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Young design team praised for metal train creations
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce officials and numerous guests not only unveiled the latest effort at local marketing and workforce development during a December 17 ceremony. They also praised the young men who created the trains as an example of how bright the community’s future looks. The adults joined a design team that consisted of eight Escambia County High School welding students, most of…
News, magazine holiday schedule
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher While we’re “rockin’ around the Christmas tree” and singing Auld Lang Syne, we’re also working around a scheduling nightmare. First, Atmore News. Our regular publish date is December 25. That week, we’ll publish the paper on Monday, December 23. We’ll do our home delivery and fill the racks and inside store sales that evening. The office will be closed Tuesday through Thursday, December 24-26. The…
Christmas parade!
Thousands lined the streets Saturday evening, December 14, for the annual Christmas parade. This year’s theme was Dr. Seuss. Atmore Community “Who-Spital” (at left) won first place and Poarch Facilities (at right) won the Judges Award for “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” The Lions Club float won second place and K-9 Kleaners was third.
Design Team
Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce officials, along with officials of several local business and industrial concerns, a state representative and a county commissioner unveiled Tuesday, December 17, the latest effort at local marketing and workforce development. The event, held at ECHS’s Hodnette Auditorium, was to display the first four of 17 steel trains that will eventually be displayed throughout the Atmore area, similar to the Pelicans in Paradise initiative in…