One Year Ago: My Experience Riding with the Krewe of Centaur
Hard to believe we won t be experiencing Mardin Gras parades this year.
I don t know about you, but for me, this was my last life experience prior to COVID-19. Last February, we were right in the heart of Mardi Gras season, and COVID-19 seemed more like a joke at that time, rather than a forever life-altering pandemic. Surely none of us expected anything as serious as we received just a few short weeks later.
Yet, here we are, one year later.
I certainly miss Mardi Gras this season, and my Facebook memories rubbed it in quite a bit today. It did make me smile quite a bit re-living last year s awesome ride, playing music atop the parade s title-sponsor float. This was one year ago, written shortly after my first official ride with the Mighty Krewe of Centaur.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, the COVID-19 pandemic is certainly something to consider when planning your and your loved one’s special day. The typical date night at a restaurant may not
A teen who has been missing since last year has been identified as the person pulled from a frozen Connecticut pond.Brandon Jenkins, age 18, was found Saturday, Jan. 30, when a passerby called 911 to report a body in the ice-covered.
Charity fishing tournament slated for Lake Guntersville April 17
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
Guntersville area anglers will get a chance to win up to $15,000 and do a good turn for the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center at Children’s of Alabama this spring in the Captain D’s Castin’ ‘N Catchin’ tournament out of Goose Pond at Scottsboro April 17.
Online registration is available at give.children.org/CNC2021. In-person registration is available at Goose Pond Bait & Tackle (417 Ed Hembree Drive, Scottsboro); Harbin Automotive (564 Micah Way, Scottsboro) and Captain D’s (2308 S. Broad St., Scottsboro). The entry fee is $110. Those who register by March 22 will receive an official tournament t-shirt.
Guardians of the Geese
Gaddy’s Goose Pond drew thousands of Canada geese and people from around the world to Ansonville. by Jeremy Markovich
Hazel Gaddy and her husband, Lockhart, fed geese around their pond in 1949. After the Gaddys died, the geese stopped coming to the pond, but they still fly over it on their way to the nearby Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge.
Geese will fly a long way for a good meal. For decades, thousands of them showed up just south of Ansonville every winter, where Lockhart Gaddy had planted wheat and corn for them. This was a change for Gaddy, who had previously hunted geese. During the first year, 1934, nine geese spent the winter on his one-acre pond. By 1952, Gaddy had made the pond 10 times larger. By then, word was out in the bird community, and 10,000 James Bay Canada geese showed up on his farm.