Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival returns with all-Alabama lineup
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
Prior to COVID-19, the annual Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival regularly drew massive crowds to the Eastern Shore city. After being shut down by COVID-19 in 2020, the festival returns April 30-May 2. Changes made in response to the pandemic include a smaller roster of artists with a new focus on Alabama creators.Mike Kittrell/Press-Register
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The Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival, the flagship event of its kind, returns this weekend after being canceled in 2020, and an organizer says it’s no exaggeration to say that the occasion is like Christmas.
Child ministry assistant Kristin Capstraw tried to keep church traditions alive during COVID
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
Gift bags are assembled for delivery to Sunday school children at Fairhope United Methodist Church. The bags included birthday items for families to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ ahead of December 25, 2020. (photo provided by Kristin Capstraw).
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The children’s ministry at Fairhope United Methodist Church is slowly getting back to a sense of normalcy. Sunday school classes, canceled for in-person sessions during the pandemic, resumed in November. Teachers and children wear face coverings and socially distance.
“Everyone wants it like it was before, and that is not going to happen,” said Kristin Capstraw, 50, of Daphne and a children’s ministry assistant for newborns up to sixth-graders. “There are so many different views to the pandemic, and the politics surrounding it and the medical information around it. And chu
Thorley was born Dec. 30,1930, in Canton to Loren and Marquerite Zorger.
She and Bob Thorley have been happily married for 68 years. She resides in Louisville and is the mother of David (Christy), Dale (Barb) and Dean (Rita). She has three grandsons, four great-grandsons and three great-granddaughters.
Thorley is an active and faithful member of the Fairhope United Methodist Church, and has held numerous positions from Sunday School teacher to treasurer.
She graduated from Louisville High School in 1948 with Bob. She worked in the Louisville High School cafeteria, starting as a dish-washer, then spent much of her 25 year career as the manager of the cafeteria.
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Forecasters say more than four million people near the U.S. Gulf Coast will be at risk of rough weather just ahead of Christmas. The National Storm Prediction Center says damaging wind gusts will be one of the main threats, along with the possibility of a few tornadoes. The storms are expected to move through tonight. The bad weather is combining with the COVID-19 outbreak to impact Christmas celebrations along the coast. Fairhope United Methodist Church tried to move its Christmas Eve services to an outdoor amphitheater due to the coronavirus. Then, pastor Darren McClellan says then rainy weather turned against him.