HomewoodSpring Plant SaleApril 12-15Former Mazer’s Discount Home CenterThe Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ largest annual plant sale fundraiser will be April 12-15 in the former Mazer’s Discount Home Center on Greensprings Avenue in Homewood. More than 100,000 plants will be available for purchase, including the 2012 signature plant, the Rosalita Cleome hybrid … [Read more...]
Twice the Nice
By Laura McAlister Journal Editor Thanks to the leadership of a few Vestavia Hills High School students, children in Africa are one step closer to getting a new school, and the Juvenile Arthritis Foundation will receive more much-needed funds for education and research.During the first semester of the school year, the VHHS Student Government Association raised money … [Read more...]
Youth Movement
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorSome may be lawyers or bankers and others web designers or photographers, but all are young and ready to make a difference in the Birmingham area.They’re members of the Rotaract Club of Birmingham, a junior form of the Rotary Club formed in 2004. Since then, the organization has grown into one of the largest -- if not the largest – of … [Read more...]
Just Getting Started
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorHe's dedicated his life to two very different professions, and at age 77, Charles Denaburg has no plans to give either of them up.He's not even really planning on slowing down.Denaburg has been an attorney for some 60 years, and to mark the milestone, the Birmingham Bar Association recently honored him with a … [Read more...]
Take a Spring Break in Birmingham – and Beyond
By Lynn Grisard Fullman Your friends may have left town for spring break – and poor you, you’re stuck at home.For you, it has meant no packing. No airline delays. No pat-downs by airport security. No gasoline expense. No buying new clothes. No paying a pet sitter. No imposing on a neighbor to get your mail. No timing lights inside your house.You’re … [Read more...]