Members of the Mobile Fire Retirees Association planted fruit trees and built raised, wheelchair-accessible garden planters at the Mulherin Home this week — and put out a call for fresh produce donations.
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Coverage of community service from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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A Trophy for the Kids Who Play: Rotary Names Its Youth Athletes of the Year
A McGill-Toolen soccer player and a Baker High School athlete were named players of the year at Mobile’s annual Rotary youth sports awards, with their coaches on hand for the presentations.
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Hearts of Gold: Mobile Volunteers Honor the Students Behind the Prom Dress Boutique
Volunteers of Mobile recognized the St. Paul’s Interact Club for its Pretty in Pink prom dress giveaway, and gave a youth merit award to classmates who volunteered in Prichard and beyond.
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Two Thousand Gowns and a Line Out the Door: ‘Pretty in Pink’ Sends 300 Girls to the Prom
A one-day boutique at Bel Air Mall handed out roughly 300 free prom dresses to girls from Mobile, Fairhope, Loxley, Gulf Shores and as far away as New Orleans. Only five left empty-handed.
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Adult Literacy Tutor Tells Mobile Rotarians How Grown Students Doubled Their Reading Skills
Lydia Gaudet of Goodwill Easter Seals told the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile about an adult literacy program whose students, most reading below a third-grade level, doubled their skills in a year.
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From Manila to Mobile: Estella Dorn and the Festival That Taught a City Its Neighbors
The executive director of the Mobile International Festival, born in the Philippines and a Mobilian since 1984, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on the event that has introduced schoolchildren to the world since 1982.
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St. Paul’s Students Raise $1,717 for the Heart Association on Wear Red Day
An out-of-uniform day and a bake sale at St. Paul’s Episcopal School turned National Wear Red Day into $1,717 for the American Heart Association, all of it raised by the school’s Interact Club and service leadership class.
Mobile
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Pancakes, a Chorus and $858 for a Prichard Classroom
Sunrise Rotary gathered for its family pancake breakfast with the St. Paul’s Chorus — and sent $858 to a third-grade teacher at W.D. Robbins Elementary in Prichard for a project called Backpacking with Reading.
Baldwin County
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Regional Planner Chris Miller Took Sunrise Rotary’s Podium as Coastal Growth Pressed In
The assistant executive director of the South Alabama Regional Planning Commission — and a former Bay Minette city administrator — headlined the Rotary Club of Mobile-Sunrise as the club opened a busy December.