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WHAT DEFINES AN ACE COMMUNITY?
- Fosters growth and prosperity by focusing on its distinctive assets and resources
- Establishes a vision based on the community’s unique values, concerns, and priorities
- Engages a broad base of community stakeholders to develop and implement short-term and long-range plans to achieve that vision
- Strives to meet defined ideas that embrace Leadership, Planning, Economic Development, and Quality of Life issues such as education, healthcare, and public safety.
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The Winter issue of the Alabama Municipal Journal is in the mail, but you can read it now online! In this issue: Communities as Classrooms, Certified Local Government Status via the Alabama Historical Commission, Main Street Alabama - Building Economic Success, 2020 Census FAQs, ARPA Reporting and Compliance, Land Bank Authorities, the Alabama Film Office and AMIC/MWCF's Loss Control Division turns 20! Check it out here: almonline.org/Assets/Files/Alabama%20Municipal%20Journal/JournalArchive/2022/Winter2022-Web-2.pdf
Winter weather returns to Alabama on Sunday. Learn more at ema.alabama.gov/2022/01/14/winter-weather-returns-on-sunday/
The application portal is now open for submissions for individual artist Fellowships and Cultural Facilities grants applications.
Deadline: 5 pm on March 1, 2022
Grant guidelines are now available. Find descriptions of current grant opportunities along with eligibility criteria and instructions for applying at bit.ly/guidelines22-23.
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The Alabama Civil Rights Trail takes center stage with Emmy Award-nominated PBS host Darley Newman in the next season of “Travels with Darley.” Newman recorded two episodes along the Alabama Civil Rights Trail in Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery. The upcoming episodes will premiere on Alabama Public Television’s Create channel on Sat. Jan. 22 and Sat. Jan. 29, 2022.
On January 12, Newman will participate in a live virtual event with Smithsonian Associates to preview the episodes. She will be joined by special guests Lee Sentell, U.S. Civil Rights Trail founder and Alabama Tourism Department director, and Doris Crenshaw, founder of The Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute and protégé of Rosa Parks.
The Smithsonian event is a ticketed engagement, and a very limited number of free tickets remain. Please contact evelyn@yolcc.com to reserve your free pass to the “Alabama Civil Rights Trail/Smithsonian Associates” event on January 12, from 5:45 – 7:15 pm CST.
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#ACEFieldTripsEmmy Award-nominated PBS host Darley Newman explores Alabama Civil Rights Trail in new season of “Travels with Darley”
The Alabama Civil Rights Trail takes center stage with Emmy Award-nominated PBS host Darley Newman in the next season of “Travels with Darley.” Newman recorded two episodes along the Alabama Civil Rights Trail in Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery. The two upcoming episodes will premiere on Alabama Public Television’s Create channel on Sat. Jan. 22 and Sat. Jan. 29, 2022, respectively.
“Travels with Darley” brings viewers along her journey to follow in the footsteps of legends and activists such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. The collection of museums, churches, national parks, and other landmarks in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma vividly bring to life the people, events and ideals that advanced the fight for social justice during the 1950s and ’60s, such as the iconic Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Newman also offers tips on area guides and experts whose knowledge of the trail can deepen your experience, as well as recommendations for local food, drink, lodging and experiences along the way.
“One of the really amazing things about traveling along the Civil Rights Trail in Alabama, is that you can actually meet with people who lived through the movement and played a role in it,” said Newman. “This helps paint an even more rich and dynamic picture of what transpired many years ago. I do wish everyone could take the Civil Rights Trail themselves and for those who cannot make the journey, I’m glad we could film and create these episodes to share Alabama’s poignant and inspiring stories.”
“Travels with Darley” is an Emmy Award nominated PBS TV show has been taking viewers on travel adventures with local people since 2014, when it launched as a web series with its own channel on AOL. In early 2016, the show debuted on PBS TV stations and had since released 45 half hour episodes on PBS, taking viewers through Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and the USA with host Darley Newman and a cast of local people. Viewers can now also binge the first seasons on Amazon Prime and the newest episodes on Ovation TV’s journey.
On January 12, Newman is participating in a live virtual event with Smithsonian Associates to preview the upcoming PBS episodes. She will be joined by special guests Lee Sentell, U.S. Civil Rights Trail founder and Alabama Tourism Department director, and Doris Crenshaw, founder of The Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute and protégé of Rosa Parks.
The Smithsonian event is a ticketed engagement, though a very limited number of free tickets remain. Please contact evelyn@yolcc.com to reserve your free pass to the “Alabama Civil Rights Trail/Smithsonian Associates” event on January 12, from 5:45 – 7:15 pm CST.
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