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Volume Issue 2 2010 | October | 4, October | 2010
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October Features
Local businesses give back
Fall Home Food drive to benefit Oak Mountain Mission Feature By Kathryn Acree
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Representatives from area businesses partnering in a food drive to benefit Oak Mountain Missions Ministries are Marianne Langan of Gotcha Covered, Christine Bentley of SportClips, Kathy Mahon of Renaissance Consignment Boutique, Kristin Tidwell of Gotcha Covered, Terri Burnett of Cartridge World, Carol Walther of PakMail, Kelly Watkins of BarStools, Etc., Ann Odom of Gotcha Covered, and Regina Eisner of English Ivy.
envelope of valuable coupons to several businesses will be given as a “thank-you” to people that donate to the food drive. Oak Mountain Mission Ministries assistant director, Diane Cesario, confirms the need for a food drive to help the mission.
“We accept referrals from several agencies and local faith-support churches,” explains Cesario. “After a client is qualified for our program, they receive one bag of groceries
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Marianne Langan, owner of Lee Branch’s Gotcha Covered, and designer Ann Odom recently made a visit to Oak Mountain Mission Ministries on Highway 31 in Pelham. They were dropping off toiletry items at the non-profit organization that provides food, clothing, furniture and financial assistance to residents in need in Jefferson and Shelby counties. “We were given a quick tour of the facility,” says Langan. “The Assistant Director Diane Cesario shared with us how low their food pantry supply is now. They’ve been very affected by the current economy. Ann and I felt led to ask fellow business owners around us in the Lee Branch area to be part of a food drive to help this ministry.” Langan and Odom contacted other businesses and organized a food drive to be held through the end of the year. Several businesses agreed to be drop-off sites for the items in need. Langan will transport the donations to the Oak Mountain Mission each week or as often as needed. An
The former New Hope School. Photo courtesy of the Shelby County Historical Society.
By Kathryn Acree Editor’s Note: Because of the rapid growth of the Highway 280 corridor in the last couple of decades, 280 Living wanted to take a look back at the roots of our community. This is part of a series of articles featuring what life was like in our area not too many years ago. Many thanks to Neil Bailey, Bobby Joe Seales, and the Shelby County Historical Society.
The community of New Hope once included the area from Highway 280 at Cahaba Valley Road/Highway 119 and ran along “the valley” as it termed. According to articles from the Indian Springs Village newsletter, The Village Voice, New Hope became Indian Springs because so many communities in Alabama shared the name “New Hope.”
Today one church of the original community of New Hope retains its name, New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church now located off Double Oak Lane. In this same area was New Hope School, the only first through fifth grade school in the valley. It was located on Cahaba Valley Road near Caldwell Mill Road. Shoal Creek’s Neil Bailey attended New Hope School in the mid 1950’s. He was born in the valley in a house off Cahaba Valley Road at County Road 14. At that time, after students completed fifth grade at New Hope, they attended school at a junior high, sixth through ninth grade, in Helena and on to high school at Thompson in Alabaster. To get to these schools each day, a bus transported students from a stop in the Pelham area. Bailey remembers a lot of walks up and down the Cahaba Valley Road. “There were times, even in the 1960’s, when I walked from Highway 31 down Cahaba Valley Road to my home and a car wouldn’t pass me,” says Bailey. Growing up in New Hope, Bailey had a variety of jobs to earn a little extra income as a boy. “One of the first jobs I had was when I was nine years old and I picked blackberries with my brother,” explains Bailey, with a
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