By Sue Murphy On the day you were born, you emerged into the light, the nurse checked the clock on the wall, and – bing! – you were assigned a birthday, a day that will cyclically fall on different days of the week as time goes by, but whose number is yours forever. Your birthday is important. It’s part of your legal and medical identity, not to mention that it gets you … [Read more...]
By Air and Ground: Boiling N’ Bragging Event Nears the $1 Million Mark in Donations Generated for Children’s Critical Care Transport
By Emily Williams With funds raised at Saturday’s 10th annual Boiling N’ Bragging, a partnership between Rotary clubs and Children’s of Alabama’s Critical Care Transport is even closer to their goal of raising $1 million goal for the transporting of critically ill children to obtain medical care. “We treat about 1,000 patients each year,” said Jason Peterson, Children’s … [Read more...]
Wyndy Wants to Grow: Birmingham-Based Babysitting App Gains Seed Money to Spread to New Cities
By Emily Williams The babysitting service app Wyndy, which is based in Birmingham, recently raised $1 million in seed money to help launch the app in three new locations this fall. Wyndy officials are trying to launch in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Atlanta. According to Wyndy CEO and founder Tommy Mayfield, the team settled on those three … [Read more...]
A Wing and a Prayer: Pageant Winner Teams up With Local Artist to Create T-Shirt That is More Than Meets the Eye
By Emily Williams Just as her platform reads, there is “More Than Meets the Eye” when it comes to 2019 Miss Tennessee Valley Outstanding Teen Marissa Luna. A bit of a newcomer to the pageant world, 14-year old Mountain Brook resident Luna and her mother, Misty Chitwood, had no idea that she would be earning a crown when she took the stage at the Miss Tennessee Valley … [Read more...]
The Juniors Have It on Mountain Brook’s Volleyball Squad
By Blake Ells Just one senior – Libby Grace Gann – departed Mountain Brook last season, and this year, the Spartans’ volleyball team will have none. But a large junior class is moving in to help the Spartans surpass last year’s season, in which the team fell in the state semifinals to McGill-Toolen 3-0. “Every day we come in, we know how last year ended,” said junior setter … [Read more...]