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Members of Girl Scouts Troop 316 have earned the Bronze Award. Photo special to The Journal
Hoover Troop Members Earn Girl Scouts Award Several members of Girl Scout Troop 516 in Hoover have been awarded the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors. Jenna Richardson, a student at South Shades Crest Elementary School, and Brock’s Gap Intermediate School students Grace Richardson, Katherine Cohen, Madison Walker, Annaliese Chambers, Mykayla Mitchell, Sarah Niles Simmons, Emily Hagood and D’Anne Woodard are Bronze Award winners. The girls organized a book swap between two schools where children could exchange their used books for new ones. Leftover books were donated to charity. The award is for girls in grades 4-5 and recognizes that a Girl Scout Junior has gained the leadership and planning skills required to follow through with a project that makes a positive difference in the community.
Pelham UDC Honors Veterans at Luncheon The Pelham Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy honored veterans at its November luncheon at the Birmingham Country Club. Dr. Charles Baker presented the program on Matthew Fontaine Maury. Members brought items to be taken to the local veterans’ hospital for the chapter’s Thanksgiving project aimed at
being of service to veterans. Membership certificates were presented to Harriet Heacock and Johnie Gieger at the event. Other attending included Judy Anderson, Shila Bowron, Warren Cain, Eleanor Cheatham, Dottie Drake, Eleanor Hassinger, Cookie Kidd, Ann King, Nancy Lawrence, Jane Morris, Virginia Mylius, Murray Phillips, LaVerne Ramsey, Joyce Ratliff, Betty Bostwick Stockham, Virginia Tucker, Cordette Wall, Delores Wilkinson and Jennifer Zimmerman.
Mountain Brook Troop Has New Eagle Scout Robert Ezell, a member of Boy Scout Troop 63 in Mountain Brook, was presented with the Eagle Scout badge at a ceremony at Canterbury United Methodist Church in the fall. For his Eagle Scout Leadership Robert Ezell Project, Ezell made improvements to the playground at his church, South Highland Presbyterian. He designed and led the construction of a raised, covered sandbox, an herb garden and a wooden game. The
playground is used daily by the SHPC Child Development Center. As a member of Troop 63, Ezell has earned 24 merit badges and served as patrol leader, assistant patrol leader and scribe. He was also inducted into the Order of the Arrow. Ezell earned the Triple Crown of Scouting by backpacking at Philmont Ranch in New Mexico, canoeing at Northern Tier in the boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada, and sailing at Sea Base high adventure camp in the Bahamas. He also participated twice in Troop 63’s Leadership Training weekend at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. At Mountain Brook High School, Ezell is president of Future Business Leaders of America and is a member of the Ping Pong Club and Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society. He is also a reading tutor in the STAIR Literacy program and is active in his church. He is the son of Elizabeth and Mark Ezell. He is the grandson of Bess Owen Yeilding and the late Henry Yeilding of Birmingham and Mary and Carl Ezell of Bowling Green, Ky.
Pageant Contestants Reach Out to Others Contestants in the Miss Alabama and Miss Outstanding Teen pageants spent the holiday season helping others. On Dec. 21, the Miss Outstanding Teen contestants visited Children’s of Alabama to perform for patients at the hospital. They also delivered cards they had made to the sick children. The Miss Alabama and Miss Outstanding Teen contestants helped wrap gifts at Macy’s to benefit Grace’s House on Dec. 22. The outreach event was sponsored by Myrah Taylor, Miss Point Mallard Outstanding Teen 2013. At the Dec. 21 event, North Shelby’s Mi’a Callens and Kyra Callens encouraged shoppers to drop off letters to Santa at Macy’s to help the Make-AWish Foundation. Mi’a is Miss Patriot 2013, and Kyra is Miss Wiregrass Area’s Outstanding Teen 2013. Both are students in Oak Mountain schools.
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Boy Scouts Council Selects New Finance Committee The Greater Alabama Council of the Boy Scouts of America Vulcan District has announced its new finance committee members. The committee is made up of Birmingham-area professionals and community leaders. As its first act, the committee will help host the American Values Luncheon on March 7 at the BJCC. The new district David Dowd chairman of the finance committee is David Dowd, a partner at Burr Forman LLP. Others serving on the committee are Dean Burgess, senior vice president with Regions Financial Group, as finance chairman; Mike Turner, CEO of Freedom Court Reporting, Friends of Scouting chairman; Keith Sides, senior vice president with Regions Bank, chairman of the Family Campaign; Dave Goode, senior vice president for Iberia Bank, chairman of the American Values Luncheon; Richard Davis, director of
investments at Harbert Management Corporation, corporate tables chairman for the American Values Luncheon; and Phillip Corley, a partner at Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff and Brandt, LLC, chairman for individual table hosts for the American Values Luncheon. The Vulcan District is represented by its district committee and through Michael Wells, district executive.
Winners Crowned in Library Chess Tournament Winners were recently crowned in the Emmet O’Neal Library’s chess tournament in Mountain Brook. Balagee Govindan, the coach for the library’s Monday evening chess club, directed the tournament with the help of library staff member Marie Carlisle and parent volunteers. Five rounds of play produced a firstplace winner in each of four divisions. The kindergarten through third grade division winner was Sarvagna Velidandla. The K-6th grade division winner was Patrick Moulton. The K-8th grade division winner was Caesar Juaraz. Stephen Graveling won in the K-12th grade division. The chess club meets at the library on Mondays at 6 p.m. The next tournament will be in July.
The winners of the chess tournament at the Emmet O’Neal Library in Mountain Brook are, from left, front: Aniteja Ponna, Maxwell Wainwright, Harshil Mehta, Benjamin Kennedy and Annya Evans. Second row: Esther Graveling, Sarvagna Velidandla, Manasa Mantha, Labdhi Mehta, Riley Smith. Patrick Moulton and Kapil Nathan. Third row: Caesar Juaraz. Joseph Jun, Gregory Murray and David Fox. Back: Stephen Graveling and James Diaz. Photo special to The Journal
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