1918:
Librarian Jean Glenn was born.
2006:
Most of the site for 29 Seven was purchased at auction.
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Tag Archives: Birmingham
A look back: June 6
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Tagged AL, Alabama, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, history, reference
City Stages goes green
The Alabama Environmental Council and Waste Management are partnering to encourage attendees to this year’s City Stages festival to recycle. There will be seven (7) recycling stations throughout the festival site (staffed by volunteers in the evenings) asking festival goers to recycle plastic and aluminum cans.
Just keep an eye out for the Think Green t-shirts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings between 6 – 10 p.m. Of course you could win your way in to see what it’s like – your last chance to enter to win two sets of passes to the festival will be at about 5:15 tomorrow afternoon!
A look back: June 4
1994:
Jim Wells was named Alabama‘s baseball coach.
1996:
Josh Hancock was selected in the 3rd round of the MLB draft.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, baseball, bhamwiki, bhamwiki.com, Birmingham, history, Jim Wells, Josh Hancock, reference
Finding way to stay cool over on Timetable
Photo: The fountain at Linn Park. acnatta/Flickr.
While some would like to use the fountain in Linn Park to stay cool, but we’re pretty sure that the folks in City Hall would appreciate it if you didn’t. Charles figured that he’d offer a few suggestions for places that wouldn’t mind seeing you visit to keep cool (and hopes you’ll add to his list) over on Timetable.
Posted in This Week on Timetable
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, In Love With, photo, suggestions, Timetable
On the agenda: Shortening of meetings begin
It’s a fairly quiet agenda for our city councilors here in Birmingham today, with item 6 addressing an issue that has been getting a lot of attention recently. Last week’s City Council meeting lasted nearly seven hours, definitely giving a reason for the council president to submit a proposal moving all Council presentations and commendations to the first Council meeting of each month. It had been included in last week’s agenda but a vote was delayed.
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Tagged agenda, AL, Alabama, Birmingham, City Council, government, On the agenda, politics
He looks so much taller…
Well, apparently Vulcan is tall and old (he just celebrated his 104th); he’s just not the tallest statue in the South. That honor goes to The Golden Driller in Tulsa, OK. The Big Guy atop Red Mountain does get to claim being the fifth tallest according to the list posted to Southern Living’s Tales from the Road blog yesterday.
You know, it does look like it would be a pretty cool road trip though… (see the map at the bottom of the post). Plus, you can’t beat having the tallest statue in the South also doing double duty as the namesake for a minor league baseball team…
Posted in Quirky
Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, blogging, Golden Driller, photo, Southern Living, Vulcan, Vulcan Park
