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Lions hold membership drive
The new Lions Disaster Relief trailer, only one of three in the state By NANCY KARRICKSpecial to Atmore News The Atmore Lions Club held a Membership Drive Tuesday, November 2, from 4:30 to 5:30 at Gather.The purposes of this meeting were to recruit new members and also to inform members of the Atmore community of some of the projects which the Atmore club participates in. The idea for the drive…
Packing Christmas shoeboxes
The ladies of Gamma Omega Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International held an informal meeting November 4, at the First Baptist Church fellowship hall. The purpose of the meeting was to pack shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse, Operation Christmas Child. Members enjoyed a time of fellowship with each other and discussing possible new members. Attending were Evelyn Bilbo, Joanne Bonds, Nancy Karrick, Sissy Phillips, Leigh Ann Roland, Leslie Sellers,…
Pilots for Christ addresses Lions Club
From left, Courtney McBride, Lion Patty Davis, Tommy Lee By NANCY KARRICKSpecial to Atmore News The Atmore Lions Club met in the Mayson Auditorium at Atmore Community Hospital Wednesday, November 3.President Taylor Lee called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Lion Patty Davis gave the invocation. Guests Tommy Lee, John Hiebert, Courtney McBride, and Talerie McGhee were welcomed as visitors.Lion Patty Davis introduced…
Obituaries, week of November 10, 2021
John Fredrick Calvert Mr. John Fredrick Calvert, age 76, Haleyville, Ala. passed away Saturday, October 30, 2021. He was born to Ellis and Lyda Calvert in Good Hope, Ala. He played interior Line Positions for the University of Alabama Football Team from 1963-1966, where he was part of the S.E.C. Championship Teams in 1964, 1965, 1966 and National Championship Teams in 1964 and 1965. He settled in as an Offensive…
Charges dropped
Clack By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Life is returning to normal for an Atmore teen who was charged — as an adult — more than three months ago with two pornography-related crimes as a result of a video he posted as a prank on Facebook.According to court documents, Escambia County District Judge Eric Coale ordered that all charges be dropped against Jeremiah Clack, who was arrested in July at age…