Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Toyz for Kidz
LA Bikers: 18 years of playing Santa to local kids By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although their name might bring up images of cycle-riding California toughs, the members of LA Bikers are anything but. Instead, the group of Lower Alabama motorcyclists has earned the image of a bunch of softies who work year round to make Christmas brighter for families anticipating a dim holiday season. The local motorcycle club…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
City firefighters collect, donate hundreds of toys
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore firefighters — aided by costumed characters from movies, comic books and video games — collected more than 600 toys to help make Christmas brighter for local children, as well as the children of Florida families still trying to recover from a devastating hurricane. Atmore Fire Department Capt. Zack Stewart said this year’s toy drive was expanded and divided into two separate projects. The…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Local students get hands-on lesson in volunteerism
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer More than three dozen junior high and high school students from Atmore Christian School — accompanied by a trio of ACS teachers, a local homeschooled student and seven adults — recently got a hands-on lesson in volunteerism. The group traveled to Blountstown, Fla. and spent a day helping with the massive cleanup that is being conducted across the Florida Panhandle in the aftermath of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
ECMS students send cards to wounded soldiers
  News Staff Report Teachers who work with students in Escambia County Middle School’s ASTEM Afterschool Program have made writing a major focal point of the reading instruction given after regular school hours. That focus led to two recent projects — one designed to stimulate natural responses from the students to a particular situation, the other to entertain their fellow students. In the first project, ASTEM after-school students wrote cards…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Firefighters get hands-on extrication training
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore firefighters are continuously training to stay on top of the requirements of their job. But they don’t often get to carry out a training exercise like the one a small group of them tackled December 19. Capt. Zack Stewart and firefighters A.J. Beachy, Wayne Kelly and Jesse Boone got to sharpen their skills on several extrication tools by cutting apart a vehicle —…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago