TRUSSVILLE The Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club has announced its Hewitt-Trussville High School scholarship recipient for 2021.
Alex Jones, a senior at HTHS, was presented with a $5,000 scholarship from the club. Jones is the President of the Peer Partner Program at HT, a program serving students with intellectual disabilities, a member of the Chick-fil-A Leadership Academy, training students worldwide to become leaders he is in the National Honor Society, and he is an outdoor and indoor HT Track and Field team member.
Jones was also selected as one of 30 members of the HT Leadership Team, whose mission is to make an impact through servant leadership. He has been accepted into the Shackouls Honor College at Mississippi State University (MSU) and will also serve as an AFROTC Cadet at MSU.
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TRUSSVILLE SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey spoke to the Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club through a Zoom call on Wednesday, May 19.
The Auburn, New York, native shared some thoughts about how the conference was affected by the pandemic as well as some updates on current topics within the conference.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. Submitted photo
“The phrase ‘sports builds character’ is accurate in many situations,” said Sankey. “However, ‘sports reveals character’ is sometimes the case as well.”
Sankey touched on the intra-conference transfer rule, which requires an athlete to sit out for one full academic year upon a transfer to another SEC institution. This was initially instated to prevent programs from recruiting from other programs. The rule has been challenged lately by argument that other student groups can transfer and immediately be eligible for participation.
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TRUSSVILLE The Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club helped sponsor a book nook for the Jefferson County Housing Authority on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
The book nook was installed at Terrace Manor II, in Bessemer. Anyone can borrow books from the stand-alone box. The box is one of 10 book houses that was built and donated to Better Basics by the Rotary Club.
Rotarians Ken Vaughan (who is executive director of the Jefferson County Housing Authority), Van Horne, Mike Ennis, and Dr. Kristi Bradford (who is executive director of Better Basics). Photo: Diane Poole.
“The Book Nook at Terrace Manor II is further supported by a generous donation from the Caring Foundation & Corporate Giving of Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a Mentor level sponsor for Better Basics,” said Diane Poole.
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TRUSSVILLE The Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club announced that Trussville Police Chief Eric Rush will be the featured speaker at its Feb. 17 meeting.
“Chief Rush is responsible for the overall supervision and administration of the Police Department,” said Diane Poole, with the Rotary Club. “The Chief makes departmental policy and procedure, as well as overseeing personnel matters. Chief Rush reports to the Mayor.”
Rush has been with the department since 1996. He was appointed Chief in 2018.
The Rotary Club meets at 7 a.m. on the first through fourth Wednesday mornings of each month, usually through Zoom. For more information on the Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club, or to help with one of the projects, email Diane Poole at dianepoole1225@centurytel.net.
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TRUSSVILLE Circuit Judge in the Civil Division of Jefferson County, Brendette Brown, will be the featured speaker at the next Trussville Daybreak Rotary Club meeting.
The meeting will be conducted via Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.
Brown is a native of Theodore, Ala., in Mobile County. Diane Poole, with the Rotary Club, said Brown remembers watching Vivian Malone, who was from Mobile, and James Hood walk through the doors of the University of Alabama in 1963.
“The outrageous protests were disturbing to her and she questioned why Malone and Hood would engage in such an act when there was so much violence directed at them,” Poole said. “Her father explained that sometimes one has to stand for what is right even though it might be risky and dangerous. He went on to tell her that those students were walking through the door so that she would have the opportunity to do the same in coming years and hopefully without protests.”