By Melanie Patterson

The North Jefferson News



The following events were reported in The North Jefferson News during this week in 2003, 1998, 1988 and 1978.



Five years ago

• Tabernacle Christian School in Gardendale celebrates 30 years. Founded in 1974, the school began as a ministry of Gardendale Baptist Tabernacle, which was founded just two years prior to the school.

• This Saturday, the Gardendale Civic Center and Main Street will resemble Bike Week in Daytona Beach. Fall Thunder Tour, a motorcycle parade, charity ride and bike show, may draw hundreds of participants.

• Gardendale clinches the class 5A Region 5 title after stamping out Carver 21-0. Also, the Gardendale High School volleyball team wins the Class 5A regional volleyball tournament, beating Mortimer Jordan twice. Mortimer Jordan finished second in the tourney.



10 years ago

• Federal grants have helped the cities of Fultondale and Warrior hire more police officers. Fultondale received $150,000 to hire two full-time officers, while Warrior received $58,954 to add one full-time officer.

• Last week the PTO of Gardendale Elementary School cut the ribbon on a new playground. Present were Gardendale Elementary principal Carol Yarborough, Jefferson County Commissioner Bettye Fine Collins and many happy Kindergartners.

• The Fultondale City Council is searching for ways to help fund a new library. They are considering a loan since interest rates are so low. Library director Dorothy Byrd said that the library issued more than 1,000 new cards in September.



20 years ago

• Fultondale City Council members voted unanimously for a $1.48 million budget Monday that would increase spending by about $10,000 over the amount spent last year.

• Fultondale police responded to a call Wednesday in which a resident had subdued a census taker who had gone around to the rear of a house after failing to get a response at the front door. Police Chief William Finn said no one was hurt, but noted that census takers are now in the area gathering information for the 1990 census.

• Morris residents will pay another $1.15 per quarter for garbage pickup service beginning Jan. 1, 1989. The contractor had actually raised the quarterly rate effective Oct. 1, but the town has absorbed the increase for the current quarter.



30 years ago

• Six people were hospitalized after a rash of accidents in the north Jefferson area this week. There were at least six separate accidents in Gardendale and Fultondale.

• Fultondale police are still searching for a black man, armed with a knife, who took approximately $150 from the Value Oil Company Service Station on Hwy. 31 N on Friday. The suspect forced the attendant to the floor and removed the money from the cash register shortly before 10 p.m.

• A bazaar aimed at raising money for the Fultondale paramedics will be held Friday and Saturday in the parking lot of Clayton’s Florist and the Knit and Pik shop in Fultondale.