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Smith Tractor hosts planter clinic
Frank Dowdle of the University of Florida Extension Program is shown giving a lecture on respiratory safety and handling of farming chemicals and pesticides during a planter clinic held at the Atmore Smith Tractor location Wednesday, January 15. The clinic welcomed more than 60 farmers from around the area and highlighted the latest John Deere line of planter machines and equipment. Attendees also enjoyed a free lunch from Smith Tractor.
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
MLK memorial service
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday ended Monday, January 20, with a memorial program that shifted between remembering King’s attempts to gain racial equality for people of color, to the slain Civil Rights icon’s dream of a “Beloved Community.” The ceremony, held at Emmanuel Faith Center, featured the standard pomp and circumstance. A cadre of cadets from Northview High School’s…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
MLK Unity Prayer Breakfast draws near-record crowd
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer This year’s Unity Prayer Breakfast, an event sponsored by Concerned Citizens of Atmore and held each year on the Saturday preceding the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, featured both a near-record crowd and a brisk pace that helped ward off the effects of a hearty breakfast. More than 65 people attended the January 18 event. They ranged from children and young adults to those…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Ivey visits Holman
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey visited Atmore last week. But those who weren’t at Atmore Municipal Airport between 10:30 and 10:33 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, missed it. The governor’s jet, scheduled to land “between 9:30 and 9:40 (a.m.),” took off late from Montgomery due to fog, encountered heavier fog the further south it flew, and finally eased onto a local runway at 10:28 a.m., an…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago