January 2020 - Page 9 of 19

Don Fletcher

Ivey visits Holman

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey visited Atmore last week. But those who weren’t at Atmore Municipal Airport between 10:30 and 10:33 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, missed it. The governor’s jet, scheduled to land “between 9:30 and 9:40 (a.m.),” took off late from Montgomery due to fog, encountered heavier fog the further south it flew, and finally eased onto a local runway at 10:28 a.m., an…

Rosa Parks Breakfast set

News Staff Report Each year, Rosa Parks’ legacy as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement is honored with a prayer breakfast on a date near her birth date. This year, Lillie Johnson and her group (the Yellow Hat Society) will host the 14th annual event Saturday, February 1, 9 a.m., in the Greater Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church fellowship hall. Everyone age 16 and older is invited to attend…

Ambulance merger

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Note: This article is the first in a two-part series on the announced merger of Atmore Ambulance Service and ASAP EMS-Ambulance and how the merger should improve response times in medical emergencies. City of Atmore officials are still unclear on the details of the transaction, but are keeping their fingers crossed that a reported merger between the city’s two private ambulance services — Atmore…

Obituaries, week of January 19,2020

Earlene Killam Hayles Mrs. Earlene Killam Hayles, age 90, passed away Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Century, Fla. She was a native of Byrneville, Fla. and resided in Lottie, Ala. since 1954. She was founder of the “Lottie Quilting Club”, worked in the cafeteria of Perdido School and owned a catering business. She attended Lottie Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband of sixty-one years, Calvin Hayles;…

Food scores released

The following Escambia County food / lodging establishment ratings were released by the Alabama Department of Public Health for December. Ratings are ranked by score, low to high. FSE = Food Service Establishment Church’s Chicken, Atmore, 83, FSE Diamond #23, Hwy. 21 N., Atmore, 87, FSE Kentucky Fried Chicken, Atmore, 88, FSE Brewton Food Mart, Inc., Brewton, 88, FSE Pizza Hut, Flomaton, 91, FSE Arby’s, 1411 S. Main, Atmore, 92,…