6 year old to present petition to State House committee

Lillian Coker

6 year old Lillian Coker of Sand Rock  will not be in school today, instead she will be in Montgomery where she will present a petition, which contains more than 1,000 names, to the House Commerce Committee today in Montgomery opposing wind farms in her community.  The committee is debating wind farm legislation sponsored by Sen. Phil Williams, R-Rainbow City, that would regulate the farms and prevent them from later being abandoned.  Lillian is in kindergarten at Eura Brown Elementary School. She said she got the idea for her petition from a classmate who circulated one to get more books for the school library.  Residents from Cleburne county are also expected at the meeting as senator Gerald Dial is seeking to have the county exempted from the proposed new regulations.