Tag: Mobile International Festival

Flags of many nations displayed at an international cultural festival

From Manila to Mobile: Estella Dorn and the Festival That Taught a City Its Neighbors

James Bullard, February 18, 2009

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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Cargo cranes and containers at a working seaport

Port Director Jimmy Lyons Briefed Sunrise Rotary as Mobile’s Docks Boomed

James Bullard, February 11, 2009

Alabama State Port Authority chief Jimmy Lyons addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in February 2009, with a $100 million Pinto Island terminal under way to serve the ThyssenKrupp steel mill.