Category: Community

Special to Atmore News Atmore Community Hospital (ACH) announced that Bradley Lowery will join their healthcare team as the Director of Operations at the end of December 2019. Lowery will assume the overall management and administrative responsibly for most the hospital’s non-clinical departments such as dietary, facility, security, housekeeping, and bio-medical services. “Bradley is coming back to Atmore to help run the day to day operations of the non-clinical portions…

Special to Atmore News The Escambia County Training School (Golden Eagles) Alumni Gathering meets annually, hosted by the ECTS Class of 1967. While it’s a time of fellowship across several classes, it’s also a time to give back to the community. The Gathering collects funds for an ongoing scholarship project for high school students, but they also select special projects. This year, they delivered blankets (provided by Delinda Kidd), stuffed…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A crowd estimated at nearly 500, most of them wide-eyed youngsters, flocked to Heritage Park on Saturday, December 7, to enjoy Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Santa in the Park event. A line that kept growing extended from the front of Atmore Welcome Center to the park’s lighted tunnel as eager children and their parents waited for a photo with Santa, who arrived…

Special to Atmore News The Atmore Lions Club held its 92nd Charter Night Dinner at First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, December 3. Charter Night is a birthday celebration honoring the club and its members for their service to the community and the general history of the Atmore Lions Club, one of Alabama’s longest-serving Lions Clubs. The dinner meeting started with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance to a different type…

The HIPPY Escambia group meeting was hosted by the Poarch Creek Education Department Friday, November 22. The children got to meet Sherell Hendrickson, the 2018-2019 Poarch Creek Indian Elder Princess. Shown are, from left, Hannah McMahill, Karsyn Arnold, Jayce Brown, Kinley Brown, Gracelyn Stevens, Astrid Trevino, Sherell Hendrickson, Gunner Sellers, Anna Marie Bledsoe, Noah Copenhaver.