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Coach Paul Brown Brings Summer Basketball to Area Churches
Special Feature It’s becoming a summer tradition for area churches to become home to the basketball camps of Coach Paul Brown. “Coach Brown is patient, fair and fun. He understands the various developmental stages of young children and maximizes their capacity to learn basketball,” says Dawn Corley, Director of Activities at Green Valley Baptist Church …
National Day of Prayer at The American Village
Special Feature Be a part of the National Day of Prayer Breakfast at The American Village in Montevallo on Thursday May 10 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The event will include a special message of encouragement from ABC 33/40 Chief Meteorologist James Spann. “Many of us are fans and followers of our speaker James …
Family Fun at Montevallo Arts Fest
Are We There Yet? The Montevallo Arts Council will celebrate spring with the annual Montevallo Arts Fest in Orr Park on Saturday, April 21, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This family-friendly arts festival will have something for everyone to enjoy. Artists will fill Orr Park, located on the tree-lined banks of Shoal Creek, to display …
WDJC-FM TURNS 50!
A Look at the Station that Brought Christian Radio to Birmingham Fifty years ago, April 22, 1968, WDJC signed on the air for the first time from its penthouse studio on the 13th floor of The Tutwiler Hotel in downtown Birmingham. At that time most people didn’t even own an FM radio. The 20,000-watt transmitter …
5 Cyber Security Safeguards Every Business Should Have
Business Today Brought to you by: Community Partner Sawyer Solutions, www.sawyersolutionsllc.com Every week you hear or read about a new hack or victim of malware. While the news focuses on large businesses, smaller companies are at just as much risk. Here are some simple things you can do to help prevent a hack to your …
Serving Veterans in Our Community
Are you a veteran or know someone who is? The Alabama based non-profit, Still Serving Veterans (SSV), is dedicated to helping Veterans find meaningful work while assisting employers in welcoming and retaining Veterans as valued members of their workforce. All at no charge. SSV offers in person employment counseling to Veterans, transitioning military and members of …
Do We Really Live in a Post-Truth World?
Special Feature With the truth twisting, emotional appeals, and personal attacks that characterized this last election season, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the word for 2016. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” …
Back yard Makeover with DSLD
Back Yard Makeover: DSLD Land Management Creates Usable, Beautiful Space Oris and John Nielson have lived in their Vestavia Hills home for 26 years. From day one, Oris says their backyard was a disaster. When the drought last year took out the large trees that gave the space its one redeeming quality, the Nielsons knew …
Rise Against Hunger
The Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church middle school youth group takes part in the Rise Against Hunger service project. 40,000 plus meals were assembled during the day long parish event.
OLS Spelling Bee
The Word Is… Fourth-grader Violetta Rohr recently won the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School(OLS) spelling Bee. Second-grader Deezil Lukima placed second. The contest was broadcast on WOLS, the school-wide internal television network. Rohr represented OLS in the Homewood District Spelling Bee where she placed 3rd.
