Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo
A helicopter approaches the downtown Birmingham skyline Tuesday morning. Taken from north of the city along I-65 near Finley Blvd.
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Random shots: Flying over
Posted in Random Shots
Tagged 35203, Birmingham, Bob Farley, downtown, f8Photo, photo, photographs, Random Shots, skyline
Everybody won this weekend
There was some beautiful weather with weekend, perfect for those that participated in the 8th running of the Mercedes Marathon & Half Marathon as well as the BE5K race on Saturday. Congratulations to the thousands that participated as well as to all of the winners.
While the official results are not yet posted on the site, you can check out results from previous years and have it bookmarked for when they’re certified. Check out Fox 6’s website for video of children crossing the finish line for the Kid’s Marathon.
Gordon Bell ventured out yesterday morning and took some great images, now available for you to take a look at over in The Gallery.
By the way, if you want to share your photos from race day with the folks here on the site and you’re on Flickr, add them to The Terminal’s Flickr group and we’ll get them up here as soon as possible.
Photo: Gordon Bell/Flickr.
Posted in Events
Tagged 35203, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, downtown, event, Gordon Bell, Mercedes Marathon, photos, race, running
A new addition (sort of) to the Birmingham skyline
Photo: acnatta/Flickr.
If you take a closer look at the photo above (or look up if you’re downtown), you’ll notice that work is going on atop Regions Bank’s Birmingham headquarters. The building has only had signs visible on two sides during its history, dating back to its days as AmSouth Tower. The new signs will allow folks approaching The Magic City from all sides to immediately pick out the building.
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Tagged 35203, Alabama, Birmingham, installation, Regions Bank, Regions Tower, sign, signage
A new look for Compass
Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo.org
Manolo Sannchez, President and CEO of BBVA Compass, celebrates the unvailing of the bank’s new logo at the company’s headquarters on 20th Street South in downtown Birmingham this morning. The bank has started the rebranding process at the bank’s 92 locations in Alabama starting in Birmingham. The rebranding process will continue through March 2009. There are 579 branches and 734 ATMs being rebranded in the Southeastern United States. (ED: The website has not received the new brand treatment as of yet – ACN).
An honor long overdue
That would be the best way to describe the ceremony scheduled to take place at noon today in Birmingham’s Kelly Ingram Park. Today a plaque will be installed honoring the ministers that inspired the Ministers Kneeling statue.
Photo: Preachers praying. acnatta/Flickr.
Participants in the rededication ceremony will include representatives from Mayor Larry Langford’s office; Mrs. Fred Shuttlesworth; Ms. Odessa Woolfolk; Bonita Conley, famed operatic and gospel singer; plus members of the families of the ministers whose actions in 1963 inspired the statue – Rev. N. H. Smith Jr. of New Baptist Church, Rev. A.D. King of First Baptist Church of Ensley and Rev. John T. Porter of Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. Today’s Birmingham News provides the background story about why today’s ceremony is taking place.
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Tagged 35203, ceremony, Civil Rights, downtown, Kelly Ingram Park, Ministers Kneeling, rededication, statue
New pieces at BCRI fall into place
Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo
David Davis, building and grounds superintendent at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, adjusts the plastic covering Bull Connor‘s armored vehicle at the Institute’s Human Rights Gallery on Tuseday morning. The vehicle was used by the Birmingham Poilice Department and the former public safety commissioner during the 1960s.
The armored vehicle has been cut in half and will be the focal point of the Institute’s renovated gallery. BCRI plans to unveil the renovation during its Martin Luther, Jr. Birthday Celebration on Monday, January 19, 2009. The facility opens free to the public that day at 9 a.m.
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Tagged 35203, BCRI, Birmingham, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Bull Connor, tank
On the agenda: Paratransit gets attention
This week’s Birmingham City Council agenda is light – 15 pages – but it contains a major first reading today.
Items 6 & 7 (on page 3) provide the framework for our local transit authority to continue to provide paratransit service to patients in the region. The $1.77 million being pulled from the money already allocated to the transit authority earlier in the city’s budget will provide new buses for the BJCTA’s aging paratransit fleet. There is additional service provided by ClasTran, but they’ve been feeling the effects of the economic downturn.
This morning’s Birmingham News makes it sound like there’s going to be a delay on the vote due to the fact that it’s a reorganization of where funds are going instead of additional funding for the agency.
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Tagged 35203, Birmingham City Council, BJCTA, On the agenda, paratransit
