with Bob Sparks, representative of DeWalt tools in front of
the Chevy Lumina that is driven by Bobby Dotter. The car is driven on the Busch
National Circuit. The car was on display last Tuesday at the Evergreen store.
39 YEARS AGO
JULY 19, 1979
Pritchard is head coach Lyeffion High: Roger Pritchard, a
graduate assistant football coach at Alabama State University, Montgomery, has
been named head football and basketball coach at Lyeffion High School.
Pritchard, a native of Fort Myers, Fla., was a three-year
regular at linebacker for the Hornets after transferring to ASU from The
Citadel. He is a 1972 graduate of North Fort Myers High School where he was a
star football player.
The 24-year-old Pritchard inherits a football team at
Lyeffion High School that went 2-8 last year, but he hopes to improve the small
Class A team by stressing fundamentals when practice begins Aug. 6.
“You have to build a foundation before you can put a roof on
it,” he said. “This first year, I’m going to teach basics and try to get the
people in the area interested in our football program.”
Pritchard’s top assistant will be former Alabama State
defensive tackles Edward Johnson of Chicago, Ill.
49 YEARS AGO
JULY 17, 1969
All Star games set for Monday: The All Star games of the
Evergreen Junior Baseball League will be played Monday at the league park. If
rained out, the games will not be played.
The American League game will be at six o’clock followed by
the National League game.
64 YEARS AGO
JULY 17, 1954
Former Aggie Coach Promoted To 1st Lt.: Second
Lt. Ralph Law, former of Evergreen, has been promoted to first lieutenant at
Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, Ga., according to an announcement received this
week from the office of information service there.
After attending A.P.I., Auburn, he came to Evergreen in the
fall of 1952 as a member of the Evergreen High School faculty. He served as
assistant coach of the Evergreen Aggie football and basketball teams.
124 YEARS AGO
JULY 12, 1894
THE EVERGREEN STAR
FISHING TACKLE: If you need anything in a line, hook, sinker
or anything in this line we have it. Don’t take up your time running all over
town hunting what you want, but come to headquarters where you can get fitted
with the right kind at the right prices. – M.W. ETHERIDGE & SON, “The Right
Place.”
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