Fultondale

Service day to be held

The City of Fultondale is inviting volunteers from the community to participate in a Community Service Day at Black Creek Park on Jan. 21 from 9 a.m. to noon. Tasks will include the planting of a blueberry-butterfly garden, installing a split rail fence, removing kudzu, mimosa and privet and staking willows in eroded stream banks. Volunteers are asked to bring work gloves, shovels and rakes and be willing to wear work gloves, durable shoes and/or rubber boots. For more information, contact Darryl Aldrich at 841-4481 or Francesca Gross at 264-8464.



Gardendale

Relay event to be held Jan. 22

The kickoff for Relay for Life of North Jefferson County will be held on Jan. 22 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Gardendale Civic Center. For more information on how to get involved with this year’s Relay for Life, contact Stephanie Crabtree at 930-8896 or e-mail stephanie.crabtree@cancer.org.



Birmingham

Civil rights museum awarded

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) recently won the 2007 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the highest award for outstanding public service and contributions to its community. BCRI won the award for its work as the nation’s premier educational center for studying the civil rights movement.



Montgomery

States make MySpace deal

In a victory for social networking safety, Attorney General Troy King and 49 other attorneys general announced recently that MySpace has agreed to significant steps to better protect children on its web site. Specific changes and policies that MySpace agreed to develop include: allowing parents to submit their children’s e-mail addresses so MySpace can prevent anyone using those email addresses from setting up profiles, making the default setting “private” for profiles of 16- and 17-year-olds and promising to respond within 72 hours to inappropriate content complaints.