By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Few know Birmingham its streets, its schools, its churches as well as Cornell Wesley, the recently named director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO).
Wesley, the youngest of three children, grew up in the North Titusville community and attended Glen Iris Elementary School where he was part of the first class to be bused in Center Street Middle School, and A. H. Parker High School. As a teen he was called to preach and delivered his first trial sermon at his home church, South Elyton Baptist Church, before leaving his hometown for Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Public health authorities have censured a Calgary church and closed down a furniture business for breaching COVID-19 regulations.
In an enforcement document dated Jan. 20, Alberta Health Services states Pastor David Adkins of the Northside Baptist Church, at 3682 48th Ave. N.E., refused to allow inspectors into the building to assess compliance last Sunday.
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It’s one of two Alberta churches that had turned to the courts to overturn provincial restrictions limiting in-person worship, arguing they were a violation of its constitutional rights
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It’s the first weekend since a Calgary church service drew attention from police and health officials, but on Sunday, it seemed a bit less defiant of Alberta’s Public Health Act.