Wewa repeats as welding champions
Lively Technical College recently hosted a welding competition for high school students and those students dual enrolled in area technical institutions. The competition was held for the first time in 2023, and as the reigning champions, Wewahitchka High School was invited to defend its title, and once again left with the championship belt.
Welding Instructor Eddie Price took a team of five and two alternates to the competition. Caleb Cooper took an individual second place and Blaize Davis took an individual fifth place, and together the team accrued enough points to win the overall competition and were once again awarded custody of the highly-coveted championship belt to display at their home school until next year’s competition.
“Chances for future competitions are very promising as only Cooper is a senior,” said Price. “All other team members are currently sophomores. Pictured from left are Ja’corey Williams, T. C. Hoover, Blaize Davis, Braden Kemp, Caleb Cooper, Cole Bailey, and Trey Hill
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.