News preview for Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009
Here’s a look at what we’re working on for the Jan. 28, 2009, edition of The North Jefferson News. For complete stories, please see Wednesday’s edition or visit our Web site Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m.
Warrior ponders Web site project
The City of Warrior is considering entering the wide world of the Web.
Web site developer Amy Baker Johnson of Warrior gave a presentation Tuesday to the Warrior City Council. Johnson has been a Web designer for eight years, primarily for the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
She told the council that she has created more than 17,000 pages of Web content for the university in eight years.
Johnson said there are many ways a Web site could benefit the city.
“The primary way is by giving (the council) an opportunity to engage the citizenry in conversation,” she said. “Having a Web site says, ‘we as a city are interested in what you think and what you’re interested in.’”
Dispatcher praised for helping accident victim
“Gardendale 911, what’s your emergency?”
“I’ve been in a wreck and I don’t know where I am.”
“What are you close to, m’am?”
“I don’t know. It’s dark and I can hear cars around me. My car’s upside down.”
That’s how a 911 recording released last week by the Gardendale Police Department begins.
The recording was made on Jan. 10 after Gardendale resident Kris Marshall found herself disoriented and upside down in a ravine off Main Street, across from Gardendale First Baptist Church.
The dispatcher who took the call, Vicki Grigsby, received a departmental commendation last week for her professionalism and quick thinking during a frantic, stressful time for a Gardendale resident.
One year later: Cancer patient now in remission
Jan. 12 and 13, 2008, was the last weekend of his life that Alex Swader would not be intimately familiar with cancer.
His mother Michele Swader found out on Jan. 11, a Friday, after she received a call on her cell phone from the doctor. She was in Goody’s parking lot when she learned the terrible news.
But she chose to keep it a secret from Alex, who was then 8, until the following Monday. By then, doctors had already scheduled several scans and tests.
In sports
North Jefferson teams struggle in the opening rounds of the Jefferson County Boys Basketball Tournament at McAdory.