By Keysha DrexelGrowing up in India, Sandhya Garg had just one Barbie doll and just one dream."When I was 8 years old, I just had that one doll, so I started making clothes for it and I decided at that moment that I would someday be a fashion designer," the Mountain Brook resident said. "I knew from an early age that this was the only path for me."Twenty years … [Read more...]
Something New, Something Old
Alignments Change But Competition Stays The SameBy Lee DavisJournal sports writerFor the past few years, plenty of fans have been unhappy with the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s football regional alignments.The critics had a long list of legitimate points. In what sane world, for example, was Spain Park versus Wetumpka a region game, while the … [Read more...]
Birmingham Holocaust Center Honors Jeffrey Bayer
By Keysha DrexelJournal editor By Keysha DrexelJournal editorChances are that if you have lived, worked or shopped in the Birmingham metro area in the last 30 years, you have spent some time in one of the buildings in Bayer Properties’ 11 million square-foot mixed-use asset portfolio.But the business acumen of Jeffrey Bayer is not the reason the … [Read more...]
Knowing the Ropes
By Keysha DrexelJournal editorThere will be a new royal at Vestavia Hills High School when school starts next week.Lizzie Sexton will start her sophomore year on Aug. 11 as the new Miss Alabama High School Rodeo.She won the title in June at the Alabama High School Rodeo Association Queen pageant, where she also earned a spot on the Alabama National High … [Read more...]
Throwing His Support to Camp SAM
A former Hoover High School and University of Alabama quarterback sent bidders into a frenzy at a recent auction to benefit children fighting cancer.John Parker Wilson joined the live auction action at Camp Smile-A-Mile's eighth annual Funky Monkey fundraiser on July 25. The event was hosted by Camp SAM's junior board of directors.More than 600 people attended the … [Read more...]