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Bub Gideons presents the charter to Lillie Johnson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore’s Yellow Hats Society, in existence for nearly 20 years, now has an offshoot under which the group will carry out its service projects, and the Atmore Lions Club now has an offshoot that strengthens the international organization’s presence in the Atmore area.The Atmore Yellow Hats Lions Club was formally chartered and its members pinned during a…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Atmore City Council took care of just one business item, the reappointment of Dr. Hugh Long to the city housing board, during the group’s Monday, March 13, meeting but also heard an update from city attorney Larry Wettermark on the progress of the city’s annexation plan.“He’s been on that housing board since it’s been a housing board,” said Mayor Jim Staff of the local…

Andy Andrews By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer “Remember, you can’t believe everything you think.”Noted author Andy Andrews, who has written 26 fiction and non-fiction books, used that statement as a theme as he delivered life lessons cloaked in humor to the March 9 gathering of United Bank’s Joint Advisory Committee members and their guests at Wind Creek’s main conference room.Andrews’s books contain a hodgepodge of stories about the choices individuals…