By Laura McAlisterMegan Crane isn't just using her fun, flirty designs for fashion. With a cute little teal number she designed in 2010, she's helping fund research for an early detection diagnostic test for ovarian cancer.Inspired by a young woman who lost her life to ovarian cancer, Megan, the designer for the Florida-based Judith March … [Read more...]
Casting Their Purls
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorWhen Roz Feigelson helped start a knitting group at Levite Jewish Community Center, she was doing it more to help herself. But five years later, she and members of the Circle of Life Knitting Society have helped countless others.The Circle of Life meets once a week at the LJCC in Mountain Brook to knit scarves and shawls for cancer … [Read more...]
It’s a Small World
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorTom and Charlotte Laggy have learned a lot from their many travels. For instance, if something looks good, that still doesn’t mean you want to eat it, and air conditioning really is a commodity.But perhaps the greatest lesson they’ve learned is that to really understand different places, you have to immerse yourself in that culture. … [Read more...]
Back in the Game
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorRuss Arthur has been retired for years. But about once a week come spring, he gets to feel like a kid all over again.That’s when he meets up with fellow senior citizens to play softball with the Central Alabama Senior Softball Association’s daytime league.“I used to play Little League,” … [Read more...]
A New Stage of Life
By Laura McAlister Journal EditorJust because Rick Rivenbark is retired doesn’t mean he can’t pursue his childhood passion.Rick, 74, first got involved with theater when he was in the third grade.“I was in some school plays,” he said. “Then I got to be in a Stetson University play because they needed a child part. We … [Read more...]