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October 2013
Village Living neighborly news & entertainment for Mountain Brook
Volume 4 | Issue 7 | October 2013
Guised as another
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Time to say
good bye Crestline Piggly Wiggly to close by Nov. 30
Put on your costume and come out to Crestline Village for the annual Mystics of Mountain Brook Parade on Halloween. More details inside. Photo by Ivey Jackson.
Community page B7
Parke amendments
Plans for the Lane Parke development in Mountain Brook Village have been tweaked to scale down in density. Find the latest updates on what the plan entails in this issue.
City page A10
INSIDE
By JEFF THOMPSON & INTISAR SERAAJ-SABREE Debbie Norris walks the aisles of the Crestline Piggly Wiggly with her granddaughter, Emme Smith. “Say, ‘I’m going to miss my doughnuts and cheese puffs at the Pig,’” she motions to Emme. “It would make me start crying at the thought that we won’t be able to have our morning doughnut and our cheese puffs in the buggy.” When the Pig opened, it became “our store,” Norris explains. She shopped there with her children and even brought them to trick-or-treat growing up. And now she does the same with her children’s children. Across the store, Charles Cooper is thinking about how he will be missing more than Halloween candy and cheese puffs when the store closes its doors for good next month.
See Pig | page A22
Farlow to draw from experience for this month’s Mid-Amateur Tournament
Shoppers and staff at Piggly Wiggly in Crestline Village are preparing for the store’s closing next month: Debbie Norris and granddaughter Emme Smith (top), Produce Manager Charles Cooper (above left), and Manager Frank Campbell (above right). Photos by Intisar Seraaj-Sabree.
Home-field advantage By JEFF THOMPSON
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Bo Farlow, who will play in the USGA Mid-Amateur Tournament at The Country Club of Birmingham this month, has been playing the Club’s courses since he was 6 years old. Photo by Jeff Thompson.
One Mountain Brook golfer doesn’t have to look far to find a role model. Bo Farlow is the son of Sam Farlow, one of the most accomplished golfers — both amateur and professional — from the state of Alabama. At 35, Sam won his first event and started on a path that would lead to winning the Alabama Amateur and Senior Amateur 10 times and playing in 40 tournaments on the PGA tour. And at 28 years old, Bo might have taken a few steps ahead. In August, Bo, a resident of Crestline Village, shot a 73 at Shoal Creek to put him in a playoff with other accomplished local golfers vying for a spot in the 2013 United States Mid-Amateur Championship, commonly called the Mid-Am. Not only did he survive the playoff, but he also took second place in the qualifier from a field of close to 100. The win earned him one of only 264 spots in the upcoming USGA event. The Mid-Am is scheduled to start Oct. 5 at The
See Mid-Am | page A23
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