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Kiana Lowe of Brewton prepares to have her eyes checked at the Alabama Lions Sight mobile clinic that set up shop at the satellite courthouse in Atmore, outside the Escambia County Health Department, on November 17. The T.R. Miller graduate and her mother, Beverly Rodgers, were among those who took advantage of the low-cost vision checkups, which included examinations to determine the need for eyeglasses, changes to eyeglasses, diseases of…

Seven members of Robinsonville Baptist Church surprised local Operation Christmas Child volunteers November 17 with three carloads of shoeboxes to donate to the holiday initiative. The church, which has a ‘regular attendance’ of about 40 people, delivered 194 of the gift-filled boxes. The local collections ended November 20. Shown from left with the first load, Beverly White, Paige Jordan, Geneva Wearren (in foreground), Randa Peacock (behind Geneva), Rena Graham, Beth…

Kappas at Walmart, from left, Justin Tyson, Anthony Cox, Dr. Vinson Bradley, Harold Dailey, Dr. Ulysses McBride, Alfred Johnson, and Christopher Norman. Special to Atmore News On November 18, members of the Atmore (Ala.) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, chartered March 28, 1969, gathered at three local Walmarts for the second year in a row to surprise guests with free groceries. The fraternity members, commonly referred to as “Kappas,”…

Mitchelle Doerr Haney Special to Atmore News The Fort Mims Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution announces the DAR Good Citizens from three area high schools.The students were selected from the senior class of each school based on qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism to an outstanding degree. The DAR Good Citizens for 2023-24 are Timothy Duane Doerr, Jr. from Escambia Academy, Elizabeth Leah Mitchelle…