By Gary Lloyd The Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce will host its sixth annual golf tournament on June 24 at Limestone Springs Golf Course in Oneonta. The shotgun scramble format tournament will begin at 8 a.m. A $150 per person registration fee or $500 for a foursome will include 18 holes of golf, $70 in merchandise credit to the pro shop at Limestone, lunch, range balls, golf cart, and a goody bag. A po ...

By Gary Lloyd A UAB professor and local filmmaker will be showing a documentary about her uncle, a fighter pilot whose P-47 Thunderbolt fell out of the skies over northwestern France on May 21, 1944. UAB professor June Mack, who directs the individually designed major in film and the interdisciplinary film minor in the UAB Department of Communication Studies, will be showing the documentary about her uncle, ...

By June Mathews So you may or may not have noticed, but my name and the name of this month are the same. And this month, coincidentally, is also my birthday month. It was always kind of neat to be the only kid in my class with the same name as the month as I was born in. And it’s still kind of funny when people ask me what my birth month is for one reason or another. I generally laugh and say, “Can’t you gu ...

By Dave Parrish I started out to write this column about adding and maintaining value, but while doing so I took a glance at the current interest rates. Wow, quite a bump in rates last week. While the fact that rates will begin a real move up has been predicted by many for quite some time, the repeated forecasts have become to be treated like “the little boy who cried wolf.” Thus, most have been lulled into ...

By Gary Lloyd The Hewitt-Trussville baseball team was honored for its 2013 season by the Trussville City Board of Education on Monday night. Hewitt-Trussville finished the season with a 34-13 record, its best in school history, and reached the Class 6A state championship series in Montgomery for the first time in school history. Board President Bill Roberts said he saw more baseball this spring than he ever ...

By Lee Weyhrich According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of physical therapy practices is estimated to grow by nearly a third within the next three years. One reason for this is an increase in the number of sports injuries. Between 2000 and 2008, there was a 6 percent rise in the number of injuries, and that number has continued to rise. At one time, the majority of physical therapists c ...

By Gary Lloyd Trussville Mayor Gene Melton would oppose the possible opening of a new club where Sensations, a strip club that used to be located on Derby Way in Birmingham, once operated. “We’re opposed to it,” said Melton, who said he is “hard and fast” opposed to the possibility of a club opening in the location. “They could do much better with this property.” Birmingham City Councilwoman Kim Rafferty sa ...

By Gary Lloyd The Center Point Fire District last week received donations from Valspar and Homeland Vinyl for a fire extinguisher training simulator, it announced on its Facebook page. The fire district currently serves approximately 65,000 citizens within a 60-mile radius. On an annual basis, its emergency apparatus responds to approximately 250 fire calls, ranging from structure fires, outdoor/rubbish fir ...

By Lee Weyhrich The Clay City Council on Monday passed a “vicious dog” ordinance, virtually banning pit bulls in city limits. Existing pit bull dogs, or any of their variations, must be registered with the city, no new pits may be brought into the city, and any newborn pit puppies will need to be removed from the city limits within a certain amount of time. These dog breeds must be confined indoors or kept ...

By Gary Lloyd Trussville City Fest, which was rained out May 3-4, will be made up July 13 at The Mall in downtown Trussville, it was announced at last week’s Trussville City Council meeting. The event was going to be made up as an indoor/outdoor event at the Trussville Civic Center the same day. Despite City Fest being promoted as a “rain or shine” event, canceling the event last month was due to safety iss ...