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Community December 27, 2007
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Year in Review
September
Grove Hill mural being painted

Local artists Johnna Bush and Sharon Dozier work on Grove Hil's courthous square mural.
Local artists Johnna Bush and Sharon Dozier worked for weeks to paint a wildlife mural on the side of the Keahey law office on the courthouse square in Grove Hill. The 90 feet wide by 16 feet high mural was made possible through grants and donations and was a project of the Grove Hill Arts Council.

Two churches in the Morvin area were burglarized over a September weekend. Buxton Chapel and Rockpoint Baptist Church were broken into and air conditioning units were stolen.

Boise Cascade sold its papermaking assets to Aldabra 2 Acquistion Co. The new company planned to change its name to Boise Paper Company and to take the company public on the stock market.

Alabama House of Representatives Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, spoke to a group in Grove Hill at the invitation of State Rep.Marc Keahey, D-Grove Hill. Among those who turned out to hear Hammett was former House Speaker Joe C. McCorquodale of Jackson. McCorquodale served in the House from the 1960s through the 1980s and was speaker two terms.

Thomasville native and well known Alabama author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham was honored in her hometown by Alabama Southern Community College. The occasion was the republication of her book, "Alabama: One Big Front Porch." The daylong event included storytelling and an old-fashioned southern dinner (the noon day meal, not supper).
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