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October 28, 2008

Community improvements top Fitts list

Editors note: This is the second in a series of interviews with the newly elected mayors that will lead several Cullman County towns and cities over the next 4 years.



By Tiffany Green

STAFF WRITER

Morris Fitts hopes to bring change to Colony. He is the newly elected mayor of Colony and wants to bring a new approach to the town.

“We want a new beginning and bringing people together as a family,” he said.

Fitts said he has some plans to improve his community. He hopes to open the community park back up and start the baseball and softball leagues again.

“We need a place where families and the community can come together,” he said.

He hopes to eventually bring some apartment homes to his town. He said more housing is needed in the town. He also wants to work more with the seniors at the senior center.

“The senior citizens meet every day at the town hall and eat and play games. Some of the ladies bring their sewing.”

He also wants to improve the town’s day care center.

“We need to improve the day care center to attract people and bring more children there,” he said.

Fitts said as many as 50 families use the daycare center.

There are currently not any businesses in the town other than a gas station, and the new mayor hopes to change that.

“We’re looking to add something, maybe a grocery store,” he said. “I know it’s a long shot, but we will try.”

Fitts’ main hopes during his time in office are to help the young people of the town.

“I am looking forward to working with the sheriff’s office to help work with the kids. I want to try to organize an event where the sheriff can come and talk to the young people and help them stay out of trouble,” he said.

Fitts was raised in Marengo County. He later moved to Birmingham were he worked at Associated Grocers of the South, Inc. He retired from there three years ago after 39 years of employment. Fitts and his wife have lived in Colony for the past 15 years.

Fitts is married to Parish. She is retired from American Trim and is now a substitute teacher. He has two grown children from a previous relationship.

“I’m just a hard working family man that wants to bring people together,” he said.

Fitts said his motto is “Together we stand, divided we fall.”

“I just want to bring a whole new change for the town and start a new beginning,” he said.

Fitts will be sworn in with an entire new council on Monday morning at 10 a.m. on at the Cullman County Courthouse in the probate judge’s office.



‰ Tiffany Green can be reached by e-mail at tgreen@cullmantimes.com or by telephone at 734-2131, ext. 221.

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