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Look Who’s Cooking: Girl Scouts Celebrate 100 Years with Council Cookbook

Look Who’s Cooking: Girl Scouts Celebrate 100 Years with Council Cookbook

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, -- May 25, 2012 – When you think of Girl Scouts, you think of delicious Girl Scout Cookies, but Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama is taking delicious to a whole new level. Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama has published a 100th Anniversary Cookbook with all of their Girl Scout favorites. In addition to crowd-pleasing recipes, the cookbook features art work from current Girl Scouts within the council. The GSSA council cookbooks are $12 and are available for purchase at GSSA council shops and online at www.girlscoutssa.org.

Redland area Cub Scouts is hosting spring recruitment next week

Redland area Cub Scouts is hosting spring recruitment next week

Cub Scout Pack 429, based in the Redland area of Wetumpka, will be holding spring recruitment the week of May 21, culminating in a sign-up night at Mulder Memorial Methodist Church Thursday, May 24, beginning at 6 p.m. Boys who will be entering first through fifth grades in Fall 2012, or will be ages six through ten, are eligible to join. You do not have to live in the Redland area nor be a member of Mulder Church to join.

During the summer months, the Cub Scout pack, named for Ephesians 4:29, will hold several informal group activities, and then regular weekly meetings will resume at Mulder Church once school has started back in August. For more information, contact Shannon Clifton at 657-5296 or sclifton@Pack429cubscouts.org.

Source:  Cub Scout Pack 429

The Elmore and Autauga Community Foundations hosting grant presentation tonight

The Autauga Area Community Foundation and Elmore County Community Foundation will award grants to area nonprofits this evening, Tuesday, May 15th at 5:00 p.m. at the Alabama Wildlife Federation, 3050 Lanark Road in Millbrook.

A list of non-profits receiving grants follows.

$38,000 in Grants Awarded to Elmore County Organizations

The Elmore County Community Foundation will award $38,000 in grants Tuesday, May 15 at 5:00 p.m. at the Alabama Wildlife Federation, 3050 Lanark Road, in Millbrook. Since 1998, $2.3 million in grants has been distributed by the Foundation to Elmore County. The Autauga Area Community Foundation’s grants will be awarded at the same reception.

The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is set for tomorrow

The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is set for tomorrow

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 12, the United States Postal Service will team up with its letter carriers to conduct the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive across the nation to collect food donations in order to provide assistance to the millions of Americans who are struggling with hunger each and every day.

The nation’s 210,000 letter carriers will collect food donations left at the mailboxes of generous Americans in more than 10,000 communities and deliver them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, having collected more than one billion pounds of food since its inception in 1993. In 2011, generous Americans donated 70.2 million pounds of food, which marked the eighth consecutive year that at least 70 million pounds were collected.

Helping Stamp Out Hunger is as easy as checking your mailbox.

MAX4Kids Foundation Awards $50,000 in Scholarships

MAX4Kids Foundation Awards $50,000 in Scholarships

(Montgomery, Ala.) – On May 3, 2012, the MAX4Kids Foundation recognized ten graduating
seniors from the River Region by presenting each with a $5,000 MAX4Kids Scholarship. A
committee of area college educators met and chose the following ten scholarship recipients
based on scholastic achievement, extra-curricular activities, qualities of character and
leadership, and essay responses.


The 2012 MAX4Kids Scholarship recipients are:


Samuel Boswell – Booker T. Washington Magnet High School

Daniel Cape – Wetumpka High School

Titus Davis – Brewbaker Technology Magnet High School

Jacquelynn Myrick – Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School

Neal Ozee – Brewbaker Technology Magnet High School

Tyler Parrish – Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School

Amanda Proper – Prattville High School

Cecilia Robinson – Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School

The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is set for Saturday, May 12th

The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is set for Saturday, May 12th

On Saturday, May 12, the United States Postal Service will team up with its letter carriers to conduct the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive across the nation to collect food donations in order to provide assistance to the millions of Americans who are struggling with hunger each and every day.

The nation’s 210,000 letter carriers will collect food donations left at the mailboxes of generous Americans in more than 10,000 communities and deliver them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, having collected more than one billion pounds of food since its inception in 1993. In 2011, generous Americans donated 70.2 million pounds of food, which marked the eighth consecutive year that at least 70 million pounds were collected.

Helping Stamp Out Hunger is as easy as checking your mailbox.

Alabama Power teams up with the American Cancer Society in "Run for the Reason

Alabama Power teams up with the American Cancer Society in "Run for the Reason

Alabama Power employees are joining in the fight against cancer as they prepare to run 350 miles in the 2012 “Run for the Reason” fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.

The tenth annual run begins at 7 a.m. Thursday, April 28 at the Alabama/Georgia line and ends Saturday, April 30 at 2 p.m. at Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island.

The three-day event takes runners through several Alabama towns and cities including Anniston, Childersburg, Clanton, Selma, Camden, Grove Hill and Mobile.

Three teams of volunteers will alternate running 20-mile segments during 12-hour shifts, with each runner completing about 20 miles during the event. Four drivers per team will pilot the runners’ RVs and lead vehicles that will accompany runners on their trek.

To date, the Alabama Power team is on track to raise $40,000 through this year’s Run for the Reason.