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Smothers to join elite in Alabama Sports Hall of Fame

Times Sports Editor Emeritus Jimmy Smothers began work at The Gadsden Times in 1961 and retired in 2006. Prior to joining The Times, Smothers worked for the Chattanooga Free Press, the Birmingham Post-Herald, the Fort Payne Times Journal and the Sand Mountain Reporter. He was a three-sport letterman and honor graduate of Geraldine High School.

• Won more than 75 writing awards, at least one first place in five decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
• First person to win Associated Press Sweepstake Award in The Times'
classification, award included first place AP awards for writing on deadline,
non-deadline writing and best column of the year in 1996
• Jacksonville State University Alumni of the Year Award
• Auburn Journalism Department's
Distinguished Alabama Community Sports Journalist for 2008
• Alabama Sports Writers Association's Sports Writer of the Year 1999 (Bill
Skelton Award)
• Charter and lifetime member of the Alabama Sports Writers Association; served as secretary-treasurer for 33 years
• Alabama Junior College Association's Media of the Year Award
• All-American Football Foundation
Lifetime Achievement Award
• University of Alabama's Lifetime Gold Press Pass (one of four recipients)
• Auburn University's Lifetime Press Pass
• Jacksonville State University
Athletic Hall of Fame Lifetime
Achievement Award
• All-American Football Foundation Award 1999
• Jacksonville State University's Wall of Honor
• Etowah County Sports Hall of Fame
• DeKalb County Sports Hall of Fame
• Alabama Sports Writers Hall of Fame
• Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame
• Gadsden/Etowah Patriots Hall of Honor
• Commendation resolutions from the Alabama Senate and the City of Gadsden
• A “Key to the City” from several cities in Alabama and Louisiana
• Honorary member of the Military
Officers Association of America
• Mental Health of Alabama's first media award
• Inclusion in Who's Who in America
• Honors from three different Baptist churches

Getting fitted for a tuxedo Thursday afternoon did nothing to ease the uneasiness Times Sports Editor Emeritus Jimmy Smothers feels as he is about to become only the fifth sports writer to be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

paper & ICE: Tips for mass producing cards/Retirement Party ...

Hi there! I just finished these invitations for my Mom's retirement party & as I was finishing them I was thinking of how many announcements and invitations I've created over the years. It's not unusual for me to be making 20, 30 or even more cards at a time. I even made my brother's wedding invitations (100!) Of this particular one I made 20, but you may remember a few weeks back, the  Bowling Party Invitations  I made a few weeks ago. I made 30 of those. I was thinking back today, to several years ago when I first started doing this, and some of the trial and error that I experienced. So, just in case you are on the verge of creating many invitations or announcements for an event; I wanted to share some tips and tricks I've found when designing a card to be reproduced several times. Here we go! :) 1. Consider the cost: If you decide to use, say a 99 cent 3D sticker on each of 40 invitations, that's going to drive up your cost pretty high.... I usually stick to solid cardstock, inexpensive patterned papers, punches, stamps and dies when mass producing cards, because I already have them on hand. Similarly, if you're only making 6 invitations, it may not be financially feasible to justify a 25$ stamp set in a theme you may not use again. Digi stamps and clip art are a WONDERFUL option for mass production as they come in hundreds of themes, and are normally not more than a couple dollars. Also, like my bowling cards, inexpensive stickers are a wonderful option as well. 2. Consider the waste: Say you create a card using a certain designer upholstered brad. 12 brads come in each package, but only 4 per package are in the colors you need. You're making 40 invitations, so you buy 10 packages of the brads. Suddenly, you have EIGHTY designer brads left over that may not be in a style or color that will be easily used up later. Additionally, considering the waste goes for cutting your papers. If you are using a piece of patterned paper for an A2 card front, and you decide to make each piece 4 1/8" wide, you've just taken the pieces you can get from a 12" paper from 6 down to 4. Chances are 1/8" isn't going to make that much of a difference in the look of your card, but will prevent you from having large amounts of waste/scraps later on. 3. Mailman friendly: If you're making multiple cards, the odds are that you are going to have to mail at least some of them, right? You may have noticed that I LOOOOOOVE buttons!

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