Month: November 2019

Atmore News

YLA learns first impressions count
By LILLIAN BONNER Special to Atmore News Each month, the members of Youth Leadership Atmore meet as a group to learn about the community, discuss ideas for ways to improve our town, and learn important life skills to help build positive leaders and role models. For the November session, the YLA members met at United Bank to learn about first impressions and the impact that a first impression has. On…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
2 injured in collision
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A 97-year-old Atmore woman and a 44-year-old Perdido woman were injured around 2 p.m. Friday, November 15, when the vehicles they were driving collided at the intersection of South Main and West Horner streets. Atmore Police Department reports indicate that the Atmore woman, Essie Drew Josey, was driving a Ford Focus eastbound on Horner. She pulled onto South Main from the stop sign at…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Show time at GECA
News Staff Report The Greater Escambia Council for the Arts production of “Bus Stop” opens Thursday. “Bus Stop” is a drama, with romantic and some comedic elements. It is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelter. Members of the cast are Haley Grassia … Elma Sharon Poulsen …Grace Tom Jeter … Will…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
A special evening at Destiny
News Staff Report Dr. Bernard and Felicia Bishop with Destiny Worship Center in Atmore will host their 13th Annual Senior Citizens Appreciation Day this Saturday, November 23. There is a time change this year with the evening beginning and 5 p.m. and ending at 7 p.m. DWC is located at 50 West Sunset Drive, Atmore. Favorite activities will be held again this year including cake walk, Name That Tune with…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
AFD toy drive is Saturday
News Staff Report Make plans to go to the Atmore Walmart Saturday to help out a good cause and to see some superheroes. This is the 13th year members of the Atmore Fire Department have done a toy drive. For the fourth year, local firefighters will team up with CAUSEPLAY Gulf Coast – comic book, cartoon and video game heroes – to collect toys for children of local families in…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago