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Supporters of a litter-free community honored
Published November 5, 2009
GUNTERSVILLE — People supporting a litter-free community were honored during the awards and recognition dinner sponsored by Marshall County PALS on Oct. 29 at Outlaw Steakhouse.
Officials of MCPALS, or Marshall County People Against a Littered State, recognized people in categories ranging from local government and law enforcement to education and media.
The Marshall County Legislative Delegation of Sen. Hinton Mitchem, Rep. Frank McDaniel and Rep. Jeff McLaughlin received special recognition for their support of a litter-free Marshall County.
The city of Guntersville received recognition for their district-wide cleanup and litter-free concert.
McLaughlin presented the Marshall County Commission a certificate in recognition of its continued support of MCPALS. District 2 Commissioner James Maze represented the commission.
David Reed, president of Whitaker Contracting Corp. in Guntersville, earned recognition for his continued support and belief in MCPALS.
Paul Claborn and Wholesalecars.com received recognition for his many years of support.
Officials working to support the Albertville-Boaz Recycling Center earned recognition for their work in creating a viable recycling program.
Jeannie Courington, coordinator of the Albertville-Boaz Recycling Center, Kevin Derrick, Albertville sanitation director, and Jackie Pullen, Boaz public works superintendent, were recognized for their efforts to make the recycling center come to fruition.
Cathy Phillips and Shaela Miller, members of the MCPALS Recycling Committee, were recognized by Jane Walley, president of MCPALS, for their dedication in teaching children throughout the county about the importance of recycling.
Guntersville Mayor Robert Hembree and Lesa Bellin, Guntersville recycling coordinator, were recognized for the citywide cleanup encompassing every city council district and for the litter-free concert which highlighted the city’s recycling efforts.
Marshall County Sheriff Scott Walls, Deputy Heath Thomas and Guntersville police Chief Jim Peterson were recognized for their continued support with every cleanup.
Adopt-A-Mile patrons were honored for continued care of their adopted areas. They included:
• Kathy Giles of Grant, who has been dedicated to the cleaning up a dangerous stretch of Simpson Point Road;
• Joyce Martin, who has picked up litter and mowed along Brashiers Chapel Road;
• Don and Zella Ward, Hollis Click, James Foster and Raymond Farr, all of Grant, who for years picked up litter from the roadsides.
A number of teachers and students were recognized for their support of the annual Alabama PALS poster contest, including the Albertville High School Green Club; Arab Elementary School fourth-grade teachers; Sherlyn Culver and Ruth Cochran, of Corley Elementary School; Donna Baird, of Douglas Middle School; Paula Couch, of DAR Middle School; and Betty Dudley and Janice Samuels, of Guntersville Elementary School.
Kathy Dahlke, of Albertville High School, Brenda Still, of Arab High School, Leslie Freeman, of Boaz High School and Jennifer Morrison, of Brindlee Mountain Middle School, were recognized for their support of the Alabama PALS essay contest.
Robert Davis, of Albertville High School, won first place in the state for his essay on “How Best to be a Green Ambassador.”
Wanda Lewis, of Children’s Place Daycare in Albertville, was recognized for her efforts in establishing a recycling initiative and teaching youngsters the positive impact recycling has on the environment.
Kristen Roberson, agent assistant with the 4-H and Youth Development program, was recognized for helping MCPALS bring the message of litter-awareness and recycling to students in Marshall County.
Walley acknowledged the following for their consistent support of the Marshall County PALS mission: Anthony Campbell, of The Advertiser-Gleam; David Moore, of The Arab Tribune; Brandon Pierce, of The DeKalb Advertiser; and Lionel Green, of The Sand Mountain Reporter.
Susan McKenney, of WAFN-FM, and Kerry Jackson, of WTWX-FM and WGSV-AM, were also recognized in the media category.
MCPALS recognized a number of people as “staunch supporters,” including:
• Probate Judge Tim Mitchell, a two-year member of the PALS basketball “Clean Team,” who also received a “purple heart” for having broken his hand in the last Harlem Ambassadors basketball fundraiser;
• District Court Judge Tim Riley;
• Lowell Brothers, Douglas city councilman;
• Wayne Sellers, Guntersville city councilman;
• Jean Jackson, the dynamic PALS force in Grant;
• Lynne Hurley, MCPALS Board member;
• Miguel Sucre, manager of Outlaw Steakhouse.
The Brindlee Mountain Middle School Junior Civitans received a certificate of appreciation for their commitment to the Alabama PALS Clean Campus Program.
The evening ended with Mitchem presenting a $500 check to Walley to “jump-start” the MCPALS Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser held Saturday at Outlaw Steakhouse.
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