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OVER THE MOUNTAIN JOURNAL THE SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER FOR MOUNTAIN BROOK, HOMEWOOD, VESTAVIA HILLS, HOOVER, AND NORTH SHELBY COUNTY SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 The Junior Board of Magic Moments will host the third annual Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest benefiting Magic Moments Oct. 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in down- town Homewood. See About Town, page 7. The American Cancer Society’s 31st annual Hope Gala was Aug. 20 at Vestavia Country Club. The event raised more than $375,000 for the ACS. See Social, page 12. Top dealers from across the country will bring their wares to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ sixth annual Antiques at The Gardens show, set for Oct. 7-9. Designer Charlotte Moss headlines this year’s event, “Heirlooms in Bloom.” Chairmen are, from left: Barbara Burton, Elizabeth Broughton and Katharine Patton. Read about committee member Nonie Brown’s home in this issue, too. See Home, page 20. Journal photo by John Pope A GRAND SHOW AT THE GARDENS Antiques Show Helps Gardens Grow Emily Schreiber is in the running for Glamour mag- azine’s Readers Choice Woman of the Year award thanks to her work to raise money and awareness for cystic fibrosis. See Life, page 10.
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OVER THE MOUNTAINJ O U R N A LTHE SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER FOR MOUNTAIN BROOK, HOMEWOOD, VESTAVIA HILLS, HOOVER, AND NORTH SHELBY COUNTY SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
The Junior Board of Magic Moments will host the third annual Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest benefiting Magic Moments Oct. 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in down-town Homewood. See About Town, page 7.
The American Cancer Society’s 31st annual Hope Gala was Aug. 20 at Vestavia Country Club. The event raised more than $375,000 for the ACS. See Social, page 12.
Top dealers from across the country will bring their wares to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ sixth annual Antiques at The Gardens show, set for Oct. 7-9. Designer Charlotte Moss headlines this year’s event, “Heirlooms in Bloom.” Chairmen are, from left: Barbara Burton, Elizabeth Broughton and Katharine Patton. Read about committee member Nonie Brown’s home in this issue, too. See Home, page 20. Journal photo by John Pope
A GRAND SHOW AT THE GARDENSAntiques Show Helps Gardens Grow
Emily Schreiber is in the running for Glamour mag-azine’s Readers Choice Woman of the Year award thanks to her work to raise money and awareness for cystic fibrosis. See Life, page 10.
I lit a candle when I came in from the garage this after-
noon. No, I wasn’t call-ing forth a moment of silence for my chipped windshield. I was try-ing to dispel the aromas of my morning cleaning frenzy. Eau de Lysol and Dryer Sheets was an improvement over last night’s Parfum de Hamburger and Onions,
but not something that makes you draw in a breath and say, “ahhhh.”
I struck the match, watched the flame rise and waited. As the candle essence wafted through the room, however, I realized I had made a mistake. Summer Breeze? How could I have been so careless? It was a day for Autumn Joy.
First day of fall! It was offi-cial. Sure, average outside tem-peratures could still be counted as sweltering, and the resident geese were making no move farther south, but the calendar had indeed inched forward. It was time to pack up the Moonlit Beach and Popsicle Plum and take out the Fallen Leaves and Pumpkin Spice.
You have to be quick with your fall candles, because in a few short weeks (days?), the stores will be overrun with jars of Magic Mistletoe and Snow Covered Pine. The holiday clock is ticking, so breathe in your Crisp Apple Cobbler while you may.
I like candles. Yes, those plug-in things are cleaner and less cumbersome, but there’s something about watching the tiny little flames that warms my heart. Besides, I prefer to have my electrical outlets free and clear in case I decide to run the vacuum cleaner or make some toast ... which would be a good candle scent, now that I think of it. Buttered
Toast. I bought a Buttered Mashed Potatoes candle once, which smelled great, but it didn’t help my low-carb resolution one little bit, so when I won a Chocolate Chip Cookie candle as second prize at Bunco, I quickly packed it away until after my high school reunion. The first place winner got a candle infused with the aroma of Cinnabon. Come on now, that’s just plain mean.
What I needed was a Cottage Cheese and Juice-Packed Peaches candle. Multigrain Muffin and Low Cholesterol Spread. It wasn’t going to happen. Candle scents are designed to evoke pleasant memo-ries, or memories you wish you had. Evening in Paris, Island Getaway, Mountainside Cabin. You can
almost see it ... or smell it.I saw a candle the other day
called Hometown Square. I didn’t take a whiff, but it occurred to me that the hometown scent would depend on what was on the square. A bakery? A dry cleaner? A pizzeria? Pizza wouldn’t be a bad smell, of course, but my guess is burning the candle would cause you to pick up the phone for delivery with increased regu-larity. Hey, brilliant promotional idea! Instead of throwing in a
bottle of soda or pack of cheese bread with each order, hand people a pizza candle. Business could double overnight.
No, no pizza candle for me. Not until after my reunion. It’s fall. I want my house to smell like fall, a season for gathering around the fire (if the tem-perature dips below 90 degrees), watching geese in flight (if they ever decide to wing it) and bringing in the harvest ... which could smell great, depending on what the farmer is harvesting. Red cheeked apples? Great. Soybeans? I’m not so sure.
Forget the soybeans. There are only a few short weeks in the autumn scent window, so I’m going to light every candle in the house. Pumpkin Spice, Apple Pie, Turkey and Dressing if they have it. To heck with my reunion weight goal, I’m bringing the fall smell harvest home. It just makes scents. ❖
Susan Murphy
“I have a game day ring that I have to wear or Alabama will lose.”
Tori BraggHomewood
“I play football at Samford, and if we’re on the sidelines, we have to use headsets to commu-
nicate the plays. I use the same headset every game until we lose, then I will
change it.”
Connor LoweryHomewood
What’s your game day superstition?
“If Alabama is doing well and I am sitting in a cer-
tain spot, I will stay in that spot the entire time. If they
are doing poorly, I move to a different spot in the room with hopes that it
will somehow help them improve.”
Terra GarmonHomewood
“If Tennessee is los-ing, I will switch loca-tions and televisions to watch the game until they hopefully start
winning.”
Jordan ColeHomewood
It Just Makes Scents
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OVER THE MOUNTAINJ O U R N A L September 22, 2011
Vol. 20, No. 18Over The Mountain Journal is a suburban bi-weekly newspaper delivered to households in the Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover and North Shelby County areas. Hot Property is a paid advertisement. Subscriptions for The Journal are available for $24 yearly. Mail to: Over the Mountain Journal, P.O. Box 660502, Vestavia Hills, AL 35216. Phone: (205) 823-9646. E-mail the editorial department at [email protected]. E-mail our advertising department at [email protected]. Find us on the Web at otmj.com. Copyright 2011 Over The Mountain Journal, Inc. All rights reserved. The Journal is not responsible for return of photos, copy and other unsolicited materials submitted. To have materials returned, please specify when submitting and provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope. All materials submitted are subject to editorial review and may be edited or declined without notification.
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2 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 OVER THE MOUNTAIN JOURNALCONTENTS/OPINION
In our next issue, get inspiration on getting and staying healthy.
Browse through more photos from some of the area’s biggest and best parties.
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OTMJ.COMI like candles. Yes, those plug-in things are cleaner and less cumbersome, but there’s something about watching the tiny little flames that warms my
heart.
Two Hoover schools were recently recognized for their efforts to get healthy. See Schools, page 28.
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FROG Affair Set For Oct. 7
The Autism Society of Alabama will present the 14th annual Autism-Asperger FROG Affair Oct. 7 from 6 to 10 p.m. at WorkPlay.
The FROG Affair gets its name from the ASA mascot and means “For Research, Outreach and Giving Support” to the autism and Asperger syndrome community.
This year, the event has live music by Blind Dawg, a dinner buf-fet by Imperial Catering, a signature cocktail provided by Sobeski Vodka and silent and live auctions.
ASA board members from Birmingham include president Bill Pearson, immediate past president Ryan Thomas, treasurer Jonathan Nelson, Ben Carlisle, Rod Harbin, Matt Moore and Jodi Smith, gen-eral counsel.
Reserved seating is available for sponsors. Tickets are $85 and can be purchased at www.autism-alabama.org. For more informa-tion call 877-4AUTISM or email [email protected].
Celebrities Cook at Women’s Show
Aspiring chefs, foodies and fans of Bravo’s “Top Chef” are invited to bring their appetites to the 2011 Celebrity Cooking Stage at this year’s Southern Women’s Show.
The show will be Oct. 6-9 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex.
Headlining the cooking event with “Hot Chef in the House” is Italian chef Fabio Viviani from Bravo’s “Top Chef.” He’ll be joined by local and regional chefs.
Those who attend the Southern Women’s Show can try out new products and services, consult with experts and register for prizes and giveaways. On-site health screen-ings will be available.
Show hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is $9 at the door or $7 in advance at participating Piggly Wiggly stores. Tickets are $5 after 5 p.m. Tickets for children ages 6 to 12 are $5; there’s no charge for children under 6 with a paying adult.
For information, call 800-849-0248 or visit www.SouthernWomensShow.com.
Greek Food Fest Begins Sept. 29
The 39th annual Greek Food Fest will be Sept. 29-Oct. 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
More than 100 parish volun-
teers will participate in the festival, which includes not only Greek cuisine but a marketplace, live Greek music and dancing by parish youth. Cathedral tours will be given throughout the event.
The event includes a take-out option with drive-through and walk-up lines. For orders of 10 or more, call 716-3086 or fax 716-3085.
Free parking for the event is available in the Liberty National Building parking deck, one block away from the cathedral between 20th St. and Richard Arrington Blvd.
For more information, visit www.birminghamgreekfestival.net.
Bush Is Speaker at Faulkner Dinner
President George W. Bush will be the keynote speaker at Faulkner University’s benefit dinner Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa Convention Center.
As president, Bush created the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to strengthen a faith-based institution’s ability to provide services to local areas of need. Since that time, Faulkner has implemented its own service initia-tive in the spirit of Bush’s domestic policy.
Proceeds from the dinner will go towards student scholarships.
For ticket information, call the Office of University Advancement at (334)386-7257 or visit faulkner.edu.
Event Designed for Young Professionals
Birmingham young profession-als are invited to Young, Gifted & Healthy Sept. 22 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Steel Bar, 2300 First Ave. North.
The event features a meet and greet with city leaders in the health care industry, a health fair, business card exchange and more.
Those who attend also can meet fellow business professionals, enter to win door prizes and have com-plimentary appetizers from Steel Bar’s kitchen.
There is no charge. To make reservations, visit www.thejgrou-ponline.com. ❖
Autism Society Junior Board mem-bers helping out at
the FROG Affair include, from left:
Jackie Jones, Tyler Cummins, Meredith
Jones, Emily Walker, Jessica
Charlton and Clark Norvell. Photo special
to the Journal
Preparing Pasticho, a Greek lasagna, for the upcoming Greek Food Festival are from left: Despina Triantos, Stephanie Dikis, Fanoula Gulas, Elene Giatinni and Boula Constantine. Photo special to the Journal
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Wine and Food Festival Benefits O’Neal Library
Western Supermarkets’ annual wine and food festival, “Read between the Wines,” is set for Sept. 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Birmingham Zoo.
All proceeds from the event benefit the Emmet O’Neal Library in Mountain Brook. In the past, the library has used dona-tions to bring in authors, most recently Carl Hiaasen.
Guests can sample more than 650 wines; regional wine experts will be on hand to answer ques-tions. Food prepared by Jefferson State Culinary Institute chefs will focus on Alabama products. There also will be some one night-only wine deals.
Tickets are $45 in advance or $55 at door. They can be purchased at any Western Supermarket and at the Emmet O’Neal Library or online at www.westernsupermarkets.com.
Run, Walk Will Aid Prostate Cancer Cause
Urology Centers of Alabama’s Great Prostate Cancer Challenge, a 5K race and 1 mile fun walk, will be Sept. 24 at 8 a.m. at Oak Mountain State Park.
The event will support ZERO: The Project to End Prostate Cancer and the Urology Health Foundation.
The race is part of the Great Prostate Cancer Challenge, America’s Premier Men’s Health Event Series, taking place in 27 cities this year.
Funds raised go to prostate cancer research, education and free screenings.
Awards will be given to the first overall male and female win-ners and the top three male and female winners in the following age groups: 0-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69 and 70-99.
Pre-registration is $25; race day registration is $30. Entry fees
are nonrefundable. Register online at www.GreatProstateCancerChallenge.com/races/birmingham.
Register in person or pick up bibs and T-shirts at the Urology Centers of Alabama, 3485 Independence Dr. in Homewood, Sept. 23 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Race day registration begins at the park’s Dogwood Pavilion at 7 a.m. Entry fees to the park will be
waived for racers; parking is free.To volunteer at the race, con-
Chanticleer, a Grammy Award-winning ensemble of 12 male singers, will perform in concert at the Cathedral Church of the
Advent in downtown Birmingham Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
For more information about the group, visit www.chanticleer.org.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at door and $35 for reserved seating (advance only). Additional charges may apply. To purchase tickets, call 443-8553 or 226-3505 or visit www.virginiasamfordthe-atre.org. ❖
Four country music singer-songwriters, including Grammy Award winner Craig Wiseman, will perform Oct. 4 at WorkPlay to help build a new trans-plant program at Children’s of Alabama.
The one night-only Believe concert will feature Wiseman, Bob DiPiero, Tony Mullins and Jeffery Steele, collectively known as the Hitmen of Music Row of country music and reality TV fame.
Proceeds will benefit the Pediatric Transplant Program at Children’s of Alabama.
The event includes a pre-concert reception of heavy hors d’oeuvres and complimentary beer and wine at 6 p.m. followed by the concert at 7 p.m.
Sponsorships are $250 to $5,000. All sponsor tickets include admission to the recep-tion, priority seating at the con-cert and complimentary table ser-vice throughout the evening.
A limited number of $35 gen-eral admission tickets will be available. For sponsorship oppor-tunities or ticket information, con-tact Misty Farmer at 939-9956 or [email protected].
B’ham Originals Plan 2 Food Events
The Birmingham Originals, an eclectic group of locally-owned restaurants in the Birmingham area, will host the eighth annual Break ’n Bread food and wine event and the inaugural Music City Chefs in the Magic City Gala Dinner.
Break ‘n Bread will be Oct. 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Railroad Park.
Break ‘n Bread will feature sig-nature dish tastings from nearly 40 Birmingham Originals restaurants.
Festival guests will also be treat-ed to entertainment from American
Idol winner Taylor Hicks, co-owner of Birmingham’s Ore Bar & Grill, as well as tunes from Memphis-based singer/songwriter Eliot Morris.
A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Children’s of Alabama.
For the first time, Birmingham Originals will expand outside of Alabama, inviting four top Nashville-based chefs to helm the festival’s VIP tent. The Nashville chefs also will host the post-event, the Music City Chefs in the Magic City Gala Dinner.
The dinner will be Oct. 10 start-ing at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails at Ocean in downtown Birmingham’s Five Points neighborhood. Dinner begins at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the Break ’n Bread food and wine event and additional information are available at www.birminghamoriginals.org and on the Birmingham Originals’ Facebook page. Prices are $35 for regular tickets and $75 for VIP tickets. Children under 12 get in free. Tickets for the Music City Chefs in the Magic City Gala Dinner are $100 per person and can also be purchased at www.birminghamor-iginals.org.
Nursing School Hosts Alumni Weekend
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing and the Nursing Chapter of the UAB National Alumni Society will host an Alumni Weekend Oct. 7-8.
The weekend will include the Alumni Night and Awards Ceremony Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. at the UAB National Alumni Society House. The event will give alumni the chance to network, reconnect and celebrate with fel-low classmates and faculty. The school will also present its annual awards honoring alumni for their contributions to the nursing pro-fession.
Admission to this event is $35 a person.
For more information or to purchase tickets for any of the weekend events, contact the school’s Development and Alumni Relations Office at 975-9419 or [email protected]. ❖
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Planning a country music concert benefiting the Pediatric Transplant Program at Children’s of Alabama are, from left, front: Andrea Malin, Emily Hornak, Rebecca Hatcher, Cathy Friedman, Yolanda Sullivan, Rosie Butler, Emily Bates, Leigh Butler and Misty Farmer. Back: Niva Roberson, Walter Wood III, Carole D. Marks, James Vaughn and Beth Sevotsky. Journal photo by Jennifer Taylor
The Birmingham Originals will be serving up local dishes at its Oct. 9 Break ‘n Bread event and again on Oct. 10 for the Music City Chefs in the Magic City Gala and Dinner.
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Wing Fest Benefits Magic Moments
The Junior Board of Magic Moments will host the third annual Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest benefit-ing Magic Moments Oct. 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in down-town Homewood at 29th Avenue and SoHo Square.
The football-inspired, tailgate-themed event will challenge up to 25 local restaurants to cook their best hot and alternative flavored chicken wings or best “wannabe” wings.
Proceeds will help Magic Moments, an Alabama wish-grant-ing organization that makes dreams come true for children with life-threatening or life-altering medical conditions.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. There’s no charge for kids ages 10 years and younger.
Tickets include admission and five wing tasting tickets. Additional wing tasting tickets and beverages will be available for purchase.
Surrounding Homewood busi-nesses will offer additional shop-ping and food specials for Wing Fest attendees. SEC college football games will be televised on large screens throughout the event site.
For tickets and information, visit www.bhamwingfest.com. For the lineup of restaurants and event promotions, visit www.twitter.com/bhamwingfest and www.facebook.com/bhamwingfest.
Secondhand Sale Aids TS Clinic, Research
The third annual tuberous scle-rosis sale will be Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Colonial Properties’ space at the former Deborah Stone Spa in the Colonnade.
Friends, families and neighbors in the area have donated used items to raise funds for tuberous sclerosis research.
Tuberous sclerosis is a rare, multisystem genetic disease that causes benign tumors to form in a number of vital organs.
The sale begins Sept. 30 from 7 to 11 a.m. with a $1 admission price. The sale will be open the rest of the day until 7 p.m. with no admission charge. It continues Oct. 1 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Oct. 2 from noon to 3 p.m.
Donations of furniture, house-wares, home décor items, fitness equipment, appliances, sporting goods, toys, books and more are being collected. Tax deduction receipts will be provided.
Call Carole Pitard at 617-1159 for more information.
Library to Host Year of Financial Programs
The Emmet O’Neal Library is one of two libraries in the state of Alabama that recently received a “Smart Investing @ Your Library” grant, from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FENRA.
The money will go to help edu-
cate Over the Mountain families through a year of programs at the library. Topics include financial planning for growing families, female entrepreneurs, adults and retirement savings in a recession, credit card debt and couponing.
The next seminar, “Budgeting and Beyond,” will be Oct. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at Emmet O’Neal. Dr. Rauterkus from UAB will be lead-ing the program seminars.
For more information, a sched-ule of events or to register, visit www.eolib.org.
Chapel in the Pines’ Yard Sale is Oct. 1
Chapel in the Pines will host a yard sale Oct. 1 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church on Chapel Road in Hoover.
Dozens of church families are donating an array of goods for sale. Proceeds benefit the church’s mis-sion programs in the area.
A bake sale held in conjunc-tion with the yard sale will support youth retreats and mission oppor-tunities.
Choral Concert Supports AIDS Groups
The Magic City Choral Society will host the second annual Red Ribbon Concert benefiting four Alabama AIDS service organiza-tions Oct. 2 at 6 p.m. at the Leslie S. Wright Fine Arts Center at Samford University.
The concert will feature the society’s men’s and women’s choruses.
The benefit’s goal is to raise awareness for AIDS service organizations in Alabama, with all proceeds going to AIDS Alabama, West Alabama AIDS Outreach, UAB’s 1917 Clinic and Birmingham AIDS Outreach.
Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased at www.magiccitycho-ralsociety.org or by calling 726-2853. ❖
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Carole Pitard, left, with Catie and John McBride with Jenny are among supporters of a sec-ondhand sale benefiting the UAB tuberous sclerosis clinic and TS research. Photo special to the Journal
Getting ready for the Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest are from left: Whitney Hamm, Magic Moments Junior Board vice president; Kassady Gibson, Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest event chair; Christy Coward, Kick’n Chick’n Wing Fest event co-chair; and Julie Ward, Magic Moments Junior Board past president. Photo special to the Journal
EcoFest Benefits Environmental Center
EcoFest 13, benefitting the Southern Environmental Center at Birmingham-Southern College, will be Oct. 6. at the Harbert Center in downtown.
Cocktails and silent auction starts at 5:30, and dinner and a live auction will follow at 7 p.m.
Committee members are Greg
Bass, Michael Sznajderman, Laura Brooks Bright, Sally Yeilding, Mary Beth Burner, Kathy English, Lorrin Etka- Shepherd, Phillip Armthor, Tom Garrett, Catie Yeilding, Hugh Hunter, Gail Harper Yeilding, Todd Keith, Beverly Bugg Phillips, Lea Ann Macknally, Sharon McDermott, Louis Montgomery and Bill Segrest.
Tickets are $60 each and can be purchased by calling 226-4934 or at MyEcoscapes.org.
Walk to Defeat ALS Set for Oct. 8
The sixth annual Birmingham Walk to Defeat ALS, coordinated by the ALS Association Alabama Chapter, will be Oct. 8 at Vestavia Hills High School. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the walk starts at 11 a.m.
More than 86 percent of walk funds go toward patient care in Alabama, and the remainder is used by the National ALS Association for cutting-edge research, advo-cacy and other programs. EBSCO Industries is the presenting sponsor for the Walk.
For more information visit http://www.WalktoDefeatALS.org
Hoover Shelby Show Has Variety of Art
The Hoover Shelby Art Association will host its annual fall show Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Heardmont Park Senior Community Center, 5458 Cahaba Valley Road.
The show includes wood turn-ing, jewelry, fiber arts, photogra-
phy, pottery, folk art, decorative painting, pressed flower work and calligraphy. Indoor and outdoor exhibits will feature oils, watercol-ors, mixed media, dry media and 3-D art.
Joining returning area artists is gourd artist Teresa Wamble, new to the show this year.
The show is family-oriented, free and handicap accessible. Refreshments and parking will be available.
For more information, visit www.hoovershelbyart.com.
Spirit of Hope Ranch Hosts Pony Express
Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch will host the first Pony Express 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run Oct. 1 in Crestline Village. The chip-timed 5K race will begin at 9 a.m.; the fun run starts at 9:15 a.m.
Registration continues through Sept. 29 at www.ponyexpress5k.com. On race day, registration begins at 7:30 a.m. across the street from Emmet O’Neal Library.
The cost is $25 for the 5K and $10 for the fun run until noon on Sept. 29. On race day, costs are $30 for the 5K and $15 for the fun run.
All proceeds benefit the Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch, which gives children in stressful situations the opportunity to work with horses that have been rescued or are unwanted.
Race day emcee will be Fox 6 News anchor Jeh Jeh Pruitt.
The event includes music, live entertainment and family-friendly activities.
For more information, visit www.sohyr.org. ❖
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Showing off artwork for the Hoover Shelby Association’s annual fall art show are in front from left: Becky Roberson and Yvonne Andrews; and in back from left: Lewis Hughes and John Rodgers.Photo special to the Journal
Getting ready for this year’s EcoFest
are in front from left: Sharon
McDermott, Louis Montgomery
and Gail Harper Yeilding. Back: Franklin Biggs,
Sally Yeilding and Beverly Bugg
Philips.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 • 9 OVER THE MOUNTAIN JOURNAL PEOPLE
Carroll Completes USMA Training
Cadet Spencer M. Carroll, son of Steve and Julie Carroll of Vestavia Hills, recently completed six weeks of Cadet Basic Training at the U.S. Military Academy.
Carroll entered West Point June 27.
CBT provides cadets with basic skills to prepare them for entry into the Corps of Cadets. Areas of summer instruction included first aid, moun-taineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship and nuclear, biologi-cal and chemical training.
Carroll, a Vestavia Hills High School graduate, began classes Aug. 15. He plans to graduate from West Point in 2015 and be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
Maples Elected to Executive Committee
Sirote & Permutt attorney Marcus M. Maples has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Alabama State Bar’s Young Lawyers Section.
The sec-tion is made up of lawyers who are 36 years old or younger or who have been admit-ted to the bar for three years or less.
At Sirote, Maples’ practice consists of general business and commercial litigation matters. He represents life, health, disability and long-term care insurance compa-nies in bad faith and ERISA related issues.
Maples earned a juris doctorate from the University of Alabama School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Alabama.
Samford Professor Earns Recognition
Samford University professor Franz Lohrke, Brock Family Chair in Entrepreneurship, was recently chosen as the 2011 Best Case Reviewer for “Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice” during the national Academy of Management conference in San Antonio, Texas.
ET&P is an academic journal published by Baylor University.
Lohrke was appointed to the ET&P case review board in January. ❖
Spencer M. Carroll
Marcus M. Maples
LIFEOVER THE MOUNTAINJ O U R N A L 10 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
BY LAURA MCALISTERJOURNAL EDITOR
When Emily Schreiber was diag-nosed with cystic
fibrosis at age nine, she didn’t despair. Instead, she went to work.
For the past nine years, Emily, a 2011 graduate of Mountain Brook High School and freshman at Furman University, has been raising money for CF research and awareness. In 2005, she even started her own nonprofit foun-dation, Laps for CF, for the cause.
“I think for me this was really the best coping mecha-nism,” she said. “I’m a very Type A person. I like to do things and plan things. I just wanted to do what I could to make a difference in the CF community.”
Emily’s fundraising has made a difference. To date, she’s helped raise more than $2.1 million for CF research and awareness.
Her hard work also has her in the running for a national award.
Emily is one of five finalists worldwide for Glamour maga-zine’s readers’ choice Women of the Year Awards. The awards honor women doing philanthropic work around the world. Past winners include Julia Roberts, Cher and Somali humanitarian Dr. Hawa Abdi.
The awards also honor 21 women under age 25 who are making a difference in their communities. Two of these women will be chosen by read-ers via online voting at glam-our.com through Sept. 23.
Emily, along with four oth-ers, is in the running for a read-ers’ choice award. If selected, she will be invited to the awards ceremony at New York City’s Carnegie Hall and will be featured in the magazine.
She was nominated for the award by Riley McDuff, a fundraiser at Emily’s Laps for CF. In her nomination, Riley mentioned the many fund-raisers Emily helped organize to raise money for CF research and aware-ness, while at the same time coping with the illness.
CF is a chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. The life expectancy of a CF patient is approximately 37 years old.
For Emily, the diagnosis means taking about 35 pills daily and having at least one lung treatment every day.
“Living with CF is really different for every patient, but it’s definitely a day-to-day thing,” she said. “You can’t take a long weekend from CF.”
Emily didn’t take any time after her diagnosis to start mak-ing a difference in the CF com-munity.
Just six weeks after she learned she had CF, she orga-nized her first fundraiser. Since she was a competitive swim-mer at the time, she decided to make it a lap swim, with donors pledging money for each lap she swam. The event became an annual one and led to the name of the foundation, Laps for CF, as well as count-less other fundraisers.
In addition to the lap swims, the foundation also hosts an annual golf tournament and partnered with BioGuard to host the annual Splash for CF, a national campaign raising awareness for the disease.
One of the newer fundrais-ers started by Laps for CF’s Junior Board is the upcoming Sips for CF, a wine tasting event set for 6 p.m. Oct. 13 on the rooftop of the Kress Building downtown.
“This has all just been really awesome,” Emily said. “When I first started, my goal was to raise $3,000. It’s just really amazing.”
Emily said it’s great to know that her hard work for CF has earned her a nomination for a national award. But even more important is what’s being done with the money she’s helped raise.
Locally, funds from Laps for CF have allowed Children’s CF Clinic in Birmingham to pur-chase breathing machines and hire a nurse practitioner and nutritionist.
“The Children’s CF clinic went from being one of the worst to now the top in the nation,” Emily said. “Right now, each year we split up the funds raised to the CF national foundation and CF Hope,
which helps families, and the clinics in Birmingham, so we’re giving all over the nation.”
Although Emily is just starting her freshman year at Furman, she remains very involved with Laps for CF, and instead of focusing on her illness, she continues to look to the future. As she said, she’s a Type A per-sonality, which means she does have a plan.
“I have not decided for sure on a major. I am thinking history with a concentration in poverty studies,” Emily said. “Although still undecided, I would love to go to law school and work with broken families and the complex issue of homelessness.”
For more information on Laps for CF or to cast a vote for Emily in Glamour’s Women of the Year Readers’ Choice awards, visit www.laps-forcf.org. ❖
A Stroke of GeniusEmily Schreiber’s Fight against CF Gets Glamour Magazine’s Attention
Emily Schreiber, a Mountain Brook High School graduate and freshman at Furman University, is in the running for Glamour magazine’s Readers Choice Woman of the Year award thanks to her work to raise money and awareness for cystic fibrosis, a disease she was diagnosed with at age 9.
Join the causeLaps for CF offers a variety of ways to help those with cystic fibrosis. Below are just a few ways to help:
Sip Some WineSips for CF, a wine tasting competi-tion will be Oct. 13 on the rooftop of the Kress Building. Registration begins at 6 p.m. and the tasting competition at 7 p.m. There will be hors d’oeuvres, music and a silent auction. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Visit www.laps-forcf.org.
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4Vote for EmilyThere is still some time left to vote Emily as one of Glamour maga-zine’s Readers Choice Women of the Year win-ners. Emily was nominated for founding Laps for CF. If she wins, she’ll be featured in the magazine and invited to the awards ceremony in New York City. Vote at glamour.com or www.laps-forcf.com.
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Michele Miree Smith, a Mountain Brook resident and songwriter, recently
released her first CD, “Reflections of the Son.” The album features 15 songs written and sung by Michele as well as others in the Birmingham area.
Michele said her songwriting hobby came about unexpectedly.
“I never really thought about songwriting until I was singing in a contemporary Christian group at church,” she said. “I recognized how meaningful the music was to people and concurrently gained an under-standing of creating original lyrics and music.”
Although she hadn’t intended to become a songwriter, Michele does come from a musical fam-ily. Her grandfather played the organ at Samford University when the school was known as Howard College, and her grandmother stud-ied voice at Converse College and in Paris. Her great-grandfather owned Birmingham-based Forbes Piano Co.
The musical legacy continues with “Reflections of the Son,” as Michele, her husband and two of her daughters perform.
Although Michele wrote the 15 songs on the CD, she performs in only two of them. The other songs feature a variety of voices.
“I held auditions for singers at Amy Murphy Studios in Mountain Brook,” Smith said. “I chose the singers based on which ones we felt fit the song best.”
The auditions concluded with the selection of Birmingham-area talents and studio musicians from
Nashville. Lead vocalists include Audrey Cardwell, Stephen Folmar, Ashley Guin, Neal Hunter Hyde, Jeff Ingram, Kendall Johnson, Amy Murphy, Mabry Smith and Camille Smith.
Studio owner Amy Murphy said she enjoyed working with Michele to determine the talent necessary to make the album a reality.
“I have the utmost respect for Michele as an artist,” Amy said. “Not only are her songs singable and melodic to the ears, but they weave passion of the vocal instrument, passion for her musical mission and passion for her inspiration.
“Listening to her CD from start to finish is like getting to know a best friend. It has everything a listener could ask for.”
Once singers and musicians were selected, it was time to begin recording. Under the direction of Don Mosley, “Reflections of the Son” was recorded at Sound of Birmingham studio.
“Michele has a truly refreshing writing style,” Don said. “It’s not the same old verse-chorus, verse-chorus stuff. Each song is a unique treat.”
“Reflections of the Son” was released last spring. A party at Amy Murphy Studios celebrated the occa-sion.
Michele said each song has a unique story behind it and that each was written with the intention of pointing to God and encouraging others to follow him.
“I am often encouraged by the many personal notes and messages from those who are listening to my music,” she said. “Just yesterday, I received a letter from a lady in Florida who shared with me that the music had served for her as a inspi-rational reminder of hope, especially
during challenging times, “Michele said.
As for what’s next for Michele, she said she has no written agenda for her music. She simply wants to allow herself to be led wherever God wants to take her with the music. Michele is not looking to perform, just hoping to write and is keeping
her eyes and ears open to any oppor-tunity.
“Reflections of the Son” can be purchased at Cokesbury, A’mano and Carpenter’s Shop Antiques. It is available online on iTunes, CD Baby or www.michelemireesmith. It will soon air on Birmingham Christian radio station WDJC. ❖
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‘Circus of Hope’Gala Celebrates Survivors, Raises More Than $375,000 for American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society’s 31st annual Hope Gala was Aug. 20 at Vestavia Country
Club. Lisa Smith Sharp chaired this year’s event. The theme was “Circo Della Speranza,” Circus of Hope.
The gala raised more than $375,000 for the ACS.
Honoree Stanley Virciglio and his family were the first guests to arrive. There to meet them was Bob Vardaman of Events Management and his masked helpers. Vardaman, who has designed sev-eral galas, transformed the country club using a vintage Italian postcard motif.
As guests entered the club’s lobby, which was draped in orange and red fab-ric, they found a giant birdcage holding a “feathered” girl suspended from her perch. Women on pedestals and dressed in vintage burlesque costumes surrounded the birdcage, performing fan tricks, jug-gling acts, umbrella twirls and contor-tions.
Waiters in brocade vests and fezzes served hors d’oeuvres of pork belly corn
dogs, lobster nachos and caramel apple and goat cheese crostini from red guitars as guests placed their bids on silent auc-tion items.
Guests posed for photos beside the vintage circus poster designed for the event by portrait artist Barrett Bailey, who created a likeness of Virciglio as the master of ceremonies.
Later in the evening, guests entered the ballroom to find a dramatic stage draped in black satin. In the center ring, large scaffolding held an aerialist suspended from white silk. In each corner of the din-ing room, fire performers twirled, tossed and spun fire apparatus.
The tables were covered in Mylar shredded cloths of pink, blue, gold and silver. Contemporary centerpieces created by Birmingham floral designers included peacock feathers, electric lights, multicol-ored ribbons and flowers.
Guests dined on an Italian-inspired meal of ricotta and tomato tart, grilled peaches and pancetta on field greens, beef tenderloin and citrus salmon over polenta and a dessert trio of tiramisu, cannoli and panna cotta.
After dinner and the live auction, guests danced to music by Livewire.
At the event were Butch and Theresa Dichiara, Nick and Marilyn Zaden, Naseem and Norma Ajlouny, Clayton and Sherri Pledger, Basim and Pam Ajlouny, Georgina Smith, Carol Sandner, Al and Katisha Vance and Paul and Jacqueline DeMarco.
Also there were Brian and Suzan Wilson, David and Susan Brouillette, Jimmy Taylor, Tim and Ellen Lupinacci, Brett Taylor, David Hezlap, Tony and Suyra Moore, Gary and Faye Asher, Bill and Sharon Harvill, Marlin and Nan Priest, Don and Cindy Williams, Mike and Mary Ballard, Bill and Melinda Mathews, Jim and Nancy Klopman, Tim and Lynn Petro and Paul and Lacy Sparks. ❖
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The honoree of this year’s Hope Gala was Stanley Virciglio, second left. With him on his special night were from left: Theresa Dichiara, Gail Moebes, Dr. James Moebes and Butch Dichiara. Photos special to the Journal
Clockwise, from above, left: Attending the American Cancer Society’s Hope Gala were from left: Terry Chapman, Paula Beck and Jim Creamer. Circus per-formers like this one were seen throughout the evening to go along with the Gala’s theme, Circo Della Speranza, or Circus of Hope. Also attending the gala at the Vestavia Country Club were from left: event chair Lisa Smith Sharp, Burton McDonald, Melanie Geary and Jimmy Taylor.
The Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation ...Ambassadors hosted a Rebel Reunion Aug. 13 at the Vestavia Hills Lodge.
Guests were treated to a tail-
gate spread prepared by Ingram Link and heard live music by the Usual Suspects.
The Rebel Reunion was an opportunity for parents of Vestavia Hills graduates or grand-parents of Vestavia Hills students
to reconnect and celebrate the Vestavia Hills school system.
All proceeds went to the Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation, which provides per-petual financial support to each of the Vestavia Hills schools.
At the reunion were Vestavia Hills Mayor Alberto Zaragoza and wife Diane, Joy and George Langley, Becky and Fred Crum, Sharon and Jim Lovell, Julie
and Bill Meadows, Mae and Duane Coshatt, Cathy and John Amos, Elizabeth and Wayne Pate, Jane Ann and Jack Traffanstedt, Martha Cook, Joan and Jim Rein, Joanne and George Groves, Amy Irby, Stasi Bara, Gina and John Henley, Ashley and Robert Thompson, Scott Ferguson, Missy Sexton, Kelley and Jay Evers and Bo Kirkpatrick. ❖
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Above: Attending the Rebel Reunion were from left: Julie Meadows, Becky Crum, Joy Langley and Sharon Lovell. Below: also at the event hosted by the Vestavia City School Foundation Ambassadors were from left: Sharon Lovell, Jane Ann and Jack Traffanstedt and Ashley Moss.
Our Lady of Sorrows celebrated the ...19th anniversary of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Aug. 13 at the Homewood church.
The evening began with a procession of the Blessed Sacrament from the Chapel of Our Savior to the church, with Knights of Columbus members as the Honor Guard and the OLS adult choir singing. Benediction was followed by Mass at 5 p.m.
In the sanctuary were 318 roses representing the 318 com-mitted adorers. Five white roses represented the five committed adorers who died this past year; the other roses were deep red.
OLS pastor Msgr. Martin Muller, who celebrated the Mass, thanked the committed adorers.
After the anniversary Mass, about 300 people – committed adorers, substitute adorers and their families – were treated to a catered appreciation dinner in the Family Life Center.
In 1981 Pope John Paul II initiated Eucharistic Adoration in St. Peter’s Basilica and encour-
aged parishes to begin Adoration of the Eucharist. More than 1,000 parishes in the U.S. now have Eucharistic Adoration.
Among those attending the OLS celebration were OLS associate pastor Father Jaya Reddy, Mary Claire Brouillette, the John Tighe family, Martha Masucci, the Marc Ayers family, Jeannette Bell, the Seth Galloway fam-ily, Bridget McCaffrey, the Stephen Naylor family, Sam Gagliano, the Greg Pierre fam-ily, Rosemary Reynolds, the Tommy James family, Jeannie Wade, the Warren Kyle fam-ily, Mike Millican, Dale and Provy Richards, Stephanie Murdock and Joe and Gloria Wadsworth.
iStore Self Storage held an indoor yard sale ...Aug. 20 to benefit Children’s of Alabama. The event raised more than $5,000 for Children’s.
More than 850 people attended the indoor sale, which included 49 vendors. Gus’s Hot Dogs, Shindigs Catering and Dreamcakes Bakery were there to
offer a variety of food selections. Girl Scouts provided cold water and Girl Scout cookies.
At the end of the sale, the ven-dors filled two large units with donated items for the Lovelady Thrift Store. ❖
Above: Provy and Dale Richard, left, talk with Gloria and Joe Wadsworth during the recent appre-ciation dinner at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Homewood. Left: The Rev. Msgr. Martin Muller, pastor, left, and the Rev. Jaya Reddy, associate pas-tor, enjoy fellowship with hundreds of parishioners who turned out to celebrate 19 years of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Homewood. Photos special to the Journal
Gary Pharo, owner of iStore Self Storage, welcomed shoppers to an indoor yard sale benefiting Children’s of Alabama.
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The Symphony Volunteer Council held its annual ...fall membership party Aug. 23 at the home of Deane and Ron Giles. President Linda Griggs presided at a brief business meeting.
Jody Weston, vice president for education, discussed plans for next year’s Lois Pickard Scholarship Competition. Roberta Atkinson announced that the Lois Pickard Luncheon, which includes perfor-mances by music scholarship recip-ients, will be Feb. 16. Diane Ray is co-chairing the luncheon.
Membership vice president Mimi Jackson welcomed new members Patricia Nix, Dottie Thompson and Helen Letchman, along with prospective mec-mbers Donna Wilson and Peggy Roberts.
Alabama Symphony Orchestra administrative staff members Vincent Carbone and Smith Williams updated guests on sym-phony concerts, activities and events for the 2011-12 season. Carbone highlighted the ASO’s
Carnegie Hall performance set for May 2012 in New York.
He also announced that Edgar Meyer, a bass player and Tennessee native, will be the symphony’s composer-in-residence for the upcoming season. Samford University’s Wright Center is the new venue for Pops concerts.
Party planners were hospitality vice presidents Martha Black and Shirley Brown. Assisting with refreshments were Susan Mason, June Bulow, Jody Weston, Tonie Bone, Donna McCauley, Olivia Weingarten, Liz Warren, Martha Yeilding, Diane Ray, Kathie Ramsey, Halcyann Badham, Janis Zeanah, Dixie Ayers and Roma Bounds.
Among those at the kick-off party were Bob Black, Bob Brown, Mike Griggs, Jim Atkinson, Tom Warren, Gene Bone, Bob Roberts, Bill Ayers, Pringle Ramsey, Gerda Carmichael, Jeanette Humes, Dora Barnes, Joyce and Ebbie Jones, Cathy Wheeler, Noma Jeanne Crews, Lyn Gibson, Jo Nell Hales, Terry and Jack Standridge, Martha Noble, Lin
and Jim Musgrove, Patrick Cather, Charlotte and Steve Clarkson, Nan Teninbaum and Vonnie and Rick Venglik.
Also there were Linda and Roger James, Sue Watkins, Tallulah Hargrove, Corinne Greer, Skip and Bob Wadhams, Gene Crews, Evan McCauley, Shirl and Ron Ward, Connie Bishop, Don Burrell, Margie and Robert Denton, Elaine and Oliver Clark, Jane Paris and Chandler Smith, Sylvia and Vernon Patrick, Lu and Charles Moss, Kay and David Clark, Pam Ausley, Anna and Brian Keith, Virginia and Boyce Guthrie, Darlene Gray, Dena Bowden and Melanie Grant.
Roberta Atkinson entertained the 2011-12 SVC executive board Aug. 11 with a brunch after the board meeting called by newly-elected president Linda Griggs, who succeeds Nancy Morrow.
Other new officers are: Kathie Ramsey, executive vice president; Debbie Reid, Rosalind Rust and Jody Weston, education vice presidents; Martha Black and Shirley Brown, hospitality vice presidents; Mimi Jackson, mem-bership vice president; Nancy Van Wanderham, recording secretary; Joanna Fuller, corresponding sec-retary; Michael Griggs, treasurer; Phil Teninbaum, assistant treasur-er; Liz Warren, parliamentarian; and Nancy Morrow, immediate past president.
Woodlawn High School held a joint reunion ...Aug. 26-27 for the January and May classes of 1961 at the Hilton Hotel in Birmingham. More than 200 people attended from the com-bined graduating classes of 509 students.
Woodlawn was the largest Birmingham school in the early 1960s.
Attending the Symphony Volunteer Council fall membership party were from left: Linda Griggs, Deane Giles and Mike Griggs.
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Richard Lytle and Jackie Conn Harbuck led the planning committee of 23 classmates. Vicki Dalton Watson and Rachel Storie Hill handled registration, and Jeannie Brown Bradford was in charge of publicity.
The search committee was head-ed by Phyllis McCoy Baker from Houston with help from Paula Barton Hannon of Allen, Texas; Dilana Gorman Norman of Point Clear; Anita Allen Hoskins of Pace, Fla; Louise Garrett Finch of Gulf Breeze, Fla.; and Dianne Craft Witmer of Grayson, Ga.
Patsy Bell Howard, owner of Village Press, compiled a class directory. She was assisted by Doug and Nanci Kay Cutcliff Pate.
Professional photographer and classmate Larry Gann took pic-tures of each grammar school class during the weekend.
Bea LaGroue Newman, with help from husband Paul, Bobbye Lessman and Sally Lessman Davis, designed the decorations using scho ol colors of gold and white in floral arrangements, bal-loons, ribbons and grammar school banners.
Friday night, the group was entertained by the Warblers Club, a men’s choral group established in 1929 at Woodlawn High School. Classmate Larry Harris, there with Nancy, is the Warblers’ cur-rent president.
During the reception, music was provided by Phillip Calma and Larry Wooten. A DVD showed classmates from grammar school through high school.
Among those playing in a Saturday golf tournament at Eagle Point were Ron Jones, Alan Speegle, Wayne Speegle, Roger Williams, Mickey Robinson and Jimmy Finch.
Coach Johnny Howell, a spe-cial guest, attended all the festivi-ties with his wife Bettye Burson Howell, a former Miss Alabama.
Taking a tour of the school, built in 1922, were Sandy Flickinger Fortner, Calvin and Margaret Jones, Patty Cater McIntire, John Hawkins, Irvin Pope with Diana, Ian Hardin with Mary, Jim Cobb , Robin Abbott, Bobby Martin, Robert Thompson with
Debbie, James Dole, Richard Day with Linda, Wallace Allison with Patsy, Joe Thrasher with Betty Lane, Buddy Wade with Cindy, John Word with Linda, Bill and Evelyn Sanders, Leonard Irvin, Gaye Barnett Nash, Carole Hulberg Freeze and Bill Dunsmore.
A group of 60 classmates toured the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame as the guest of executive director Scott Myers, a former scholar-ship recipient of the Coach Kenny Morgan Foundation.
A buffet dinner was held Saturday night with a program prepared by Carolyn Elsea Edwards, who attended with Mike. Enjoying the dinner were Judy Wooten, Martha Lytle, Harry Bradford, Toni Calma, Tom Crawford with Sylvia, Rhodes and Patsy Watkins and Doug Stegall with Becky.
The Friendship Force of Birmingham held ...a special late summer event Aug. 20 – barbecue dinners at two dif-ferent homes.
Members were divided into two groups and assigned the home they were to visit. Food was catered by Full Moon Bar-B-Que in Hoover.
Those invited to the home of Regina Smith in Hoover were Inez McCollum, Cindy Burns, Steve and Mary Jo Cragon, Geraldine Dunham, Veronda Garner, Mary John James, Jane Lewis, Karolyn Mersmann, Erle and Virginia Smith and Keith and Rosemary Tenney.
Guests were Merlyne Cook and Elaine Lee.
At the home of Tom and Charlotte Laggy in Alabaster were Jean Butterworth, Pat Powell, Will and Doris Grove, Morrison and Fran Jackson, Jackie Matte, Betty Batson, Marie Rains, Liz Cox, Kitty Whitehurst, Charles and Betty Morgan, Nina Cranor, Roula Wolff, Jan Norton and Vicki Smith. Jeri Barnhill was a guest at the party.
The next general meeting of the Friendship Force will be Sept. 25 at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Vestavia.
The group’s upcoming events include an exchange to Oklahoma City this fall, a visit to Durham, U.K., in the spring and a Tokyo, Japan, exchange.
For more information, visit www.thefriendshipforceof-birminghamal.com. Contact president Inez McCollum at [email protected]. ❖
Above: Catching up with classmates at a recent Woodlawn High School reunion were, from left, standing: Carole Hulberg Freeze, Bill Cain, Margaret Black Yeager, Shirley Black Lindsey, Jackie Conn Harbuck, Patty Cater McIntire, Bobbeye Lessman and Dianne Craft Witmer. Front: Larry Gann. Below: Also there were from left: Jackie Conn Harbuck, Richard Lytle, Dianne Craft Witmer, Phillip Calma and Patsy Bell Howard.
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The Hannah Home Shelby Auxiliary ...hosted a kickoff party, “Run Away on the Runway,” Aug. 23 at St. Vincent’s One Nineteen Health and Wellness Center for its Oct. 22 Run Away from Domestic Violence 8K Run and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk.
The event included a recep-tion and dinner with shrimp, artichoke dips, punch, cheese straws, pasta and green salads and a variety of desserts.
Christy Jackson created a race theme with black and white checked flags with hot pink accents. A fashion show by Coldwater Creek and Game Day in Style, coordinated by Sylvia Gonda, topped off the event.
Mixing and mingling were models Mandy Cox, Donna Sibley, Betty Bussey, Jodie Hill, Alli Denning, Margaret Stewart, Dawn Fish, Ricia Thomas, Dorsae Holmes, Amy Dern, Billie Holleman, Jennifer Alden, Pam Neimann, Jessica Neimann, Lauren Steed, Jessica Golda, Jennifer Smith, race chairman Amy Reese, Cameron Morris, Kathy Henton, Ashley Henton and Lauren Henton.
Other members and friends there were Stephanie Holdersby, Peggy Rawls, Tamilya Davis, Jean Castille, Connie Blalock, LaVerne Reese, Stacey Alexander, Mary Jo Carter, Tamara Moser, Bettie and Merv Torme, Pat Yost, Matt Gonda, Bill Morris, Elizabeth Neil and Mary Ann Nelson and husband Re, who provided the pasta salads.
Amy Reese updated the crowd about the run. Going into its fifth year, the event includes Zumba classes, a children’s festival with a moonwalk, sack races and other games, free health screenings, entertainment and a healthy cooking demon-stration as well as the 8K and fun run/walk.
The Alagasco Healthy
Cooking Demonstration by Chef Chris Vizzina, executive chef and president of Campus Dining, Inc., is the event’s new-est feature.
Vizzina has been nominated twice for the Silver Plate Award, a food service industry honor. He is a director on the board of Birmingham Originals, ambas-sador to the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont, adjunct professor of nutri-tion and health at Samford University and a consultant to Jones Valley Urban Farms, which recently nominated him as a Champion for Health in Birmingham.
Vizzina also works with Homewood City Schools as part of the Chefs Move to Schools initiative.
Cheramis Dance Club held a summer luau ...Aug. 13 at Oak Mountain State Park. The menu included ham with fresh fruit, summer veg-etable side dishes, desserts and appetizers.
Guests participated in games and luau fashion competitions. Contest winners were Joy Patterson for best luau outfit and Sharon Franks for best dec-orated flip flops.
At the event were guests Margie and Tom George and Sara and Jeff Beard. Cheramis members and their escorts at the party included Shirley and Jack Vaughn and Cheramis president Peggy Yarnall and Chandler Yarnall.
Others there were Jean
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Campus Dining, Inc. executive director and chef Chris Vizzina will be giving cooking demon-strations at the Run Away from Domestic Violence event set for Oct. 22. Photo special to the Journal
Cheramis Dance Club members gathered at Oak Mountain State Park for a festive luau. Among those who attended were, from left: Sharon Franks, Bess Speegle, Peggy Yarnall and Nancy Coggin.
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Morton, Jeannie Box with Ben Smith, Shirley Rierson with Duby, Margarita and Art Gracianette and club secretary Vickie Barnes with Bob.
Also at the luau were Lisa and Bobby Powers, Nancy and Tom Coggin, Martha and Bob Vick, Bess and Alan Speegle,
Yvonne and John Norton, Reba Huffman with Stan Biggs, Alice and Tony Ellison, Fairfax and Ed Segner, Sissy and Charlie Mathews, and Regina Smith, Noel and J.P. Tidwell, Brenda and Ray Harris, Betty and Lowell Womack, vice president Janet Harden and Curt Johnson and Doris Kenny and Carl Jones.
More at the party were Mary and Elmer Klemenc of Maylene, Marilyn Kelly with Willie Larson, Jessica Ireland, Shirley Whitlock with Gil Bokencamp and treasurer Mollie Midlik and Bill.
Attending from out of town were Frankie Cashion with William, Joyce and Frank Dill, Sharon Franks and Joy Patterson.
Linly Heflin members were treated to a sneak peek of new fashion ...trends at their September meet-ing at the Country Club of Birmingham.
Informal modeling by mem-bers provided a preview of the 53rd annual Linly Heflin Fashion Show and Luncheon, set for Sept. 28.
Megan LaRussa, style direc-tor of Southern Femme, will produce the show.
The long-running fund-raiser is a partnership with Birmingham clothier Gus Mayer. Cuban-born designer Rene Ruiz will present his spring 2012 collection in the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel ballroom. Doors open just before noon.
Tickets are $50 and are avail-able by calling the Linly Heflin office at 871-8171.
Amie Beth Shaver, Miss Alabama 1994, is emcee.
The event is the primary fundraiser for the group’s schol-arship program for women seeking higher education in
Alabama. In recent years, more than 3,000 four-year scholar-ships totaling more than $2 million have been awarded to deserving women attending state colleges and universities.
For more information, visit www.linlyheflin.org.
The Linly Heflin Unit includes 125 volunteers headed by president Kathryn Porter. Co-chairmen of this year’s luncheon and fashion show are Patti Badham and Kay Grisham.
Other key members involved in the event are: Susan Alison, Happy Anthony, Jane Arendall, Grace Bentley, Gina Boyd, Margaret Brunstad, Suzanne Chenoweth, Deane Cook, Beth Corey, Kate Cotten, Katherine Cox, Martha DeBuys, Gillian Goodrich, Eugenia Greer, Elizabeth Hubbard, Kate Millhouse, Margaret Moor, Bette Owen, Sheri Perry, Murray Priester, Allison Prichard, Pam Prichard, Cynnie Sproull, Helen Terry, Caroline Thomas and Libba Williams. ❖
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Nancy Coggin, left, and Fairfax Segner were among guests at Cheramis Dance Club’s summer luau.
At a Linly Heflin fashion preview were, from left: Jeff Pizitz, Ann Simmons, Herman Heinle, Megan LaRussa and Nichole Cummins.
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More than 600 attended the Tailgate Challenge ...held Aug. 27 at Sloss Furnace to benefit the Bell Center for Early Intervention programs. The third annual event more than doubled last year’s revenue, with more than $25,000 coming from ticket sales, tents and sponsorships.
Participants are challenged to show their team spirit by competing in tent contests. Captains decorate their tent areas to represent their schools and provide food for tail-gaters.
This year’s entries included mul-tiple tents for Alabama and Auburn as well as tents for Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and others.
The Best Team Spirit Award went to Texas. The Best Tastin’ Food prize was a tie between Ole Miss and Kentucky. Best All Around went to Mississippi State.
The Bell Center Tailgate Challenge was sponsored by the Trak Shak, NBC 13 and Jim ’N Nicks Bar-B-Q.
Highlights of this year’s tailgate included appearances by Auburn and UAB mascots Aubie and Blaze plus entertainment by Rockstar. Children were entertained with face painting and a bounce house.
The 2011 Poinsettia Debutantes enjoyed ...a night under the stars at Brook Valley Farm in North Shelby County. The farm is owned by Deane and Ronnie Giles.
The party was in honor of debutantes Brittany Arias, Mary Ellen Davis, Amy Dumas, Emily Dumas, Elise Gilbert and Sarah Kathryn Sharp.
After a dinner of barbecue chicken and pork, guests danced to music by Z and the Party Factory.
Black and white linens provided the background for elegant arrange-ments of tall sunflowers and red and white gerbera daisies in black pottery vases with a western design.
Attending were Dalton Smith, Leigh Anne Gilbert, Amanda Vinson, Rachel Truss, Kate Warden, Michael Sutherland, Lauren Gilbert, Chris Arias, Mr. and Mrs. David Peter Arias, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Raymond Hays, Robert Sturdivant, Kennith Ellis, Blake Logan, Dr. Lajuana Logan, Lizzie Hawk Drew McMeans and Elsbeth Denton.
Also at the party were Devon Byrd, Jarred Brookins, Amanda McClung, Elizabeth Pettey, Lydia, Caitlin and Skylar Sexton from Troy and Storm Ingram from Montgomery, Matt Roden, Emily Lindsey, Melissa Jeffcoat, Heather Hall, Melissa Meinburg, Ashlyn Hardy, Mary Katherine Howell, Anna Leigh Sharp, Monicka Roden and Lindsey Conry. ❖
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Poinsettia Debutantes honored at a party at Brook Valley Farm includ-ed, from left: Sarah Kathryn Sharp, Brittany Arias, Elise Gilbert, Mary Ellen Davis and Amy Dumas. Photo special to the Journal
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your guide to antiques at the gardens 20114An
Overall LookOnce again Antiques at
the Gardens will bring
great dealers and so much
more, page 22
4Big on Books
Meet one of this year’s dealers, who
specializes in rare, out-of-print books,
page 24
4Meet Charlotte
MossThe fea-
tured speaker of the Red
Diamond Lecture series dishes about
decorating, page 23
BY LAURA MCALISTERJOURNAL EDITOR
Whether it’s the antiques passed down from gen-erations or the family portraits that hang on the walls, Nonie Brown’s Mountain Brook home is
a nod to both her family’s past and present.Nonie, a member of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Antiques at The Gardens Committee, said the many family heirlooms in her Dell Road home have largely driven the decor of the house. That, along with the help of her mother, Mallie Ireland, and friend and decorator Scott Johnson, has made Nonie’s home one that’s perfect for formal entertain-
ing as well as the everyday activities of the family of five.
The Brown family purchased the house nearly 25 years ago, but according to Nonie, its history in her family dates back further than that.
“My dad actually lived here with his mother during the war,” Nonie said, referring to World War II. “He lived here when he was 16. It’s had many owners in between.”
There may have been many owners and years in between her father’s time in the house and Nonie’s family purchasing it, but she was still able to find some pieces
fro m her family’s past there. When Nonie and her hus-band moved into the house, they found two old mirrors that belonged to Nonie’s grandmother stored in the attic.
The mirrors were restored and now hang in the living room. The focal point in this room, though, is an old paint-ing that belonged to Nonie’s aunt, Doris Schuler. The large painting of a distinguished 18th Century Englishman domi-nates one wall of the living room.
“We did the whole room around him,” Nonie said. “The painting used to sit in my aunt’s home in London. Here we like to call him ‘the Duke on Dell.’”
The painting sets a formal, traditional tone in the room. The colors in the painting are subtle and earthy, aside from
Family Ties Birmingham Botanical Gardens Antiques
at The Gardens Committee Member Shares the Stories of Her Home’s Many
Family Heirlooms.
Clockwise from top: The painting from Nonie’s aunt and the sofa from her grandmother set the tone for the living room. The library offers stun-ning views, and the center bookcase is actually just a cover for the television. Nonie stands by a painting of her mother, Mallie Ireland, in the din-ing room. Journal photos by Emil Wald
“It’s really been a happy home. It’s been such a great house.
Now we’re empty nesters,
and it’s fantastic. – Nonie Brown
the red coat worn by the so-called “Duke on Dell.” Nonie brightens the room with another family piece, a gold sofa that belonged to Kitty Ireland, her grandmother.
“That piece drove the room, too,” Nonie said. “It’s such a bold color. It was hard to do.”
Nonie makes it work, though, with some soft mauve and green striped chairs on either side of the couch and two peach velvet chairs sitting opposite the sofa. Tables flanking the sofa are covered with family photos and antique trinkets, some passed down from family members and others new to Nonie.
The setup in the living room is designed with entertaining in mind, as is the rest of the house.
Though Nonie doesn’t know the exact year the home was built, she knows it pre-dates World War II. Without sacrificing the character of the house, the Browns made some changes to the floor plan to fit their lifestyle.
Making it flow easily for entertaining was a must for Nonie. In addition to updating the kitchen, they added a whole new wing that can be accessed from the dining room as well as the living room. It includes the master bedroom, library and what Nonie calls the gallery.
In the gallery is a black gran-ite built-in wet bar displaying a painting by artist Thomas Arvid, who is known for his realistic wine paintings.
“We bought this at Linn Park,” Nonie said. “Now his work is in the Atlanta Museum of Art.”
Nonie said she loves going to art shows in the Birmingham area to find local artists’ work, which is apparent throughout the house. One of her favorites is a floral painting by Arthur Stewart that hangs above the fireplace in the living room.
Other pieces of artwork spe-cial to Nonie include a sculpture of her son and a portrait of her
three children.The sculpture sits in the gal-
lery and was done by Dallas artist Barvo. It’s of Nonie’s now 22-year-old son as a child, with a fishing rod in hand and dog by his side. She actually commis-sioned it at a sculpture auction at the Botanical Gardens, started by her mother-in-law, Virginia Brown.
“She just loved The Gardens,” Nonie said.
The portrait is by Carter Laney and hangs in the stairwell at the front entrance of the home. According to Nonie, the oil paint-ing was one of the first large ones done by the Birmingham artist.
The Brown children posed for the portrait in the family library, which like much of the house is formal yet still comfortable and inviting. The walls are a dark paneled wood, and cabinets dis-guised with antique book bind-ings cover the television.
One of Nonie’s favorite parts of this room, as well as the entire house, is the great views. An entire wall of the library is win-dows with floor-to-ceiling rich red draperies. During an earlier renovation, the couple moved the master bedroom downstairs to connect to the library, which shares the appealing views.
Another renovation done by the Browns was the expansion of the formal dining room.
Like much of the house, the dining room is also filled with family heirlooms but mixes in a few modern pieces.
A portrait of Nonie’s mother in a formal blue evening gown hangs on a mirrored wall on one side of the room; on the opposite side, windows and French doors open up to the patio. Dramatic light green draperies frame the large wall of windows.
The antique crystal chandelier over the dining table belonged to Nonie’s grandmother. Nonie mixed modern chairs with her
mother’s antique dining table to complete the room.
Although there are lots of formal spaces in this Mountain Brook home, there’s still plenty of space to kick back and relax. Nonie said the heart of the house, where the family spends most of its time, is definitely the kitchen and adjacent den. The den has a relaxed French Provincial style with light green toile couches and chairs.
Whether it’s the formal dining and living rooms or the relaxed den, the house holds many family memories for the Browns. After nearly 25 years, their children are grown now and in college. Nonie said it was the perfect place to raise a family.
“It’s really been a happy home,” she said. “It’s been such a great house. Now we’re empty nesters, and it’s fantastic.” ❖
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A sculpture of her son as a child sits in the gallery of the Brown home. Nonie said she purchased it at an event at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens that her mother-in-law, Virginia Brown, started. The event was a precur-sor to what would become Antiques at The Gardens. Journal photos by Emil Wald
BY LAURA MCALISTERJOURNAL EDITOR
Whether you’re looking for a timeless piece for your home or decora-
tions for your daughter’s dorm room, Antiques at The Gardens is likely to have it.
Birmingham Botanical
Gardens’ Antiques at The Gardens: Heirlooms in Bloom will be Oct. 7-9. As in years past, some of the best antique dealers from across the nation will be selling their finds at the sixth annual show.
Chairing this year’s event are Barbara Burton and Elizabeth Broughton. Both said great care was taken this year to offer antiques in all price ranges.
“We really tried to run the gamut this year,” Barbara said. “It’s nice because if you’re just looking for little antique pieces for yourself or your daughter’s dorm room, you can find it, and if you’re looking for something pretty major, we’ll have that, too.”
The event will kick off Oct. 6 with the Sterne Agee First Look Party. The show officially opens to the public Oct. 7.
Perhaps the biggest draw to this year’s event is the featured speaker at the Red Diamond Lecture Series. World-renowned interior decorator Charlotte Moss will be the keynote speaker.
A Virginia native, Charlotte draws from her Southern heritage to create luxurious living spaces. She’s the author of seven books; the most recent, “Charlotte Moss Decorates,” will be available for purchase at Antiques at The Gardens.
“We’re just so excited about Charlotte speaking,” Elizabeth said. “I mean, wow, to have someone like her really just makes this an even more outstanding event. She’s truly regarded as one of the out-
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Helping plan this year’s Antiques at The Gardens are from left: Barbara Burton, Elizabeth Broughton and Katharine Patton. Journal photo by John Pope
Not a Garden Variety Show
Special Speaker, Honoree Will Highlight Antiques at The Gardens This Year
See Antiques, page 25
She now calls New York home, but Charlotte Moss’ roots are buried in
Richmond, Va.At age 27, Charlotte, now an
interior design icon, packed her bags for Wall Street, fostering a successful business career before launching her own firm eight years later.
Susan and Michael Bloomberg were among Charlotte’s first cli-ents. Today, she has been recog-nized as one of Elle Decor’s A-List designers and has been given the opportunity to design her own line of furniture for Century, a collec-tion that will arrive next spring.
Charlotte is the speaker at this year’s Antiques at The Gardens Red Diamond Lecture Series. She’ll be speaking Oct. 7 at 10:30 a.m. at the BBG’s Linn Henley Lecture Hall.
Tickets are $30 and can be pur-chased at www.bbg.org.
In a recent telephone conversa-tion with Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ Blake Ells, Moss shared her elegant ideas, passion for style and concepts from her most recent book, “Charlotte Moss Decorates.”
BBG: Does an elegant design always require a big budget?
Charlotte Moss: Heavens no. Because style doesn’t require a big budget. Anybody can have a checkbook. Some people with a checkbook don’t know how to use it. Pauline de Rothschild’s room in Albany has just two or three pieces. It’s not about volume or money. It’s about being selective. It’s about editing. It’s about knowing when to stop.
BBG: My living room needs a makeover. I can’t afford to take care of everything at once. Where do I begin to make the room more inviting?
CM: Good seating is the key. There’s no way you can have a room like that without an invita-tion for someone to be there – and a good mix of it. I don’t even think you start with a rug. That’s bogus. Great – so you blew your budget on a rug, now where do I sit? Even a loveseat and two chairs – then I would move to a great mirror or painting.
BBG: What antique pieces are easiest to incorporate into a modern design?
CM: It could be as simple as an antique globe or a pedestal. I don’t think there is one type of piece; you just have to love what it is. The key is being great.
BBG: What can we expect from your new line of furniture with Century?
CM: You’re going to see some classic pieces and some classic things with a twist – painted furni-ture.
BBG: What do you hope people will learn from your most recent release, “Charlotte Moss Decorates”?
CM: That there are no bloody
rules. And that’s why I put the chapter in there called “Why Not?” They will learn to question things and ask themselves, “Why not?”
BBG: What distinguishes Southern style from other regions?
CM: The South is all about hos-pitality. Southern style is gracious style. People love their homes and they welcome you into them. Quite readily. There’s an ease to Southern living that distinguishes it from the rest of the country. I know so many Southerners that are Francophiles. We’re not as chauvinistic as we once were in our own communities.
It’s not the country club pink and green that it once was. ❖
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Will Fountain and Jonathan Handey came up with the idea for Eco Three over lunch in February 2010. As the two discussed ideas for lowering their home energy costs, they realized the potential business opportunity of helping others do the same. “The idea was a company that could show a homeowner different ways to cost-effec-tively lower energy costs and improve comfort and safety,” says Handey. After initially setting out with the intent to provide informa-tion after an energy audit, the two founders realized that many home owners also wanted help retrofitting the house. Now in addition to the audit, Eco Three works with a network of contractors to provide the home improvements they recommend. “I think our commitment to each homeowner and our atten-tion to detail really makes us unique,” says Sam Hill, energy audit consultant. “We are not going to recom-mend you build a solar plant in your back yard, or add two wind turbines to your roof line,” adds Fountain. “What we do is pro-vide you with practical solutions to help save you money.” Eco Three, which stands for Energy Efficient Environ-ment, starts with the outside of the home where they look at many different variables includ-ing roof and gutter condition,
foundation concerns, storm water runoff, window condition, rotting issues and the condition of condensing units. Once inside the home, the team uses a handful of tools such as an infrared camera, car-bon monoxide detector, humid-ity sensor, gas leak detector, and blower door, along with other diagnostic equipment. They check insulation levels, duct leakage, temperature balancing issues, appliances for age and efficiency, lighting, and more. “One of the most important tests we run is the blower door test,” says Hill. “It’s a large fan that depressurizes the home and allows air to infiltrate through windows, walls, doors, plumb-ing, and outlets. While the home is under this heightened pres-sure, we can pinpoint areas of siagnificant air leakage with our infrared camera.” The cost for a home energy au-dit from Eco Three is $399 which includes a complete report. “We have found that most people can realize a full return on their investment within 3 to 5 years, so if you are going to be living in your current home for a while, it makes sense to have us come in, perform our work, and help save you money,” says Fountain. Eco Three is certified by the Building Performance Institute as well as the Better Business Bureau. Their offcice is located at The Innovation Depot.
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Eco Three founders Will Fountain and Jonathan Handey with team member Sam Hill, pictured above, from right to left, create opportu-nities for local home owners to renew their homes.
World renowned interior decorator Charlotte Moss will be the fea-tured speaker at Antiques at The Gardens Red Diamond Lecture series Oct. 7.
BY LAURA MCALISTERJOURNAL EDITOR
Ever wonder what kinds of books you’d stumble upon in Oprah Winfrey’s
home library? Just ask Kinsey Marable. He would know.
The former Wall Street invest-ment banker helped stock the shelves at the media mogul’s home. Kinsey didn’t trade in his Goldman Sachs career to become a librarian, though. He’s actually a curator of rare books, and Oprah is just one of his many clients across the globe.
Kinsey travels around the world in search of rare, out-of-print books to stock the home libraries of his clients, and he’ll be in Birmingham selling some of his unique finds at this year’s Antiques at The Gardens Oct. 7-9 at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
“I would say books are certainly decoration, but libraries and col-lections are more than just decora-tions,” he said. “They are readable, visually beautiful and wonderful. I try to choose books for my clients that they will love to look at and read.”
Kinsey’s interest in the book
business started when he was work-ing at Goldman Sachs. His job required him to travel to London frequently, and it was there he found several bookstores special-izing in out-of-print books.
At first, he was keeping his rare finds for his personal library. Then he started fetching books for co-workers and friends.
“I really started spending a lot of time in those bookstores,” Kinsey said of the London shops. “I’d bring them back to my office, and then people started asking me to bring them back books.”
Since Kinsey’s collections are tailored to his clients’ tastes, he said putting together a home library with rare out-print-books could be time consuming, especially before the Internet. When he started his business 17 years ago, he said, it required travel. While the Internet helps some, he said the best way to find that rare book is by getting out and searching for it.
In his nearly two decades as a book curator, he’s put together quite an assortment of collections. He said some people prefer architec-ture books, while others are look-
ing for something more specific, like books on Thomas Jefferson or, in one unusual case, books on alchemy.
“The collections can be very small to very large,” he said. “It can take a huge amount of time to put together. This is not for people who are looking for books by the yard, but libraries of substance. These books you can’t just go out to the Barnes & Noble and find.”
In addition to compiling col-lections, Kinsey has started a book club. Starting at $500, he said, members receive an out-of-print book in their area of interest each month.
“That’s what I’m really going to be bringing to the Botanical Gardens show,” he said. “I wanted to bring it down a notch or two, so people didn’t necessarily think they had to buy $50,000 worth of books. You can get in and get started for $500 for six months or $1,000-$2,000 for a year. There’s different levels, but it allows people to get these out-of-print books that they otherwise would never have access to.”
When it comes to Kinsey’s per-sonal interests and his book collec-tion, he prefers non-fiction, books on American-English architecture, diaries, Thomas Jefferson and food – not the kind with recipes but “more like the history of food, the people and travel,” he said.
And if you’re still wonder-ing what Oprah has on her book shelves, she has several books on architecture, interiors and fashion as well as a collection of books by black authors.
“She also has a wonderful col-lection of Pulitzer Prize winners that I helped her put together,” Kinsey said. “They are all first edi-tions from the beginning (of the Pulitzers) until now.”
For more information on Kinsey and his private libraries, visit www.privatelibraries.com. ❖
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One for the BooksAntiques at The Gardens Guest Finds Rare Volumes for Home Library
Collections – Including Oprah’s
Kinsey Marable helps his clients find all sorts of rare books. He said many are interested in historical books or style and fashion, while oth-ers have more rare taste.
standing leaders in interior design.”Charlotte’s work has graced the
covers of top home magazines, and she also has received numer-ous awards, including Elle Decor’s Vision Award and the Royal Oak Foundation’s Timeless Design Award.
“She’s obviously a person of incredible elegance,” Barbara said. “She has a way of bringing warmth into the home.
“I remember in the ‘80s and ‘90s going to her store in New York. I didn’t know then that she was from the South, and I remem-ber thinking how it reminded me of the homes in Alabama. Now I know why.”
Another special aspect of this year’s Antiques at The Gardens is the honoree – Frances Blount.
Frances has been an advocate of The Gardens for years and has in part made the Botanical Gardens what it is today, said Nonie Brown, an Antiques committee member and Frances’ close friend.
“She is just wonderful and so deserving of this,” Nonie said. “I just think it’s wonderful that we’re honoring her.”
Frances was instrumental in raising more than $3 million that would fund the entryway of The Gardens and the Garden Center, improved parking and pathways
and the renovation and creation of several gardens.
“We’re really trying to shine the spotlight on Frances this year,” Elizabeth said. “She has been a significant force for The Gardens for many years. She’s not only an advocate for The Gardens, but she’s also done some tremendous stuff with fundraising.”
The show will be open to the public Oct. 7-8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Oct. 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $10. Visit www.bbg.org to purchase tickets or for more information.
All proceeds from Antiques at The Gardens will go to the Botanical Gardens’ education pro-grams.
“That’s really the best thing about this event,” Barbara said.
“This event raises money for edu-cation.
“A lot of people don’t know, but about 10,000 kids are bused in a year to The Gardens. These are children that probably wouldn’t have this opportunity otherwise, and it’s free. There are also some great therapeutic programs that are really wonderful.” ❖
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Wisner-HambyHolleigh Nichole Wisner and
Jeffrey Pascal Hamby were mar-ried July 23, 2011 at First Baptist Church of Albertville. The Rev. Chris Johnson officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dale Wisner of Albertville. She is the granddaugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hershell Sewell of Albertville and the late Ms. Margaret Louise Wisner of Boaz.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evan Hamby of Vestavia Hills. He is the grandson of Mrs. Mavis Parker Stevens and the late Mr. William T. Stevens of Alexander City and the late Mr. and Mrs. Pascal Roy Hamby of Dadeville.
Given in marriage by her father the bride wore an ivory charmeuse side-drape gown with a champagne sash featuring applique detail and a sweep train.
The matron of honor was April Strickland, sister of the bride. Bridesmaids were Leslie Wisner, Debbie Wilson, Rachel Dykes, Sarah Gill, Audrey Williams, Miranda Morgan and Michelle Moulton. Flower girls were Ella and Evie Strickland, nieces of the bride.
The grooms father served as best man. Groomsmen were Todd Hamby, Steven Hamby, Mark Hamby, Whit Wisner, Scott Stevens, Drew Stevens and Jason Grammer. Owen Stevens, cousin of the groom, was ring bearer.
After a honeymoon trip to Guanacaste, Cost Rica, the couple live in Hoover.
26 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 OVER THE MOUNTAIN JOURNALWEDDINGS & ENGAGEMENTS
Lofton of Mountain Brook announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Lofton, to Thomas Morrison, son of Mr. Thomas Michael Morrison of Mountain Brook and Ms. Elizabeth Colvard Morrison of Homewood.
The bride-elect is the grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mack Lofton of Mountain Brook and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gauld of Pell City and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jaeger of Nashville, Tenn.
She is a magna cum laude graduate of Auburn University’s School of Nursing with a bache-lor’s degree in nursing and was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She is employed with East Alabama Medical Center.
The prospective groom is the grandson of Mrs. Sarah Colvard and the late Mr. Frank Colvard of Sylacauga and the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson Morrison of Sylacauga.
He is a graduate of Columbus State University, where he was a member of Phi Theta Kappa honor society and the CSU base-ball team. He is employed with BlackJack Lands.
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OTM Musicians Join Ambassadors Tour
Alabama Ambassadors of Music recently returned from a seven-country European tour.
The ambassadors were each nominated to represent the state by their band or music directors.
Students on the tour came from schools from all over the state, including Vestavia Hills, Oak Mountain, Spain Park and Hoover high schools.
The group, which included more than 60 musicians, played concerts in parks and churches throughout Europe. After sight-seeing in Paris at the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre, the band played a concert at Luxembourg Gardens. AAM also visited England, Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Germany and Italy.
The music was under the direction of music professors from the University of South Alabama.
Mountain Brook Debaters Excel at Wake Forest
The Mountain Brook debate team recently traveled to Wake Forest University for the weekend with a squad of 16 debaters.
In Lincoln-Douglas Debates, junior Wyatt Moorer made the varsity sweet 16, while junior Haley Siddall and sophomore Amelia Putnam both made the elite 8 in junior varsity.
Leading the team in varsity policy was senior Evan McCarty, NFL Academic All-American debater, who was named second place overall speaker.
McCarty’s former partner, now debating on scholarship for Wake Forest University, was allowed to award the trophy to McCarty on stage. McCarty and his partner,
junior Philippa Straus, finished in the final four of a competitive field of teams from across the U.S.
Straus and McCarty have earned their first of two need-ed bids to the Tournament of Champions held by the University of Kentucky.
In junior varsity debate, soph-omores Mary Nix Roberson and Chamblee Shufflebarger made it to the elite eight. Sophomores Hope Reamer and Caroline Goolsby made the final four.
Mountain Brook rising eighth grader Marc Straus appeared in his first tournament with sopho-more partner Ben Jackson. Straus was the 13th overall speaker in the junior varsity pool.
O’Neal Library Hosts Chess Tournament
The Emmet O’Neal Library hosted a summer chess tourna-ment July 23 for children from kindergarten to ninth grade.
Students competed for awards in two age divisions while parents
volunteered their time and help in shifts. Some of the competitors are regulars at Emmet O’Neal’s weekly Chess Club meeting, where ages 7 and older receive a free hour-and-a-half lesson from a chess coach each week.
After four rounds of chess matches, winners were Jason Zhang for the K-third grade divi-sion and Manish Nagaraj for the K-ninth grade division.
New Students Are LPMS Guests
A New Student Party was hosted at Liberty Park Middle School for all students new to the Vestavia Hills school system.
Counselor Stephanie Holcomb held the party so students could meet each other and play games.
SGA members provided break-fast and told new students about ways to get involved at Liberty Park Middle.
OLS Begins New Parish School of Religion Year
Children and their parents turned out for the start of the 2011-12 season of the Parish School of Religion at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Homewood.
During orientation Aug. 21, OLS Pastor Rev. Msgr. Martin Muller told parents that their main focus in life should be the salvation of their children.
Those at the event also met
Suzanne Corso, newly-appointed director of religious education at OLS, and Brendan Kelly, new director of youth ministries at the church.
After the meeting, children and their parents went to class-rooms to meet their teachers. ❖
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Among those on the Alabama Ambassadors of Music tour were musi-cians from Vestavia Hills, Oak Mountain, Spain Park, and Hoover, including, from left, front: Kerrilyn Gibson, Kate McAfee, Erin McAfee, Mi’a Callens and Lauren Hughes. Second row: Harry McAfee, Christian Free, Matthew Perley, Shelby Koelz, Kat White and Jackson Thomley. Third row: Spenser Matthews, Maddie Haddock, Peter Adamo and Jon Barron. Photo special to the Journal
Guidance counselor Stephanie Holcomb welcomed new students at a party at Liberty Park Middle School. Photo special to the Journal
Emmett O’Neal Library hosted a summer chess tournament for children. In the K-3 division, first through sixth place winners were Jason Zhang, Ethan Shunnarah, Patrick Moulton, Claire Jun, Madhav Praveen and James Shi. First through sixth place in the K-9 division went to Manish Nagaraj, Annie An, Joseph Jun, Freddie Nunnelley, Sameer Sultan, and Luke Cai. Photo special to the Journal
Greeting families at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church’s ori-entation are, from left: Brendan Kelly, director of youth ministries; Pastor Rev. Msgr. Martin Muller; and Suzanne Corso, director of religious education. Photo special to the Journal
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Gwin, Simmons Recognized for Healthy Choices
Two Hoover schools were recently awarded for their healthy achievements. This summer Simmons Middle School and Gwin Elementary received the Bronze National Recognition Award by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation for their efforts in fighting child-hood obesity.
The American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation founded the Alliance. Simmons and Gwin earned the awards for their dedi-cation to revamping their meal services and physical activity pro-grams to meet or exceed standards set by the Alliance.
Simmons transformed its campus into a healthier place for the students and staff. Simmons provides healthy nutritious meals and teaches health education and
physical education classes. Faculty and staff also have access to fitness equipment in the weight room.
Gwin’s efforts foster healthy lifestyles that benefit young people now and into the future. Gwin provides healthy nutritious meals, teaches health education in the classroom, provides daily fitness breaks with various exercise activi-ties like unicycle, dance and run-ning club before and after school for students and teachers.
Simmons was one of six schools awarded in Alabama and out of 274 nationwide. Gwin was the only elementary school to receive the award in Alabama.
Cherokee Bend Welcomes New Families
The New Family Committee at Cherokee Bend Elementary School hosted a picnic Aug. 21 to wel-come families with new students in grades 1-6.
About 75 people, including principal Betsy Bell, attended the event on the school’s playground. Parents and children enjoyed din-ner, which included hot dogs and chicken fingers provided by Gus’s.
The New Family Committee also hosted “Muffins for New Moms” for mothers of the new students.
The committee’s goal is to make new families feel welcome and to make the transition to a new school enjoyable. Chairmen are Jackie Breland, Edith Lyon and Susan Yarbro.
VHHS has 19 National Merit Semi-Finalists
Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation, NMSC, recently announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 57th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These aca-demically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to con-tinue in the competition for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $34 million that will be offered next spring.
Vestavia Hills High School is proud to announce that 19 of its seniors were named National Merit Semifinalists, which repre-sents 10 percent of all the National Merit Semifinalists in the state this year. The following VHHS students are semifinalists: Daniel Brown, Ted Cook, Brandon Duan, Forrest Gamble, Sarah Gunn, Ryan
Hamilton, Rachel Herrington, Jerry Hsu, Anastasiya Klyuyeva, Matthew Kundler, Andrew Mims, Christopher Orr, James Orr, Evan Owen, Loren Roth, Stuart Tieszen, John Tootle, Zhen Yang and Jean Yu.
Vestavia joins the top 90 high schools in the nation that produced such high numbers of semifinal-ists. VHHS is tied with Madison County’s Bob Jones High School for producing the highest number of semifinalists in the state.
More than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screening of program entrants. The nationwide pool of semifinalists, which represents less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the high-est scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors. ❖
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Hoover’s Simmons Middle School and Gwin Elementary were recently recognized by the Alliance for a Greater Generation for their healthy programs. Above: from left are Simmons’ Coach JoAnn Hollis, Coach Danny Pair & Principal Brian Cain. Below: From left are Gwin’s assis-tant principal Kimberly White, PE teacher Robyn McMahan, cafeteria manager Brenda Butters and principal Linda Joseph.
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Shades Cahaba Elementary School kindergartners in Meredith Bryan’s class recently visited the library, where they got to pick out their favorite books to read. Students gathered in groups to read aloud to each other. Enjoying their selections are, from left: Miller Sanfratel, Maven Baldwin and Bashar Muthana. Photo special to the Journal
Students new to the fifth and sixth grades at Cherokee Bend Elementary recently attended a picnic hosted at the school by the New Family Committee. Photo special to the Journal
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3-0 in Class 6A Region 6). After a down year in 2009, the Spartans have reestablished themselves as one of the state’s best foot-ball programs. Quarterback Ed Aldag leads a team that should be undefeated going into its Sept. 30 game against Spain Park.
If Mountain Brook can get past the Jags, its meeting with Hoover three weeks later could be a battle of the unbeatens. From there, any-thing can happen.
Homewood (2-2 overall, 1-2 in Class 6A Region 6). A new era may have begun under first-year Coach Doug Goodwin, but in many ways the Patriots seem much like they have in the recent past: good coaching, good ath-letes, but not enough depth to be competitive with the powerhouses in its region.
As always, however, Homewood has outstanding tal-ent at the skill positions, notably quarterback Stephen Baggett. The Patriots won’t win their region,
but they usually pull off one big upset – and that win could deter-mine the ultimate region winner.
Briarwood (4-0 overall, 3-0 in Class 5A Region 5). The Lions have looked unstoppable in their first four games, as Fred Yancey’s squad seems to be a team on a mission. Only a meeting with Class 6A’s Vestavia Hills seems to stand between the Lions and a perfect regular season.
In the playoffs anything can happen, but anything includes another state championship for Briarwood.
Vestavia (1-3 overall, 1-2 in Class 6A Region 6). The Rebels are off to their most disappointing start in years. It would be politi-cally correct to say that there’s still plenty of time to turn the situ-ation around, but the truth is that the season is nearly half complete.
Probably no team in Alabama will have a tougher slate over the next four weeks, as Vestavia faces Briarwood, Homewood, Spain Park and Hoover in succession. How the Rebels fare over that period will say a lot about how their season winds up.
The good news for Vestavia,
however, is that you can never count a Buddy Anderson-coached team out.
Oak Mountain (1-3 overall, 0-3 in Class 6A Region 6). The Eagles are still building and aren’t that far from being a factor in the region race. They haven’t quite reached that plateau yet, as there is still too much inexperience in key positions.
Oak Mountain may not reach the playoffs this season but does have a realistic shot at a winning season. That accomplishment would give Coach Jeff Harris something on which to build for next year.
John Carroll Catholic (2-2 overall, 1-2 in Class 5A Region 4). The Cavs got their fans excited with a 2-0 start but have come back to earth after con-secutive losses to McAdory and Parker. Things won’t get much easier for John Carroll either, as tough games against the likes of Chelsea, Hueytown and Fairfield are still ahead.
The Cavaliers’ offense, how-ever, is difficult to stop, and on any given night, Carroll can be competitive with almost anyone in its class. At this point, however, a lot of things must break the Cavs’ way for them to have a winning season.
Shades Mountain Christian (0-3 overall, 0-2 in Class 1A Region 4). It’s been a long, tough haul for the Eagles since the school adopt-ed football a few years ago, and it won’t get easier anytime soon.
New coach Joel Dunn had only 19 players on his August roster, including three eighth graders, so it’s no surprise that Shades Mountain is having a rough time on the field. But there’s noth-ing wrong with the program that adding more athletes and getting more depth won’t solve.
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Shades Mountain Park Nationals Wins Metro The 8-Year-Old SMP National All Stars won the Metro Baseball
Championship held in Homewood this summer.Team members above are, from left, front: James Broderick,
Slade McCraw, Tyner Patterson, Connor Eberhardt, Sam Tolbert and Evan Warren. Middle: Landon Dickson, Ty Truett, Robbie Ashford, Josh Lundy, Will Whisenhunt and Tyler Waugh. Back: (Coaches) DannyWarren, Mike McCraw, Joseph Lundy and Craig Tolbert.
Lady Phantoms Win United Invitaional TourneyHoover Soccer Club’s Lady Phantoms 00 took first place in the
Athens (Georgia) United Invitational Soccer Tournament recently. The Lady Phantoms 00 played four games at the weekend tournament winning three games and tying one game, ending with a 2-0 victory over Henry’s TSC Thunder 00. With that victory, the Hoover Lady Phantoms 00 earned the 2011 Athens United Invitational Title.
Team members are, from left, front: KaiLian Davis, Maris Laney, Emily Carlisle, Sydney Steely and Helen Lunsford. Back: Coach Nick DiTullo, Erin Butler, Elena Register, Jasmine Greene, Elizabeth Corcoran, Jurea Parker and Anna Grace Steele.
Oak Mountain Tennis Tourney Benefit Draws 26 Teams
The second annual Oak Mountain Tennis Tournament at Inverness Country Club was held as part of the Oak Mountain Sports Festival Aug. 12-13.
Twenty-six teams participated in the Friday event, raising more than $1,200 to benefit the Oak Mountain High School athletic department.
Tournament planners were Julie Rinks, Lisa Roberts, Miriam Stone and Pam Holton. Jerry Nixon, Inverness Country Club’s head tennis pro, organized the round-robin play.
Winners were:Men’s Division A: Rick
Bonsack and Miller Sproull, first place; Paul Touliatotis and Preston Touliatos, second place.
Women’s Division A: Mary Kay Greer and Patti Henderson, first place; Yu-ing Hargett and Debbie Ivey, second place.
Men’s Division B: Ben Kingsley and Chris Woodham, first place; David Kallus and Jay Thompson, second place.
Women’s Division B: Tracy Smith and Cristy Flournoy, first place; Shelly Richardson and Kim Osburn, second place.
Winners in the OMHS tennis tournament’s Women’s Division B were, from left: Tracy Smith and Cristy Flournoy, first place, and Shelly Richardson and Kim Osburn, second place. Photo special to the Journal
Four weeks into the season John Carroll, led by quarterback John Boohaker, has a 2-2 record.
Journal photo by Paul S. Arant
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were pretty good, but I was just playing. I really didn’t know the inside story of being a quarterback.”
Mullens credits Lindsey and his staff for his quick study of the new offensive schemes.
“Coach Lindsey has taught me that play-ing quarterback is similar to studying a sci-ence,” he said. “Our coaches coach me on leadership and help me understand anything that opposing defenses might throw at us.”
Lindsey is pleased with his quarterback’s rapid development.
“Nick and all of our players have adapted really well to our offense,” said Lindsey. “Nick resembles a coach on the field. He’s still learning, but he picks up things quickly and has been a fine leader for us.”
The best news for Mullens and Spain Park may be the abundance of other skilled players at the Jaguars’ disposal. Sean Mardis and Ashton Daniel take pressure off Mullens with their talents at the running back slots.
Spain Park also has a deep receiver corps, including Reid Reinagel and Michael
Nelson-Brown, who had 45 yards in recep-tions in the victory over Oak Mountain. The Jags’ offensive line is comparatively young, but returning All-Over the Mountain selec-tion Ben Tamburello and Robert Bagwell are veteran standouts.
Mullens’ biggest attribute is that he is a self-professed football workaholic. In his down time, if he’s not doing school-related homework, the quarterback is likely to be studying film, either to improve his own technique or to brush up on the next oppo-nent.
“Technology is amazing now,” said Mullens. “There is no carrying projectors and film home like it was done in the old days. You just get a log-in and watch it on a home computer.”
While Mullens and Spain Park are off to an impressive start, the season hasn’t been all peaches and cream. A bitter off-note came on Sept. 2, when the Jaguars fell to arch-foe Hoover 20-0 at Spain Park’s own Bob Finley Field. The Jaguars have never defeated the Bucs in nearly a decade of competition.
“You can’t look back,” said Mullens. “All we can do is keep growing and learn-ing.”
Spain Park would be well-advised to continue to do that, as its schedule does nothing but get more difficult. The Jags will journey to north Alabama this week, where they will face always-tough Bob Jones before returning to region play.
Starting on Sept. 30, Spain Park will face dangerous Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills and Pelham on consecutive weekends. The team must go on the road against the Rebels and Panthers.
The slate is tough, but Mullens is philo-sophical.
“We really can’t control what our oppo-nents do,” he said. “They will take care of themselves. All we can do is be concerned about us and work like crazy to get better every week. If we get the details, we can have a big year. But it’s all up to us.”
Conventional wisdom would say that’s a great attitude for success. And this time, the conventional wisdom is right.
On its next possession, Homewood moved to the Spartans’ 14-yard line before committing the fumble which led to Mountain Brook’s game-winning march.
After regaining the lead in the final stanza, the Spartans effec-tively ran the clock, using run-ning back Mark Rector to gain yardage and keep the ball away from Homewood’s offensive unit. Rector also rushed for 26 yards on just five carries on Mountain Brook’s last touchdown effort. He finished the night with 128 yards after 31 carries.
“We struggled some tonight, but when opportunities came, we took advantage,” said Rector. “Homewood has a terrific team. They don’t stop battling.”
Neither does Mountain Brook. Despite hurting themselves by dropping passes and getting 51 yards in penalties, the Spartans found a way to go home with the scoreboard lights in their favor.
“We ran the ball well but didn’t play with a lot of consistency,” said Mountain Brook coach Chris Yeager. “But we made plays when it counted.”
The Spartans enter the midpoint of their season in a strong position. They should be undefeated going into an epic confrontation at Spain Park Sept. 30. A victory there will most likely keep Mountain Brook undefeated until its Oct. 21 date with Hoover – to be played in the friendly confines of Spartan Stadium.
Is Mountain Brook a team of destiny?
“Oh, I don’t know about all that,” said Aldag. “We just want to keep winning. All we’re thinking about is the next game.”
Aldag undoubtedly speaks for his teammates. But with a few
more victories, Spartan fans can aim their sights a little higher.
WEEK 4 ROUNDUPSpain Park 28, Oak Mountain 10
The Jaguars took their sec-ond Class 6A Region 6 victo-ry with a workmanlike perfor-mance against the Eagles. Sean Mardis’ 15-yard touchdown run and quarterback Nick Mullens’ 35-yard pass to Ashton Daniel gave Spain Park a 14-0 first quarter lead. Mitch Mathias countered for Oak Mountain with a 32-yard field goal.
Mardis’ second touchdown – from 42 yards out – gave
the victors a 21-3 advantage in the third quarter. Jakaryus Redwine gave Eagle fans hope when he returned a punt 41 yards for a touchdown to cut the Jags’ lead to 21-10.
Spain Park’s Devon Brown ended the scoring when he inter-cepted an Oak Mountain pass and returned it 12 yards for a touch-down.
Spain Park moved to 3-1 over-all, while Oak Mountain fell to 1-3, including three losses in Class 6A Region 6 play.
Briarwood 45, Chelsea 34The Lions stormed back from a
34-17 deficit to take an impressive
win over the Hornets.Quarterback Ben Craft led the
comeback, completing 22 of 33 passes for 242 yards and three touchdowns. Craft also rushed for 71 yards on just nine carries and a score.
With Briarwood leading 17-14 at halftime, Chelsea exploded for 20 points in the third period to take command. But the Lions coun-tered with 28 unanswered points to remain undefeated.
Briarwood is now 4-0, 3-0 in Class 5A Region 5 play.
Hoover 41, Thompson 15After a slow start, the Bucs took
off in the second period to stage a strong homecoming victory.
Halfback Caleb Sims was a big reason for the surge. Sims threw a touchdown pass, caught a touchdown pass and scored on a one-yard run to spark Hoover’s offense. If that wasn’t enough, the versatile Sims also returned a Thompson punt 68 yards for a score.
Quarterback Sam Gilliken passed for two scores – one to Sims and another to Josh Jackson.
The Bucs raised their record for the year to 4-0.
Pelham 30, Vestavia Hills 27 (2OTs)
The Panthers overcame a trau-matic week -- in which two play-ers were suspended -- to take an emotional victory.
The Rebels moved to an early 10-0 lead and led 17-10 at half-time. But Pelham battled back to send the game into overtime. Eli Beall’s touchdown on a fourth-and-two situation in the second overtime period gave the Panthers the victory.
Georgie Salem led the Vestavia attack with 139 yards rushing on 29 carries and two touchdowns.
The Rebels fell to 1-3 overall and 1-2 in Class 6A Region 6 play.
Parker 32, John Carroll Catholic 25
The Cavs chalked up 25 points and nearly 400 yards of total offense but couldn’t stop the Thundering Herd.
Quarterback Johnny Boohaker ran for two touchdowns, and Kenny Johnson scored another in the losing cause. Trent Marshall kicked two field goals for John Carroll.
The Cavs’ record fell to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in Class 5A Region 4 play.
Maplesville 42, Shades Mtn. Christian 2
The winless Eagles fell again at the hands of the Red Devils.
WEEK 4 OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES
Hoover’s Caleb Sims was responsible for four touchdowns in the Bucs’ rout of Thompson. Sims tossed a touchdown pass, caught a touchdown pass, ran for a score and returned a punt 68 yards for yet another touchdown.
Homewood quarterback Stephen Baggett completed 17 consecutive passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns in the Patriots’ 21-14 loss to Mountain Brook.
Briarwood quarterback Ben Craft completed 22 of 33 passes for 242 yards and three touch-downs as the Lions rallied from a 17-point deficit to defeat Chelsea 45-34.
Mountain Brook running back Mark Rector rushed for 128 yards on 31 carries as the Spartans defeated Homewood.
Spain Park quarterback Nick Mullens completed 22 of 36 pass-es for 226 yards and a touchdown in the Jaguars’ 28-10 win over Oak Mountain.
John Carroll Catholic lineback-er Daniel Bostick had 12 tackles in the Cavs’ loss to Parker.
Spartans,from back cover
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Homewood’s Johnathan Gooden (27) knocks Spain Park’s Hunter Kahn (15) out of bounds in Week 3 action. The Jaguars beat the Patriots 27-6. More photos at otmj.com. Journal photo by Marvin Gentry
With protection from Zach Simms (70) Homewood quarterback Stephen Baggett (11) gets a pass off as Mountain Brook’s Robert Eckert (48) applies pressure. More photos at otmj.com. Journal photo by Lee Walls Jr.
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One way to tell that a football team might be on the way to a special season is when it wins a game on the road that,
by all rights, it could have lost.That’s exactly what happened to the
Mountain Brook Spartans Friday night.Locked in a tough battle with Class 6A
Region 6 rival Homewood, the Spartans drove 86 yards in seven plays for the game-winning score in the fourth quarter to take a 21-14 decision at Waldrop Stadium. Quarterback Ed Aldag passed 44 yards to Coates Doss for the touchdown.
Mountain Brook recovered a Homewood fumble at the Spartan 14-yard line late in the third quarter before putting together the final drive.
“I told our guys that this was our chance to come back from adversity,” said Aldag. “We knew exactly what needed to be done, and we were not going to be denied.”
Mountain Brook lifted its record to 4-0 overall and 3-0 in region play. The Patriots fell to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in league competition.
A huge bright spot in defeat for Homewood was the extraordinary play of quarterback Stephen Baggett. He completed his first 17 passes for 211 yards and a pair of touch-downs.
“Our offensive line was unbelievable,” Baggett said later. “I had all the time in the
world. All I had to do was throw the ball. This loss hurts, but it won’t do anything but make us better.”
Homewood got its fans excited early in the game when quarterback Baggett connected with Nycholas Young for a 31-yard score. Jay Williams’ conversion gave the Patriots a 7-0 lead with 9:22 left in the first quarter.
The Spartans rallied when Gavin Golson hit pay dirt on a reverse with just over two minutes remaining in the quarter. Warren Handrahan’s extra point kick tied the score at 7-7.
In the second stanza, Aldag passed 21 yards to Reagan Alexander for a score. Handrahan’s kick gave Mountain Brook a 14-7 halftime advantage.
Homewood rebounded in the third period. Baggett completed a nine-yard touchdown toss to D’Vonte Wallace, bringing the Patriots to within a point. Williams’ kick tied the score with 5:23 left in the third quarter.
Four Weeks In:How Area Teams Look In Mid-September
Septembers in high school football are similar to Aprils in Major League Baseball:
It’s too early to get excited about a fast start, and it’s too early to get depressed about a poor start.
With that being said, it’s also true that games played early in the season count just as much as games played later in the year. So now is as good a time as any to evaluate where area teams are at this early point in 2011.
Hoover (4-0 overall, 3-0 in Class 6A Region 6). The Buccaneers have looked invin-cible in their first four games. Quarterback Sam Gilliken has stepped right in to follow in the tradition of fine Hoover signal-callers of the past. He is sur-rounded by an outstanding sup-porting cast.
But the Bucs’ trump card could easily be its defense, which may be one of the finest in school history. Hoover pitched a shutout against powerful Spain Park back on Sept. 2 and has gotten better in the games that have followed.
The Bucs have a clear path before them for an undefeated regular season run and another state 6A championship.
Spain Park (3-1 overall, 2-1 in Class 6A Region 6). The Jaguars continue to suffer frustration at the hands of crosstown rival Hoover, as once again they fell short against the Bucs. But that doesn’t mean new coach Chip Lindsey hasn’t inherited one of metro Birmingham’s best teams.
After the anemic performance in the Hoover game, Spain Park has rebounded with impressive wins over Homewood and Oak Mountain. A mid-season sched-ule streak of Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills and Pelham will probably determine where the Jags finish in the region stand-ings.
Mountain Brook (4-0 overall,
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GAME OF THE WEEK
SPECIAL OPSSpartans Take Advantage of Opportunities to Edge Pats in Region 6 Battle
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Hoover Soccer Club’s Lady Phantoms 00 Win United Invitational Soccer Tournament. See page 29.Sports
Mountain Brook linebacker Buddy Pell (45) and a host of Spartan defenders bring down Homewood running back Justin Hardy (4). More photos at otmj.com. Journal photo by Lee Walls Jr.
See Spartans, page 30
BY LEE DAVISJOURNAL SPORTS WRITER
Conventional wisdom would say that the football player most affected by a coach-ing change would be the quarterback.
That’s particularly true if the new coaching staff brings in an offense that is diametrically different from the one the previous staff uti-lized. New terminology, new plays and a new philosophy can take a heavy toll on a quarter-back. At least that’s, once again, according to conventional wisdom.
Spain Park quarterback Nick Mullens proud-ly goes against the conventional wisdom.
As a sophomore last season, Mullens passed for more than 2,200 yards and four touchdowns in a run-oriented power offense taught by former Jaguar coaches David Shores and Ben
Berguson. For good measure, Mullens also completed 60 percent of his passes
But 2011 brought in a fresh era at Spain Park as Chip Lindsey, former Hoover assistant and Troy University quarterback coach, took over as the Jaguar boss. Lindsey brought in a four-wide out offense, and Mullens and his teammates adapted without missing a beat.
For example, Mullens completed 22 of 36 passes for 232 yards in Spain Park’s 28-10 win over Class 6A Region 6 rival Oak Mountain last week. In the previous game, he completed 22 of 27 passes for 271 yards in the Jaguars’ 27-6 rout of Homewood.
That sounds like a pretty decent transition.“There were a lot of things I didn’t do well
last year,” said Mullens. “Maybe my numbers
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Spain Park quarterback Nick Mullens has thrown for more than 500 yards in the last two games for the Jaguars.
