Category: Community

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…

Nichols News Staff Report Gordon Nichols passed away November 29, 2019, in an automobile accident. He was only 28.However, his legacy lives on in an annual event his family started to show their gratitude to first responders who “were helping us before we even knew we needed it,” Gordon’s mother said.Gordon’s parents, Randy and Melissa Nichols, and his sister, Walton Nichols Thompson, will host “Gordon’s Giving” Thanksgiving Day in Boland…

First-graders present a sign-language tribute By SHERRY DIGMONNews Publisher Flomaton Elementary School and Flomaton High School held a combined Veterans Day program Thursday, November 9.FES Principal Courtney McBride began the program by talking about that day’s vocabulary word – gratitude. “We appreciate you with deep gratitude,” she told veterans in the audience.Presentation of the flag and Pledge of Allegiance were led byStudent Bear Brown presented the flag and led in…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Report If Perdido Elementary & Middle School’s annual salute to veterans gets much bigger, school officials will need to petition the Baldwin County School Board for a new gym.Principal Phillip Stewart said there is a good reason that seating was at a premium, parking spaces almost as scarce, for this year’s Veterans Day observance.“We’ve grown, student-wise,” he said. “We’ve added at least 100 or more students…