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PCI hazardous materials collection is Saturday
News Staff Report Poarch Creek Indians Environmental Department will conduct a household hazardous waste collection day this Saturday, April 27, from 8 a.m. until noon. The event, open to all residents of Poarch and the surrounding area, is for household waste and electronics only. Large quantities of items from business, farms or other commercial operations will not be accepted. Items may be brought to Poarch Creek Fire Station No. 1,…
GECA to present ‘Odd Couple’
News Staff Report You may remember the movie with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, or you may remember the television series with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. If you watched “The Odd Couple” on the big screen or the small screen, you probably enjoyed Felix and Oscar. Now you can see them on stage. The Greater Escambia Council for the Arts is presenting “The Odd Couple” in May. Director Ellen…
In appreciation
Atmore’s American Legion Post 90 Commander Billy Elder, at left, presents a Certificate of Appreciation and a 100-year coin from the American Legion Department of Alabama to Mayor Jim Staff during the local Legion Post’s March 11 meeting. Staff, along with Kevin McKinley and Paul Chason, were recognized for serving as judges during the recent American Legion Oratorical Contest.
Despite small crowds, ‘Drive Green’ event deemed a success
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The crowds that attended Smith Tractor Company’s three-store, John Deere-sponsored “Drive Green” event on April 13 were smaller than company officials had hoped for. The company’s sales manager, who said the less-than-anticipated turnout was most likely a matter of perception, still deemed the promotion a successful one. “It was fair,” Dewayne Williams, general manager of STC’s Atmore store said of the collective crowd that…
Teens on tractors till ECHS garden
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Dr. Rodney Owens, a teacher at Escambia County High School and a chiropractor by license and degree, was teaching classroom courses more related to his field of expertise a year ago. Now he’s teaching teenagers how to drive and manipulate tractors. Owens, who now teaches Agri Science at ECHS, said he jumped at the chance when the school began looking for someone to take…