Homewood Life, November/December 2017

SHADES CAHABA MAKERSPACE • ASHLEY MCCULLARS’ WATERCOLORS • DAWSON KIDS CONNECTION

A BRIEF HISTORY OF

ROSEDALE

TEAM AIDAN GOING FOR GOLD AT THE DWARF OLYMPICS

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FEATURES 48

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROSEDALE Studying the history of Rosedale through records can only take you so far. To understand the real beauty of the neighborhood, you have to know the people who live there.

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TEAM AIDAN Thanks to one driven coach, a determined mother and tons of community support, Aidan Cockrell lived his dream of playing at the World Dwarf Games. His life hasn’t been the same since.

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MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE

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Dawson’s Kids Connection ministry provides for more than just physical needs.

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arts & culture

17 Coaxing the Work Within: The Watercolors of Ashley McCullars 22 Read This Book: Charles Ghigna’s Favorite New Picture Books

schools & sports

23 Learning by Discovery: The Makerspace at Shades Cahaba 28 Five Questions For: HHS Basketball Forward Logan Padgett

food

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29 See You at Savage’s: Margaret Scott on Sweet Treats 35 Cocktail: Octane’s Ole May’s 36 Five Questions For: Ash Chef and Owner Mark Driskill

home

in every issue 6 Contributors 7 From the Editor 8 HomewoodLife.com 9 #HomewoodLife 10 The Question 11 The Guide 72 Chamber Connections 74 Out & About 86 Marketplace 88 My Homewood

& style

37 The House on the Hill: The Doroughs’ Farmhouse Renovation 46 In Style: Fa La La Layers for the Season

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contributors EDITORIAL

Graham Brooks Stephen Dawkins Alec Etheredge Briana Harris Amalia Kortright Madoline Markham Keith McCoy Emily Sparacino Neal Wagner

Jake Collins, Writer Jake grew up on Roxbury Road in Mayfair and graduated from Homewood High School in 2001. He teaches 10th grade US History at Mountain Brook High School, where he also coaches varsity football and girls’ soccer. When he’s not teaching and coaching, Jake spends time with his wife, Katy, daughter Emily Ruth, and their beloved dog, Colonel Frederick Hambright.

CONTRIBUTORS Scott Butler Kayley Coggins Jake Collins Lindsey Culver Ashley Kappel Suzanne Mills Melanie Peeples Emma Simmons Megan Tsang Lauren Ustad Sarah Waller

DESIGN

Connor Bucy Jamie Dawkins Kate Sullivan

MARKETING

Kristy Brown Kari George Rachel Henderson Daniel Holmes Rhett McCreight Kim McCulla Ashley Murphy Ashley Petrus Bayleigh Thompson Kerrie Thompson

ADMINISTRATION Hailey Dolbare Mary Jo Eskridge Katie Krouse Katie McDowell Stacey Meadows Tim Prince

Suzanne Mills, Writer For the past 17 years, Suzanne has loved living all over the Homewood area. After calling six different Homewood places home, she’s settled (for now!) with her husband, Kirk, and their three sons, 10-year-old twins Luke and Paul, and 5-year-old Sam. A former assistant editor at Southern Living, she now enjoys freelancing, volunteer work and almost anything that holds the potential for fun with her family.

Melanie Peeples, Writer When Melanie first moved to Homewood 10 years ago, she couldn’t figure out why so many people were wearing shirts that said “Homewood” on them. Three years later she wanted to know where she could find one, having fallen deeply in love with the town people compare to living in a Norman Rockwell painting. Before becoming a mostly full-time mom, she covered the South for NPR, writing about everything from the trial of the country’s first school shooter to the 85th anniversary of the MoonPie. She loves travelling to new places (and old places, too) and also coming home.

Sarah Waller, Writer Sarah first moved to Homewood eight years ago to attend Samford University and has remained ever since. Though her deepest passion lies in writing, Sarah enjoys many creative endeavors including painting and sewing. She considers herself lucky to live in Homewood and be within walking distance of so many of her favorite things, because let’s face it, a Steel City Pop is always a good idea. You can find her on Instagram @smwaller.

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ON THE COVER

Sweet on Savage’s

Jim Scott and now his daughter, Margaret, have maintained the “vintage old-style scratch bakery” style and charm at the 18th Street bakery for decades.

Photo by Lindsey Culver Design by Kate Sullivan

On the first day of November, I’ll search high and low for a parking spot on 18th Street to pick up a very special package. Each year my mom has a very specific birthday request: white cake, chocolate frosting from Savage’s and only Savage’s. And picking it up always requires I also get a bear claw or some treat for the moment, in her honor of course. Walking in brings to mind the Barbie cake I had for my second-grade birthday party at the old ice skating rink in West Homewood, and the combination boating and golf course scene my mom dreamed up for my brother’s birthday one year. In fact, in calling up my mom to help me remember the cake designs she’s ordered over the years, always resulting in just the right cake for the occasion, she reminds me that she must have a Savage’s cake for her birthday because the chocolate frosting reminds her of some she had as a kid—as if I’d forget the emphasis she put on it year after year. No doubt, smiley face cookies, petit fours and the like bring to mind special moments you’ve shared with loved ones over the years, too.

Nostalgia—it’s one reason I’m excited the pages that lie ahead feature photos and text to tell the Savage’s story. But that’s just one piece of the puzzle that came together to make this issue as full of Homewood love as it could be. Here are a few of my favorite moments from behind the scenes: 1. Touring the Shades Cahaba Makerspace. As Assistant Principal Wendy Story showed me how students literally build video games with the contents in a box, I wanted to go back to elementary school—and I never even liked science. See page 23.

2. Getting to sift through the hundreds of photos from the Dwarf Olympics Aidan Cockrell’s mom, Alecia, shared with me and get a taste of what a mountaintop of an experience it was. See page 54.

3. Hearing about how Jake Collins’ research on Rosedale is not as much about facts in a book than the people he now calls friends and grandparents who shared their life stories with him. See page 48.

4. Learning the back story of Kelly and Scott Dorough’s house and picturing how it fills with people from the community so often. See page 37.

Without further ado, give this issue a read, and let me know what you think. I always love to hear your feedback and ideas for future issues.

madoline.markham@homewoodlife.com

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We love our neighbors! Tonight we checked Neighborhood Cookout off the #ReidingerSummerFun2017 list, but the best part was that it was thrown together this morning by several guys on the street…and almost the entire neighborhood showed up! We count it as one of our family’s greatest blessings to live alongside and raise our family with these great friends and neighbors!

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“ ” THE QUESTION

If you could (hypothetically) only eat one more meal in Homewood, what would it be?

Salem’s Trashcan. Hash browns piled with onions, peppers and tomatoes sprinkled with cheese and topped with hand-made sausage. Throw a lid on it (two eggs) and splash it with some Texas Pete.

- Jonathan Nowak

The delicious Kadoma Tuna roll & River Rock Kobe at Jinsei Sushi! Now my mouth is watering and I’m craving it.

Yum! And a red velvet baby bite (or two) from Pastry Art Bake Shoppe for dessert.

- Laura Feld

Not on the menu anymore, but Little Donkey will still make you the Queso Fundido appetizer, their Fried Chicken, with a Donkeys Daddy or Tequila Mocking Bird. That’s one of our favs!

- Lauren Goessling

At Gianmarco’s, start with an fioche, pasta “purses” filled with gorgonzola and pears.

Next would be pistachiocrusted goat cheese on arugula, a ribeye with macaroni and cheese and Brussels sprouts, and zabaione, a Marsala custard.

- Damaris Garcia Hamilton

Sam’s Super Sandwich hotdog you can count on.

Treated as if family every time you visit. Order always right.

Big supporter of all of Homewood people. Can’t say enough.

Forget the meal and give me the half baked cookie at Urban Cookhouse. In fact, give me two!

The Los Valedores taco truck on the corner of Oxmoor and Greensprings. The sauces, a ranchero and a cilantro Serrano crema, are an unusual and delicious surprise. My favorite tacos are chorizo, chicken and steak.

Right now I’m craving Sam’s Deli cheeseburger and onion rings. Something about the seasoning on that burger and the melty cheese. It is so messy but oh so good. My stomach is growling!

- Barry Copeland

- Rae Brewton

- Gary Griffin Brown

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- Felicia Rains Noerager

THE GUIDE

THE NUTCRACKER DEC. 8-10, 15-17 Friday & Saturday 7:30 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday 2:30 p.m Samford University Wright Center Did you know only eight companies in the world are licensed by The Balanchine Trust to perform the George Balanchine version of The Nutcracker, and one of them is the Alabama Ballet? Come get transported to the lands of sugar plum fairies and toy soldiers with Tchaikovsky melodies.

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THE GUIDE WHAT TO DO IN HOMEWOOD NOV. 2

Holiday Open House 5:30-8:30 P.M. Downtown Homewood

Get a head start on holiday shopping season at this annual Homewood Chamber of Commerce event.

Peruse your favorite downtown Homewood shops and enjoy refreshments, hors d’oeuvres, a trolley, shopping discounts and more.

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Escape Under the Stars

AN EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE 5 -9 P.M. Shops of Edgewood Find in-store specials all day at participating merchants, and 5-9 p.m. find games for kids/ family, live music and giveaways at the Oxmoor Road and Broadway intersection. Plus, Coach Steve Sills will be the emcee and DJ for the night.

NOV. 5

TUTUS & BREWS 3-5 P.M. Red Hills Brewery

Catch live music by Automatic Slim plus games, food and beer—all with no admission price. All the fun benefits The Dance Foundation’s educational outreach to more than 12,00 students each week at 30 sites throughout metro Birmingham during the school year.

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NOV. 1 Assistance League of Birmingham Little Black Dress Luncheon & Fashion Show 11 a.m.

NOV. 3 Literary Libations With Bartender and Writer Clair McLafferty Ages 21 and Up, $10 Tickets Homewood Public Library 6:30 p.m.

NOV. 4 Book Signing: Mr. Brown, Will You Please Open the Door?

Homewood Public Library 11 a.m.

NOV. 5 Friends of the Homewood Public Library $5 Bag Sale 2-4:30 p.m.

Friends Bookstore (Lower Level) NOV. 9 James Spann @ My Library Family Event About the Weather Homewood Public Library 7:15 p.m.

NOV. 10 Veterans Day Homewood City Schools Closed NOV. 15 Homewood Chamber Luncheon Featuring Dave Gray, President and CEO of Daxko 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

The Club NOV. 15 Teen Sugar Scrubs!

Registration Required Homewood Public Library 4 p.m.

NOV. 15 Book Signing: Author of The Shadow Tiger: Billy McDonald, Wingman to Chennault Homewood Public Library/Adults 1:30 p.m.

THE GUIDE NOV. 16 David DiBenedetto - S Is for Southern: A Guide to the South, from Absinthe to Zydeco Alabama Booksmith 5 p.m.

NOV. 17 Fall Drama Show Homewood High School 6 p.m.

NOV. 22 Ann Rutland Book Signing Homewood Public Library 10:30 a.m.

NOV. 20-24 Homewood City Schools Closed Thanksgiving DEC. 2 First Times Book Signing Author Charles Ghigna Little Professor Book Center 10 a.m.

DEC. 2 Miss Heritage Homewood High School 7 p.m.

DEC. 7

Legacy League Christmas Home Tour

10 A.M.–2 P.M. and 4-8 P.M.

Tour homes in all their festive glory—plus festive hors d’oeuvres and a holiday gift market at the Samford president’s home. Proceeds benefit the Legacy League’s scholarships to Samford University for students with significant financial need and challenging circumstances. For tickets visit samford.edu/legacyleague/.

DEC. 7 First Thursday Art Stroll Downtown Homewood 5-8 p.m.

DEC. 7 Welcome to Whowood Whos-Themed Family Night Homewood Public Library 6:30 p.m.

DEC. 15 Homewood City Schools First Semester Ends DEC. 16 Have A Merry Star Wars!

Homewood Public Library 10:30 a.m.

DEC. 19 Homewood Chamber Luncheon & Annual Meeting 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

The Club

DEC. 5

LIGHTING OF THE STAR & DOWNTOWN HOMEWOOD CHRISTMAS PARADE

6:30 P.M. Downtown Homewood

PHOTO BY SCOTT BUTLER

You can’t get much more Homewood than the lighting of the 18th Street star, and the annual parade is the same night to boot. After the parade ends at City Hall Plaza, a special visitor in a big red suit will arrive, the Homewood High School Band will play and the Christmas tree will be lit.

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THE GUIDE AROUND TOWN DEC. 1

NOV. 3-12 The Taming of the Shrew Virginia Samford Theatre

6:30 p.m.

NOV. 4-5 Moss Rock Festival Moss Rock Preserve, Hoover Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Jingle All the Way

Homewood Public Library What are the holidays without music? Join storyteller Dolores Hydock and musical master Bobby Horton as they mix traditional carols, jolly songs and sweet stories on stage. The show includes a light hors d’oeuvres buffet starting at 6:30 p.m., with the program beginning at 7:30 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 and must be purchased in advance at homewoodpubliclibrary.org or at the Adult Services Desk.

NOV. 4-5 Christmas Village Festival BJCC NOV. 5 Emmylou Harris Alys Stephens Center 7 p.m.

NOV. 10 Dionne Warwick Alys Stephens Center 8 p.m.

NOV. 11 National Veterans Day Parade Downtown Birmingham 1:30 p.m.

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GRATEFUL DADS FALL BAND JAM 6 P.M. Good People Brewing

Come out to see Homewood dads jam away over some local brews and bites. Plus, it all benefits the Homewood City Schools Foundation. Get your tickets on eventbright. com and get ready to rock “DadHead” style.

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SHRED IT!

10 A.M.-2 P.M. Homewood Public Library Back Parking Lot You know all those documents you have been meaning to shred? Here’s your chance to get them recycled—and out of your house. Secure Destruction’s shredding truck will destroy sensitive documents and files (do not bring any metal or plastic), and Protec Recycling will recycle old electronics, batteries, appliances, ink cartridges and other items—but no TVs or monitors.

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NOV. 13 UAB Gospel Choir Alys Stephens Center NOV. 15-18 Market Noel Presented by the Junior League of Birmingham The Finley Center Hoover Metropolitan Complex NOV. 16-19 STARS: A Charlie Brown Christmas Virginia Samford Theatre NOV. 17 Illusionist Kevin Spence Alys Stephens Center NOV. 17-19 Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party!

BJCC NOV. 18-19 Dolores Hydock Silence: The Adventure of a Medieval Warrior Woman

THE GUIDE Red Mountain Theatre Company Cabaret Theatre NOV. 19 Magic City Half Marathon, 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run Regions Field NOV. 19 Handel’s Messiah Riverchase United Methodist Church NOV. 23 Sam Lapidus Montclair Run Levite Jewish Community Center

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

Homewood for the Holidays Photography Exhibit Rosewood Hall

Stop by the community gallery in city hall to see Homewood decked out in holiday cheer over the years—with images on display from The Homewood Chamber of Commerce, The Homewood Star, Homewood High School band directors and Scott Butler, LAH Realty. Next up in the Homewood Arts Council gallery: student work from Homewood City Schools.

NOV. 27 The Hip-Hop Nutcracker Alabama Theatre NOV. 29 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer The Musical BJCC DEC. 1-17 Holiday Spectacular Red Mountain Theatre Company DEC. 1-23?

Mountain Brook Art Association Holiday Show The Summit DEC. 2, 9-10, 16 Birmingham Children’s Theatre Presents: Cinderella BJCC Theatre DEC. 1 Christmas with Act of Congress & Alabama Symphony Orchestra Samford University Wright Center 7 p.m.

DEC. 3 Chris Tomlin Christmas Alabama Theatre DEC. 4 Christmas at the Alys Alys Stephens Center DEC. 4 Christmas at the Alys Alys Stephens Center

PHOTO BY SCOTT BUTLER

DEC. 26-JAN. 13

HOMEWOOD WISHING TREE In Front of the Trak Shack

Ring in the New Year the Homewood way. Share your wishes, hopes and prayers for our community, friends and family for on the Wishing Tree in front of the Trak Shak on “The Curve” on 18th Street. You’ll find tags, yarn and Sharpies on site, or you can bring one premade.

Share your news! Email submissions to mm@homewoodlife.com to be considered for our next issue.

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ARTS

COAXING THE WORK WITHIN

Edgewood Elementary’s Mrs. McCullars moonlights with watercolors in hand.

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On a gorgeous, sunny afternoon in Homewood, Ashley McCullars dips her paintbrush into a bowl of water, then onto a tiny blob of paint, dabbing it back and forth, until she finds just the right shade of pink she’s looking for.

Leaning over her kitchen island, she lets the fine bristles brush a large sheet of watercolor paper, and almost by magic, the delicate petals of a pink peony begin to appear.

The strokes are so subtle, it’s like the flower was always there, just waiting for her to coax it out.

You could say the same thing for her as an artist. She did not grow up taking painting or art classes. She was more into dancing. She’s never even taken a class as an adult, yet her paintings hang in houses from Homewood’s 18th Street to the Gulf Coast.

“My dad is artistic. He’s a graphic artist, and I grew up watching him,” she says. So, a few years ago she bought a travel kit of watercolor paint and started playing around

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with it. “I watched a couple videos,” she says.

Like a lot of people, Ashley made her first attempts at painting after she and her husband, Ben, bought their first house and couldn’t afford to buy artwork. But unlike a lot of other people, her paintings were good.

Friends noticed, and eventually, she invited two friends over for a girls’ night in. The three of them painted, laughed and sipped a little wine, and at the end of the night, her friends were amazed. “You have got to do this more!” they coaxed. They told her people would pay money for her work. Even then, it took a couple of girlfriends from college to urge her to specifically call the Market at Pepper Place and see if she could set up a booth there. “She let me in,” Ashley says, “and it’s been three years.”

Not only did her paintings sell, but people started asking her if she would do commissioned paintings. She was stunned, but said, “Sure!”

Ashley McCullars paints in her Homewood home.

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“When her artwork turned out a little better than her students’, Ashley heard one explain, ‘Well, yeah, because her name is “McCOLORS.”’”

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She squeezes her painting in between working as a first-grade teacher at Edgewood Elementary, and raising her own two children. Ren, who is 5, walks into the kitchen on cue. He’s hungry. And he wants a snack. “Pizza,” he says, or potato chips. He holds up a bag of M&M’s, optimistically. No dice.

He settles for Goldfish, before wandering off, giving Ashley the opportunity to start another peony.

I ask how she knows when a painting is done.

She doesn’t, always. “I’m just painting until it looks nice,” she says. Riley, who’s in the third grade, comes home from her piano lesson and heads upstairs.

“I usually wait ‘til they’re in bed,” she says. “I can’t be still. I’m a piddler.” So, at night when her husband is watching TV, she paints, sitting on the couch in the living room. “That way we can be in the same room together.”

Her husband, a good artist in his own right, according to Ashley, admits to being amazed.

Especially when acquaintances of his realize his wife is the artist of the work they’re talking about.

“Everyone’s impressed,” he says.

Even, it turns out, Ashley’s students. They were doing a project together the other day when Ashley overheard one student tell another, “You know, Miss McCullars is a REAL artist!”

And when her artwork turned out a little better than her students’, she heard one explain, “Well, yeah, because her name is ‘McCOLORS.’” Aside from Pepper Place, you can see Ashley’s work on Instagram @ashleymccullarsart and also at Four Seasons Gallery in downtown Homewood.

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READ THIS BOOK

Charles Ghigna, also known as Father Goose, has written more than 100 books and more than 5,000 poems from his “tree house” in his Homewood house. His poetry has been published in the The New Yorker, The Village Voice and The New York Times, as well as in Highlights and Cricket. He’s also taught creative writing at colleges and high schools and speaks and reads poetry throughout the world.

Here he shares his new favorite picture books for kids, parents, teachers, librarians—everyone!

New Picture Books for Your Shelf Recommendations from

Charles Ghigna Children’s Author & Poet

National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry

Edited by J. Patrick Lewis Poems by Robert Frost to Billy Collins accompany stunning nature photos by National Geographic photographers. Open the book and experience the beauty and power of nature—and poetry.

World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art

Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins This volume features the poems of 18 contemporary poets who were inspired by works of art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including paintings by Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer.

Read! Read! Read!

Written by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Illustrated by Ryan O’Rourke I love picture books of poems, especially picture books of poems about reading! The 23 in the book celebrate how reading opens minds and allows you to explore the whole world, accompanied by artwork that captures the imagination and playfulness of their words.

The Knowing Book

Written by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and Illustrated by Matthew Cordell Who can resist a book that begins, “Open a door … Follow a trail … And before you forget, look up …”?

Experience the wonder of the world with a young rabbit whose path takes him on a journey of a lifetime.

Flashlight Night

Written by Matt Forrest Esenwine and Illustrated by Fred Koehler There’s so much to love about this book. It’s an enchanting story with shadowy illustrations about three kids and a flashlight on a nighttime backyard adventure. Its heroes encounter spooky woods, a fearsome tiger, a time-forgotten tomb, an Egyptian god, a sword-fighting pirate and a giant squid all beyond their tree house.

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SCHOOL

&SPORTS

LEARNING BY DISCOVERY

The makerspace at Shades Cahaba is filled with the buzz of circuits and coding games, tinkering and experimentation—and it’s a whole lot of fun.

BY MADOLINE MARKHAM PHOTOS BY LINDSEY CULVER

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“The makerspace movement came from getting back to the tinkering and playful mind-set of learning by discovery. It exposes them to more future technologies to prepare them for the world they will enter into because it’s not a world we have ever prepared for.”

–Wendy Story

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There’s one room at Shades Cahaba Elementary that students beg to go in. And when they walk past it, they peek in, always wanting to know what is going on.

Inside, a Lego wall allows kids to build out structures vertically, often famous buildings they replicate from idea cards. On a peg board in the back, screwdrivers and hammers hang ready for projects. Green screens come down to film the school’s weekly news broadcast.

Brainstorming happens on tables, cabinets and boards with dry erase markers. Stackable stools are moved out of the way for group work on floors. Even benches for seating look like a keyboard “delete” button. Everything about the makerspace and its contents is designed for learning, for releasing ideas, for play, for experimentation—especially for technology, science, mathematics and art.

“The makerspace movement came from getting back to the tinkering and playful mind-set of learning by discovery,” assistant principal Wendy Story says. “It exposes them to more future technologies to prepare them for the world they will enter into because it’s not a world we have ever prepared for.”

But what the kids remember most is that it’s fun.

“There’s a buzz in this room,” Wendy says. “Kids are enthralled and engaged, sitting on the floor all around and talking. And they’re like, ‘Ms. Story, this is so cool.

Come see it!’ It’s fun for them to come in here and just become invigorated by their learning.”

The makerspace all started with a grant from the Homewood City Schools Foundation written by the school’s technology specialist at the time, Emily Miller.

That next summer in 2015 Emily had to move for her husband’s job, but Wendy was starting her first year as assistant principal and had started a makerspace in her former school district. So she and the new technology specialist spent a semester researching and touring other school’s spaces.

From there they started to transform the former broadcast studio and equipment storage room with their vision. Every surface in the room that could would be writeable. Any furniture that could moveable would be moveable. The colors, selected based on research, would be invigorating. It would be filled with tools for learning— including a new 3-D printer the grant funded.

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Rebecca Smith’s fourth-grade class uses tools available in the makerspace.

wanted to come to learn,” Wendy says. “When kids come in now and they are doing robotics and we’re doing ramps in third grade with their science standards, we can push things out of the way and they can go to town, or if they need the tables for Makey Makey [circuits] and doing soft circuits, they can use the tables.”

An additional foundation grant given in a later school year expanded the makerspace offerings to provide more robotics tools for grades K-2, more tools to use games to teach coding concepts, and DIY books for self-guided learning for teachers and students.

The space also exposes teachers to new tools and ideas.

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Some have already added their own mini makerspaces in their classrooms and added flexible seating as a result. The school is additionally planning to soon have the makerspace room open for students to work on or start independent projects in the mornings before school.

Teachers are always thinking of new ideas for the space with the help of Emily Dunleavy, the school’s technology coordinator. Last year as a second-grade teacher, Emily’s class collaborated with another class to build the Mayflower out of tin foil out cut in certain dimensions. The goal was to see how many pennies each ship could hold when placed in a tub of water. Thanks to popsicle reinforcements inside a tin

foil structure, one held 75 pennies. “I felt like my kids were more creative when they came into this space,” Emily recalls.

The uses for the space are endless. After reading The Three Little Pigs, first graders build structures with popsicle sticks, straw, cardboard, tooth picks and construction paper to withstand the test of “wind” from a hair dryer. Third graders program and code robotic toys called Sphero balls and measure its speed down ramps. Fourth graders create “squishy circuits” using bananas and gummy bears, and this year can use new liquid Bare Conductive electrical paint to do so too.

Coding comes to life in fun ways with video game and maze design tools and with board games that teach its basics.

With one, students design game elements on a pixilation grid with blue for water, green for land, yellow for coins, etc. and then use an iPad to scan the board and then play their game.

Want to know more about the space? Just ask a Shades Cahaba student. Fifth grader Banks Aycock remembers connecting circuits to create a piano snake where they could tap on different parts and they would make noises. “[The room] opens up my mind to different things I can do,” he says. His classmate Caroline Crigger recalls making animal shelters out of cardboard but not before first sketching their design with Expo markers and finding snap circuits to use to make furniture.

Even just walking in the room makes them feel excited and happy, they say. “It’s a very imaginative space,” Wendy says. “You can have fun and let your imagination go wild.”

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Logan Padgett

HHS Basketball Forward PHOTO BY SCOTT BUTLER

When Logan Padgett moved to Homewood in sixth grade, he was far from a newcomer to the game of basketball. He remembers going to Houston Rockets games when his dad, Scott, played on the team and seeing Yao Ming, one of his favorites, on the court. “I grew up loving [basketball], and it hasn’t gone away,” the Homewood High School junior says.

“When the ball goes in the net, you get a certain thrill. It’s hard to explain.” We talked with Logan about what we’ll see this season as the varsity boys kick off their season Nov. 7.

What were some highlights of last season?

We had a pretty good team, but we fell pretty short. This year we have a more tight locker room where we are focusing on the same thing, not just individuals.

Everyone on the team I know I can count on to do their job now if I get my job done.

We know, “I’ve got your back, you’ve got my back.”

doing. Freshman Trey Roberson will be a key ball player for us this year. Larkin Williams, our quarterback now, will be our point guard, so between me and him we will be two of our leading scorers hopefully.

Jack Goldasich our shooting guard can really shoot it.

wants it bad for me, but I think it’s because he knows I want it bad for myself.

How has your game evolved?

I am jumping higher, but that’s because I am working hard in the weight room. You put the work in, you’re going to get it out.

My athleticism is one of my stronger parts Your dad Scott Padgett was a NCAA of my game now. We are in the weight national champion at Kentucky and room every other day, and the days we are NBA first-round draft pick before not we’re running hills. We’re always What will we see going into this season? coaching (he’s now head basketball working on our game.

It’s definitely going to be more team coach at Samford). What is and was it What is the school spirit like at basketball. There aren’t as many scorers as like having a coach for a dad?

It’s nice because he always corrected me Homewood? we had before, so we need people to step If you support the other sports, they will up. Hopefully I will be one of those. It and helped me through mistakes he’s eventually come back and support you. I do made to get better at things he’s done should be fun to watch because we will be the lettermen for the volleyball team, and I because he’s been there.

I want to be where a defensive-minded team for sure. We only have two returning starters and five he’s been, so he knows what it takes to get try to go to all the football games.. We have returning players. It should be a good there. There are certain things that can a pretty good fan base for basketball. It’s season if we do what we are capable of move along now. He pushes hard and he exciting, and it gets you going.

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FOOD

SEE YOU AT SAVAGE’S What would Homewood be without their celebratory cakes and cookies in all shapes and sizes? Much less sweet, that’s for sure.

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Ben Cook has worked with Savage’s and Jim Scott for more than 33 years. Here he rolls out dough in the bakery space below Sikes Shoes that connects to Savage’s storefront through a tunnel under Jack n Jill. The space was previously a bar called the Low and Brow, and people still drive by the back of the bakery looking for what was once the Low and Brow entrance.

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Some parts of Homewood have changed in the past 78 years. There’s no longer a movie theatre in downtown, the home size has certainly grown, and many of the shops that once lined 18th street have changed hands more than a few times. One thing hasn’t changed—Savage’s Bakery. When you walk in the door, you can picture schoolchildren from decades past ordering the same treats that your children and grandchildren pick out now to celebrate

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a first day of school, a team victory, or getting a new pair of shoes next door.

It’s not that Savage’s is stuck in the past—it’s that the bakery recognizes what it means to be a fixture in the community.

“Savage’s is a place where people come and enjoy their favorite cookie or treat and see a familiar face,” says Margaret Scott, who moved back to Homewood to work at the bakery her family owns.

“It’s similar to ‘See you at the Pig.’ Around the holidays we hear, ‘See you at Savage’s!’” Margaret has worked closely with her family, being mindful of loyal customers, to ensure that Savage’s, which has undergone a few changes in recent months, maintains its “vintage old-style scratch bakery” style and charm. An updated website, online ordering and shipping make holiday prep easier for the regulars who visit for coveted party appetizers

and celebratory cakes without taking away from the classic style of the bakery.

While Margaret works with her family to add new ideas, like the party room they added for cookie decorating gatherings nearly two years ago, she’s always aware of how much Savage’s classic aesthetic lends to its lasting popularity and charm. “I grew up in the bakery, working holidays bagging Butterflake Rolls,” she says.

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FOOD & DRINK As the youngest of three, Margaret never knew a time her family didn’t own the bakery—her father purchased it before she was born. “Don’t tell my parents…but I would always sneak a peanut butter cookie (or two) since there were cookies literally everywhere. So at a young age, I was already focusing on quality control!”

These days, Savage’s continues to be a gathering place in the community, with much of the business

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coming from regular customers ordering their favorite items. In a growing world of convenience and pre-made pastries, Savage’s continues to hand-make original recipes on site for its customers, who are more like friends.

“It’s always been a family business,” Margaret says, rattling off names of employees-turnedfamily through the years. “I helped Mrs. Lou, now retired, cut cookies in the early hours. Ben Cook,

FOOD & DRINK

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COOKIES 101

WITH SAVAGE’S MARGARET SCOTT COOKIES SOLD PER WEEK: Literally thousands, and much more than that during the holidays.

“I CAME ALIVE WHEN I STARTED LOVING YOU.” - C.S. LEWIS

BAKERY START TIME: Baking starts at 3 a.m., but during Thanksgiving and Christmas it gets going at 2 or even before.

MOST POPULAR HOLIDAY TREAT: The Gingerbread Men. They’re amazing all year round, soft, chewy with exceptional flavor. We ship them all over the U.S., and even to Europe a time or two.

MOST UNDERRATED TREAT ON THE MENU: The Turkish Macaroon. It’s made with coconut, dates, and pecans and is one of my favorite cookies!

BEST HOSTESS GIFT: Our coffee cakes are always a good choice and come in a variety of flavors. Try the large coffee cake, the Cinnamon Pull-Apart. It’s pastry dough dipped in melted butter and tossed with cinnamon sugar, then topped with pecans.

BEST OPEN HOUSE PLATTER: Tiny cheese biscuits with baked ham. Make sure to order enough. Even though people may usually eat only two small biscuits, with these there really is no telling!

BEST COOKIE SWAP TREAT: The Lace Cookie.

It’s light and crispy with the perfect amount of chocolate for that ultimate sweetness. Call and order them and we’ll bake them early that morning especially for you.

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“Don’t tell my parents…but I would always sneak a peanut butter cookie (or two) since there were cookies literally everywhere. So at a young age, I was already focusing on quality control!”

-Margaret Scott

the head baker, literally the man behind everything, has worked here since Mr. and Mrs. Savage owned the business, and Charles Scott, my dad’s youngest brother, continues to be such a huge help in the daily operations. It means so much to see people committed to Savage’s the way these two are; it’s because of people like them I now have the opportunity to work here with my dad and take care of Savage’s the way all of them have. We are 36 HomewoodLife.com

very fortunate to have many other employees just like Ben and Charlie, such as Code Jewell, our head cake decorator who is incredibly talented and amazing to work with; [and] Erika Spitzer, who has worked here for over 16 years and just might be fastest cake icer in Alabama!” Her passion for the bakery is rivaled only by her loyalty to its staff.

“I could talk about each employee because we truly are grateful to have each one,” she says.

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May’s

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WHAT’S IN IT

HOW TO MAKE IT

2 ounces Clyde May’s Alabama Style Whiskey

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass, add ice, and stir until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over ice and garnish with a cinnamon stick and orange peel, expressing the oils into the glass and rubbing the peel around the rim.

1/2 ounce Cinnamon Syrup* 3 dashes Angostura bitters 1 dash Mole bitters

OCTANE I first became aware of Clyde May’s when I was bartending in Dallas. The name itself struck me as being uniquely Alabamian. Simply by substituting a regular whiskey with one with hints of green apple and adding cinnamon to our simple syrup, we have created a cocktail that is unmistakably suited for autumn. Having moved back to Alabama after being away for seven years, I continue to be amazed by how much has changed, and Clyde May’s has announced this month that our official state spirit is coming home, too, and will finally be distilled exclusively in Alabama. *To make Cinnamon Syrup, add equal parts of granulated sugar and water to a saucepan along with four to six cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat and simmer for 5-10 minutes until the sugar is dissolved and you begin to see the cinnamon color in the mixture.

Remove from heat and allow to cool, and then strain out the solids and store in the refrigerator.

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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR

Mark Driskill

Chef and Owner of Ash PHOTO BY EMMA SIMMONS

Get ready West Homewood—one of your neighbors is bringing a new open fire dining concept to the former Oak & Raleigh location at 705 Oak Grove Road. “We want it to be a place to have friends in and get to serve them,” Mark says. Starting sometime in early 2018, Ash will be serving lunch and dinner TuesdaySaturday as well as breakfast on Sundays. Until then, here’s a preview of what you’ll find.

Tell us about your background in food.

I grew up in North Alabama with a lot of family who had farms, and I had a grandmom who cooked exclusively from scratch. She’d start on Saturday and have paper bag after paper bag filled with beans and corn and everything else. We’d eat there every Sunday after church—a smorgasbord. I never processed how much work went into that at the time until later in life when I was cooking. I went to college and found a job as dishwasher, and I started cooking because they needed me to cook one night. That’s how it all began. I went to culinary school at Johnson and Whales in Charlotte. I came back and started worked my way up to sous chef at Highlands Bar and Grill, and they later moved me to Bottega Café to be a kitchen manager. And then I went to Brick and Tin and helped Mauricio Papapietro open the Mountain Brook location, and I was the kitchen 38 HomewoodLife.com

manager there. Now I am at Time Inc. where I am the food studios director and test and develop for Southern Living and Coastal Living.

Why open a restaurant in West Homewood? Why now?

The dream was always to have my own place. I am an English major, creative writing minor, so I have a creative drive in me and it all comes out in food. The best way for me to express that is to cook for other people. That location opened up, and it is three blocks from my house. Getting to share that with my neighborhood, getting to share that with people that I know and love and care about and being close to home is why it’s now and where it is.

What is the concept behind Ash? Open fire, smoky, rustic, comfort food more elevated is where we are going with it.

I want it to be a neighborhood joint. Part of that reason the name is Ash is we are going to have a wood fire grill in the kitchen, and my wife’s name is Ashley. An element of every plate—that could mean the protein, the vegetable or the sauce element—is going to pass over that grill. It will be American food but heavily influenced with Southern

flavors and ingredients. Areas globally that use open fire cooking inspired me to use something with a lot of flavor and depth from the fire with something very fresh like a salsa or a harissa.

Can you give us a menu sneak peek?

At lunch we will have a burger we will do in-house, grind our own meat, cut our own fries. We will have another one or two sandwich options that will rotate out. We will have a signature salad and another that will rotate out seasonally. Everything else will rotate out. That’s the way I cook. For dinner we will have some small bites and snacks, $2-5 for a deviled egg or skewer. We will have some small plates that will be more composed and then we will have some more fine dining feeling dishes. But we still have a burger and a salad, and we will have a kids’ menu.

What will be the feel of the interior?

We are looking for an indoor cookout/ picnic feel but more elevated. We will also have a picnic idea where people can come in, get a picnic basket and blanket, pay a small deposit so we can get our blanket back, and you can go across the street to Patriot Park and have a picnic.

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THE HOUSE ON THE HILL A face-lift on a familiar farmhouse makes it all the more a home for the Doroughs—and a lot of Homewood too.

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Front Patio Kelly calls the patio space that overlooks both their street and Rockaway Road “dreamy.� She selected rocks for behind it to look like her Broadway house and added a creeping fig to go up the wall.

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You probably know the house—the white one that faces the wrong way toward Saulter Road off Kendall Court. Kelly and Scott Dorough have known it a long time too. Their classmate at Homewood High School, Nancy Jones (shout out to the Class of 1997, and to Nancy’s dad David who still coaches at HHS), grew up in it, and they have met several other families who called it home over the years. Scott’s dad bush hogged the property for $5 back in the ’50s and ’60s. Even a quick glance at it shows that the house was here long before others were built up around it—all the way since 1932.

The Doroughs’ story started back when they met at Homewood High School, but their house story started 11 years ago. They’d been living in a small rock two-bedroom cottage on Broadway that was quickly growing small with a baby, and the five-bedroom Kendall Court house seemed to provide all the space they needed—especially after their twins arrived soon after they moved in. Living in the house brought an air of familiarity. They found names of kids they grew up with written on the wall of the attic, and Nancy Jones and her mom brought a watercolor of the house from 1977 that now hangs in their dining room.

But after a decade for the Doroughs and decades for the house, it was in sorely need of updates. They had tried to sell it but ultimate decided to stay and make it what they wanted it to be. So they enlisted their friend Rusty Luccasen and pulled the trigger on an addition and a face-lift that

maintained the historical integrity of the house.

On the left side of the house, they added on a two-car garage (read: storage space for Kelly’s Homewood HomeTees business and Edgewood PTO items) with a master suite above it. On the right side, they covered the brick patio to create an outdoor living room. Inside, they knocked down the wall between the galley kitchen and sunroom to create an open space, and upstairs they reconfigured two small bedrooms into one and another small bedroom into a hallway and master closets.

At the heart of all they did though was creating a hospitable space for having people over—a reflection of how they see their house and all they have as a gift from God they enjoy sharing. They host a church small group every Tuesday and a Church of the Highlands group of around 50 Samford students on Thursdays. Kelly always has a coffee bar setup for company and keeps the downstairs rooms tidy and party-ready at any time for neighbors, kids’ sports teams or really anyone to come over. Every afternoon you can find neighborhood kids playing a football game of in their yard. “It’s like grand central station,” Scott says. “We love for people to come over.”

But perhaps just as important in the renovation was maintaining the history and character of the house both the Doroughs and so many in Homewood have known for decades. “I love old houses and really didn’t want to lose the charm,” Kelly says. “It’s quirky, but I love it.”

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Kitchen The biggest transformation in the house came in opening up the small narrow galley kitchen by knocking down the wall between it and a sunroom. Before, the refrigerator had been in a closet. “It just didn’t work,” Kelly says. “We made it functional.” But with functional they also added classic style with white Carrera marble countertops, a farm sink from Ferguson and all new cabinets. Adjacent to the kitchen, there’s now a half bath right off the kitchen on the way to the mudroom/laundry room.

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Dining Room This space represents a lot of how Kelly describes her style. “I love to decorate, and I love old things,” she says. “My favorite pastime is to go in Homewood Antiques or Hanna Antiques.” The dining room table came from Scott Antique Market in Atlanta, and the chairs from the Homewood Trading Facebook group—all in keeping with the design inspiration she finds from Holly Mathis Interiors and Nine & Sixteen Home blogs.

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Master Bathroom This brass chandelier from Stray Cat Home Décor hung in their dining room before renovations, but its size was more fitting for their new master bathroom right above the claw-foot tub. The tub like everything else in the bathrooms is new but in keeping with the classic white style Kelly prefers. “I grew up in an old house, and I wanted it to look old,” she says, noting she’d grown up in a Tudor in Hollywood. “Everything is very classic.”

Guest Room This bedroom was Kelly and Scott’s master before they added on, and they had recently redecorated with furniture from At Home and lamps from Homewood Antiques. Since their new master was so much larger, they decided to leave these furnishings in this room since it was just the right size for them.

Boys’ Room What were two small front bedrooms became one larger room for their two boys. It, like all the rooms except the kitchen, still has the original hardwood floors with a new refinishing. Kelly found the antlers above the boys’ beds at The Nest and the outdoor lamps at Lowe’s.

The beds were Scott’s when he was growing up, and before that Scott’s mom’s when she was a child.

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Screened-In Patio The brick patio that is set into the hill behind the house was a major selling point for the Doroughs when they bought the house, so with the renovations they wanted to make it an even better living space by adding a fireplace and a stained poured concrete floor to look like pavers. The result is nothing short of cozy. “This is my living room,” Scott says.

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Living Room Much of the living room, including the original fireplace, remained the same in the renovation, but they added a floor-to-ceiling bookcase along the back wall to add a “homier”feel with pictures and books,” Kelly says. Two summers ago on vacation in Ontario, she found a collection of old books from a vendor who was going out of business that she knew were perfect for the space. “It was the greatest souvenir ever,” Kelly says. “She was just like, ‘Why don’t you name your price?’ And I said $50.” For Kelly, it was well worth driving them all back to Alabama to put them on her new shelves, but Scott might tell a different story.

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Home Sweet Home Kelly’s friend Amanda Bailey Leach (also a Homewood graduate who married a Homewood boy) painted Kelly’s house for her several years ago, and it shows what the house looked like with dark shutters before renovations. “She did her own vision of it,” Kelly says. Today it hangs in their laundry room/mudroom off the kitchen.

Local Love A friend of Kelly’s gave her these paintings by Homewood artist Karen Marcum from Alabama Goods— that makes four Homewood parties in this sentence.

BEHIND THE SCENES Construction: Rusty Luccasen, R&R Construction Tile: Jonathan Lambert, Triton Stone Group Kitchen Cabinets: Kith Kitchens

Windows & Doors: Monarch Windows and Doors Select Light Fixtures: Tricia’s Treasures

Select Furnishings: Homewood Antiques, At Home, Scott Antique Market, The Nest

Select Rugs: The Nest Antiques, Southeastern Salvage, Etsy, Eighteenth Street Orientals

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FA L A L A L AYERS IN STYLE

‘Tis the season to bundle up

By Kayley Coggins Photos by Lauren Ustad

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a brief history of rosedale When I began working on the Images of America: Homewood history book a few years ago, Â I thought the job would simply involve tracking down some old photos of Homewood and writing a brief summary about each of them. I failed to realize that the process would become less about the photos and more about the people that I had the opportunity to get to know. Almost four years later, I still keep in touch with many of these people that I now call friends. In the process of working on the book, I became particularly fond of one neighborhood.

It was one of the first areas settled by people in Shades Valley, and its residents are still proud of their history. Rosedale has a unique history, and I found the people in that community to be some of the most inviting and welcoming people I’ve ever been around.

THIS IS THEIR STORY.

BY JAKE COLLINS | PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED AND BY MEGAN TSANG

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John Wilkins, pictured here with his family, is a strong example of the kinds of people who came to Rosedale near the turn of the twentieth century. Born as a slave in Mississippi, legend has it that Wilkins walked to Rosedale barefoot in search of work. He created a new life for his family in Rosedale, and several of his descendants have graduated from Homewood High School.

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Edward Perkins Montgomery, pictured outside Bethel A.M.E. church just a few blocks from where he’s lived most of his life, tells vivid stories of Rosedale throughout the years.

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In the winter of 2014, I was teaching eighth-grade history at Homewood Middle School when my 1993 Ford Bronco began having trouble, and I needed a new engine soon. I didn’t live too far from the school, so I decided that I would just ride my bicycle to school. Every day, I would bike through Rosedale—Homewood’s oldest neighborhood, which was settled by settled by former slaves after the Civil War and stretches from the southern slope of Red Mountain to Oxmoor Road in downtown Homewood— looking for anyone who I thought might have some old photos of the neighborhood to help me with the book.

Eventually I was invited to a chicken and waffle dinner and Lent service Bethel A.M.E. church right off 18th Street.

Afterward, I sat around for a few hours looking over old Rosedale High School yearbooks and learning about the

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school’s “Mighty Sons of Kong” football team with Mr. Thomas Hamner, the Shepherd family and Mr. Edwards Perkins Montgomery Jr. Just like my friends and I played wiffle ball, and spent our afternoons at Doug’s, Dino’s and Sam’s, these men spent their summer days playing sports and eating at Mrs. Carrie’s and Mrs. Johnson’s. Although most neighborhoods in Homewood have stayed relatively the same, a lot has changed in Rosedale.

The neighborhood now occupies a fraction of the geographical space that it did 100 years ago. 18th Street, once lined with houses all the way south to Oxmoor Road, slowly gave way to more business and commercial development. In fact, some of the buildings on 18th Street still have the original framing of the houses within them.

With the construction of the Red Mountain Expressway

type, and he was quickly assigned desk duty. Mr. Montgomery wasn’t trying to avoid active service, but to his knowledge, no one who he went through basic training with made it back home after the war. His education at Rosedale High School literally saved his life.

He also talked a lot about the pride of the students at MONTGOMERY FAMILY HERITAGE Rosedale High School. Dress codes were strictly enforced, Let me introduce you to my friend, Mr. Montgomery. and discipline at the school was never an issue. Mr. Coger, Edward Perkins Montgomery Jr. was born to Edward Perkins a 6-foot-7-inch coach who towered over everyone, met the “E.P.” Montgomery Sr. (1899-1994) and Queen Esther students every day as they got off the bus. Students were Jackson (1902-1988) in 1941. The Montgomery family was lined up outside every morning and were required to salute from a town called Germany in Monroe County, Alabama, the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance together.

Bussing students from all over Jefferson County could and they first appeared in Homewood in the 1920 census.

E.P. Sr. had several brothers who also came to Rosedale. have created trouble at Rosedale High School, but Mr. The most well-known brother was Bishop Martienne Coger ensured that there were never any discipline issues.

Montgomery, the principal of Rosedale High School from B.M. Montgomery, Mr. Coger and the rest of the Rosedale 1925-1967. B.M. Montgomery, also known as “Fess,” did as High School staff created an environment where kids much as anyone in the history of Jefferson County to wanted to go to school. According to Mr. Montgomery, the improve education for blacks. Students came from all over school was run so well that “the only thing you could do Shades Valley to attend Rosedale High School, and when was to do right.”

Mr. Montgomery’s most fond memory of Rosedale High kids lived too far away to get to school on their own, he convinced Jefferson County to bus children to the school. School was walking with the marching band on the way to Students at Rosedale High School were eating lunch in the the football games at the Ball Diamond, just west of the old basement of a house on top of the hill, and it soon became Shades Valley High School. The band would lead fans difficult to feed all the students. B.M. Montgomery south down 18th Street and then left on 28th Avenue petitioned the county for money to build a cafeteria and an South, before making a final left turn headed north on auditorium. When told there was only enough money for what is now the Red Mountain Expressway.

Years later, he can identify everyone in his old photos and one, he had a “cafetorium” built. B.M. Montgomery always tell you what each person in them is doing now. Rosedale found a way to do what was best for his students.

Mr. Montgomery has become a collector of all things High School has sent doctors, lawyers and teachers all Rosedale. As the rest of his family scattered throughout throughout the country. One day, we came across one of a the country, he stayed, living in the back of his father’s old woman standing in the middle of the road, and I asked who barbecue restaurant on 27th Avenue South. One time he it was. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath he said, mentioned how Rosedale High School saved his life. At “Oooo… that’s Barbara Tubbs...Barbara Tubbs Pope. She’s Rosedale High School, everyone learned how to type, even good looking!” I began to piece together that she was the the boys, he explained. After Mr. Montgomery was drafted same women that several other people had told me that I for the Vietnam War, the military discovered that he could needed to visit, so I made a note to go by her house. and US Highway 280, most people who lived on the north side of 28th Avenue South sold their property to be developed as commercial. There is now only one house left in that portion of Rosedale.

The Rosedale High School football team was known as the “Sons of Kong.” The caption for this yearbook photo read: “Ready for Action.”

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even has an original letter written to Damon Lee, perhaps the best known business man in Rosedale in its early days, No one seemed to have Mrs. Barbara’s phone number, from the Ku Klux Klan.

Mrs. Barbara grew up on 19th Place, in between 27th and but everyone told me just to go walk into her house. Hesitant to barge into a stranger’s home, I waited a few weeks before 28th Avenue South. 28th Avenue South was the unofficial finally mustering the courage to do so. I knocked, waited dividing line between the white and black section of and knocked again. Finally, an older woman, looking over Rosedale. Everything to the south of 28th Avenue was the top of her glasses dangling on the end of her nose, came white, and everything to the north was black. If you look to the door and said, “Boy! Why didn’t you just come on in?” back at the 1920 Federal Census, it’s a clear reminder of the Barbara Tubbs Pope was born to Albert Tubbs (1905- once segregated South. Although racial tensions in 1957) and Ethel Edgerton (1904-1976) in 1938. The Tubbs Birmingham in the 1960s were tense, Mrs. Barbara doesn’t and Edgerton families both came out of Perry County, remember any major issues in Rosedale.

Mrs. Barbara plans Rosedale High School reunions every Alabama, and both appear in Homewood in the 1930 Census. Mrs. Barbara’s maternal grandfather, Robert other summer and organizes Rosedaliens to take out ads for Burrell Edgerton (1866-1955), lived on 19th Place in a publication that is sold at the reunions. Families fill these Rosedale and was well known for his penmanship. He books with photos and updates and they help people who no worked closely with Damon Lee, and accordingly, a photo of longer live in the neighborhood stay connected. What’s Lee is prominently on display at her house. Mrs. Barbara most fascinating to me about Rosedale is how much ROSEDALE REUNIONS

Barbara Tubbs Pope holds a photo of herself taken in this same spot on 27th Avenue South when she was a young woman. Writer Jake Collins says she has become like a grandmother to him and treats his wife, his daughter and him like they are a part of her family, and that Grandma Barbara never lets you leave her house without eating some of her home-cooked ribs or fried chicken.

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Jake Collins’ family join Barbara Tubbs Pope’s for a meal at her home in Rosedale.

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Walnut Street Baptist Church (later First Baptist Church) was organized by Reverend J. W. White, and soon after Healing Spring Baptist Church was organized. In March of 1914, the two churches decided to unite and formed Union Baptist Church.

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everyone knows about each other. It’s not in a nosey neighbor kind of way, but rather a way in which people care for one another and genuinely want to keep up with each other.

What draws me to Mrs. Barbara is that she continues to embody the values that have made Rosedale such a wonderful neighborhood even from its inception over 100 years ago. One of my favorite sayings from her is, “I don’t have much to give you, but I can give you love.”

A few weeks ago, Mrs. Barbara called me and said she wanted to have me over for dinner to meet some of her family. Fully expecting to meet cousins, nieces, and nephews, I was a little surprised to show up and find a white family sitting at her table.

I soon found out that Trent, a former Samford student, had befriended Mrs. Barbara several years ago while working at Piggly Wiggly. Although he now lives in Nashville, he, along with his wife and three kids, still stops in to visit Mrs. Barbara when they’re passing through town.

Recently my conversations with Mrs. Barbara revolve around church, college football and our families. We rarely discuss the future of Rosedale because I can tell that it saddens her to see how much the neighborhood has changed. However, her perspective on Rosedale has helped me tremendously, and I think we can all learn from her. She wants to see the neighborhood thrive and always tells me that the only way that will happen is if we love our neighbors. According to Mrs. Barbara, we’re all God’s children and we need to love each other. She doesn’t care what color you are or what neighborhood your from. She treats everyone the same.

It’s been several years since the history book I was working on back in 2014 was published, but I still get calls every now and then from people who have pictures they want to share. I always make time for people, the Mr. Montgomerys and Mrs. Barbaras, and it’s not just for the pictures. Pictures to be scanned or words for a book cannot capture the joy I have in developing relationships with people. I’ll always be thankful for those bike rides through Rosedale that led me to so many new friends. I still drive through Rosedale at least once a week. It’s not to knock on the doors of strangers to ask for pictures. Now, it’s to visit people I call friends.

The Watkins family purchases the property that would become Rosedale.

Although Rosedale is known to most people as a historic black community, the 1900 US Federal Census paints a picture of a diverse community full of blacks, whites and immigrants from all over Europe at the turn of the century.

Aidan Cockrell high-fives with his coach Owen Ferguson, a Homewood High School graduate.

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TEAM AIDAN It’s not always easy being little — especially for a kid with a big passion for playing sports. But thanks to one driven coach, a determined mother and tons of community support, Aidan Cockrell lived his dream of playing at the World Dwarf Games in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in August. His life hasn’t been the same since.

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Aidan Cockrell and his teammates took him home medals in volleyball as well as basketball at the World Dwarf Games.

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Four special medals hang in Homewood Middle School sixth-grade student Aidan Cockrell’s bedroom. They serve as a reminder of what Aidan describes as one of the most awesome things he’s ever done—participate in the 2017 World Dwarf Games. He earned golds for basketball (his favorite sport) and volleyball, and silvers for soccer and floor hockey. He also competed in table tennis and track and field, but it’s obvious that playing in the Games isn’t the only thing that made this experience so extraordinary.

“Socially, for Aidan, this kind of thing is a necessity,” Alecia Cockerell, Aidan’s mom, explains. While Aidan is outgoing and likable, the fact that he was born with a form of dwarfism known as achondroplasia means that his peers can’t always relate to him the way that other little people can. Being a part of the Games, held this past Aug.

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4-12, meant that Aidan could play with people who understood him like no others. However, getting there proved to be challenging.

THE ROAD TO ONTARIO First, Aidan needed a coach to not only train him, but familiarize himself with the rules of the Games. As a single working mother, Alecia knew she couldn’t do this solo. She found the help they needed in Aidan’s fourth-grade flag football coach Owen Ferguson, a Homewood High School graduate and senior at Birmingham-Southern College.

“His mom called me last fall and asked if I could train Aidan for the World Dwarf Games. I had no clue how big of a deal it was, but I said yes. I train a lot of kids in

Aidan and a teammate compete for the USA on the soccer field.

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Aidan’s favorite YouTube star Logan Paul signed his forehead (this photo), and (right) he is pictured with another YouTube favorite, Evan Eckenrode aka Dwarf Mamba.

Homewood, so I wasn’t nervous,” Owen says. He describes Aidan as “hard-working, competitive and coachable,” making him an ideal athlete. They met once or twice a week to work on basketball, soccer, general strength and conditioning. The bond these two formed made a lasting impact.

“I like how passionate Owen is,” Aidan says. “One of my favorite memories is when Owen had his fraternity brothers paint their chests and cheer for our flag football game.” Owen’s fraternity, Sigma Chi, also helped Aidan with another big hurdle in order to make it to the Games— fundraising.

“My fraternity decided to do an Olympic-themed event for Aidan to help raise money,” Owen explains. “We had different organizations sign up and make teams, and they competed against each other in various sports. We raised over $1,000 in donations—it was a great turnout.”

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received through other fundraising efforts, such as the “3 on 3” basketball contest put on through Homewood Parks and Recreation, T-shirts sold on Etsy and their GoFundMe account. She also began embroidering and sewing on the side to earn extra money.

Alecia, who describes herself as a “protective, fun and emotional” mother, discovered another unexpected way to raise money after hearing local radio disc jockeys say some inconsiderate things about little people on the radio. “I wrote them a scathing email,” Alecia recalls. In response, the station invited Aidan on the show to apologize and promote his quest to the Games. More financial donations soon followed.

THE GAME-CHANGING TRIP

After successfully raising enough money, Aidan, Alecia and Owen flew to Ontario. Aidan was in awe of the new environment. “I liked seeing the differences between

America and Canada—like the speed limit signs are in the metric system and the same trees we use as Christmas trees are everywhere as part of the natural landscape,” he says.

Of course, playing sports was why they were there—and it didn’t disappoint. There were adult and junior teams carefully chosen based on height and ability so that they were as evenly matched as possible. Aidan’s team, the New York Towers, competed well together.

“The Games exceeded my expectations,” Owen says. “I was surprised with how competitive the playing field was.

I would put some of the athletes I saw against some of the best athletes in the world skill wise. The only thing different between them and the other athletes is that they are shorter.”

Encountering famous little people, such as the Roloffs from Little People Big World, YouTuber Dwarf Mamba and Pirates of Caribbean actor Martin Klebba, added to their excitement. However, meeting Harlem Globetrotter player Jahmani Swanson, stands out as a highlight for Aidan. Seeing the successes of fellow little people clearly gives Aidan inspiration. “I think I want to be a Globetrotter now when I grow up” he says.

The relationships Aidan developed with the other

O + M APPAREL School and sports aren’t the only things keeping Owen busy. He may not have graduated from college yet, but he’s put his future business degree to good use by starting the company, O + M Apparel, with his friend Matt Collins.

The Goal: Provide unique Homewood merchandise to reflect the spirit of the community.

The Hope: Partner with local schools and teams to design fun shirts and accessories.

Dual Meaning: The name O + M (Owen and Matt) also nods toward the idea of selling other Over the Mountain community merchandise one day.

Learn more at facebook.com/omapparelbham/.

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BUSTING ONTO THE BIG SCREEN Aidan’s star status will soar even higher when he makes his feature film debut next year. He was recently cast in Trading Paint, an upcoming movie about a veteran race car driver and his son. Well-known celebrities John Travolta and Shania Twain will also be in the film. After initially being cut by one of the casting crew, Aidan and Alecia felt very disappointed. However, the director, Karzan Kader, thought Aidan was a perfect fit for the movie and called him back. “It makes me feel very hopeful for the future of little people in the entertainment industry,” Alecia says. “There are still those who can see past the disability to the true potential of a child.”

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athletes might be the most amazing part of this trip, though. Alecia jokes that he started making friends the second they walked into the hotel. “I was standing in line to check in when I turned around to see that Aidan had his suitcase opened. He was pulling out his jersey to see if he was on the same team as the boy behind us,” she recalls.

By the end of the week, nobody wanted to go home.

Aidan and his friends found themselves hugging and crying the night before they left. Alecia fondly remembers how an older role model reached out to the boys in that moment and told them that he’d probably cry too when he returned to his room. Then he told them how special each one of them was. “These are the kind of friendships and experiences he never would’ve had if we hadn’t made this trip,” Alecia says.

BACK HOME While life is back to normal, Aidan admits that he feels like a local celebrity thanks to all of the attention he’s received. For example, he was overwhelmed after being a part of the famous YouTuber, Logan Paul’s, videos. Some people have even asked for his autograph. (Aidan also has

his own YouTube channel. Check him out at “Mr Stealyogirl” on youtube.com.)

Owen is adding to that attention by working on a documentary about Aidan. “I want to show people how inspirational Aidan’s life is,” Owen explains. “I don’t think many people know what he really has been through.”

Aidan can also boast “guest speaker” to his resume after sharing his experience with the Element Student Ministry group at Trinity United Methodist Church this August.

The Minister to Students, Robert Sturdivant, already knew Owen through the church and admired the connection between he and Aidan. When Robert was looking for someone to share a story relating to the “Quality Performance” theme at an event, Aidan immediately came to mind.

“Aidan is a driven and passionate student who demonstrates to others the importance of focusing first on God and community, and allowing these relationships drive your heart and goals,” Robert says. “As Aidan said, ‘You won’t regret committing yourself to your community.

With them behind you, you can persevere through anything.’”

Aidan’s team gathers for a photo after he served the winning volleys to win gold.

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Don’t let Kids Connection’s simple façade deceive you of its greater purpose. After all, it resides in a nondescript building in a shopping center off of Green Springs Highway, and its only signifier is a sign above the door.

You can’t enter without first ringing the doorbell, but within seconds of doing so, the door is opened by a friendly face who says, “Welcome to Kids Connection.

Please, come on in.”

In the lobby area, two small children are playing with a volunteer and a number of plastic cars; their mom is in the next room shopping. The children’s laughter is

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contagious as they dig through a bin of toys to find more.

One child finds a toy fire truck, and runs to the man at the front desk. Although he appears busy with paperwork, he immediately stops what he is doing to watch as the child shows him the button that turns on the lights and sirens.

Though subtle, this interaction is a living example of the purpose of Kids Connection—to love and serve the children in our community.

As a ministry of the Dawson Family of Faith, Kids Connection is a by-appointment retail store that provides clothing, toys, books and more at no cost to children in

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Birmingham—from birth to high school—whose family could not otherwise afford it. For back-to-school season alone this year, they provided clothes and school supplies for 770 children.

The store is open every Tuesday and Thursday—along with the second Saturday of each month—to families who have been referred either by a local organization, a neighbor or simply a friend. “We have qualifying standards,” says Ed Phillips, a Dawson member and director of Kids Connection.

“But to put it simply, if the family qualifies for food stamps, they qualify to shop with us.”

Ed and his wife, Joy Phillips, have served with Kids Connection since the first interest meeting the church held more than five years ago. While today they are able to discuss the store’s process, layout and overall organization with confidence, both will admit that they began this journey having no retail experience to their name. “I shop, if you can call that experience,” Ed says with a laugh.

Thankfully, a team of people came together, and to this day, with the exception of one part-time employee, the entire operation is run by volunteers. “We have regular volunteers who come at different times, on different days and perform different tasks,” Ed says.

Volunteers are organized by teams. The retail team serve as personal shoppers, the inventory team processes donations and stocks the shelves, the spiritual support team talks and prays with shoppers, the record-keeping team checks shoppers in and keeps the computer system up-to-date, and the facilities team cleans the shop.

“After someone finishes shopping in the store, we make sure they sit down with one of our volunteers to talk about their spiritual needs before they leave,” Ed says. “We are a faith-based organization, and it’s important for us to recognize that people have needs that are more than physical.

It’s not that we can solve them, but in many cases, people just want to talk.”

Mary Jackson, a regular volunteer who serves on the spiritual support team, says she is oftentimes blown away by all that can be revealed when she asks the simple question, “How can I pray for you?”

“The last time I was here, one young mother cried the whole time we talked,” Mary says. “She just had a lot going on in her life. We prayed together, and afterwards she said, ‘I would come just to have someone listen and pray with me, whether I could shop or not.’ I just thought, ‘Wow, this is really making a difference.’”

Mary says this is not always the case. Sometimes, a person prefers not to share. “In those instances, I do not push or pressure them in any way, but I just ask if I can pray for them,” she says.

As volunteers, Ed, Joy and Mary say they have found the saying, “You get more than you give,” to be true. “The thing that has touched me the most is that I would have never

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My path simply would not have connected with theirs. But by coming here…my heart has been greatly enlarged by hearing their stories.

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Volunteer Mary Jackson serves on the spiritual support team at Kids Connection.

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crossed the path of the people that come here,” Mary says.

“My path simply would not have connected with theirs. But by coming here—just a few miles from Dawson—oh my, I have just been touched and deeply moved. My heart has been greatly enlarged by hearing their stories.”

“The impression that has lasted with me is the willingness of our community to serve others through God’s call,” Ed says. “The commitment they have to service is transgenerational. It flows from the body to the spirit, and it’s not age-dependent.”

On average, Kids Connection serves between 30 and 35 children each day, and the store is able to maintain its inventory through donations from the community. “We heavily rely on donations,” Ed says. “A lot of it comes from Dawson members, but word gets around the neighborhood.

We get donations from people that you would never expect.”

Kids Connection collects donations on Mondays and Wednesdays. “We rely on donations for the toy section more than anything else,” Ed says.

Of course, some items are important to purchase new. The ministry purchases new underwear and socks as well as items that are in constant demand, like blue jeans, especially for boys. “At a certain age, boys are growing quick. It’s hard to keep those sizes on the shelves,” Ed says.

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With continual support from Dawson, Kids Connection has never asked people specifically for money. “But people find out what we are doing, and they write us checks,” Joy says. “These donations have been so meaningful over time, allowing us to start new initiatives like purchasing new school uniforms, shoes, school supplies and more.”

They also now support foster families. “We feel that what these families are doing is already a ministry, and we want to do whatever we can to support and encourage them,” Joy says. “If you say, ‘We are fostering a child,’ we say, ‘Come in.’”

While Kids Connection has volunteers who serve regularly, the ministry is happy to work with groups to arrange special projects. “We would love to have more volunteers outside of Dawson. We want Kids Connection to truly become more a part of the community,” Joy says.

To learn more about how you can volunteer, visit dawsonchurch.org/kidsconnection or find them on Facebook at @KidsConnectionAL. Kids Connection is open for donations Mondays, Wednesdays and the second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. at 32 Green Springs Highway. To drop off items, drive to the back entrance of the store, and a volunteer will help unload your donations and give you a tax receipt.

THE LEARNING CENTER

A MINISTRY FOR ADULT EDUCATION In the same shopping center as Kids Connection, the Dawson Family of Faith created a new initiative called The Learning Center, a ministry focused on adult education.

The Learning Center offers classes each week for adults starting at age 19 that cover the four GED subjects: math, language, science and social studies. Along with these courses, the center offers life skill classes like Faith & Finance, Keyboarding and Bible Studies.

Dawson not only provides financial support for the center, but

the church also fully staffs the center with volunteers from its congregation.

“We had the benefit of working alongside M-POWER to establish The Learning Center because our volunteers were able to go to its Avondale location to observe classes and get an idea of what it will look like,” says Ryann Mitchell, program manager for The Learning Center. “Though our classes do not look the exact same, they very much reflect each other.”

To learn more, visit dawsonchurch.org/thelearningcenter.

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Dr. Wilson received her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed her Pediatric Residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. She completed her Allergy and Immunology Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. After her fellowship, Dr. Wilson completed her Masters of Health Sciences in Clinical Research at Duke University.

Dr. Wilson is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Adult and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, and is a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Asthma and Immunology. Dr. Wilson is a third generation allergist/immunologist who is dedicated to providing every patient with the best care possible. She strives to have a positive and lasting impact on their quality of lives by discussing their symptoms, testing and treatment options, as well as treatment goals. She believes it is important to listen to and to educate her patients about their condition and seeks to use the least medication possible to control symptoms.

Dr. Wilson joins Alabama Allergy & Asthma Center in their commitment to providing patients with the individualized and expert care they need to obtain a better quality of life. With seven board certified allergists, and six locations, Alabama Allergy & Asthma Center is the leading caregiver in the state for asthma, sinus issues, seasonal allergies, food allergies, drug and insect allergies, eczema, hives and chronic infections.

Dr. Wilson is now accepting appointments in Homewood, Hoover, and Alabaster.

For more information or to make an appointment call 205-871-9661 or visit alabamaallergy.com.

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State Rep. David Faulkner and Senator Jabo Waggoner gave a Legislative Update at the chamber’s September luncheon.

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Robinson and Sandi Gillum 4. Kasey Bodine and Jeanne Gallagher 5. Steve Umphrey, Allison Cambre

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This new boutique on The Curve celebrated its grand opening with a doughnut wall, brunch bites, a DJ and giveaways.

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American Proteins, Inc. Hiring Drivers Home Daily, Great benefits package (including: health, dental, vision insurance), paid vacation and holidays, 401K retirement plan.

Requirements: •Class A CDL with tanker endorsement •1 year verifiable driving experience.

Contact Jamie Sewell: 256-970-6133 or Ronnie Demonia: 256-970-6109 EOE Accepting Resumes for Full-time/ Part-time Tellers at large credit union. Cash Handling experience required. Great work environment, Competitive Salary, Great Benefits.

E-mail resumes to Jobs1@apcocu. org Computer Sales & Repair Appalachian Computer Services New to the Jemison area after 25 years in Georgia! Offering In-home & Inoffice Computer Repair & Servicing for Chilton, Bibb & Shelby Counties CALL TODAY! 706-273-9987 INDUSTRIAL ATHLETES $17.68 hour plus production & safety $$$ incentives. Grocery order selection using electric pallet jacks & voice activated headsets. HVAC REFRIGERATION MECHANIC $20+ hour depending on experience.

Required: 10 years recent ‘hands-on’ industrial maintenance experience or related certification. Experience in electrical, plumbing, welding & concrete repair. Ideal candidate will have experience servicing Ammonia refrigeration systems.

Paid vacation & holidays. Blue Cross health & dental insurance.

Matching 401k plan. Apply online at AGSOUTH.COM or call Charlie Seagle at (205)808-4833 Preemployment drug test required.

Lake Mitchell! 1209 Co Rd 261 Spacious home with privacy & beautiful views. GR w/exposed beams & rock fp. Wood floors, large rooms make this home perfect for entertaining or relaxing. FR w/ fp. Multiple decks, exterior stone fireplace, dock & 2 covered boat slips. $270,000. MLS#786807 Atkinson Real Estate LLC 256-2456782 NITES 205-369-7769

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Automation Personnel Services Hiring IMMEDIATELY For: Automotive Assembly, General Labor, Production, Clerical, Machine Operator, Quality, Carpentry, Welder, Foundry. Positions In: Calera, Clanton, Pelham, Bessemer, McCalla.

Walk-in applications accepted.

Clanton (205)280-0002. Pelham (205)444-9774.

“B&J Metal Fabricators Professional sheet metal replacement and fabrication on classic cars/trucks. $65.00/hour for labor Parts/supplies additional Quotes based per job. Media blastingavailable. Powder coating coming soon.

Montevallo area.

(205)665-4687 (205)296-9988” Bama Concrete Now Hiring: Diesel Mechanic 4 Years Minimum Experience. CDL Preferred.

Competitive Pay. Great Benefits.

Apply in person: 2180 Hwy 87 Alabaster, 35007 BAMA CONCRETE FINISHING Driveways, Patios, Floors, Sidewalks, Driveway Repair, Concrete Walls, and Bobcat Work. Call Jeremy - Free Estimates 205-901-4112 Beelman Truck Hiring Experienced Mechanics and Drivers. Great pay.

Great benefits. Apply online at beelman.com or call 205-665-5507.

NOW HIRING CAMPGROUND HANDYMAN Must have basic electrical/plumbing/multi-tasker/ computer knowledge/customer service/communication skills/fluent English. Can pass a background/ drug screen. Email resume: tammy@ abshop.com or call 205-664-8832.

CAREGIVER Over 20 yrs experience. Trustworthy. References upon request. 24/7. Light cooking, drs appts., will run errands. CALL 205-566-4900 Borden Dairy of Alabama, LLC NOW HIRING for Class B CDL Delivery Drivers at our Irondale, AL Branch. Six Months verifiable experience driving a Commercial Vehicle. Experience in customer service preferred. Go to www. bordendairy.com to apply. (Careers, select location) Borden Dairy of Alabama, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

BRIARWOOD APARTMENTS Now Leasing! Beautiful 1 and 2 Bedroom Apartments. Mon & Wed 8:30am-4pm. 535-A Hicks St.

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Montevallo • 205-665-2257 • TDD #’s: (V)1-800-548-2547 • (T/A)1-800548-2546. This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

ORDER PULLERS. Distributor in Alabaster has an immediate need for order pullers. Heavy duty lifting is required. We offer a Monday-Friday work week, competitive pay and benefits. Call our job line at 205397-1781.

Piano Tuning, New & Used Sales, Moving, Storage, and Repair. Trained

by School for the Blind. 47 Years’ Experience. BUDDY GRAY 822-0482 or 800-593-2462 FOR SALE: Oracal Vinyl and Premium HTV Vinyl by the Foot or by the Yard. C&C Trophy & Sign, Inc. 209 6th ST N Clanton Carroll Fulmer Now Hiring Class-A CDL Drivers. Over-the-road positions available. Dry vans. No hazmat. Must have one year overthe-road. Experience and a clean MVR. Competitive pay and bonus package. Good home time. Call 800633-9710 ext. 2 CDL Drivers Needed! HOME DAILY! •$850-$1250/week •Paid Vacation after 1yr •Medical/Dental/ Vision Avail. •New Equipment 2yrs Exp, Clean MVR, Drug Test Chris 205-446-5400 chrisgilliland01@ gmail.com Regina (205)275-2293 rparker7770@gmail.com Danny (205)471-3177 dcgcfi@gmail.com Chandler Health & Rehab in Alabaster Alabama Now accepting applications for CNA’s, RN’s, LPN’s, and RN House Supervisor Call Linda White 205-663-3859 FT Presser for Dry Cleaner. Salary, vacation, holidays, health & life insurance. Must have reliable transportation. Call Debbie: 205588-6521 Chase Learning Center & Day Care is Pelham is Now Hiring • PT Nursery • PT After-school. $8/hr. 5 days/ week. Great for college students!

205-620-1616 •Police Officer •Main Street Director - Visit www.cityofmontevallo.com for detailed job description and on-line application or apply in person at City Hall, 541 Main St, Montevallo, AL 35115 EEO Coosa Valley Medical Center NOW HIRING! •RN Med/Surg, 7am-7pm •RN Labor & Delivery, 11pm-7am 7-on/7-off •LPN CVMC Nursing Home,

3pm-11pm, 11pm-7am •Medical Receptionist: Davis Family Medicine 8am-5pm. Email resume to: Blaine.Green@cvhealth.net or to apply, go to www.cvhealth.net Crossroads Building Supply hiring a Class-B CDL Driver Drug test/ background check required, 2 years experience Apply at: 820 Southern Drive Clanton AL Call Bryan: 205755-0103 Full Time and Part Time RN’s Needed for home health in Bibb, Shelby and Chilton counties.

Excellent Salary and Benefits. Please send resumes to jobs@rubic.com or call 866-273-3984 DCH Health System Caring. For Life. $5,000 *Sign-on Bonus for full time RNs *For More Info Contact Annie.Miller@dchsystem.com. Apply online at: www.dchsystem.com Homewood Area Package Store.

Day Shift (10am-6pm) Clerk/Stocker.

Must be 21, have retail experience, be able to multi-task, able to work any shift. Good pay. Call (205)5858900 PT/FT Farm Equipment Operator, Lawn Maintenance and Fork Lift Driver Needed. Drug and Background Check Required.

Apply In Person: 150 Princeton Lane, Jemison, AL 35085 Plumbing Service & Repair Technician . Requirements: •Journeyman’s plumbing card •Experience in Residential/ Commercial service/repair/drain cleaning/sewer work •Clean-cut/self-motivated •Good communication skills •Clean MVR/ background/drug test. Email resume: john@jeffcoat.us Welder Training. Short Term Licensing . Call for Details . 866-4320430 ESDschool.com SHOP MANAGER CALERA, AL Evergreen Transport has an immediate opening in Calera, AL for an experienced shop manager.

This fast paced position effectively manages and directs the daily operation of the maintenance department at our Calera terminal.

Required Qualifications and Experience: •Class A Mechanic Certification, valid Class A CDL, good driving record •A minimum of five years shop experience, to include supervisory responsibilities •Computer skills, including knowledge of Excel •Mechanical repair knowledge and familiarity with warranty and vendors procedures If

interested, please call: Chuck Talbot at 251-578-5000 or Rick Mangrum at 205-668-3316 $2000 SIGN ON BONUS NEW PAY SCALE TO QUALIFYING DRIVERS EVERGREEN TRANSPORT, is accepting applications for local drivers in the Calera and Leeds, AL, area. Must have Class A CDL, good driving record, 1 yr verifiable tractor trailer experience. Good pay and benefits. Apply in person at 8278 Hwy 25 South, Calera, AL, or call for info 205-668-3316.

LABORERS NEEDED INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTOR Faulkner Industrial Sterrett, AL • Pre-employment drug screen and criminal background check required.

• Random Drug/Alcohol screening also administered • Must have State DL or State issued ID. • Must be able to pass basic written safety exams after training • Must be physically fit. Work includes use of personal protective equipment. This includes ½ face and full-face respirator, must be clean shaven. • Must be willing to travel, in and out of town work. Hotels paid by company and daily cash perdiem issued • OSHA 10 & MSHA a plus.

• Mechanic and Trouble Shooting Skills a plus.

• Pay depends on experience and personal skill sets. Pay starts at 12.00 for basic labor that meets all criteria above. Higher pay is available for higher skill sets or when skills are proven.

• Must provide work history and references. Please call for application: 205-672-8556 ONLINE AUCTIONS www.GTAOnlineAuctions.com 205-326-0833 Granger, Thagard & Assoc.

Jack F. Granger #873 H&H Waterproofing Now Hiring Experienced Waterproofers. Must be able to pass background check and drug test. 205-670-0090 DRIVERS: Hanna Truck Lines is seeking Professional Flatbed Drivers.

53 cpm No surprises: Starting pay (all miles): 51 cpm, 52 cpm at 6 months, 53 cpm at 1 year. 100% Outbounds loads Pre-loaded & Tarped. 75% Inbound No Tarp. Late Model Peterbilt Trucks. Air Ride Trailers. Home weekends. Low cost BCBS Health & Dental Ins. Matching 401K. Qualifications: 18 months Class A CDL driving experience with 6 months flatbed; Applicants must meet all D.O.T. requirements.

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MARKETPLACE 7315 or come by HTL office at 1700 Boone Blvd, Northport. EOE LPN’s, RN’s, CNA’s Full-time & part-time • 2nd & 3rd Shift. Apply in person: Hatley Health Care 300 Medical Ctr Dr Clanton, AL 35045 Hernandez Remodeling Construction & More Jobs over $1,000 receive 10% discount!!!

Remodeling, Painting (Interior/ Exterior), Roofing, Brickwork, Hardwood Floor,Carpet, Sunrooms, Decks/Porches/Stairs, Electrical, & New Construction. References Available. Licensed/Fully Insured 205-503-6237 Looking for a wonderful place to live? NEW Meadow View Village Apartments. Columbiana, AL. Now Pre-leasing 2&3 Bedrooms.

Great Amenities Provided. Call 256-560-0821. 99 Eagle Lane. info@ hollyhand.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.

DRIVERS NEEDED J & M Tank Lines, Inc. Sign On Bonus Full time. Local & Regional.

Consistent Home Time. 18 mo Tractor Trailer Experience. jmtankjobs.com or call Carlos Coleman@205-769-3536 CDL TRUCK DRIVER For Tree Service. Also hiring for other full-time and part-time jobs. Drug Test Required. 205-836-2038 or 205-229-7144 Kelly Educational Staffing® We’re hiring! •Substitute teachers •Aides •Cafeteria •Clerical •Custodial positions Shelby County School District & Alabaster City Schools.

Please call 205-870-7154 -Equal Opportunity EmployerOwner Operators Wanting Dedicated Year Round Anniston, AL www.pull4klb.com QUICK LUBE DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATE OPENINGS- Fulltime or Part-time opportunity to work at theoldest & largest Ford/ LincolnDealership in Alabama!

Long-Lewis Ford Lincoln is seeking qualified oil/tire technicians to join our busy Quick Lane! Join our team of technicians and earn top dollar for production! We offer the best training in the area, state of art facility, fast paced shop, team building, support from the top, great pay and benefits. Job duties: oil change, brakes, tires, rotation, alignment and coolants.

Job experience is helpful, but some automotive work would be acceptable. We can train! Call 205-989-3710 to schedule an appointment- no walk ins please. WE ARE HIRING NOW! EOE Lovejoy Trucking Montevallo seeking an OTR Driver home once/ twice a week Flatbed and Tarp experience, must pass Physical/Drug Screen Terry Lovejoy 205-746-2419 Jimmy Hatcher 205-283-9822

WE HAVE JOBS! · Machine Operator- Moody · Packers- Moody/ Hoover · Paint Line- Moody · Pickers/ Packers- Alabaster. Lyons HR www. lyonshr.com/career-search (205)9434820 Service Technician. Top Pay, Benefits & Commission! Mainline Heating & Air. 400 Hillwood Park S, Alabaster, AL. Or email resume to: ashley@ mainlineheating.com (205)664-4751 Marble Valley Manor. Affordable 1 and 2 Bedroom Apartments for Elderly & Disabled. Many on-site services! 2115 Motes Rd, Sylacauga.

256-245-6500 •TDD#s: 800-5482547(V) •800-548-2546(T/A). Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm. Equal Opportunity Provider/Employer MedHelp Clinics is hiring experienced full-time and part-time front office staff for our Pelham location. Candidates should have at least 2 years of medical, front office experience. We’re open 7 days a week: 8am-8pm Monday thru Friday, 8am-6pm on Saturday and 1pm6pm on Sunday Hours may vary by location Qualified applicants should email a copy of their cv/resume to: georgia.turner@medhelpclinics.com Are you a motivated professional?

Are you looking for a dynamic career? Are you ready to control your own level of success? See why McKinnons’ is an exciting place to work and grow. Now accepting applications for Sales, Service, and Detail Shop. Apply with the receptionist. 205-755-3430 Hiring CDL-A Drivers! Sign-on Bonus, Great Benefits, Local Domicile Work. Apply online at: MerchantsFoodService.com/Careers Shake up your career!!! Are you looking for something new and FUN? Milo’s is always looking for great managers to come join our growing and dynamic team. Apply online at miloshamburgers.com 280 Location Opening Now Hiring 3 shift Managers. Pay Rate $9-$11.

20-25 Employees. Pay Rate $7.75$8.50. Must have own transportation and flexible schedule. Apply at recruiting.talentreef.com/mommagoldbergs-deli (205)503-6190 Montgomery Stockyard Drop Station at Gray & Son’s in Clanton.

Call Lane at 205-389-4530. For other hauling arrangements, contact Wes in Harpersville 205-965-8657 Production Jobs. Willing to Train.

AAM in Columbiana is HIRING for multiple shifts. Email resume to dcurtis@grede.com or apply in person: 130 Industrial Pkwy, Columbiana, AL 35051 Ignite Your Career with Mspark!

For current openings, visit: www. mspark.com/our-company/careers/ or send resume: apollard@mspark. com. Mspark offers competitive compensation, benefits and a teamoriented work environment. EOE. INDUSTRIAL CLEANING IN VANCE Requirements: •18 Years Old •HS Diploma/GED •Able to

work variable shifts/weekends/ holidays •Able to lift up to 50lbs constantly, stand on your feet for 8hrs •Able to pass drug screen/ background check Complete your application on line at www.naonsite. com Production / Manufacturing Vance, Alabama Starting pay: $12.00 – $14.50 /hr. • Have 2 years+ Production/Manufacturing experience. • Have Recently Lived in Alabama at least 2 years. • Have A High School Diploma or GED. • Are at least 18 years old. Complete your application on line at www. naonsite.com Odyssey Early Schools.

Birmingham’s Best Daycare/ Preschool is Seeking Experienced Teachers. 4 Year Degree Preferred.

Full-Time. BEST Pay. FULL Benefits (Insurance, Leave, Holidays). Call Annie Fine 205-991-0039.

Oxford Healthcare in Montgomery currently hiring certified CNA’s and/ or Home Health aides in the Clanton, Marbury and Maplesville areas.

Must be able to pass complete background check, have reliable transportation and have a strong work ethic. Serious inquires only. Call 334-409-0035 or apply on-line at www.Oxfordhealthcare.com Cook/Server Needed Breakfast Shift (approx. 3am-1pm) Must be able to work some weekends and holidays. Apply at: Peach Park Express 2320 7th Street South Class A CDL Drivers Needed Immediately for Dump Trailer Hauling • $2000 Retention Bonus • Local Hauling • Home Nights APPLY ONLINE: www.perdidotrucking. com Perdido Trucking Service, LLC 251-470-0355 PLUMBERS & PLUMBER HELPERS Call or Text 205-432-9049 3/2 Garden Home Calera Schools.

Easy access to HWY 31 & I-65 W/D hook-ups, Dishwasher. Fenced backyard. No Pets. Rent $1250 (205)433-9811 ROSS NEELY TRUCK LINES •NOW HIRING• TRUCK DRIVERS-OTR If you are a professional CDL A Driver, have two years experience, a good safety recrod, and want to GET HOME ON THE WEEKENDS apply online at www.rossneely.com or apply by email at jeff@rossneely.com The Salvation Army, Alabaster, is hiring (Seasonal) Angel Tree Coordinator • Kettle Coordinator • Required Skills: Driver, databases, computer, physical abilities. Email resumes to: Rufus.McDowell@uss. salvationarmy.org 205-663-7105 JOIN OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM Schuster Enterprises, Inc, a Franchisee of Burger King, is looking for Management professionals who have a desire to join a team where people are the most important asset, where growth is based on ability and where opportunity is abundant. Benefits: •Competitive wages •Health & Life insurance •Paid

vacations •401(k) Apply online at: www.bkworker.com DRUG FREE WORKPLACE EOE ServiceMaster is Hiring Part-time Fire Cleaning Techs WILL TRAIN! Must pass background check/drug test, have reliable transportation & good driving record. Serious Inquiries. Call (205)424-4211 The Alabama Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Shelby County (DiscoverShelby.com) are providing complimentary recreational outing for Shelby County, Alabama Senior Citizens 55 and older. Please register with your local Senior Center Manager to reserve your tickets and your ride on the bus. You can contact Senta Goldman, Coordinator of Community Services for Shelby County at: (205)670-6557 or email at: sgoldman@shelbyal.com WE NEED SHELBY COUNTY TO REPRESENT! RSVP your ticket at least three days in advance. The concerts begin at 11:00am in the Jemison Concert Hall at the Alys Stephens Center.

Complimentary coffee and pastries before the concert November 17th Justin Brown Returns! Mozart, Beethoven & Clyne Order Selectors Food Dist. Center in Pelham Day-Shift: Mon-Fri. 40+ hours/week 10:00AM until finished (varies). Salary: $16-20/ hr after training. Benefits: Medical, vision, dental, vacation & 401k.

Requirements: •Reading & math skills •Lift 40 lbs. repetitively •Work in -10 Temperature Apply in person: 8:30AM-5:00PM Southeastern Food 201 Parker Drive Pelham, Alabama 35124 resume@southeasternfood. com Southern Haulers LLC Immediate Openings for Regional Tractor Trailer Dump Drivers for Calera, Decatur, Brewton, & Mobile terminals. •Home on weekends •Excellent wage & benefit package plus 401K, vacations & bonuses •23 years of age •1 year tractor trailer driving experience, good MVR and CSA points. If interested call 1-800-537-4621 and ask for Adam, Ext 703 or www. southernhaulersllc.com EOE Immediate Positions!!!! Positions needed: Warehouse • Sales Reps • Assistant Manager • Delivery Drivers • Customer Service. Laid back atmosphere, good pay, plenty of hours available! Company vehicles to qualified individuals! Call Andrew 9am-7pm • Mon-Sat at (205)4901003 or (205)243-6337 CLOCK REPAIR SVS. * Setup * Repair * Maintenance. I can fix your Mother’s clock. Alabaster/Pelham.

Call Stephen (205)663-2822 Supreme Cores Alabama, Inc. PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR NEEDED Why drive in BHAM traffic or work 5 days per week? Interested?

Apply at: 2595 Highway 87, Alabaster, Alabama 35007 or email résumé: hr@sccarolinas.com Electrician - FT Supreme Electric, local-based company in Pelham.

Must be willing to learn & work hard. Go to: supremeelectric-al.com

Print employment application under Contact Us. Mail to: Supreme Electric 231 Commerce Pkwy Pelham, AL 35124 or call 205-453-9327.

TARGET AUCTION Advanced Real Estate Marketing 800-476-3939 www.targetauction.com TaylorMade Transportation Hiring CDL Drivers for Flatbed Regional Division! BCBS Insurance After 30 Days. To apply call: (334)366-2269 or email: s.smith@taylormadeinc.com The Painting Company of Birmingham Immediate openings for professional residential and commercial painters.

Must be able to speak English. Call 205-995-5559 Become a Dental Assistant in ONLY 8 WEEKS! Please visit our website capstonedentalassisting.com or call (205)561-8118 and get your career started!

Caregivers Needed ASAP! Competitive hourly pay. Call Visiting Angels at (205)719-1996 to discuss.

NOW HIRING CDL-A DRIVERS w/ Haz. $5000 Sign-On Bonus. Apply online: www.westernintl.com or Corporate Office: 979-413-2140 $5000 SIGN-ON BONUS! HIRING CDL TEAM A DRIVER Apply online: www.westernintl.com Or Contact Corporate: Western International Gas & Cylinders 979-413-2140 or 979-413-2192 (EOE) Now Hiring •MASTER PLUMBER •EXPERIENCED CARPENTER. Please Call 205-755-8555 or send resume to whatleybuilders@businessmailbox. com Tree Nursery Worker Needed Responsible w/mechanical skills.

To operate forklift/farm tractors/ equipment/welding/ground maintenance/service equipment/ check fluid levels/clean after use.

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MY HOMEWOOD Scott Butler

Realtor + Photographer + Father of Three

Corn Hole and More Corn Hole

Cornapalooza This springtime event raises money for the Homewood Athletic Foundation while you get to hang out and playing corn hole. There’s good music, and Red Hills brewery/Little Donkey is a perfect location. This year will even be larger and better, and of course lots and lots of Homewood is there.

Dance Party

We Love Homewood Day This event tops off a day of celebrating Homewood. After a 5K, seeing local businesses at the park and all of Homewood being at the parade, we all meet in Edgewood to eat drink and listen to different bands.

Merry and Bright

HHS Band Christmas Show This evening is filled with festive music, and the Spangles dress like toy soldiers. Both band and choir shows are nothing short of amazing.

Friday Night Lights

HHS Football Games at Waldrop Stadium The entire town is there supporting football and the band. It’s thrilling to see both girls and boys excel what they have practiced so hard—be it cheer, football, JROTC, Spangles or band. Each of those groups spends hours and hours practicing, and I love to see the finish product along with a couple thousand of my closest Homewood friends.

Glee!

HHS Show Choir Shows The show choir expresses the diverse talent that is abundant in Homewood.

Like the band, it’s led by people with amazing skill and most importantly extreme passion for what they do.

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