Alabama Moon Author Watt Key Releases New Book – Fourmile

October 3rd, 2012 by South Alabama Community Website

Fourmile by Watt KeyFrom the author of one of the most highly acclaimed children’s survival adventures of the last decade comes this tautly wound new novel, Fourmile.

Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax Ganey, the man dating his widowed mother, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious stranger arrives at their Alabama farm, a former Army Ranger in Iraq rambling across the country, and Foster believes he has found an ally against Dax. The stranger proves a fascinating mentor, full of wisdom and secrets. And Dax soon has reason to resent not just him and Foster but also Foster’s mother. A spurned Dax will be a dangerous enemy, but Foster is increasingly aware that the stranger is just as dangerous, if not more so.

Reviews:

“An original and satisfying coming-of-age tale.” – Horn Book

“Written in the tradition of classics such as Old Yeller and Shiloh but with a decidedly contemporary setting and tone, this will appeal to a broad range of readers.” – BCCB

“Suspenseful and introspective…” – Publishers Weekly, starred

[STARRED REVIEW!] ”Key has crafted another powerful, riveting coming-of-age tale . . . Deeply moving and fast-paced, this life-affirming effort is a worthy addition to the bookshelves of sturdy readers.” – Kirkus Reviews

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Be sure to like Watt Key’s Facebook page for a chance to win 1 of 25 personalized copies of Fourmile.

Now available wherever books are sold 
from Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group for $16.99. Fourmile is also available on Google eBooks for $9.99.

You can request signed/personalized copies of all Watt Key books from the Page and Palette bookstore: Buy Online Now!

For Watt Key appearance information, please e-mail: info@wattkey.com.

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Two Fairhope golfers reach semifinals of State Match Play tournament

August 10th, 2012 by South Alabama Community Website

POINT CLEAR, Alabama — Two Fairhope golfers will square off for the State Match Play championship if each can come up with one more win on Saturday at Lakewood Golf Club.

In a semifinal pairing of UAB teammates, Michael Ulmer faces Thomas Sutton of Montgomery at 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Haymes Snedeker tees off against Casey O’Toole of Oneonta at 7:38 a.m. in the other semifinal.

The winners meet for the state title at noon.

On Friday, Ulmer needed 19 holes to eliminate Bo Farlow of Birmingham in the round of 16, then defeated David Stewart of Scottsboro 2-and-1 in the quarterfinals.

Snedeker won two 4-and-3 matches against Cole Skaggs of Fort Payne and Michael Peter of Florence.

It was almost an all-area semifinals: O’Toole beat Fairhope’s Bryant MacKellar 5-and-4 and Sutton defeated Mobile’s Robert Nelson 2-and-1 to reach the semifinals.

Via: al.com

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Forget Brandt Snedeker, older bro Haymes Snedeker more accomplished on Alabama Gulf Coast

June 9th, 2012 by South Alabama Community Website

If you’re a golf fan, you know about Brandt Snedeker – last year’s PGA Tour Rookie of the Year who looks like anything but a fluke with three Top 10s in nine events played in 2008. Brandt Snedeker’s a good story. His older brother Haymes Snedeker just happens to be a better one.

Haymes Snedeker became the youngest judge in Alabama at age 28 when he was appointed by the Fairhope City Council and Mayor. Four years later, he’s still the youngest judge in Alabama. He’s also a criminal defense attorney and budding real estate developer. All after coming to grips with the end of his own promising golf career, a career he once put on hold to help take care of his sick parents.

Talk about a John Grisham novel waiting to come to life.

Listen to people on the Alabama Gulf Coast (an extremely underrated golf destination with beautiful beaches, spring breaking babes in bikinis and high class, reasonably priced courses) who know golf and they’ll tell you that Haymes Snedeker was a better player than his younger brother growing up too. The cart kid at Peninsula Golf Club was almost visibly wowed by having Haymes Snedeker at the course.

“How did you get hooked up with Haymes?” he asked me in wonder after the round.

Yes, you’re cool if you just play golf with Haymes Snedeker in these parts.

The thing is, he couldn’t be a better guy to play with either. He drove a green, cut majestic bombs over towering trees on doglegs, hit a few shots you only see PGA Tour players hit. I hit my usual clunkers into the marsh and low-flying sideways stingers into the woods. And Haymes still had a blast with it.

Brandt Snedeker seems like a good guy from the few times I’ve interviewed him covering PGA Tour events. But there’s no way he’s playing with the worst golfing golf writer in the world for four hours and keeping a genuinely happy face.

I tried my best to goad Haymes into a good rip quote for a BadGolfer.com column, but he wouldn’t take the bait. At one point, I turned to him and said, “You probably could have beat me when you were 4-years-old,” but he only laughed and said, “No way. I didn’t even start playing until I was 11. You’re not close to the worst I’ve played with either.”

He was probably talking about other 11 year olds, but the guy’s too classy to ever say it. You’ve never seen seem somebody more happy with life.

“I wake up next to my wife every morning, look over and think I stole something,” said Haymes, who met his wife while he was a star SEC golfer at Ole Miss – which happens to produce more Miss Americas than any other university in the country.

If you’re the Snedekers’ parents – ordinary hard-working folks who largely raised their two boys in Nashville – who are you more proud of? The PGA star in waiting or the youngest judge in Alabama?

I know which Snedeker will always be welcome at any Baldwin family function. And he and Nick Faldo are the only high-level golfers who have that distinction. Not that they care at all about that, but it just shows sometimes golf really does reveal character.

You will not find more interesting good characters in any golf region than the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coasts either. When the first regular golfer told me, he came back because of the people, I frankly chalked it up to him being something of a loon. When the third, fourth and fifth golfer over several days told me the same thing and I experienced more of it myself, it became apparent it’s a real factor.

For more on the Gulf Coast’s great characters, including the Gumbo king who just wouldn’t leave when Hurricane Katrina’s waters kept rising and the guy who keeps the oldest course in Mississippi alive, stay tuned for the next On The Spot column on TravelGolf.com.

Via: WorldGolf by Chris Baldwin

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Thomas Hospital Foundation’s 2011 Christmas Greeting Program

December 8th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website

The Perfect Little Gift

This year, the Thomas Hospital Foundation commissioned Coasters and Paintings by elisabeth goreeElisabeth Goree to paint an original image. Her colorful abstract is featured on a set of beautiful coasters. For a small donation of $10, you can make a gift in honor of a family member, friend, co-worker, teacher, or business associate. They will receive a set of coasters, tucked in a festive envelope with a card letting them know that a gift has been made in their honor to the Thomas Hospital Foundation.

Each time the recipient uses the colorful coasters they will be reminded that you made a gift in their honor that in turn helps provide the very best in compassionate healthcare for their family and friends.

All proceeds stay right here at Thomas Hospital, improving the health of the people in our community.

Place your order online or print out the order form and mail it to the Thomas Hospital Foundation, Post Office Box 929, Fairhope, AL 36533. We’ll mail them out right away.

If you need any additional information, call 251-279-1517 or email jeana.barnes@infirmaryhealth.org.

Some further fun to be involved with from the Thomas Hospital Foundation.

Fun Family Project

Christmas Ornaments

This is a great activity for young and old alike. It was featured in Family Fun Magazine.

What you’ll need:

  • Small popcorn balls
  • Mini candy canes
  • Colored sugar
  • Frosting
  • Mini M&Ms

Instructions

  1. You’ll need a small popcorn ball for each person (they used store-bought and about 3 inches wide). Use a wooden skewer to poke a small hole in the top, snap the end off of a mini candy cane to create a point, and gently press the sharp end of the cane into the popcorn ball far enough to make a loop, as shown.
  2. For the sugar dots and lines, pour colored sugar onto a flexible paper plate (the flexibility makes it easy to pour the extra sugar back into the container when you’re done). Fill a pastry bag with frosting, or scoop frosting into a quart-size plastic bag and cut off one corner. Working on one dot or line at a time, pipe frosting thickly onto the ball, then press the ball gently into the sugar so that only the frosting touches it. Use frosting to glue mini M&Ms to the ball.

Thomas hospital foundation logo

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Checkers Reopens In Mobile Alabama Saturday; Free Fries For a Year Giveaway

November 9th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website

Checkers LogoIf you’ve driven down east Airport Boulevard in Mobile within the past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed something great. Checkers is coming back with a brand new look. And coming back is great because they have some of the best burgers and fries around. Not only that, but they’re going to be giving away to the first 100 people who attend the launch on Saturday Free Checkers Fries for a year!

According to their website, Checkers was first started in Mobile back in 1986 and has been cooking up great burgers ever since. The Checker’s story, which some of you may know from outside of the area as Rally’s goes like this:

“Checkers & Rally’s restaurants were born out of the idea that a bland and flavorless burger was downright bad and that Americans everywhere deserved a better tasting burger — one that was unexpectedly bold, made-to-order and priced at a value that was hard to beat. Founded by experienced foodies with a renegade spirit, both the Checkers & Rally’s unique double drive-thru concept, with its over-the-top checkerboard squares, chrome styling, red neon signs and of course the food, was an instant hit. These two new burger experiences were hot, fresh and served with a smile. People were hooked, and the world of cookie cutter corporate burger establishments was about to change.”

And here’s the official release about the re-opening:

Checkers French FriesThe new reimaged Checkers restaurant at 2213 Airport Blvd in Mobile, AL will host a Grand Opening celebration for the hungry public on Saturday, November 12, 2011.

To kick off the grand opening on Saturday, November 12, Checkers is offering FREE fries for a year to the first 100 guests in line. And, guests in line, 101 and after will receive FREE fries with purchase all weekend. So, be sure to be one of the first people in line, as we anticipate people camping out!

During the grand opening celebration, there will be a kickoff to food eating contests open to the public with a competition showdown at 11am between the University of South Alabama’s STATS (Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow) student organization versus the University of Mobile’ SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) student organization.

Checkers will also give away prizes, coupons, and promotions to reward the community and its loyal fans.

Hoping to see you all there!

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Heads Up! The International Space Station Visible Over Alabama Soon

November 8th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website
International Space Station Flight Path Over Alabama

International Space Station Flight Path Over Alabama

According to NASA, beginning at 5:09PM today the last visible two-minute to visibly see the International Space Station (ISS) occurs. Look to the north as it travels to the south towards the water if you’re going to want to see it! The event began occurring on Monday for six minutes, was visible for two minutes on Tuesday around 6PM and will be visible for the last time in just a moment.

The PR says for “Those wanting a peak at the manned station should look for a bright looking star moving quickly across the night sky.”

The NASA website states that it will be at a maximum elevation of 37 degrees, the approach will be at 37 degrees above SSW (south southwest) and depart 12 degrees above SSE (south southeast). Our best suggestion to see it is somewhere on the Eastern Shore on the water like Fairhope Pier or anywhere on the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico to see it depart.

We’ve gotten this information thanks to the Press-Register and the original story as reported can be found here.

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Food Review: Hibachi on the Go in Daphne Alabama

November 5th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website
Shrimp Hibachi from Hibachi on the Go in Daphne AL

Shrimp Hibachi

It’s always great when a good restaurant opens. It’s even better when a good restaurant opens that has awesome food for a reasonable price. Hibachi on the Go, located at 28825-A Hwy 98 in Daphne, Alabama (near Subway and I-Hop) is the latest addition to the Eastern Shore that is definitely worth it if you enjoy Japanese cuisine.

Miso Soup and Seaweed Salad from Hibachi on the Go in Daphne, Alabama 36526

Miso Soup and Seaweed Salad

They’re open every day from 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM and can be reached by phone at 251-626-8818. Lunch and dinner portions are available. The restaurant features appetizers that you can’t find anywhere else in the area such as Japanese Egg Rolls, Tempura Mushrooms, Kani Salad and Japanese Nachos. The hibachi and teriyaki choices are vegetable, chicken, tofu, steak, shrimp, salmon or tuna, which is also a larger variety than that of all of the other hibachi restaurants around and offer a huge selection of sauces to accompany the meal.

Hibachi on the Go in Daphne Alabama Japanese Eggrolls and Sushi

Japanese Eggrolls and Sushi

In addition to traditional hibachi they offer Yakimesi, which is fried rice, with chicken, steak and shrimp. And hibachi isn’t the only thing they offer; sushi is also an option to eat while dining here. From favorites such as the California Roll to Spicy Tuna Rolls, to specialty rolls such as the Hibachi on a Roll and the War Eagle Roll, the selection is large enough to satisfy any craving you might have. And sushi is worth a try for the price.

One of the best things about Hibachi on the Go aside from the food is that you can call ahead and pick up your order from their drive-thru, literally making “on-the-go” a reality. Or if you would rather dine-in, you can easily seat a party of 6 or more in the dining room area as well as sit at the bar for a quick bite.

We’ve had a few meals here already, have been patrons since their grand opening and we’ve yet to be disappointed. With hibachi at nearly half the cost of their competitors and the drive-thru alone, you can’t miss this. The wait for the food is usually about 10 to 15 minutes or less depending on if you called ahead or not. Don’t let the absence of cars out front fool you though, they get their food out quick and you’re “on the go”. The price is moderate and about $12 to $15 per person with appetizers, hibachi and a drink depending on your selection.

We hope you’ll give them a try as we’ve thoroughly enjoyed everything on the menu so far and will continue to stop by, even if to satisfy our seaweed salad craving. Here’s the menu so you won’t have to go hunting it down.

Hibachi on the Go Menu - Front

Hibachi on the Go Menu - Front

Hibachi on the Go Menu - Back

Hibachi on the Go Menu - Back

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Third Annual 2011 South Alabama Film Festival Information

October 19th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website

2011 South Alabama Film FestivalThe 3rd annual South Alabama Film Festival seeks to showcase and educate the community about filmmakers and their creations, while welcoming all who enjoy the medium. One of the nation’s oldest and most beautiful cities, Mobile will alight with the cinematic arts throughout the year, culminating in November’s three-day festival.

In addition to feature-length and short films, the festival will offer seminars and workshops for adults and school children, to further its goal of educating – as well as enchanting – the growing regional film community. In its third year, and for many more to come, the festival strives to be the yearly event in Southern Alabama for all who love, and create, film.

The festival takes place November 4th, 5th, and 6th at multiple venues throughout Mobile, AL.

Passes for the festival are available now and at the downtown office. Weekend passes will be $30 and individual film tickets will be $5. Click here for tickets.

The South Alabama Film Festival is a part of the Mobile Arts Council made possible by the generous support of the Mobile Public Library, The Crescent Theater, The Center for the Living Arts, The Bike Shop, The Fort Conde Inn, The Hampton Downtown.

FEATURE LENGTH FILMS
Wrestling For JesusWrestling For Jesus (documentary)
Sat, Nov 5
3pm
The Crescent Theater

A documentary about Timothy who was born in Mobile, AL and grew up a wrestling fanatic. After moving to South Carolina, Timothy started a Christian wrestling organization. His goal is to use wrestling to evangelize his neighbors. However his passion and vision for his ministry are tested when his personal life begins to disintegrate. Wrestling for Jesus is a raw and honest all-access pass into the two worlds of independent wrestling and religion in the rural South.

- Timothy (T-Money) is originally from Mobile
- Timothy is scheduled to attend

http://www.facebook.com/wrestlingforjesus
http://wrestlingforjesus.com

Missing Pieces (special preview screening) (narrative)
Missing PiecesSat, Nov 5
5pm
The Crescent Theater

This is a story about a man who’s lost everything and his misguided attempts to put it back together. Missing Pieces is an emotional enigma about love and loneliness…and a kidnapping. Through interwoven, poignant vignettes, this multi-plot tale unfolds and untangles into a truly unique and heartfelt love story about finding hope when all is lost.

- Kenton Bartlett (writer/producer) is from Birmingham
- Started the film when he was 19; he’s now 23
- Filmmaker is scheduled to attend
- Along with film Q&A, Kenton will also be participating in a workshop/Q&A session with the kids camp students

http://www.facebook.com/FindYourMissingPieces
http://www.findyourmissingpieces.com

Prairie Love (narrative)
Prairie Love PosterSat, Nov 5
9pm
The Crescent Theater

When a mysterious vagrant living out of his car among the snowy plains discovers a nearly-frozen local with a pen-pal girlfriend, he sees an opportunity to change his lonely existence. From the harsh Midwestern frozen plains, comes this wonderfully bizarre but heartwarming look at three people searching for love and self discovery in the oddest ways.

- This will be the first screening in South Alabama
- Ashley Bias & Dusty Bias (from Baldwin County)
- Filmmaker scheduled to attend
- Official Selection: 2011 Sundance Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature: 2011 Oxford Film Festival

http://www.facebook.com/prairielove
http://www.prairielove.com
http://www.prairielove.com/press/mr.pdf

Man of Deeds (documentary)
Sun, Nov 6
1pm
Bernhiem Hall

Born into the chaos of the French Revolution, Mathias Loras would come to develop a vision for a state of spirituality in the New World that few dare dream. Brought up in an elegant, bourgeois family he would eventually become a missionary assigned to a remote outpost in the frontier territory of Iowa. There he would sow the seeds of the church to rough miners and farmers, while battling the unending hardships of life on edge of civilization.

- Filmmaker Craig Schafer is scheduled to attend
- From 1830-1832 Mathias Loras served as the first president of Spring Hill College

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Loras

The Reconstruction of Asa Carter (documentary)
The Reconstruction of Asa CarterSun, Nov 6
4pm
Bernhiem Hall

Forrest Carter, best-selling author of The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Education of Little Tree, was an exalted Cherokee hero of New Age wisdom. As a leader in the Native American cultural revival of the 1970’s, Forrest touched millions of readers with his gentle and earthy tales of Indian life. Twelve years after his death, however, the public learned that Forrest had a hidden past. Forrest Carter was actually Asa ‘Ace’ Cater, violent Ku Klux Klansman and Alabama Governor George Wallace’s principal speechwriter; author of the infamous 1963 inaugural address, ‘Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!’

- Filmmaker Douglas Newman scheduled to attend

http://www.facebook.com/reconstructionofasacarter
http://www.reconstructionofasacarter.com

FESTIVAL VENUES
Ben May Main Library, Bernheim Hall
The Crescent Theater
Space 301
Cathedral Square

More films are scheduled to show. Check the South Alabama Film Festival Website and find out more:

http://www.southalabamafilmfestival.org

Follow the South Alabama Film Festival on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/SoALFilmFest

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NAS Pensacola honors fallen soldiers

May 30th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website

FOX 10 Memorial Day 2011 - NAS Pensacola honors fallen soldiers; Russell ColburnUpdated: Monday, 30 May 2011, 6:12 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 30 May 2011, 6:12 PM CDT
Published by Fox 10’s Russell Colburn.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) – Flags flew at half-mast Monday – part of a solemn atmosphere on Naval Air Station Pensacola where many came to honor fallen soldiers at the base’s chapel.

“I can’t think of any place I’d rather be on Memorial Day than in a ceremony honoring our fallen heroes,” said NAS Pensacola Commander Captain Chris Plummer.

A 21-gun salute and a two-bell ceremony symbolizing the end of the day aboard a Navy ship made up Monday’s ceremony at NAS.

“We have what we have today, our freedom, that no one can imagine, because a soldier, a person, just walked up, volunteered to the United States to go and lay down their lives so that we could have our freedom,” said Barrancas National Cemetery director Angela Nash.

That was the message guest speaker Nash delivered at the service.

In true Memorial Day fashion, Nash and her staff placed flags at every grave-site at the cemetery.

Many at the ceremony felt that that the true Memorial Day attitude has been lost.

“There’s not enough being said. It’s not observed enough. They’re making it like a special day. To me, every day’s a special day,” said ceremony director Robert Hall.

“To me, Memorial Day is way more than having a barbeque. It’s way more than us celebrating and going to the beaches,” said Nash.

Hall told me his inspiration for choosing such an event to head up came from a picture he once saw of a father in uniform at a cemetery with his son.

“The little boy looked up at his dad and said, ‘Is this the only day we celebrate this, we observe this?’ And his dad says, ‘Well, sorry to say, son, but it appears that it is,’” Hall said.

Hall plans to organize next year’s ceremony as well. He said that it’s up to the schools and parents to better educate young people on the true spirit of Memorial Day – to simply take a moment out of their day to think about what service men and women have done for us.

NAS Pensacola honors fallen soldiers: fox10tv.com

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How South Alabama Can Help West Alabama

April 29th, 2011 by South Alabama Community Website

We’ve been pretty active on both Facebook and Twitter gathering information and finding out how people can get involved in helping those affected by recent storms in Tuscaloosa, Cullman, Jacksonville and other cities throughout west Alabama. The damage is remarkable. President Obama, Governor Bentley, and Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have taken action to see that the towns, schools, businesses and people affected are getting the assistance they need. You’re probably asking by now, “How can I help out the victims of the tornadoes in west Alabama?”, and we’re here to share with you a list of businesses and places you can help to pass along in your own city from dropping off non-perishable goods to giving blood.

Where to help in Baldwin County:

The City of Fairhope is collecting items for Tuscaloosa and northern Alabama at the James P. Nix Center. The items will be transported by “We Care Baldwin County” lead by local residents Bobby and Lori Clark.

Camping World in Robertsdale is collecting donations. Items will ship north on Tuesday.

Mommy & Me Marketplace – If you’d like to contribute clothing or non-perishable food items, you can drop them off Friday and Saturday from 7AM to 7PM, call 747-3890.

The Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama will be collecting toiletry and baby items with neighborhood drives. If a girl scout is not in your area you can drop them off at Headquarters preschool at 925 Nichols Ext. in Fairhope, AL or call Becky at 610-0855.

Tacky Jacks announced on here they have a trailer in Orange Beach and Spanish Fort to fill with donation supplies to send to Tuscaloosa. Grande Pointe in Daphne will also be a drop-off point before 3PM today to get items to Tacky Jacks.

RE/MAX of Gulf Shores, the Alabama Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce, and Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism Welcome Center in Gulf Shores have been declared a “drop point” for relief items for the victims. RE/MAX will be loading their moving truck with items and driving it to Tuscaloosa on Monday.

Items requested include:

  • New clothing
  • New blankets/linens
  • Toiletries
  • New toys
  • Pet supplies
  • Water
  • Cleaning supplies / bleach
  • Non perishable food items
  • New baby supplies

Freckles in Semmes on Hwy 98 across from Regions Bank and right beside Semmes Tanning is taking donations.

Lucky Break Pool Hall in Foley is accepting donations.

Fairhope United Methodist Church & PostNet in Fairhope are both collecting non-perishable items that will be sent up.

In Mobile County:

92ZEW is accepting donations, non-perishables and batteries today at 1100 Dauphin St at the corner of Dauphin & Hallet.

97.5 WABB is taking donations all day at the station today for tornado victims. Located at 1551 Springhill Ave, Mobile.

LifeSouth also has donor centers on Alabama’s Gulf Coast: in Mobile at 967 Hillcrest Road; in Daphne at 6451 Merritt Blvd.; and in Fairhope at Thomas Medical Center, 750 Morphy Ave. Call toll-free (888) 795-2707 for more information and hours of operation.

National Relief Efforts:

The Salvation Army: Call 1-800-SAL-ARMY and designate “April 2011 Tornado Outbreak.”

Red Cross info: To make a donation, visit www.redcross.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

Here is a list, thanks to Grande Pointe, of non-perishable items to grab and drop off.

  • Baby formula
  • Bandaids and other first aid products
  • Blankets
  • Clothing in all sizes
  • Conditioner
  • Deodorant
  • Diapers
  • Dishwashing soap
  • Feminine products
  • Can Food
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Individual juices
  • Kleenex
  • Laundry detergent
  • Shampoo
  • Shoes in all sizes
  • Small toys for displaced children
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Toothbrushes
  • Toothpaste
  • Ziploc bags

If you have any more information that you’d like to share to help out the victims of the tornado crisis in Alabama, please e-mail us at webmaster@southal.net.

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