LOCAL SPORTS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Fri 4/5---Jerome Wisham, Christopher White, Michael Pope

Sat 4/6---Lauren Spiller, Ava Bellew, Harold Bryant, Jeanene Mullins, Cora Lee Weeks, Ben Hood

Sun 4/7---Emma Lawrence, Lindsey Peoples

Mon 4/8---Kelly Wooldridge, Bob Nelson, Gene Cayson, Esstrella Flores, Jall Gann, Austin Green, Maxine Hughes, Elle LaPorte, Andrew McClung, Brittany Randolph

Tue 4/9---Carolyn Pugh, Beth Roberts, Barb Prescott

Wed 4/10---Seth Spencer, Austin Berry, Brandon Bostick, Ian McNeill, James Whitehead, Ethan Lewis, Gerald Terrell

Thu 4/11---Kathy Alexander, Sarah Smith, Jake Burrell, Elizabeth Addison, Brooklynn Ellis, David Jones, Wade Rollins

Fri 4/12---Beth Pollard, Dorothy Rye, Martha Oelberg, Lynn Hughes, Garrett Prescott, John Enriquez, Collin Walker

Sat 4/13---Marcie Bishop, Nadine Earnest, Sonny Aldridge, Deborah Aldridge, Thomas Robertson Jr, Ronald Guin, Kaylee LaPorte, Ethan Sanderson, Darcy Tittle

Sun 4/14---Seth Knight, Machael A. Thomas-Stewart, Daniel Roberts, Nick Lolley, Ginny Walker, Melanie Hughes, Miller Harbor, Mackenzie Page, Destinee Pullen

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Fri 4/5---Billy & Wanda Head 

Sun 4/7---Allan & Shelley Blocker

Mon 4/8---Chad & Joanne Gunter, Joseph & Marcia Loveless

Tue 4/9---Payt & Heather Junkin

Thu 4/11---Gaylon & Jackie Harper

Fri 4/12---Brett & Tena Taylor

Sat 4/13---Ken & Meredith Moore

Sun 4/14---Tonny & Tammy Credille

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

AROUND NORTHWEST AL

 

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 Apr 6---The 4th Annual Wesley Smith Memorial "Fling For A Cure" disk golf tournament will be held April 6th at the Aggieland Disc Golf Course in Hamilton. Tee time is 10am. For info call 495-3450

Apr 6---There will be a yard sale at the First Baptist Church of Gu-Win Fellowship Hall, next to Discount Building Supply on Friday April 5th and Saturday April 6th, sponsored by the Ladies Auxillary

Apr 6---State Bank & Trust employees will have a benefit yard sale April 6th in the back of the Main Branch in Winfield 7am-noon. Proceeds go to the Relay for Life

Apr 6---The Highway 13 Yard Sale will be Saturday April 6th from Delmar to Natural Bridge. Concessions and rest rooms will be available at the Delmar Vol Fire Dept and the Natural Bridge Community Center...Yard sale spaces are $10...For info call 269-9208 or 269-5950

Apr 6---A yard sale will be held Saturday April 6th at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church from 7am-until

Apr 6---The Marion County Solid Waste District is hosting an Electronic Recycling event April 6th, 9am-2pm in Hamilton.  Everyone from the surrounding area is welcome to bring your old electronic items you want to get rid of...TV's, radios, computers, monitors, printers, copiers, fax machines, telephones, power backups, servers and so on...The only fee is $5 to discard a TV...The drop off place will be in South Hamilton, Turn beside Dinelli's onto Airport Road...Go 3/10 mile and turn on Pyle Drive...Go 1/10 mile to the CDL Testing site on left...For info call Barney at 921-2116

Apr 7---The Citizens Bank of Winfield's Relay for Life team will sponsor a Gospel Singing on Sunday April 7th at the Winfield First Baptist Church...The Page Trio along with a quartet made up of Tim Garrison, Justin Byrd, Tracy Estes, and Scott Duckworth will sing...Donations will be accepted with all proceeds benefiting the American Cancer Society Relay for Life

Apr 7---The annual meeting of the Old Union Cemetery Association will be held on Sunday afternoon, April 7th, at Old Union Church on Hwy 107 in the Wayside Community at 2pm

Apr 10---The East Winfield Church of Christ will have a Gospel Meeting April 7-10 with guest speaker Todd Clippard.   Sunday 7:30pm...Mon-Wed 7:00pm.  Everyone invited

Apr 11---The Winfield Elementary School will host their Spring Fling on Thursday April 11th 5-8pm. There will be a bouncy house, cake walk, games and fun and entertainment for the whole family. Light refreshments will be available. Admission is $1. This is a fundraiser for the school

Apr 12---The Marion County Relay for Life id drawing near. This year's event will be April 12th at the Hamilton Walking Track. The American Cancer Society theme is Dream BIG, Hope BIG, Relay BIG. Donations may also be made to the team of your choice at the event website by using your debit/credit cards.  The Relay begins with a survivor dinner hosted by Northwest Hospice of Alabama beginning at 4pm in the Hamilton High School cafeteria. Events at the tract will begin at 6pm with the survivor lap following opening comments and prayer. The Ceremony of Hope which honors and remembers those affected by cancer begins at 9pm. The lighting of the regular luminarias will be followed this year by the launching of special sky lanterns which are a new feature of this year's Ceremony of Hope.  Luminarias will be sold for $5 each and you may purchase them from any Relay team member or at the track prior to the Ceremony of Hope. Sky lantern luminarias may be purchased for $12 each.  For more info contact Sheila Hall Peoples at 468-1999 or Matt McCracken at 921-0951

Apr 13---Last year we raised over $5000 for St Jude Children's Research Hospital, and this year we want to raise even more!  It's the 2nd Annual Mechelle Henderson 24 to Curtain...Participants will be locked in the Winfield Elementary School at 7pm on Friday April 12th. They will then have only 24 hours to write and rehearse an all new 30 minute play. The curtain goes up at 7pm on April 13th for this once in a lifetime performance. Don't miss it! Admission is a $10 donation for adults, $5 for school age kids, and kiks under 5 get in free! Help us honor the memory of our dear friends Mechelle Howell Henderson and Kenneth Jackson by supporting 24 to Curtain and the kids at St Jude!

Apr 15---The AARP Tax Aid Volunteers are preparing taxes again this year at the Fayette Civic Center. This is a FREE service to the public. They are there every Friday 9am-3pm. You must bring a picture ID, social security cards for all family members, all tax related items and last year's tax return. For info call 932-6445

Apr 18---Winfield Elementary Kindergarten registration and clinic will be Thursday April 18th at the Elementary School auditorium at 8:00am...Students must be 5 years old on or before September 2, 2013 in order to attend kindergarten...Please bring: The child, Copy of the child's official birth certificate [not the one given to you as a souvenir from the hospital], Original blue immunization card, and A copy of Social Security card...Parents and the child should come to registration even if the child has not received all the immunizations so the child can go through the clinic and be enrolled for the next year...If you cannot come to registration, please call the school at 487-2305 to add the child's name to the list for next year.  For more info call 487-2305

Apr 20---Coming April 20th to the Pastime Theatre, a special one-night-only Command Performance of MAMA WON'T FLY, presented by Self Express Productions and the Pastime Theatre. If you missed the performances at Bevill State in Hamilton in March, here's your chance to catch a truly hilarious cross-country comedy of errors. Tickets on sale now!

Apr 25---The Lynn Church of God is hosting the Community Evangelistic Extravaganza on most Thursday evenings throughout March and April. Everyone is welcome to attend services t 7pm and intercessory prayer at 6:30pm. The church is located one block south of Traders and Farmers Bank in Lynn on Alabama Highway 5. Guest ministers and music are: April 4---Aaron Gann, Russellville Church of God Praise Team.....April 18---Jimmy Hamaker, Joppa Church of God Praise Team.....and April 25---Henry Quizenberry

Apr 27---The City of Hamilton will have a We Love Hamilton Clean Up Day Saturday April 27th [rain date Saturday May 4th]. All volunteers meet at the Hamilton United Methodist Church where there will be a FREE Hamilton Lions Club pancake breakfast from 6-8am. Cleanup will be held after breakfast.  Bring gloves, safety vests or hats, water and buckets...Garbage bags will be provided.  Also a citywide curbside cleanup with free curbside services will be April 29-May 3rd where residential customers in the city limits can have free pick-up of unwanted items around your home.  This includes household furniture, appliances, water heaters, mattresses, rolled up carpet, large toys, empty refrigerators, empty freezers, brush limb [less than 8 feet long and less that 6 inches in diameter]. For pickup or more information, call Amy at Hamilton City Hall at 921-2121.

May 2---The Hamilton Civitan Club members are pre-selling Vidalia onions. Purchase 10 pounds for $11 from any Civitan member or call Pat Duke at 921-7435. Onions will be picked up at First Naitonal Bank Main Office on May 2nd. Proceeds will be used to support local community projects

Jun 1---Mac McAnally will be in concert at the historic PastimeTheatre in Winfield on Saturday night June 1st at 7pm. Doors open at 6.  Mac McAnally is a song writer, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and all around musical sage. He was named the CMA Musician of the Year for the past five years in a row and has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has written songs including "Back Where I Come From", "All These Years", "Old Flame" and may more for Hank Williams Jr, Kenny Chesney, Alabama, Jimmy Buffett, Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, and others. He currently tours with Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. Tickets are $30. The show is sure to be a sell-out, so get your tickets early. Dinner will offered at 5pm for an additional $15. Dinner reservations are required. For info call 205-487-3002

TFN---The Hubbertville Lions Club is selling broom and mops as a fundraiser. See any Lions Club member in Hubbertville or stop by B&M Grocery.

TFN---The Community Action Partnership Head Start Program is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 school year. Head Start is open to children ages 3-5. Head Start is a Federal Program that provides quality services for children and families who qualify within Federal Income Guidelines at no cost to the parents. To apply parents must bring: Alabama Blue Slip [immunization card]...Birth Certificate...Social Security Cars...Verification of Income for 2011...Medicaid or Insurance Card. For info call 487-2314