By Melanie Patterson

The North Jefferson News



The following events were reported in The North Jefferson News during this week in 2004, 1999, 1989 and 1979.



Five years ago

• Fultondale, Gardendale and Warrior police departments are taking part in a program called “U Booze, U lose,” that is geared toward keeping people from drinking and driving during the New Year’s holiday.

• Eleven-year-old Peyton Gamble of Gardendale, a student at Bragg Middle School, won $1,000 in the McDonald’s Monopoly Game recently. He stumbled upon a winning game piece by ordering his customary pre-soccer-game hash browns.

• Among area high-school students’ New Year’s resolutions this year are: Get closer to God; be able to do a back-handspring with out a spotter; graduate in May and build my own restaurant chain in Miami; get along with my family; and to accomplish my goals even though I’m not sure what they are right now.



10 years ago

• Beginning Sunday, it will cost another penny to mail a first-class letter. The new price will be 33 cents. The price increase is the first in four years, when the cost went up 3 cents.

• An arctic blast in north Jefferson County brought a dusting of snow and freezing temperatures to the area. Jack Frost worked his way down from Canada as party goers rung in 1999.

• Better Body Ladies Club, a women-only gym, has moved into a bigger building. The new location next to Max’s Cafeteria in Gardendale, will quadruple the gym’s size from 2,500 to 10,000 square feet.



20 years ago

• The Gardendale City Council voted to allow the architectural firm of Evan Terry Associates to accept bids for a new Gardendale library. The library will be located on a hilltop between Mt. Olive Road and Old Fieldstown Road. Total cost for construction and land acquisition is estimated at $635,000.

• Bettye Kimbrell of the North Jefferson Quilters Guild is cooperating with the North Jefferson News to help people make their own quilt. The guild and the newspaper will provide step-by-step instructions, complete with illustrations, over the next several weeks that will include everything you need to know.

• Warrior’s City Council voted to insure the city for a total of $1 million in liability coverage.



30 years ago

• Billy Henley, president of the Fultondale EMS, Inc., announced that the group was dropping the matter of controversy over the payment of the bill for the grant supposedly approved during the last administration. The group is also dropping a request for the city to adopt four resolutions, including an apology for something printed in an area newspaper.

• Once again the subject of 10-percent raises for the employees of Warrior came up at the recent city council meeting, but the council voted to put off the decision.

• Members of the Morris Senior Citizen Center raffled off a quilt, raising $118 that will go toward a trip to the Grand Old Opry in the spring.