Gardendale



Relay for Life

The North Jefferson Relay for Life season is under way. Help take up the fight against cancer. Relay still needs teams and team captains. Team captain meetings will be held on April 10 at the Alabama Power office on Main Street in Gardendale, next to the Western super market. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. Bank Night will be held at SouthPoint bank in Gardendale on April 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. Relay for Life will be held at the Gardendale Soccer Complex on May 2 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. For more information about Relay for Life, visit http://events.cancer.org/rflnorthjeffersonal or contact Stephanie Crabtree at 930-8896.



Help Wanted

Royal Family Kids’ Camp is a week long sleep over camp for abused and neglected children. Gardendale Mt Vernon UMC will be sponsoring a camp this summer. We will also throw a birthday party for all the campers since some of them never get a birthday party thrown for them. If you would like to be a counselor for two of these special children, please contact Paul Wiegert at the church office at 631-7631. There will be mandatory training in order to prepare you for this wonderful experience.



Support Group

Covenant Place and Covenant Woods will host a dementia caregiver support group meeting on April 10 in the social room of the Covenant Place.



Clean -Up Day

April 12 Snow Rogers Elementary School Campus Clean-Up Day will be held on April 12 from 8 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are needed to help with landscaping and painting (even if they can come for a short time). Please bring any lawn and garden tools that you might have. We would also like for someone to help with pressure washing our awnings. Please call the school office for any additional information at 370-5400.



Registration

April 15 Kindergarten registration for Bryan Elementary will take place on April 15, from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. or 3:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the counselor’s classroom. It will be necessary for your child to attend registration. A simple assessment test will be given to your child while you complete your registration packet. The following items will be required to complete registration:certified birth certificate (not hospital copy), proof of immunization (blue card), Social Security card, two proofs of residence (utility bill, lease, rent receipt, etc.), driver’s license



Reading Comes Alive

April 16 Author Diane Shore will visit Snow Rogers Elementary School on April 16 for “Reading Comes Alive.” The public is invited to the free event. Shore will give a presentation in the gym for second and third-graders at 9:30 a.m.; for fourth and fifth-graders at 10:15 a.m.; and for Kindergartners and first-graders at 11:50 a.m.



Magnolia Festival

April 19 Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 19 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. for the annual Magnolia Festival at the Gardendale Civic Center. Come for live entertainment, featuring bluegrass, pop, Christian music; classic car show, carnival rides, pony rides and inflatables for the kids, arts and crafts booths, business expo, great food including barbeque, ice cream, funnel cakes, etc. For more information visit www.magnoliafestival.org. Sponsorships spots are still available until the end of February. Anyone interested in volunteering for the festival can e-mail Kathleen Phillips at kphillips1313@charter.net.



Registration

April 24 Snow Rogers Elementary School will be registering children who will enter kindergarten and new first graders for the 2008-2009 school year on April 24 from 3:30 until 6 p.m. It will be necessary for your child to be with you. A simple assessment test will be given to your child while you complete your registration packet. There will be a parent conference scheduled the week before school opening for students and parents to meet their teachers.

The following documents must be presented for enrollment: (1) legal birth certificate, (2) Social Security card, (3) a blue certificate of immunization (IMM-50), which should include two measles immunizations and one immunization for Chicken Pox, (4) two proofs of residence (utility bills with name and address on them or a rental or mortgage agreement or property tax assessment card), (5) copy of parent’s driver license, and (6) custody papers where applicable. Registration will be permitted at this time without the immunization certificate; however, the proper certificate must be presented before school begins on Aug. 13. A child’s fifth birthday must be on or before Sept. 1, 2008, to enroll in kindergarten for the 2008-2009 school year. For enrollment in first grade, a student’s sixth birthday must be on or before Sept. 1, 2008. Parents may call the school at 379-5400 for additional information if needed.



Bunko

April 25 Gardendale Mt. Vernon will hold a bunko night on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the gym. The cost is $5 per person. Call the church office for tickets at 631-7631. Come for a time of bunko, desserts and an auction to benefit a group of our students as they travel to Kentucky this summer to help repair homes in Bell County.



Walk For Life

April 26 Walk for Life will be held on April 26, the North Jefferson Women’s Center will hold its annual Walk for Life at 10 a.m. at the Gardendale Civic Center. This year’s theme is Steppin’ Up for Life. You may call or come by the center located at 1016 Mulberry Lane (off Fieldstown Road) to get your sponsor sheet and begin getting sponsors. For more information, please contact the center at 608-0100.



Cemetery Clean Up

May 11 Friendship United Methodist Church will start having cemetery cleanup for the May 11 decoration day. Monetary donations will be received and appreciated.



TOPS

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Monday at 6 p.m. in the Family Life Center of First Baptist Church, Room 2028. Robert Pliner is the leader. For more information call 608-0606.



Mount Olive



World Religion Conference

April 14-18 The North Jefferson Baptist Association will sponsor a seminar on authentic faith in a world of counterfeits on April 14-18 with Dr. Ron Carlson. The conference will be held at Mt. Olive First Baptist Church at 7 p.m. You can contact the association at 631-4126 or 223-4438 for any further information.



Free Child Care

There will be free child care in the Mt. Olive area for 3 and 4 year olds. The head start program is now enrolling for the summer. Regular full day childcare is offered. Call 608-1661.



Fultondale



Yard Sale

April 11-12 Fultondale United Methodist Church will have a yard sale on April 11, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and April 12 8 a.m.-noon. Rain or shine.



Ladies Luncheon

April 26 Fultondale First Baptist Church is having a ladies luncheon on April 26 at 11 a.m. featuring the Bargainomics Lady. Tickets are $10. For more information, call 849-0184.



Dances

The Marlow Ballroom Dance is held the third Sunday of every month at Friendship Hall in Fultondale from 2-5 p.m. Cost is $8/person, dressy casual. Group classes are also held every Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Friendship Hall $10/person. For more information call 229-8240.



Info Requested

Our RLC/gifted class is looking for available individuals who lived or fought during World War II because we are writing a novel. We prefer information about the Fultondale, Gardendale and Birmingham areas. We appreciate the community help. Please contact us at Fultondale Elementary School, 950 Central Avenue, Fultondale, AL 35068, attention Mrs. Dumais’ RLC/gifted class.



Dance Classes

Ballroom group classes for senior citizens will take place on Wednesday from 1-2 p.m. The cost of the classes are $5 per person at the Fultondale Friendship Hall. For more information call David or Patty Marlow at 229-8240.



Reunion

Fultondale High School, class of 1998 is planning a reunion for June of 2008. Please contact Tricia Peebles at 243-1720.



Mother’s Day Out

Walker’s Chapel Baptist Church has Mother’s Day Out every Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information please call Sylvia Norton at 841-8426.



Morris



Country Fair

April 12 The second annual Morris Country Fair is set for April 12 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the park across from Morris City Hall. The Country Fair will feature crafts, a car show, motorcycle show, food for sale and live entertainment. For more information, call Morris City Hall at 647-0596 or Eloise Blankenship at the Morris Senior Center at 647-7434.



Support Groups

The Morris Senior Center will have a caregivers support group on the third Thursday of every month and a cancer support group for patients and family on the first Monday of every month. For more information call Eloise at 647-7434 or 631-6489.



Mother’s Day Out

Enon Baptist Church’s Mother Day Out program will offer childcare for 6 weeks to 4-years-old on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. We follow the Jefferson County School system calendar, so we are out during all of their breaks. For more information call 647-9614.



Warrior



Reunion

April 19 The Warrior High School annual Alumni Banquet will be on April 19. All graduates and former students of Warrior High School are invited. The classes of 1958, 1948 and 1938 who will be celebrating their 50th, 60th and 70th years of graduation will be recognized. For further information, call LaFaye Stover at 647-0214 or Ray Trotter at 647-3743.



Other Communities



Spring Fling

April 12 There will be a spring fling yard sale on April 12 at the Corner High School gym from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be a petting zoo, pony rides, dunking booths, games, inflatables food and a yard sale. Contact the Corner band room at 647-4888 or Jayne Stoltz at 647-3291.



Cemetery Clean up and Decoration

April 12 Sulphur Springs Cemetery work day will take place on April 12 and decoration is on April 27. The clean up day after decoration will be May 17. Please have all flowers that you wish to keep picked up off the ground by that date.



Singing

April 12 Mountain Grove Baptist Church will have a singing on April 12 at 7 p.m. with the Commodores Quartet.



Motorcycle Ride

April 12 Corner High School will have a motorcycle ride on April 12 called “rolling into spring.” There will be refreshments before and after the ride, t-shirts, door prizes and more. Register at Corner High School gym from 8-9 a.m. The ride starts at 9:30 a.m. Cost is $20 single/$30 with rider. Contact Corner High School Band Room at 647-4888 or Jayne Stoltz at 647-3291.



Business Meeting

April 18 World Outreach Center will hold a leadership event on April 18. The maximum impact simulcast will provide you with a day to advance your leadership, join 80,000 leaders across North America and advance yourself. For more information call 625-5160 ext. 12 or email cady@wocusa.com.



Art on the Lake

April 19-20 Art on the Lake, an annual two-day arts and crafts event in Guntersville, is now accepting applications from vendors who wish to exhibit in the show. This 47th annual event will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 19 and 20. For more information, please contact Eloise Patton at (256) 582-4378 or peloise9@aol.com



Reunion

April 26 Sayreton and Fairmont School will hold their reunion on April 26 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Gardendale Civic Center Garden Suite. Bring a covered dish and drink. If you need more information, call 631-4086.



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