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Strikeout Leukemia Wiffle Ball Tournament May 22

Hewitt FBLA has partnered with Hannah O’Kelly in her efforts to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Hannah has been nominated by the LLS to participate in their Students of the Year program. Proceeds from the event will be donated to Hannah’s campaign. Spectators are welcome to watch and are also welcome to make donations to Hannah’s cause. Registration is open for anyone interested in participating. Teams of 7-10 can click here to register. The cost for registration is $100 per team and each participant on the championship-winning team will be awarded a gift card. The entry fee will be paid at the registration table beginning at 8:00 am at the fields the morning of the event but payment will be accepted prior to then.

Venue

Trussville United Soccer Club 11 Palm St Trussville, AL United States

Tribute to Pink Floyd May 28 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Free

Coming to Ferus Artisan Ales/ Trussville Entertainment District on Friday, May 28, 2021 at 7pm- Uncomfortably Numb, a Pink Floyd Tribute Band! The region’s newest Pink Floyd experience, is made up of touring-professional musicians, who all have a deep love for the music, the live theatricality, and the story behind one of the World’s most influential bands. The group recreates some of Floyd’s most challenging and underplayed gems, on top of playing many of the hits that made them what they are.

Venue

Ferus Artisan Ales

AJ Beavers and the Band at Ferus May 29 @ 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Free Local Musicians AJ Beavers, Macey Taylor, Mark Kimbrell, and Michael Shackelford will be taking the stage playing some of your favorite covers. This is a FREE EVENT, ALL AGES!

Venue

Ferus Artisan Ales

Stuffed Animal Workshop for Children at Trussville Public Library! June 8 @ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Free Tuesday, June 8th- Five sessions-10AM, 11AM, 12PM, 5PM, and 6PM)- Join us in the LBK Auditorium to hear a story, have a snack, and create a plush animal (think Build-A-Bear). Each session of 20 participants will be available by registration only. PreK-2nd grade.

Venue

Trussville Public Library

Beginner Fly-Fishing-

Adult program at

Trussville Public Library

June 8 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Free Charles Yeager from Turkey Creek Preserve will join us behind the library for this beginner session. He is a fly-fishing enthusiast and has previously taught at the Audubon Mountain Workshop. Space is limited, so registration is required.

Venue

Trussville Public Library

2nd Annual Leland Dockery Tribute Cruise-in planned at First Baptist Church Trussville

Photo courtesy of Ron Burkett.

From The Tribune staff reports

TRUSSVILLE — The 2nd Annual Leland Dockery Tribute Cruise-In will be held on Saturday, June 5, 2021, at First Baptist Church Trussville.

Longtime member of FBCT, Leland Dockery, passed away on March 27, 2019, at the age of 68, leaving behind a life filled with family, friends, community and country. Husband to wife Denise, father of two, grandfather of four, he was a veteran of the US Coast Guard, retired as owner of Dockery Electric, and served as chairman of the Trussville Utilities board.

Dockery enjoyed spending time at the family’s lake house and making local breakfast rounds with the guys. All his life he had a thing for cars. Leland loved his cars and had been tinkering with hot rods since he was in high school. He personally restored over 30 cars.

The Seasoned Adult Ministry at FBCT talked to him about having an auto show and he thought it was a great idea. They never imagined they would we would be having one without him so they are honoring him through it. They anticipate over 150 show-quality vehicles on the campus of First Baptist.

Pre-registration is available online at https://www. fbctrussville.org/2021/03/22/ leland-dockery-cruise-in/

Onsite vehicle registration begins at 8:30 a.m. the day of the show.

Classifications are favorite truck, favorite car, overall favorite vehicle, and a Mayor’s choice will be chosen. Registration and admission to the event are free!

A variety of music from 50s Carhop to Bluegrass to Contemporary and Mainstream Christian Music will be played at the event. They will several food trucks plus a live DJ and a host of door prizes donated by area merchants to be given out throughout the day. Two of Dockery’s cars will also be on display at the cruise-in. For more information about the Leland Dockery tribute cruise in visit fbctrussville. org or call the church office at 655-2403.

The cruise-in will be from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

By Erica Thomas, managing editor

TRUSSVILLE — After experiencing overcrowding at some voting locations during the 2020 Presidential election, the city of Trussville has added two new voting precincts for future elections.

The facilities that will host the new voting precincts are the Trussville Civic Center and Faith Community Fellowship. The precincts at City Hall, First Baptist Church Trussville and North Park Baptist Church will still be used, but lines have been drawn to change how many people will be at those facilities.

The city has nearly 20,000 registered voters. In 2020, people were forced to stand in line for hours, particularly at the Trussville City Hall location. The line grew all the way to the railroad crossing on South Chalkville Road at one point and local restaurants brought in free food for people waiting to cast their ballots.

Choat said after that heavy turnout, he, along with City Clerk Dan Weinrib and Jefferson County Commissioner Joe Knight took the issue to Jefferson County Registrar Barry Stephenson. The new lines were drawn for each voting precinct.

“The ones that are affected the most are the ones that have voted at First Baptist Church,” Choat said. “Some of those will now be voting at the Civic Center. Some of those who voted at City Hall will now be voting at First Baptist Church as well as Faith Community Church.”

Choat said City Hall had over 5,000 voters assigned to that location and now it will be just over 2,500.

Registered voters in Trussville will receive a new voter registration card clarifying where their voting precinct will be, before the next election.

Choat said he would’ve like to have seen a voting precinct put on the South Chalkville side of town, but there was not a location large enough that was ADA compliant.

Addresses of each location are:

Trussville City Hall

131 Main St, Trussville, AL 35173

Trussville Civic Center

5381 Trussville Clay Rd, Trussville, AL 35173

North Park

Baptist Church

5700 Deerfoot Pkwy, Trussville, AL 35173

First Baptist

Church Trussville

128 N Chalkville Rd, Trussville, AL 35173

Faith Community

Fellowship

7660 Gadsden Hwy, Trussville, AL 35173

Hewitt FBLA supporting Trussville teen’s campaign for LLS Student of the Year with benefit tournament

From The Tribune staff reports

TRUSSVILLE — Hewitt FBLA has partnered with Hannah O’Kelly in her efforts to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The club will host the Strikeout Leukemia Lymphoma Whiffle Ball Tournament on Saturday, May 22, 2021. The event will be held at the Trussville United Soccer Fields at 4601 Pump House Road.

O’Kelley was nominated by the LLS to participate in its Students of the Year program. She said the cause is dear to her heart because of her own personal experiences.

“It’s important to be because I’ve been directly impacted by the effects of cancer with my dad passing away when I was in fifth grade,” said O’Kelley.

O’Kelley’s father, Kevin O’Kelley, died in 2015 from kidney cancer. Since then, she has felt the need to strive to make a difference.

“Curing any kind of cancer is amazing but to hear that the research that goes into treating leukemia and lymphoma helps treatment and research for other cancers is what sold me on this,” she said.

Proceeds from the event will be donated to her campaign. The event is school-led but not a school event.

Spectators are welcome to watch and are also welcome to make donations to the cause.

Creek Bank Festival in Leeds attracts record crowds

From The Tribune staff reports

LEEDS — The Leeds

Area Chamber of Commerce announced the 2021 Creek

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Photo: Dona Bonnett.