Year: 2017

Atmore News

Programs planned to honor veterans
Veterans Day is Saturday, November 11. The following special programs have been planned to honor veterans. Ernest Ward Middle School Ernest Ward Middle School invites all veterans to their Veterans Day Program on Tuesday, November 7, at 9:15 a.m., in the gym. The school’s band and chorus will perform patriotic music and a special dramatic presentation will be performed by the drama class. The guest speaker this year is Master…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes collection set
This month, several locations in the multi-county Alabama Tri-County Area Team will serve as drop-off sites for the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child – joining nearly 5,000 U.S. locations collecting gift-filled shoeboxes for children in need around the world. During the project’s National Collection Week, Nov. 13 – 20, Atmore residents will transform empty shoeboxes into gifts of hope filled with school supplies, hygiene items and fun toys. Operation…
by Submitted Article access_time7 years ago
Red Ribbon Week – ECSO entertains, delivers message
Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith and Chief Deputy Mike Lambert came to the realization a few years ago that the agency’s anti-drug message wasn’t getting through to as many youngsters as they had hoped. So they came up with a new approach. The two law enforcement administrators realized that their charts, graphs, anecdotes and the dry rhetoric of the “Just Say No” campaign just weren’t holding the attention of the…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Barnett joins Alpha Delta Pi at Troy
Carson Barnett of Atmore has joined Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Troy University during the fall 2017 semester at the Troy Campus. Carson, a 2017 graduate of Escambia Academy, is the daughter of Wayne Barnett and Denean Barnett. This year’s Sorority Recruitment, held by the TROY Panhellenic Council, welcomed nearly 300 women to Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta and Phi Mu sororities.
by Submitted Article access_time7 years ago
Keeping the lights on after school
After school programs allow children to have a safe place until they can go home. On Thursday, October 26, Escambia County Middle School, along with thousands of schools nationwide observed Lights On Afterschool, the national celebration of afterschool programs. The event was also a chance for the school to showcase the A-STEM curriculum as students worked on various projects. “This is our first time doing this,” said Marcia Adams, ECMS…
by Sherry Digmon access_time7 years ago