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Get your boiled peanuts here!
Nothing goes better with college football than fresh, hot boiled peanuts! The Atmore Memorial VFW Auxiliary to Post 7016 always has veterans at heart. They’re always “cookin'” something up to raise money for veterans – and this time they’re cookin’ up some peanuts. Join the local VFW Auxiliary at their annual Peanut Boil Saturday, September 22, from 9 a.m. to noon. Please note the new location – at Atmore Farmers…
Taste of the South only 2 weeks away
Taste of the South is Thursday, September 20. There will four awards presented – Best Taste Commercial, Best Taste Amateur, Best Dessert, and Best Decorated Booth. Tickets are $10 for five tastes. You can get tickets from Chamber Ambassadors and Chamber board members. Stop by Atmore News and pick up your tickets from board member Myrna Monroe.
More added to Quickest Quack
If you’ve been keeping up with the upcoming (this Saturday, August 25) Quickest Quack on the Creek, you’ll be interested to know that more has been added. The Atmore Memorial VFW Auxiliary to Post 7016 is hosting Quickest Quack, a rubber duck race at Magnolia Branch Wildlife Reserve. Registration begins at 10 a.m., with “Quack Off” at 11 a.m. Auxiliary President Gayle Johnson said the route has been mapped out…
Golf tourney raises scholarship funds
Special to Atmore News The University of Alabama Escambia County Alumni is holding the 15th Annual Walter Lewis Golf Tournament Thursday, Sept. 13, at Juniper Creek Golf Course, the former Country Club of Brewton. This event raises money for local scholarship funds, benefitting students in Escambia County, Alabama exclusively. Since 1995, the Walter Lewis Endowed Scholarship Fund has awarded over $75,000 to outstanding area high school seniors to help pave…