Just recently The Tuscaloosa News printed an article about one of their towns: Below is the article that they printed and it does mention truckers in it and its not good.

We have started a petition to send to the Tuscaloosa News and to Alabama state representatives  to have this article retracted from the newspaper along with an apology of some sort.

After reading the article if you wish to have your name, address, city, state, and zipcode added to the petition please click the email icon at the bottom of the page and send me your information.

I in turn wil add it to the petition and when the petition is full with names.

We are going to send it to the newspaper and their representatives.
Many many letters fax's and phone calls have gone out to this newspaper until they stopped taking calls

If this doesn't take place then we are going to other sources to help us fight this slanderous accusation.
 

News Article:

Tuscaloosa News, August 17,2001

Parents, with little recourse, speak against gas station

                             By Johnny Kampis
                             Staff Writer
                             August 17, 2001
 

DUNCANVILLE | About 60 residents met Thursday evening at the
Duncanville Volunteer Fire Department to discuss the construction of a
convenience store next to Maxwell Elementary.

 Some of the residents signed a petition protesting the construction of
the Shell Food Mart at the corner of U.S. 82 and Monticello Drive. Mott Oil
Co. is building the convenience store, which will be next to the
school's playground.

 Parents expressed concern about traffic hazards, as well as the sale of
 alcohol and tobacco at the store.

 "We don't want our children to be exposed," parent Katie Cleveland
said. "This is a nice school and a nice neighborhood, and I would like to
keep it that way."

 Parent Angela Hayden said the parents had no other forum to voice their
 concerns. "We've been told repeatedly that we have no legal standing,"
 she said.

 Cleveland and other parents asked the Tuscaloosa County Commission
for help during the commission's Wednesday meeting. The commission
 passed a resolution supporting the parents, but commissioners said they
cannot stop the construction.

 The Tuscaloosa City Council would have to approve a liquor license for
 the store before its planned December opening because it is in the
city's police jurisdiction. The council could deny the license if the store
were determined to be a safety hazard or nuisance.

 At Thursday's meeting, some spoke in support of the food mart's
 construction.

"A lot of people are hearing only one side," parent Stacey Townsend
said. "We need to get all the facts."

 She said the convenience store could benefit the largely undeveloped
 stretch of U.S. 82 in Duncanville.

 "We need progress down this way," Townsend said. "[Owner Steve] Mott
  has been crucified, and he hasn't even been invited to speak."

 Some said that parents, in their zeal to protect their children, may
have unfairly targeted some of the store's prospective customers.

 Parent Teresa Mello told a Tuscaloosa News reporter Wednesday that
 she was worried about truck drivers abducting children. She said
 Thursday that she didn't intend to single out truck drivers.
"I was just thinking that kids like trucks," she said.

 Mott Oil Vice President David Collins said Wednesday there will be a
 large privacy fence between the store and the school grounds. He said
 the parking lot of the food mart will not extend to the edge of the
Mott Oil property, which ends just a few feet from the school's walking track.

 Collins said Wednesday he had discussed the company's plans with
county schools Assistant Superintendent Frank Costanzo.

  Costanzo said Thursday that while they had not discussed the plans in
 detail, he and other school officials plan to meet with Mott in the coming
 weeks.

 "There's nothing we can do about it except work with them," Costanzo
  said.

 Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, and Sen. Phil Poole, D-Moundville,
 attended the meeting and said they hope to draft a bill making it
illegal to sell alcohol or tobacco near a school. But with a backlog of bills in
the Legislature, it's unlikely to pass before the store is opens.

  Allen said a similar state law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme
 Court in 1976 as unconstitutional because of its wording.

  "It's unfortunate that an establishment like this has chosen to locate
next to a school," Allen said. "These parents have a legitimate concern."

  Reach Johnny Kampis at johnny.kampis@tuscaloosanews.com or at
                             345-0505, ext. 277.

 
 

We have won this situation with constant non stop letters  to the editor for two weeks straight .........

Mrs. Mello finally had printed in the
Tuscaloosa News an appology letter
to all drivers and families for
her stupid slanderous statement....
 

 
 

 
 

 

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