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Fashion, Food, Fun & So Much More!
City Scene The Southern Women’s Show returns to Birmingham October 4-7 and is filled with four days of celebrity guests, cooking classes and demonstrations, seminars, and more. All the fun takes place at the BJCC North Exhibition Hall and the lineup includes Monte Durham from Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta & Say Yes to …
Help Families in Need while Shopping Merry Market 2018!
Cool Stuff Get a head start on living out “the reason for the season” at Merry Market 2018. As you get your Christmas shopping done early, you will be helping families in need in our community! Merry Market 2018 is October 19-20 at the Gardendale Civic Center and includes a huge array of great gifts …
Overcoming Childhood Cancer: Odenville’s Payton Ray
Healthy Living Visits to the doctor are certainly not an event most children look forward to, but for Payton Ray, a routine doctor’s checkup turned out to be a potentially life-saving moment. Payton’s mother, Joy, took him in for a routine appointment with his pediatrician to check his thyroid levels. “He frequently had issues with …
Overcoming Childhood Cancer: Lilianna Thompson, Clanton, Ala.
Healthy Living If the big brown eyes don’t melt your heart, then the sweet, bright smile certainly will. Those are the first things you notice about Clanton’s Lilianna Thompson, a walking, talking, giggling miracle. Lilianna was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, in August 2011, just after she turned 2 in May. While on …
Leadership Opportunity for Area Teens: Anytown Alabama
Education Extra Approximately 80 students from more than 33 public and private high schools in Jefferson and Shelby Counties recently spent a week making new friends, learning leadership skills in discussing difficult and pressing community topics and building their resume for college applications. The camp called “Anytown Alabama” is designed to give students in grades …
Serving in Moldova: Valleydale Church
Mission Makers Valleydale Church recently sent a team of seventeen people to serve in Holercani, Moldova for seven days. “Our mission was to spread The Gospel of Jesus Christ and His love to the people of Moldova by serving their physical needs and spiritual needs,” explains volunteer James Sansom. “We accomplished this by dividing the …
“Perpetual Adoration”
Photo Fun Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration continues at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Homewood as the parish recently celebrated the 26th anniversary of the devotion. The celebration began with an open-air procession of the Blessed Sacrament from the Chapel of Our Savior to the church by OLS Pastor Rev. Msgr. Martin Muller with the …
“Go Team!”
Photo Fun Patients at Children’s of Alabama recently had a visit from Alabama and Auburn University cheerleaders along with team mascots. The visit was a part of the annual Wells Fargo Picks for Kids program kickoff. As part of the campaign, Wells Fargo will donate $1,000 to Children’s for each pass interception made by the …
“School Prep”Â
Photo Fun Casa de Adoracion, in partnership with Riverchase United Methodist Church, held a Community Back to School Giveaway and Health Fair. More than 700 backpacks filled with school supplies were given away. Health screenings, voter registrations, and financial services were also provided.
“Distinguished Young Women”
Photo Fun Emmy Beason, 2019 DYW (Distinguished Young Woman) of Jefferson County from Leeds High School and Brooke Tarrant, 2018 DYW of Alabama and Jefferson County from Vestavia Hills High School. Beason will compete for the title of DYW of Alabama 2019 in Montgomery, January 18-19, 2019, www.distinguishedyw.org.
