Beaker Bash ’06: Science Rocks will have patrons partying like rock stars at McWane Science Center on Nov. 4, beginning at 7 p.m. The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys will provide music while guests devour delicacies from Daniel George restaurant, and concoct mind-bending formulas for cosmic cocktails. Guests will have a chance to win “rocks” provided by Barton Clay Fine Jewelers. … [Read more...]
For What It’s Worth
The financial world has gone a bit wonky. In cities around the country, people are waking up to find that their houses are worth half what they were the night before. No tornado, no flash flood, no damaging straight line winds. The walls are the same, the tasteful decor, even the all powerful location-location-location hasn’t changed and yet there they are, property value … [Read more...]
Dream On
Lucky people get to live in the house of their dreams. That’s what happened to Barry and Cathy DeLozier. It’s just that their dream changed shape along the way.In 2007, the DeLoziers had sold their Vestavia Hills house and were planning to build a carefully-designed one. But before construction actually started, another opportunity – in the form of an old house on Shades … [Read more...]
Students at Highlands Host History Specialist on Native Americans
Highlands School second graders recently completed a social studies unit on Native American history and saw history come alive with a visit from Cherokee tribe member Charlene Tuckaleechee Story. Wearing a traditional dress of deer skin, moccasins with bells, jewelry and a feathered hair ornament, Ms. Story talked about daily lives of her people, both past and … [Read more...]