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The Flomaton High School Student Council along with businesses and individuals tapped the Flomaton Fire Department and Med 16 to deliver a trailer of supplies to a fire department and a church in Hurricane Michael damaged Apalachicola on Monday, Oct. 22, leaving at 8:20 a.m., returning at 8:30 p.m. that same day. Loaded in the trailer were items such as water, tarps, dog food, gloves, canned goods, toothpaste, deodorant, carpet cleaner, diapers, wipes, paper towels, toilet paper, mops, brooms, c...
“I want to personally thank you for your love, acts of love shown to us following the hurricane. You truly demonstrate true Christian love to us in giving from your heart those supplies we needed.” This is the opening of a letter writen by Elder Roy Brockington, Pastor of Progressive Church given to Century resident Helen Mincey. Mincey drove her personal vehicle, a taxi van, to the town of Mullins, South Carolina recently to deliver supplies collected by the town of Century and surrounding area...
The Alabama Power Foundation’s Power to Play grant program is now taking applications in its fifth year of helping Alabama high schools increase students’ extracurricular participation. The program offers athletics and arts grants. Beginning this year, the grants are also available to middle schools. Power to Play will award up to 36 grants of $2,500 each to schools throughout the state – up to 18 of those grants will go to athletics programs and up to 18 will go to arts programs. Involvement in arts and music courses has been linked to highe...
The annual LA Bikers Toyz for Kidz Auction was held Thursday Oct. 18, at PeeWee's Construction Building in Atmore. The auction raises money each year to buy presents for local children in need during the Christmas season. Participants at the event were treated to hotdogs, bar-b-que sandwiches, chips, cookies, cakes and drinks. Attendees of all ages showed up to enjoy the event and contribute to raising the money for children in need. Buyers had a chance to preview sale items such as hall trees,...
history while sitting at the end of a dusty dirt road and watching an October sunset slowly slip beneath the horizon. A mile or so in the distance, the white steeple of Robinsonville Baptist Church rises above the peanut and cotton fields and creates a reference point for the community's history. The memories and history that flows across these fields and hedgerows calls out to tell its story as the church stands as a silent sentinel as if guarding the legacy of the area. . It's easy to imagine...
While traveling to Laurel, Mississippi for a meeting, I noticed that US 84 was also marked with signs saying, “El Camino East/West Corridor.” I immediately thought, “Column idea!” Upon consulting with my husband's “friend, Mr. Google” I found this information. “The El Camino East/West Corridor is a 1,729-mile east/west corridor which stretches from Brunswick, Georgia to El Paso, Texas, traversing the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.” http://elcaminocorridor.org/history.asp The El Camino East/West Corridor is loosely...
I'm changing the names in this story because it is about family a bit removed, and family can sull up hard and fast when they feel a poke. If one was a legend in ones own mind and from the South that still lives in the South of Southern Alabama, one always used ones full name no matter. We had our standards. Our standards were measured and held against everything that we thought reflected our standing among the townspeople. Whatever our standing was.......... So cousin Patty Anna got engaged after a long dry spell between she and her mama...
When Flomaton quarterback Daquan Johnson scored a touchdown with 3:55 left in the game Friday night at Thomasville to pull the Hurricanes to within one point of the Tigers it was gut-check time. Head coach Doug Vickery first considered kicking the extra point and hope for overtime. His players convinced him otherwise. Johnson kept the ball on a two-point try and barely made it into the end zone to seal Flomaton's 43-42 win over the Class 3A 6th ranked Thomasville Tigers. It will be gut-check...
Escambia Academy will wrap up its regular season this Friday night at Fort Dale Academy in Greenville before hosting Coosa Valley on Nov. 2 in the first round of the AISA playoffs, following the Cougars' 35-12 victory this past Friday night against Lowndes Academy. Patrick McGee's first two runs this past Friday night resulted in touchdowns as Escambia Academy jumped out to an early 14-0 lead. McGee opened the game with a 67-yard touchdown run and followed up with a 26-yard touchdown run. Sam...
A blood test will determine if the driver of a motorcycle driver riding with a cup of whiskey was under the influence after his cycle plowed into the rear of another vehicle attempting to turn into Flomaton Woods Apartments on Oct. 13. Flomaton police, fire and ambulance were dispatched to the intersection of Highway 31 and the entrance of Flomaton Woods Apartments at 2:53 p.m. in reference to a crash. According to police reports, Nerissa Shntelle McKinney of Flomaton was heading west on...
In addition to multiple races that will be on the Nov. 6 ballot in Alabama there are four constitutional amendments that will be added to the original document passed in 1901 that the last time I checked was the largest constitution in the nation. Amendments are many times written in a way that you really can't understand what they are saying. When I get the list of amendments I read them twice before I pull out my highlighter and start making notes. I talk to other people, including members of...
We read with interest a story published by al.com this week that looked at voter turnout in all 67 Alabama counties during the June primary elections. They ranked the counties from one to 67 based on the percent of registered voters in each county who cast a ballot. Escambia County ranked 64 out of the 67 counties with only 21 percent of the voters showing up. Green County came in first with a 50 percent voter turnout and Lee County came in last with a 17 percent voter turnout. The figures showed that 5,164 of Escambia County's 25,081 registere...
Rarely in today's world of instant communication and “the loudest voice wins” politics do we hear positive stories in the news cycle. Now, though, I would like to draw attention to a story that has proven to be good news, but has, for the most part, not received the coverage it deserves: conservative policies are working. In the past two years, the Republican-controlled Congress has passed over 1,000 bills out of the House of Representatives, and almost 250 of them were signed into law by President Trump. That's roughly 28% more bills that hav...
Those of us who are Baby Boomers remember the tumultuous times of the 1960’s. We lived through the Civil Rights revolution. Those of us who grew up here in the Heart of Dixie witnessed the transpiring of racial integration first hand. Most of the crusades and struggles occurred here in Alabama, especially Montgomery. A good many of the landmark Civil Rights court decisions were handed down in the Federal Court in Montgomery. The author and renderer of these epic rulings was one, Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Johnson served as Federal Judge in the M...
From the very moment President Trump won the election two years ago, Democrats have been sternly and somewhat spasmodically warning voter outrage would send the Republicans packing in the next election. Here we are just weeks from Trump’s first midterm elections and it’s the Republicans with building outrage and the Democrats with growing derangement. Every election is a choice, but exactly what is the choice this election? Under the brilliant courageous leadership of President Trump, deleterious Obama policies have been reversed and a tre...
