ECHS Homecoming Alumni Tea – September 29 (with photo gallery)
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Local YMCA awarded energy efficiency, soccer grants
Atmore Area YMCA received a double dose of donations last week. One will be used to help make the Y’s gym more energy efficient; the other will provide funds for the local organization’s most successful program. The bigger infusion of badly needed financial support came in the form of a $10,000 Efficiency Forward grant from Alabama Business Charitable Trust (ABCT), which was founded in 1992 by Alabama Power. “This is…
Yard of the month
The Pride of Atmore board selected the Langford home on Jack Springs Road as the October Yard of the Month. Shown at the presentation Monday, October 2, are, from left, front, Nina Langford, David Langford, the Rev. C.L. Langford, Leslie Henderson; back, Jimmy Langford, Foster Kizer, Myrna Monroe, Sandy Helton, Herb Hackman and Bub Gideons.
ECHS winning door
The theme of Escambia County High School homecoming was “There’s no place like home – coming.” Wizard of Oz images abounded in the parade and in the fiercely competitive door decoration contest. Teacher Kim Eddins’ homeroom won the door contest this year (as voted on by alumni), with a spinning tornado on top of the house, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, and of course, the Blue Devil. Shown…
Junior class wins parade’s top honor (with parade photo gallery)
The Escambia County High School junior class won first place in the homecoming parade Friday, September 29. Keeping with the theme – There’s no place like home-coming – the float had a rainbow, a brick road, and a house. View our photo gallery from the parade below: News photos by Ditto Gorme and Sherry Digmon