Through weekly deliveries to three Vestavia Hills City Schools, Ascension Episcopal Church meets the needs of approximately 41 students facing food insecurity on weekends. On Fridays, nutritious, prepackaged foods are discreetly placed into the backpacks of students who receive free or reduced-cost lunches by school counselors. Ascension volunteers currently … [Read more...]
Oyster like me now?
By Chad McCowanIs it me or is there a culinary resurgence of the maligned oyster, a delicacy today shipped from all parts of the cold northern waters to a fine dinner table in our restaurant savvy town. With all due respect to Dusty’s of Panama City, where the Apalachicola’s are shucked by the billion and are entirely wonderful, fancy me a dozen of the smaller Prince … [Read more...]
Legendary: Mountain Brook City Manager Sam Gaston announces his retirement
Growing up in Russellville, Alabama, the son of a Baptist minister, Sam Gaston knew he wanted to do something in service to people. “I didn’t hear the scripture call,” Gaston says, “but I knew I wanted to serve in some way.”Now almost 32 years after coming to Mountain Brook as the city’s longest serving City Manager, Gaston has done just that. At the beginning of the year, … [Read more...]
Katherine McRee: Leading Cahaba Heights To New… Heights
By Loyd McIntoshKatherine McRee is a leader who doesn’t think of herself as one. At least that wasn’t on her radar screen when she and her sister, Susan Day, opened the Lili Pad, a popular children’s boutique in Cahaba Heights two decades ago. However, in recent years, McRee has emerged as one of the most significant and highly respected civic leaders in … [Read more...]
A Comfortable Oasis: Liz and Curt Rozzelle’s modern Tudor home in Hollywood is ever-evolving in design.
By Madoline Markham KoonceConstruction on Liz and Curt Rozzelle’s new modern Tudor home in Hollywood was completed in 2018, but in some ways that’s just when its story began. “You have to let the house and the yard and the garden tell you what it wants,” Liz says. “Is it in the right place? Where does the sun come in? What is the soil like? What does this room sound … [Read more...]