By Sarah Kuper Brought together by business and then brought closer by friendship, Sam Yates and Rob Ozols have formed a company that may help change the way Alabamians power their lives. With backgrounds in engineering and law, Yates and Ozols are using skills from previous careers to pursue a passion for user-friendly energy sources. Yates and Ozols founded Vulcan Solar … [Read more...]
OTM Rental Homes: in High Demand Influx of Medical Professionals and Downsizing Baby Boomers Leads to Competitive Rental Market
By Sarah KuperOn March 18, hundreds of medical students across the nation will find out where they will spend the next few years training as resident physicians. It's called Match Day, and until noon on that day, these trainees have no certainty about where they will live come June 1. After the envelope is opened, medical students will start internet searches and pour … [Read more...]
Camp Straight Street: Celebrating 20 Years of Moments and Memories
By June Mathews For Jonathan Owen, camp isn’t just a summertime experience; it’s a fall, winter and springtime experience, too. “My life has been camp for the past 20 years,” he said. “I actually grew up at camp.”It all started when Jonathan’s dad, Herb, founded Camp Straight Street in 1996. At the time, Herb served as the children’s minister at Shades Mountain … [Read more...]
Art History: Mountain Brook Graduate Heads Grand Bohemian Gallery
By Lee Davis When Katherine Miller graduated from Mountain Brook High School in 2005, she knew exactly what she wanted to do – attend Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and study pre-medicine. “I was dead set on becoming a doctor,” she recalled. “So I went through the pre-med program for about a year and a half. Then about halfway through an organic chemistry class, I … [Read more...]
The Third I: Inside the Uber Creative Mind of Kris Childs
By Todd Childs For more than 20 years, Kris Childs has made it her business to ensure that her clients can be seen as well as they can see. That business is iiis. an optical shop. The New Orleans native turned Birminghamian was the mother of two college-aged daughters when a friend suggested in the early 1990’s that they open an eyewear shop. “I said, ‘Why not?’ I knew … [Read more...]