By Scott Mims

Anna Davenport of Jemison was named Chilton County’s Junior Miss on Sunday — just a year after her sister, Jana, was honored with the same title.

The upcoming Jemison High School senior also won awards for physical fitness, talent, self-expression and scholastics for a total of $3,300 in scholarships.

“Wow,” she said backstage after the winners were announced. “I’m very thankful. It was just a good experience…and I’m shaking.”

Davenport will go on to compete in the Alabama Junior Miss in January 2011 in Montgomery. Her college and career goals involve going into medicine and also majoring in music at either the University of Alabama or Judson College.

Jana Davenport, last year’s Chilton County Junior Miss winner, said she thinks her younger sister will do well at the state level.

“She’s very independent. She does pretty much her own thing most of the time,” she said.

The First Alternate and Spirit of Junior Miss winner was Kristen Robbins, a student at Chilton Christian Academy. Robbins was awarded $1,000 in scholarship money.

From staff reports

Chilton Christian Academy hosted an elementary fine arts competition on March 5 featuring Christian schools from all over the state. CCA was well represented in the competition, which included students in grades four through six.
Winners from CCA included sixth-graders Emily Davis, Summer Voyles, Hannah Tierce and Torie Hodges; fourth graders Samantha Higgins, Mary Margaret White, Matthew Clark and Corey Short; and fifth graders Haley Bolton, Ada Ruth Huntley, Santana Wilson and Nevin Todd.
Also those participating in the CCA Elementary Choir all won first place.
Fine arts consist of art, music, speeches, woodworking, photography and piano.

The Chilton Christian Academy Patriot Cheerleaders placed first in the regional competition sponsored by the Christian Cheerleaders of America.

The competition was held on Saturday, Jan. 30 at Loganville Christian in Georgia.

The cheerleaders are: Torie Hodges, Andrea Powell, Mary’l Smitherman, Jessica Davis, Summer Hall, Alissa Harris, Rebekah Kirkland and Kristen Robbins.

Chilton Christian “A” Honor Roll

First grade
Luke Alexander
Anna Bright
Samantha Cost
Landon Harmon
Tanner Jones
Sarah Kelley
Mattie Lawrence
Ben Martin
Logan Matson
Karly Mims
Lacey Oliver
Jenna Parnell
John Tidwell
Lindsey Wood

Second grade
Stella Bice
Shayla Hamilton
Sarah Beth Huntley
Abbey Moses
Jada Neal

Third grade
Trinity Littleton
Jack Parnell

Fourth grade
Kimberly Hagler
Samantha Higgins
Jakob Mitchell
Elise Johnson
Mary Margaret White
TC Robbins
Jessica Vines

Fifth grade
Ada Ruth Huntley

Sixth grade
Paul Lovoy
Cory Powell

“A-B” Honor Roll

First grade
John Reece Campbell
Weston Green
Hannah Littleton
Tatum Norcross
Malayna Payton
Ally Smitherman

Second grade
Caleb Argo
Darryn Easterling
Olivia Ellison
Mason Hadden
Liam Higgins
Carter Johnson

Third grade
Jackson Baker
Josh Bullis
Jacob Ellison
Trent Jones
Isaac Martin
Chase Matherson
John Ryan Wood

Fourth grade
Kaitlyn Voyles
Baylee Easterling
Corey Short
Logan Littleton
Joe Lovoy
Elaina Johnson
Walker Powell
Hannah Dawson

Fifth grade
Chandler Craig
Keaton Jones

Sixth grade
Evann Campbell
Emily Davis
Abby Garrison
Torie Hodges
Summer Voyles

By Stephen Dawkins

The teachers probably wished their students were as well behaved as the dogs that were on display Wednesday, Nov. 4 at the Central Alabama Police K-9 training facility.
Students from Chilton Christian Academy and Hope Christian School in Pelham oohed and aahed as policemen and policewomen from around the area demonstrated the abilities of their K-9 counterparts.
Chilton County Sheriff Kevin Davis said it’s important to take advantage of such opportunities to impress on young minds the importance of law enforcement.
“A lot of times, kids are scared of police,” Davis said. “We want kids to know we’re their friends, we’re the good guys.
“This helps to build those relationships. It gives the kids the opportunity to see what we do.”
And the exhibition was surely effective.
“We can bring out machine guns, the SWAT truck, whatever, but their favorite thing is always the dogs,” Davis said.
Davis’ wife, Sweet, owns and operates the training facility off County Road 42 in Jemison.
The business has produced, among others, dogs trained to search for narcotics, bombs and cadavers, and many of these dogs showed their stuff on Wednesday.
Officers from Clanton, Chilton County Sheriff’s, Prattville, Shelby County Sheriff’s, Millbrook, Autauga County Sheriff’s, and Harpersville police departments and the state Department of Corrections were present.