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The oil spill affecting our Gulf Coast seems to be issue number one in the news media, and Birmingham residents with interests in that area know firsthand what a serious event this is. 280 Living spoke in June with three families in the North Shelby area who have either a business and/or home on the Gulf Coast. Jack and Timberly Harris of Inverness opened The Rib Shak in Perdido Key, Florida, in May of 2009. Their restaurant sits just across the Alabama line, diagonal to the world-famous Flora-Bama bar. The Harris’ previously worked full-time in the real estate business but made the decision to open the restaurant last year when the economy took it’s toil on the real estate market. “We both love that area and have a condo in Orange Beach. We didn’t know how well a BBQ restaurant would do in a
tense and angry. “I hear a lot of anger from the charter boat industry,” explains Harris. “Lists are compiled of area boats available for use in the oil spill search and clean-up because their business has basically collapsed.” BP, the owner of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig responsible for the oil spill, is present in the Gulf Coast area to take claims of lost revenue from area businesses and vacation rental owners. At the time of this article, Kelly Watkins is taking donations to help with the clean up the Harris’ had not gulf community, but we opened to a great pursued a claim, but know that may be reception last year. I live in Orange Beach in ahead of them. Richard and Gloria Schmohl of the summer to help run the business,” says Timberly Harris. “As of now we continue Meadow Brook are home-owners on to have some business from locals and we Dauphin Island. Their home, Grace Like are so grateful for that, but no one knows Rain, was rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina. what to expect. Our customer levels are The property on Dauphin Island has been nothing near what they would have been in Richard’s family for many years. The in a typical summer.” Harris says the mood from locals is both SEE OIL SPILL | pg 11
“The Girl With A Future” Faye Ireland Remembers the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II
By Jim Noles Sixty-five years ago, on July 4, 1945, President Harry S. Truman delivered a brief speech as his war-weary nation paused to celebrate the anniversary of its independence. “In this year of 1945,” the President declared, “we have pride in the combined might of this nation which has contributed signally to the defeat of the enemy in Europe. We have confidence that, under Providence, we may soon crush the enemy in the Pacific. We have humility for the guidance that has been given us of God in serving His will as a leader of freedom for the world.” But bearing the mantle of freedom’s leadership through the Second World War exacted a heavy toll. Birmingham’s Faye Belt Ireland, a member of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps during the Second World War, still attests to that. On December 7, 1941, Ireland was a freshman Chi Omega at the University of Alabama, attending a Sunday lunch at the Pi Kappa Alpha House. One of the Pikes turned on the radio for some music; instead, they heard the announcemnt of
Faye Ireland with her granddaughter Kitty who is studying to become a nurse
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. “We didn’t know what to think,” Ireland recalled, “but the world changed right there. We knew that, with Roosevelt supplying Great Britain, there might be a war with Germany, but Japan?” “It seems like everyone ran off to enlist,” she said. “But so many of those boys had what we called ‘white-coat syndrome’
– as soon as they saw the doctor walk in his white coat, their blood pressure rose and they failed their induction physical.” “But they had a solution for that,” she laughed. “They’d go home and go on a four-day diet of grapefruit and epsom salts. By the time they went back in for their physicals, they’d be so washed out and
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