By Sam Prickett According to Kristen Farmer Hall, “the Bandit journey” started in October 2013, when she and her daughters came up with the idea to bake and deliver pastries to their neighbors. “We’d ring the doorbell and run away, so we became known as ‘the Baking Bandits,’” Hall said. Now, with the just-opened Bandit Patisserie, Hall has brought her pastries out into the … [Read more...]
O Christmas Trees: Ho-Ho-Hoover Randle Event Celebrates Holidays With Tree Decorating and Helping Hoover Children in Need
By Ingrid SchnaderThirteen organizations in Hoover were invited to the first-ever Ho-Ho-Hoover Randle open house and tree decoration contest Sunday at the Hoover-Randle Home & Gardens. The Hoover-Randle group provided the trees, and the only instruction to the area organizations that decorated the trees was that each tree should tell a story about those … [Read more...]
Lending a Helping Hand: Seniors Have Spent Decades Volunteering at Brookwood Hospital
By Ingrid Schnader Behind the daily operations at Brookwood Baptist Health, there is a team of about 70 volunteers who help put a smile on each patient’s face. Denise Lambert, who took over as volunteer coordinator last year, said she is amazed by the work the volunteers do each day. “They are phenomenal,” Lambert said. “I didn’t even know some of the stuff they do every day … [Read more...]
Twist to the Revolution: Samford’s Production of ‘1776’ Casts 22 Women, Only Four Men
By Ingrid SchnaderThe original script for “1776: The Musical,” which was written in 1969, calls for a cast of two women and 24 men.But when Samford University theater director Chelsea Nicholson got hold of the script, she decided to take a different artistic direction.“Look at Congress today,” she said. “It’s 80% men, 20% women in 2019. And that’s only after that … [Read more...]
Rooms With a View: Susan and John Vawter Will Open Their Redmont Park House for the IPC Tour
By Donna Cornelius A stately Redmont Park house will be one of the high points of the Independent Presbyterian Church’s Holiday House Tour, and that’s not just because the red brick house is a beautiful blend of the old and the new. The house’s perch gives homeowners Susan and John Vawter a sweeping perspective of downtown Birmingham. Rooms at the back of the house overlook a … [Read more...]